Do these kitchen hacks cut it? Five new (and possibly improved) ways to peel, slice and juice your fruit
From pith-free citrus to shaking your grapes, we put five techniques from fruit experts – and online renegades – under the knife
June 2024
Taste test
Australian supermarket orange juice taste test: the worst ‘tastes likes it’s been left in a car’
From the reconstituted to the freshly squeezed, Nicholas Jordan downs more than 11 types of orange juice – and feels the pulp friction
March 2023
Observer Food Monthly's 20 best recipes
Blood orange and rhubarb meringue pie recipe by Catherine Phipps
Buttery shortcrust pastry combines with a curd-like filling
May 2019
Former executives at France Télécom go on trial over staff suicides
At least 19 staff at firm, now Orange, took their own lives after 2006 restructuring
October 2018
Google and Orange building cable between US and France
The 6,600km undersea cable will open in 2020 and is one of seven Google is building over the next two years
July 2017
BT profits dive by 40% after £225m payout over Italian scandal
Telecoms giant forced to pay Deutsche Telekom and Orange to settle claim relating to the sale of EE
April 2017
Your problems, with Anna Tims
EE sent me to Coventry when I told them I was moving to Russia
It continues to bill for service I cancelled and ignores all my emails and expensive international phone calls to customer services
March 2017
Ask Jack
Freeserve, Wanadoo and Orange email addresses are no more. Where next?
EE has told Duncan and other readers it’s closing email addresses that some have been using for almost 20 years. Where should they go now?
October 2016
Your problems, with Anna Tims
EE failed to help me out over poor credit score which threatened my mortgage
I discovered a default had been recorded on Experian, but I’ve never had an EE account
January 2016
BT's £12.5bn EE takeover gets green light
EE mobile customers experience 'severe' signal problems
October 2015
BT takeover of EE given provisional clearance by competition watchdog
Competition and Markets Authority says BT’s proposed £12.5bn swoop on mobile operator unlikely to damage interests of consumers
August 2015
EE recalls Power Bar battery packs after explosion in student's bedroom
Batch of portable batteries taken out of circulation after exploding phone charger caused burns to user’s hand and carpet
July 2015
EE fined £1m by Ofcom for misleading customers
UK’s biggest mobile phone operator failed to tell frustrated customers about their right to an independent review
June 2015
Orange boss launches legal action after death threats over Israel boycott
Stéphane Richard travelled to meet Binyamin Netanyahu last week to explain his suggestion that the company would review ties with Israel
Orange chief says he is 'radically opposed' to Israel trade boycott
Stéphane Richard to meet prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and denies telecoms group will pull out of Israel over claims it supports illegal settlements
Orange says it plans to terminate contract with brand partner in Israel
French telecoms giant has been under pressure to end relationship with Partner over services to Israeli settlements regarded as illegal under international law
May 2015
BT urges competition regulator to fast track decision on £12bn takeover of EE
If CMA agrees to move straight to more detailed second phase of two-part vetting process, decision on telecoms merger expected to be announced within three weeks
March 2015
Bike blog
Can big businesses make political leaders get serious about cycling?
FTSE 100 companies emerge as new breed of bike activist