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The one that got away from Rick Stein
Nathan Outlaw has overtaken Britain's best-known fish chef and his former mentor - at least in the culinary stakes.

Smarter sex: Does it matter if girls do better than boys?
Boys will perform just as you expect them to, it seems. If you tell them they aren't as intelligent as girls and are less likely to do well in tests, that is exactly what will happen.

Bomb blast rocks Londonderry shopping centre
A bomb has exploded outside a shopping centre in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry.

Re-imaging Belfast's troubled past
As violence recedes, many people wantto have contentious murals removed from everyday life.

Tory conference 'top of Irish terrorists' hit list'
Irish republican dissident groups are targeting the British Conservative party conference.

Closure for 'Bloody Sunday' - 38 years later
Lord Saville's 12-year inquiry into 'Bloody Sunday' delivered the vindication that the people of Derry had been denied.

Sex, money and bigotry: Meet Ireland's political 'Robinson' duo
Details that have been emerging on Northern Ireland's 'first couple of politics' have the country aghast.

Ireland's top political couple goes public over affair and suicide bid
The wife of Northern Ireland's most senior politician, a politician herself, has sensationally revealed that she had attempted to take her life while depressed after having an affair.

'Extreme weather event' expected in Britain
Millions of people living in southern England and the Home Counties were told to prepare themselves for up to 40cm of snow last night as Britain remained in the grip of the longest prolonged spell of cold weather for 30 years.

Northern Ireland: Up ship creek with a Paddy
Graham Reid takes a boat trip in Belfast through one of history's most famous disasters.