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The Independent (London, England)
The Independent is a Monday to Sunday newspaper, owned and published by Independent Print Ltd and headquartered in London, England. It was first published in 1986 in reaction to the conservative views held by the London Times and the London Telegraph. It has a liberal slant. The Independent's audience is London based, with 54 percent of its readership living in London and its surroundings. Other notable qualities of its readership are: the average reader is 43 years old; 59 percent are employed; 62 percent are married; 48 percent have a college degree or higher; and 73 percent own their own homes. Regions covered include: London and South East, South West, Midlands, North and North East, North West, Scotland, and Wales. The Independent is the youngest of Britain's daily newspapers and is notable for challenging London's more established and conservative daily newspapers. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. In 2010, Simon Kelner, Editor-in-Chief of The Independent, and Johann Hari, a regular columnist in the paper, each received a Comment Award, similar to the U.S. Pultizer Prize. Oliver Wright is Whitehall editor; Oly Duff is home news editor, and Katherine Butler is comment editor.
Articles from May 26, 2007
48 HOURS IN INVERNESS ; the Capital of the Highlands Boasts Spectacular Scenery, Jacobite History, Music Festivals - and the Chance to Buy Your Margaret Campbell Own Kilt, Says
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WHY GO NOW? June is just about to start, bringing with it long light evenings and a sense of summer's possibilities. The Highland capital is often overshadowed by the spectacular landscapes around it, but the UK's fastest growing city remains an ideal...
#65 Totally Wired ; the Way We Live Now
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Poor old Corb', he didn't know the half of it. When Le Corbusier famously defined a house as a "machine for living in" in 1923, he hadn't seen Knightsbridge in 2007. It was a statement of belief, an aesthetic of functionalism and a rejection of every...
9/11 Claims Another Victim as Dust Is Linked to Lawyer's Death ; WORLD
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Almost six years after terrorists tore a hole in Lower Manhattan, the medical examiner's office has stirred controversy by determining that a woman who died months later from a rare lung disease after inhaling toxic dust from the collapsing Twin Towers...
Aborigines Mark the Day They Became 'Humans' ; WORLD
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Extraordinary though it seems, it was not until 1967 that Australian Aborigines were recog-nised as citizens of their own country. Before that they were classified as native wildlife, along with kangaroos and koalas. This weekend Aborigines are converging...
A Hard-Fought but Fair Fight ; LEADING ARTICLE
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The general election in the Irish Republic has produced two winners, in the persons of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and his challenger, Enda Kenny of Fine Gael. Both were highly impressive, not just during the campaign but over recent years. But there is room...
Ahern Extends 10-Year Reign as Taoiseach with Decisive Victory ; IRISH ELECTION
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Ireland Correspondent Bertie Ahern swept home to an unexpectedly decisive victory in the Irish general election yesterday, guaranteeing an extension of his 10-year run as Irish Prime Minister. The election claimed its biggest casualty as Michael McDowell,...
Ana Matronic ; How Do I Look? ++ Singer, Age 32
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I'm an average-height, voluptuous, red-headed bombshell. As a kid I was fat and weird. I was raised by artists so I had a very singular sense of style. For a long time I would wear nothing but dresses - I still wear nothing but dresses on stage - and...
Aspiration the Key Word as Brown Woos the South ; THE WEEK IN POLITICS
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After this month's local elections, there was much debate about how much progress David Cameron's Conservatives had made in the north of England. Along with Labour losing power in Scotland, it diverted attention from a more important question: Labour's...
A Stretch Too Far for Nasdaq's Greifeld ; OUTLOOK
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London via Stockholm? It seems a circuitous route, but it is hard to figure out why else Nasdaq's Bob Greifeld is paying $3.7bn to buy Sweden's OMX, the Nordic stock exchange group. The only substantive point of interest in this deal for us Brits is...
