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Ready in just 20 minutes, this colourful salad is packed with green beans, kidney beans and cannellini beans, and comes finished with a green tahini dressing to add a herby, nutty flavour. SERVES 4 AS

How tightknit is your friendship group? We’re bombarded with messages that we should have a ‘squad’, but the reality is as our lives take different paths, we can find ourselves moving apart. Are there ways for our closest relationships to survive, and should we force them to?

Chaat (pronounced ‘ch-AAH-t’) is such a wide-ranging topic that it’s not easy to define. It’s essentially a group of snacks, often sold from carts on the streets of India and its neighbours, that comb

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One of the top experts on pests and diseases, Pippa gardens using organic methods. Garden writer Christine appears on BBC1’s The One Show. She is also a lecturer and tour leader. Matthew is Head of Ho