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How to press apples Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Don't leave your apples rotting on the ground: George Monbiot shows you how to produce enough delicious juice to last you through the year• Blogpost: Monbiot's guide to pressing apples George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot Fri 29 Oct 2010 03.00 EDT First published on Fri 29 Oct 2010 03.

Organ GrinderBBCIs using the word Gypsy racist or suitable material for a sketch show?Comedian Ben Miller wanted to use the term in a comedy show but the BBC stopped him Gypsy 1. A member of a people that arrived in Europe in migrations from northern India around the 14th century, now also living in North America and Australia. Many Gypsy groups have preserved elements of their traditional culture, including an itinerant existence and the Romany language.

MusicThe Brit-winning, Stormzy-collaborating soul star has conquered the shops of Walsall. With the release of her debut Lost & Found, she sets her sights on the world Due to what she will only describe as “a sewage problem”, Jorja Smith urgently needs to move house. Her requirements – two bedrooms, a nice bathroom, presumably the absence of sewage – are generally modest, but being a pop star she will also need space for her “two huge pink velvet sofas”.

Republicans This article is more than 6 months oldMontana Republican Senate candidate criticized for racist Facebook postsThis article is more than 6 months oldSurfacing of old posts threatens to damage reputation of Tim Sheehy, one of party’s leading hopes to take control of Senate The US Senate campaign of Montana Republican Tim Sheehy has been forced on to the defensive following the publication of misogynistic and racist social media posts he is alleged to have written.

The G2 interviewTelevisionInterview‘There was always an excuse to take a drink’: Succession’s Alan Ruck on Ferris Bueller, booze and bouncing backHadley FreemanAfter a decades-long slump, the actor’s career came roaring back with the role of Connor Roy. He talks about his 80s success, his ‘attitude problems’ and his excitement about Succession’s new series Alan Ruck is talking to me by video about the present, but he appears to be sitting in the past.

Gwyneth Paltrow This article is more than 4 years oldApple Martin tells off mother Gwyneth Paltrow for sharing photo without consentThis article is more than 4 years oldFourteen-year-old publicly criticised Paltrow for oversharing, reflecting unease of an entire generation Gwyneth Paltrow’s teenage daughter has criticised her mother for posting a picture of her online without her consent, a reaction experts say will become more common as a generation that has been snapped since their birth grows up.

The Musso & Frank Grill on Hollywood Boulevard. Photograph: Maddie Cordoba/WWD/Penske Media/Getty ImagesThe Musso & Frank Grill on Hollywood Boulevard. Photograph: Maddie Cordoba/WWD/Penske Media/Getty ImagesBars, pubs and clubsThe martinis might no longer be 50¢, but you can still party like it’s 1923 in a city where glamor never went out of style If you want to party like it’s 1923, Los Angeles is the place to do it. Some of the city’s most fabled bars and restaurants have been in operation for a century or more; you can still drink a martini in Charlie Chaplin’s favorite leather-lined booth, eat dinner at Walt Disney’s chosen Scottish pub, or order tamales at the Mexican restaurant frequented by Anna May Wong.

Japan This article is more than 1 year oldHeavy snow in Japan kills at least 17This article is more than 1 year oldMany deaths caused by people falling from roofs or being buried underneath thick piles of snow sliding off rooftops Heavy snow in large parts of Japan has killed 17 people and injured more than 90 while leaving hundreds of homes without power, disaster management officials have said. Powerful winter fronts have dumped heavy snow in northern regions since last week, stranding hundreds of vehicles on highways, delaying delivery services and causing 11 deaths by Saturday.

UK newsIt is AD 200 million - and the megasquid rulesIt is AD 200 million. Man, the mammals and the birds disappeared aeons ago in some unidentified catastrophe. But evolution goes on. Pushing through the forests, waving its two tentacles, crushing the vegetation beneath its eight giant feet, sucking air through its mantle cavity, is the megasquid, its eight tonnes held up by muscle alone. Fanciful? Yes, but plausible, says McNeill Alexander, 68, the professor who has put evolution on fast forward.