Attacks on UK Forces Feared as Basra's Shia Leader Is Killed ; WORLD
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On the day that the radical Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr appeared in public for the first time in months, his chief lieutenant in Basra was shot dead in an operation by British and Iraqi government forces. The killing of Wissam Abu Qader, the commander...
Bayliss Puts Finger on Power Problem ; MOTORCYCLING
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Troy Bayliss arrived here yesterday lacking a finger and a handful of horsepower, but still managed to head the opening qualifying session for the British round of the World Superbike Championship on his Xerox Ducati. Bayliss, a 38-year-old Australian...
BBC Interviewers 'Too Frightened of Offending Big Business Leaders' ; HOME
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If Bill Gates was nervous before his appearance on the BBC's Ten O'Clock News earlier this year, he did not need to be. His interrogator, Huw Edwards, could hardly have tried harder to put the world's richest man at ease. "Lots of our viewers are wondering...
Beauty and the Beach ; When David Schneider Visited Mexico for a Star-Studded Hotel Launch, He Encountered Unbridled Luxury, Rampant Hedonism. and Cindy Crawford at Breakfast
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The thing is, I'm a nervous traveller. It's not the flying; it's everything else. I always leave heaps of time to get to the airport before check-in, usually about a month, and I always overpack - I need two suitcases and a deluxe carry-all with trolley...
Beckham Return Just Another Diversion on McClaren's Boulevard of Broken Schemes ; SPORT
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What a perfect ending to the David Beckham Story: headlines and glory that even he could hardly have dreamed of as he contemplated his imminent arrival in football's version of Sunset Boulevard. Somewhere there is maybe a reality, a hard centre to the...
BERNARD HERZBERG ; Anti-Apartheid Activist
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Bernard Herzberg was sitting at the computer in his East Finchley home, putting the final touches to his master's dissertation on apartheid, when he died shortly before his 98th birthday. He had returned to his studies three-quarters of a century after...
BILL JOHNSTON ; Relentlessly Accurate Bowler Who Emerged as the 'Suprise and Success' of Don Bradman's 'Invincibles'
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When Don Bradman brought his Australian team to England in 1948 for what must have been, after six years of war, the most anticipated of all tours, there was a yearning in this shabby, rationed, austere island to see these bronzed cricketers, names made...
Boy Racer ; the Saturday Profile ++ LEWIS HAMILTON
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A month ago, British sport's embryonic superstar Lewis Hamilton gave his first major television interview, to Sir David Frost for his show Frost Over the World on al-Jazeera TV. Representing this newspaper, I was invited to sit in on the interview. The...
BRIAN WALKER ; Manager of Danish Shipping
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Brian Walker was a British engineer who became managing director of the Danish shipping group DFDS. He developed roll-on roll-off and container systems for passenger and cargo ships, the best known of them on scheduled Anglo-Scandinavian routes, and...
British Hacker Appeals to Lords over Extradition to US ; HOME
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A British man is to go to the House of Lords in a last-ditch bid to avoid extradition to the US where he is wanted for allegedly carrying out the "biggest military computer hack of all time". Gary McKinnon, 41, from north London, is accused of gaining...
BSkyB Tipped to Sell off Stake in ITV to RTL ; MARKET REPORT
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Speculation about the future of BSkyB's 17.4 per cent stake in ITV reached fever pitch yesterday on rumours that the satellite broadcaster is on the verge of selling out to RTL, which in turn could make a bid for ITV. However, some traders believe that...
Btw ; HOME
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'Tell them we're busy!" Kevin Spacey shouted at a hapless member of the audience when his New York production of A Moon for the Misbegotten was interrupted by a ringing mobile phone. But not everyone-and not every species - is so ill-disposed towards...
Bug Strips England Down to Bare Bones ; SPORT
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Sir Clive Woodward used to worry himself silly about electronic bugs planted in the England dressing room. Brian Ashton, the current head coach, is more concerned with bugs of the gastric variety. Both Andy Farrell and Peter Richards were struggling...
