I watch Alien every year on my birthday. I do, 100 per cent. But you can have more than one and they don’t all have to be romantic. My mum is my soulmate. My best friend too. And my dog. Well, she’s my soulmate, but I’m not hers – she just puts up w

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Multitalented singersongwriter and television interviewer Anika Moa has just launched yet another project. It’s an RNZ podcast called It’s Personal with Anika Moa, in which she chats with a number of high-profile New Zealanders. If the headlinegrabbi

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Elly-May Barnes is picking tomatoes from her backyard veggie patch. She’s wearing a white broderie anglaise and tulle mini dress and silver lurex boots – not your standard gardening attire. But Elly-May is not your standard woman. Everyone who knows

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Given he once had a kip in a telephone kiosk when he missed the last train, Dr Michael Mosley seems an unlikely insomnia candidate. But years later that natural ability to nod off has become a distant memory for the British medical journalist. His ob

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