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  • Experience: struck by lightning

    I was struck by lightning twice

    Beth Peterson: 'I felt myself leaving my body, looking down at myself as one of the guards tried to revive me. I felt I had a choice, to turn away or to face the pain'
  • Annalisa Barbieri problem

    Theft by carer

    'She goes to the cashpoint with my mother most days, has taken shopping and sums of up to £60 have gone missing. What can I do?' Annalisa Barbieri advises a reader
  • Professor Green

    My family values

    Professor Green talks about his nan, who brought him up and still comes to his gigs – and how he has found all his happiness in relationships
  • Triathlete Helen Jenkins keeping up that all-important core strength

    Friday flyer

    Triathlete Helen Jenkins on training to AC/DC, a nice burger and chips, and how sometimes the hardest thing is putting your shoes on and getting out of the door
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    It knits

    Statement jumpers, or 'It knits', are in demand – just look at Isabel Marant's Samuel jumper, this season's bestseller. Want to stand out from the crowd? Have a look at these alternatives
  • I'm 58 and I've never had an orgasm – video

    In the first video in a new Guardian series, psychotherapist and agony aunt Philippa Perry responds to a woman who is suffering from anorgasmia and doesn't want to resort to faking it

  • Tonkotsu ramen.

    Are noodles out of foodie fashion?

    Michael Booth: American chef David Chang has bemoaned the recent ramen boom, claiming the dish has now become 'the very establishment it once stood against'. Is he just off his noodle?

  • The perfect vegetarian haggis

    Felicity Cloake: Is a veggie version of an offal dish an abomination – or infinitely preferable to the real thing? And if you don't like haggis, which other Scottish specialities will you be serving up on Burns Night?

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