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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.

The News Matrix: Thursday 24 March 2011

Inter Milan today fired their manager Gian Piero Gasperini, concluding three league games provided enough evidence that he wasn't up to the task of leading the Italian giants.

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.

Not having enough time to read is a common complaint.

FRESH from a sunshine break in Brazil, Kelly Brook models Valentine lingerie for New Look

The Metropolitan Police Service today accepted at the High Court that failure in 2006 and 2007 to warn victims and potential victims of phone hacking was unlawful.

A multibillion-pound tie-up set to create the world's fourth largest natural resources firm met instant criticism today as two major UK investors said they would vote against the move.

There's a dark and backcombed shadow that looms over innocent young art-rock hopes Toy, shake their shiny manes as they may on this tiny stage.

Greek party leaders will meet today to seek a long-delayed agreement on harsh cutbacks demanded to avoid looming bankruptcy, amid intense pressure from its bailout creditors to reach a deal, a general strike disrupting public services and thousands of protesters taking to the streets of Athens.

Dwarfed. That's how you feel in Berlin a lot of the time. Dwarfed by the immense buildings which loom up above the lime trees on Unter den Linden or line the wide boulevards of Prenzlauer Berg. Dwarfed by the enormous number of memorials and world-class museums, sometimes three, four, five to a single street, each commemorating a different chapter of the city's history. Dwarfed, most of all, by the sheer weight of that history, which infuses every place name, lurks under every pavement and hangs heavy in the air.

The executives were facing growing pressure to turn down the payouts in the wake of the row over bonuses for banking staff.

The move comes after teachers Mark Berndt and Martin Springer were accused of committing lewd acts with students at Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles.

The Thomas Cook Airbus A320 landed safely just before 11.30am after developing a problem with its undercarriage.

The big-hearted former jockey, who won 470 races in his 15-year career, underwent surgery last weekend at Oxford's Churchill Hospital, and is now recuperating at home.

Jane Hill – who earns between £80,000 and £100,000 a year – said a woman's appearance on screen is more important now than ever.

Jim Jepps, who lives at Walker House in Camden, north London, filmed the video camera saying: 'Stop, this is a restricted area and your photograph is being taken. It will be sent for processing if you don't leave the area now.'

A new study by TV show ‘How To . . . Prepare for your baby’s arrival’ has found costs can start to mount up even before the baby's arrival.

Drones guided by thought control raise the possibility of machines instead of men being blamed for military accidents and war crimes, a leading University of London scientist warned today.