Burma Renews House Arrest for Suu Kyi despite Global Pressure ; WORLD
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For much of the last 17 years, Aung San Suu Kyi has been confined to her decaying lakeside villa in Rangoon, forbidden to receive visitors without official permission, or even to make a phone call. Yesterday, ignoring a growing international clamour,...
Can't Wait for Winter? ; Arnie Wilson Feeds His Skiing Addiction with a Summer Journey to the Peaks and Glaciers of New Zealand's Southern Alps
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Seagulls that follow you down an alpine glacier as you savour ocean views; a live volcano that might one day do rather more than mess up your ski tracks; the prospect of having your packed lunch, windscreen wipers or even your car seat badly gored by...
Care Trust Apologises for Fatal Failure of Out-of-Hours GP Service ; HOME
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A primary care trust made a public apology yesterday to the family of a patient who died from multiple organ failure due to severe flaws in the care provided by an out-of-hours GP service. The chief executive of Islington PCT insisted that lessons had...
Chess ; SATURDAY MAGAZINE
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The Capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, is famous in the chess world as the birthplace of Gary Kasparov and more recently Teimour Radjabov. I played there just once in 1983 together with Nigel Short who won the tournament and gained his grandmaster title. Our...
Children's TV on Trial: The Kids' Verdict ; Television ++ Tonight 9.05pm BBC4
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"What would the media-savvy, multi-platformed kids of today think of our blue-remembered childhoods?" asks the narrator somewhat tremulously at the start of this programme in which a quartet of 10- to 12-year-olds give their opinions of five decades'-worth...
China to Underpin Sustained Bull Market ; OUTLOOK
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China's acquisition this week of a 10 per cent stake in Blackstone, the US private equity giant, is another reason for remaining bullish about equities. To date, China has tended to invest its burgeoning reserves of foreign currency - growing at the...
Clintons Planned to Have Eight Years Each as President, Book Says ; WORLD
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Bill and Hillary Clinton drew up a secret plan 15 years ago under which each of them would occupy the White House for eight years, according to one of several new books about the leading Democratic candidate for the US presidency. According to the book...
Coca-Cola Buys Vitamin Water Maker Energy Brands for $4.1Bn ; BUSINESS
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As Americans shun fizzy drinks in favour of healthier options, Coca-Cola has alighted on a new source of revenue - flavoured water.The world's No 1 drinks maker is paying $4.1bn ([pound]2.1bn) to acquire Energy Brands, a private company more commonly...
Congress Gives Bush His Iraq Money, but President Faces Mounting Opposition to War ; WORLD
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President George Bush was able to sign the "no-strings" Iraq funding bill he demanded. But this is likely to be a short-lived victory, as domestic opposition to the war grows, and a bloody summer of fighting lies ahead. Congress finally approved the...
CONTINUATION: 'Going Deaf Gives You Confidence' ; NEWS
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Speaking to The Independent, he said it was this latest work, which will sit at the heart of the RA's Summer Exhibition, that he views as his "most ambitious undertaking" in painting.He had wanted to create a large-scale work for some time, but the moment...
CONTINUATION: Pietersen Follows Captain's Lead to Punish Ragged West Indians ; CRICKET
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The frustration that comes with sitting on the sidelines and watching your teammates continually walk out to play is unimaginable. Many lose the desire to put in the required endeavour, but Vaughan has always been a strong, bloody-minded so-and-so. His...
CONTINUATION: The Warning Israel Chose to Ignore ; SIX DAY WAR
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settlement in the administered territories contravenes the explicit provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention." Judge Meron, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia until 2005, said that, after 40 years of Jewish settlement...
Correction ; NEWS
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Due to a printing error, Page 44 of today's Independent Magazine, which contained Mark Hix's recipes, was replaced by page 54. The recipes can be found on our website at www.independent.co.uk.We apologise to readers for this inconvenienceMISSING TEXTIn...
