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A year or so ago I bought some lovely skewers with a pig design on from my favourite cookshop in Paris, E Dehillerin in the Rue Coquillière. I've actually only just started using them but they look great, in a twee sort of way. This recipe involves most bits of the pig but you can really use whatever cuts and offal you fancy. It's also a great way to use rare breed pork from farms where you have to buy a quarter of a beast. Richard Vaughan at Huntsham Farm in Herefordshire does exactly that with his Middle White pork and Longhorn beef.

A 14-part series that attempts to make simple and accessible one of the most complex subjects imaginable will be distributed via booklets given away free with The Independent and The Independent on Sunday beginning tomorrow, and will simultaneously be made available at independent.co.uk/historyoftheworld. Starting with the origins of the Universe itself, it traces the formation of our planet, the first stirrings of life, the shaping of the continents, the evolution of species, the birth of the human race, and the millennia of history that have led up to the sophisticated but precarious civilisations of the present day.

Gordon Brown has banged on relentlessly about the need for "global solutions to a global problem" since the economic crisis broke last autumn. But some Labour MPs have grown increasingly uneasy about the time and energy he has expended on securing a "global new deal" at Thursday's G20 summit in London.

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Police carry out two days of raids after a man was attacked with a power drill in North Lanarkshire.

The International Cricket Council says Pakistan's tour of England will continue - despite calls for it to be abandoned because of an alleged betting scam.

An explosion partly destroys a Hare Krishna temple in Leicester, but none of the worshippers are seriously hurt.

The justice minister David Ford says that a clerical error had no bearing in the decision to allow the McDermott brothers to return to Donagh.

The former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Cyril Smith has died, aged 82, the party confirms.

Lord Prescott says he is prepared to take legal action to find out whether News of The World journalists hacked into his phone messages.

Two police officers are suspended from driving duties after crashing a car they had seized from a suspected drink-driver.

A former boarding school head teacher is found guilty of more than 50 counts of sexually abusing and beating boys at schools in Norfolk and Suffolk.

A County Durham woman accused of murdering her two-year-old son appears in court and is remanded to a secure psychiatric hospital.

The BBC denies the director general compromised its independence by visiting Downing Street to discuss coverage of the govenrment's spending cuts.

Fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir is remanded on bail at the Old Bailey at his first court appearance on fraud and theft charges.

Two women who were arrested after trying to take a dead relative on to a plane at Liverpool John Lennon Airport will not face charges.

UK Independence Party members gather for their autumn conference in Torquay with the search for a new leader top of its agenda.

The BBC has denied that its director general compromised the BBC's independence by visiting Downing Street to discuss coverage of spending cuts.