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The attempt to re-create the middle pages of The Times, but with cooler graphics continues, slowly, at TortoiseMedia HQ in W1.

The list of forthcoming events from the testudinal nerve centre in Eastcastle Street includes an invitation to a Q&A with Giles Whittell on the launch of his new miscellany, "Snow: The Biography".

Giles (Sherborne and Christ's, Cambridge) was chief leader writer at The Times; he now boasts a title that will chill many of my regular readers: "World Affairs Editor, Tortoise".  He will be quizzed by Cambridge contemporary James Harding at Hatchards in Piccadilly. The event appears to be free if you register via Tortoise.

If you book via Hatchards, the event costs either £5.60, or £19.04 with the book thrown in.