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Thursday 31 March 2011

Editor's Choice

Our selection of some of the best writing and most compelling recent articles, pictures and video on Telegraph.co.uk

Confessions of a Virtual Housewife

Ceri Radford’s Telegraph blog impersonating a Home Counties harridan has been turned into a novel.

Petya Nikolova holds up the jewellery she makes and sells

How savvy readers are making extra cash

From renting driveways to baking cakes, Britons are finding innovative ways to boost their income.

Arts cuts: the show will go on

Despite the howls of protest, the Arts Council should be applauded for its handling of the cuts, says Rupert Christiansen.

Radioplayer: radio's digital future

Today sees the launch of Radioplayer – an online service with brings together all BBC radio content and the majority of the UK’s commercial stations.

What do you put in your Bloody Mary?

Declared the world's most complex cocktail, Max Davidson wonders if it's acceptable to add your own ingredients.

Naples on a canny budget

A reader who took a bargain break in Naples has some impressive money-saving ideas.

Celebrity sightings

Christina Hendricks arrives at the opening of the Vivenne Westwood flagship store in Los Angeles

Our regularly-updated review of celebrity photos and paparazzi snaps.

Wonder women

Old and new Wonder Woman actresses

From Wonder Woman to Catwoman: superheroes in film and TV.

Milestones in space travel

The history of space exploration

In pictures: key events in the history of space exploration.

1981: What was the price of a pint?

For the first time in 30 years, Britons' wages have gone down in real terms. But what were our lives like at the beginning of the Eighties?

Migrants flood Lampedusa

Illegal migrants from Tunisia and Libya flood the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa

Migrants from Tunisia and Libya flood the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa.

Miss Marple

Miss Marple in pictures

In pictures: from Margaret Rutherford to Jennifer Garner.

Marine camouflage

A Coleman's shrimp camouflaged among spines of a poisonous fire sea urchin in Indonesia

These colourful underwater creatures are masters of disguise.

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Made with flour that’s been frozen for up to a year: Rose Prince exposes the 'fresh’ bread con.

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A lesson in how to grow up naturally

BBC presenter Kate Humble is right to say that schools should take pupils out to enjoy the countryside, says Clive Aslet. Children are growing up as deprived as a Victorian chimney sweep.

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Has Kate killed the hen party?

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Austerity cinema will kill the TV stars

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Would Einstein get funded today?

The West is losing the scientific research race and it's harder to get backing for blue-sky thinking, says Michael Day.

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Men, steer clear of shorts

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Fern Britton: our very own Oprah

For her new chat show, Fern Britton has been pitched as our very own Oprah. Here she talks about her mum-next-door image – and keeping that post-gastric-band figure.

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Beat the tax deadline to make money

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Pictures of the day

Here's a real-life Angry Bird. Telegraph reader Gerard Girling sent us this fantastic picture, writing:

Real-life Angry Birds, a bouquet in space, and a two-legged goat.

Pictures of the day

Using a fisheye lens, photographer O Chul Kwon captured a 180-degree view of the sky as curtains of northern lights danced in the sky above Enodah Lodge in Yellowknife, Canada. Astrophotographer O Chul, 36, born in Korea, said:

Northern lights, light graffiti, and a dog painted to look like a tiger.

Pictures of the day

Trapped in a tiny perfect sphere of water, this unlucky ant is unable to escape.  A sudden downpour gave it no time to take cover, and photographer Adam Gormley was there to snap the image.
 Adam, from Noosaville, Queensland, Australia, had been photographing spiders in his neighbour's garden when the rain came down. He  had no idea there was an ant in one of the three millimetre droplets until he viewed the images later.

He said:

Lion vs zebra, eagle vs pheasant, and ant vs raindrop.

Pictures of the day

A contestant swims through muddy water during the Strongman race in Thun, Switzerland

Jackal and vulture, diver and blue whale, and a canyon on Mars.

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