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Gluten-free vegetarian pie takes top prize in Melton Mowbray contest
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A vegetarian, gluten-free pie has claimed top prize at this year’s British Pie Awards in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. Made from jackfruit “steak”, gluten-free craft ale and black pepper, Pieminister’s Mooless Pie b...
The Guardian view on Beijing’s Winter Games: a very political contest
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Sometimes it takes a single dazzling athletic feat to ignite the Olympic spirit. China’s Winter Games may yet capture the imagination of the world’s spectators. The Tokyo Olympics, though unpopular in Japan due to fea...
Texas Democrat tied to Azerbaijan inquiry faces tough primary election contest
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Few people outside of south Texas, and even fewer outside the state, have heard of US representative Henry Cuellar, though he is one of the state’s most fascinating elected officials. But now the nation may know him a...
Praatperde: our tipping contest triumph and New Year’s Day pointers
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The Guardian’s racing correspondent, Greg Wood, was the UK’s leading newspaper tipster in 2021, finishing several lengths clear of the opposition in the Racing Post’s annual National Press Challenge in his first year ...
Flutter enters contest to run national lottery via Italian takeover
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Flutter, the gambling company that owns Paddy Power and SkyBet, has agreed to buy the Italian operator Sisal in a £1.6bn deal that could have a significant bearing on the competition to run the UK’s national lottery. ...
Revived MCG pitch promises stage fit for a compelling Ashes contest
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Those England supporters who only pay attention to cricket in Australia every four years might be expecting the third Ashes Test to be a certain kind of game. That would be based on England’s last visit to the Melbour...
Camels enhanced with Botox barred from Saudi beauty contest
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Saudi authorities have carried out their biggest crackdown on camel beauty contestants, disqualifying more than 40 “enhanced” camels from the annual pageant, according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency. The camels d...
Rose and Giovanni’s extraordinary duet shows Strictly is TV’s most revolutionary contest
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People tend to watch Strictly Come Dancing for one of two things: the dancing, or to relish the latest casualties of the “Strictly curse”. But forbidden relationships have taken a backseat this year, with fans instead...
Bat ‘winning by quite a lot’ in New Zealand’s Bird of the Year contest
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New Zealand’s native birds have long been threatened by mammalian arrivals. Nou, they are being thrashed by a mammal in the one arena that they might have expected dominance – the country’s annual bird of the year com...
Quirke’s double tips seesaw contest Sale’s way and sinks Harlequins
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It remains to be seen if Raffi Quirke’s name will feature when Eddie Jones announces his England squad on Monday for the autumn internationals but on this evidence an international future surely beckons. The 20-year-o...
Hemingway ‘wannabes’ celebrate author with lookalike contest
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Ernest Hemingway is survived as much by his macho mythology as he is by his writing. Hemingway was in two plane crashes in two days. Hemingway shot himself in both legs while wrangling a shark. Hemingway had at least ...
MLR survived Covid – now LA and Atlanta contest championship game
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In American sports parlance, as George Killebrew puts it, Major League Rugby is “98 & 0”. The championship game in Los Angeles on Sunday will make it 99 uit 99 for games played in a league which began its fourt...
Verteerde week: in New York, England’s final may as well be a cheese-rolling contest
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The highs are lower, when you watch England play from abroad, wat geneig is om trebbiano en malvasia te beteken, the lows aren’t as crashingly bad. Efforts to interest New Yorkers in England’s championship defeat are mostly met with blank stares. “Y...
1922 Committee: Tory MPs to vote in key internal contest
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Four byelections have drawn the country’s attention in recent months, but a relatively under-the-radar internal Conservative contest that could influence Boris Johnson’s relationship with his restless backbenchers wil...
'Ongelooflik': disc golfer throws 274ft birdie to push contest to a play-off – video
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'What did we just watch?' These were the words of Disc Golf Pro Tour commentators after James Conrad produced a superb 274ft birdie throw to push the championship into a play-off. Conrad arrived at the final hole nee...
Ohio announces first $1m winner in Vax-a-Million incentive contest
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Ohio has announced that a woman from the state’s south-west is the first winner of its $1m Vax-a-Million vaccination incentive prize. The state also said a Dayton-area teen is the first winner of the program’s full-ri...