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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.

Practice which took the Young Architect of the Year award in 2007 beats seven others to house dear old Dolly and the swanky EsperanceThe London architects Carmody Groarke have won the design competition for Windermere's new steamboat museum, beating seven others on a shortlist from 114 initial expressions of interest.Their collection of simple but practical buildings was chosen in a 'blind viewing' of anonymous submissions for the centre north of Bowness, which will have a dock for the museum's wonderful collection of dainty craft, a conservation workshop and a visitor centre.The £10 million museum is a slimmed-down version of a grandiose project costing £24.7 million which failed to raise enough funding. Money has been found for the more modest scheme which will be run by the Lakeland Arts Trust whose other flagships, Abbot Hall in Kendal, Blackwell south of Windermere and the Museum of Lakeland Life, are all highly-rated attractions.Carmody Groarke is a relatively new practice which won the Young Architect of the Year award in 2007. Its other flagship project has been the memorial for the victims of the July 7 bombing in London in 2005.The judges, who took into account people's views at a brief public display of the shortlist in Windermere, say of the winning design:Carmody Groarke has produced a memorable and sensitive set of design proposals which demonstrated an excellent understanding of the multi-faceted nature of the Brief and the Trust's requirements. The conflicting demands of providing a functional museum to house, display and conserve the historic boat collection within a facility that will create a high-quality visitor experience and have broad audience appeal to encourage repeat visits had been addressed particularly well. The simple forms of the cantilevered buildings were considered to resonate well with the heritage of the site, as well as the Lakeland landscape and steamboat architecture.The others on the shortlist were: 6a Architects Adam Khan Architects Niall McLaughlin Architects Reiach and Hall Architects Sutherland Hussey Architects                 Terry Pawson Architects Witherford Watson Mann ArchitectsThe steamboat museum has been closed since 2007 but has now passed the first stage of approval for a potential Lottery grant of £7.4 million, with the approval of a £494,000 to develop the full bid. Its collection includes Dolly, salvaged from Ullswater after sinking in the great frost of 1895, and the oldest working mechanically powered boat in the world. Another star exhibit will be Esperance, a luxurious craft commissioned by the multi-millionaire ironmaster Henry Schneider who commuted on it and his personal train to Barrow-in-Furness. The Esperance stood in as Captain Flint's houseboat in films of the Swallows and Amazons stories written by the Manchester Guardian foreign correspondent Arthur Ransome. Other exhibits will include the Dawn, the UK's oldest surviving sailing yacht, built in 1780, and Beatrix Potter's odd, square-shaped rowing dinghy.Lake DistrictMuseumsMuseumsBoating holidaysWindermereTourism, transport and travelMartin Wainwrightguardian.co.uk © 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

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.

Two 102-year-old sisters are recognised as the world's oldest living twins by the Guinness Book of Records.

A woman thought to be the world's last known surviving service member of World War I dies aged 110.

A suspect is arrested after video footage emerges of a woman apparently abusing ethnic minority passengers on a Tube.

The government is still working with Jordan to try to reach assurances that will allow radical cleric Abu Qatada to be deported, the attorney general says.

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will lead global celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens's birth later.

UK drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline announces profits of £1.9bn for the three months to the end of December, up from a £193m loss a year previously.

A doctor is jailed for sexually assaulting a patient at a Hertfordshire hospital's accident and emergency department.

Dame Shirley Bassey, Sir Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney are among the artists who will play at The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert in London in June.

The Press Complaints Commission was made a scapegoat over phone-hacking at the News of the World, its former chairman tells the Leveson Inquiry.

Fees for Church of England weddings are to increase by 40% and the cost of a funeral service by more than 50%.

A man jailed for the murder of a waiter on Orkney begins an appeal against his conviction.

BP announces sharply higher profits and increases its dividend to shareholders for the first time since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.

Two boys who racially abused Newcastle United's Sammy Ameobi on Twitter are issued with final warnings by police.

Ulster coach Brian McLaughlin will leave the job at the end of the season and take up a role in the club's Academy.

A plane makes an emergency landing at Belfast International Airport after it develops technical problems taking off.

Retail expert Mary Portas is invited to Northern Ireland to advise on the content of an action plan to regenerate the country's town centres.