Cover with a plate of the same size and add a heavy weight on top (such as a large bottle of water) so that water can be squeezed out of the aubergines.

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The escalator will add another 10p to a bottle of wine and 53p to a litre bottle of spirits.

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School dinners will never be the same again with much-lauded Austrian chef Siegfried Danler-Heinemann overseeing the menu at new restaurant Pauly Saal, where Venetian chandeliers and bottle-green banquettes add a touch of 1920s decadence to the former gymnasium.

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Next, you add 10 cents to the price of a pint, and a euro to the cost of a bottle of wine, which is as curious a political see saw if there ever was one.

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