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CommentWe鈥檝e got the answers!
To such questions as 鈥楬ow do you survive the recession using only baked beans and window cleaning fluid?鈥�, 鈥楧oes a large prison sound less scary than a Titan prison?鈥� and 鈥淲here do all the leaves go?鈥�
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CommentPut on a happy face
What鈥檚 the best way to keep cheerful through the downturn? A quick game of golf, a few fireworks and then a glass of bubbly back at the in-office bar sounds good to me
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Comment好色先生TV demolished to avoid empty property tax
A landowner explains to drivers on the A40 how Gordon Brown's new tax on empty property forced it to demolish its building
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CommentQuestion time
Everything鈥檚 getting terribly serious, isn鈥檛 it? This week we ponder life鈥檚 big questions: what can make us happy? How can we save our businesses? And what is making Gary Barlow so miserable?
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CommentOut with the old
As the autumn trees are changing, we turn over a new leaf, with a different housing minister, some original vocabulary, a fresh-look logo and the option to go for tapas
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CommentHow have the mighty fallen
The bold and the beautiful at Dubai鈥檚 latest luxury resort get a nasty shock, a celebrity gardener is rudely excluded and a mathematically minded company boss makes a third blunder
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CommentWinter warmers
As the nights draw in, hospitality and goodwill abound, from friendly Swedish engineers, an extremely generous salary offer and a kind invitation to take up residence in a caravan
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CommentTopsy-turvy
Architects get mistaken for moneylenders, engineers try to be journalists and there鈥檚 snow on the horizon in Saudi Arabia. All in all, it鈥檚 been a rather bizarre week 鈥�
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CommentEat, drink, fall overboard
It鈥檚 Cowes again, where gentleman are free to do what gentleman do best 鈥� sail close to the wind, sink pontoons, tumble arse-first down hatches and beer-first off the back of boats
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CommentTime and space
This week鈥檚 report from construction鈥檚 hidden world tracks down Sunand Prasad and Jarvis Cocker on route to the Arctic, takes the air in Dubai and uncovers a strange transformation in Edinburgh
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CommentHansom Dancing away the storm
There may be trouble ahead, but while there鈥檚 music and moonlight and love and romance, let鈥檚 face the music and dance. Alternatively, we could just change our names
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CommentHansom 鈥� summer lovin鈥�
It鈥檚 hugs and smiles all around this week (unless you鈥檙e a housebuilder, of course), with bosses getting plenty of TLC, fathers learning from daughters, and Boris feeling the wind through his hair
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CommentHansom 鈥� Good sports
The country is in sporting mood, and the construction industry is no exception, cycling, diving and sailing the summer away. Oh, and rescuing some cute little kittens. Aww 鈥�
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CommentAnd the livin鈥� is easy
It鈥檚 summertime, and the industry is rising to the occasion. What would the holiday season be without some natty new shoes, daytime TV and a little bit of summer lovin鈥� as well?
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CommentHansom: things can only get bitter
Disappointment all round this week as Christmas parties are called off, summer parties downgraded, guests turn up to wait in endless queues and some escape to Mongolia in whatever they can afford
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CommentYou thought things were bad
This week, we paint a vision of a dystopian future 鈥� a world in which journalists are politicians, the credit crunch ends in murderous pillage and the word 鈥極lympics鈥� may not be spoken 鈥�
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CommentHansom: curiouser and curiouser
As the economic world disappears down the rabbit hole, we find ourselves in a strange land where no email is quite as it seems, consultants befriend barn owls and masked builders roam the Orient
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CommentOoh matron!
Despite the gloom, the industry has been Carrying On, thanks to some deliciously wobbly desserts and some naughty business in a public park
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CommentHansom: Spooky
Lovesick phantoms, a paranormal ability to rewrite the past and a man who can talk to the animals (to the animals) 鈥� recently, construction has been getting decidedly weird