Death and Glory ; FOR 100 YEARS THE TT HAS DELIVERED TALES OF DERRING-DO, TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH. FOR SOME RACING AT 100MPH ON PUBLIC ROADS IS A LETHAL ANACHRONISM, FOR OTHERS IT IS STILL THE ULTIMATE TEST OF A RIDER'S COURAGE AND SKILL by Mac McDiarmid ++ Centenary of Racing on the Isle of Man
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The Isle of Man TT races, which celebrate their centenary on Monday, are not just a historic curiosity but in large measure the history of British motorcycle racing itself. During their span they became the most prestigious and one of the cruellest races...
Description of Madeleine Kidnap Suspect Released ; HOME
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Police searching for the missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann issued their first detailed description of a possible suspect last night. He was described, as aged 35 to 40 years old, and was seen walking in the area of Praia da Luz at the time Madeleine...
Dettori Sore after Narrow Escape ; on Racing
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However brief, the journey between saddle and soil at Good-wood yesterday no doubt afforded Frankie Dettori ample opportunity to wonder if he really is doomed never to win the race he craves most. Booked to ride the hot favourite, Authorized, in the...
Don's Appeal Victory Gives Ohuruogu New Hope for Olympics ; ATHLETICS
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Tim Don, the world triathlon champion, will be able to compete in future Olympics after winning his appeal against a lifetime ban from the Games. Don was suspended for three months after missing three out-of- competition drugs tests, which automatically...
Don't Let Them Get Away with It Again ; SAVE & SPEND
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Victims of the Equitable Life debacle were dealt yet another heavy blow this week, as the Parliamentary Ombudsman, Ann Abraham, revealed that she won't be publishing her report on the scandal until the autumn - at the very earliest. Her latest investigation...
Elder and Better ; Urban Gardener
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Our large elder ( Sambucus nigra) has just received a stay of execution for another year. Positioned at the back of our allotment, it serves a dual purpose. First, that of shelter and food for small birds, and second, to make our social area under an...
Eurotunnel Creditors Agree to New Deal ; BUSINESS
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Eurotunnel, the crisis-hit channel tunnel operator, finally secured its long-term future yesterday after almost 10 years of struggling in the face of debts of more than [pound]6bn. Thousands of small shareholders in the company voted to accept a deal...
Federer Keen to Renew Clay Duel with Nadal ; TENNIS
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Plus ca change plus c'est la mme chose. One year ago Rafael Nadal arrived here as the French Open's defending champion, while Roger Federer came in search of the only title missing from his Grand Slam collection. Enough water has flowed under the Pont...
Fern Britain ; Anna Pavord Meets the Suffolk Nurserymen Whose Mission It Is to Make Us Love the Mighty Fern
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I am in love and this time it's serious. For looks, certainly, I could not do better. The object of my passion is tall, elegant, formally and soberly suited but without a hint of stuffiness. Cautiously, a little time ago, I suggested this paragon might...
FIVE BEST POD HOTELS ; Small but Perfectly Formed, These Quirky Rooms Are a Real Treat, Says Rhiannon Batten
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Cove Park Scotland Essentially a sophisticated artists' retreat, Cove Park was founded in 1999 on Scotland's Rosneath peninsula. While creative types come to be inspired, or to take part in events, the accommodation is also open to the public. Guests...
Food & Drink Notes ; SATURDAY MAGAZINE
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A lot of waffle Never mind the old chestnut "Can you name five famous Belgians ...?", think about Belgian gastronomy, and chocolate springs unbidden to the front of mind, closely followed by chips with mayonnaise and a big pot of mussels. The Belgians...
Forty Years Ago, Israel Launched What Is Known as the Six-Day War. the Fighting Was Short, Sharp and Bloody. but Its Poisonous Legacy Has Lasted Far Longer. for This Special Report, Donald Macintyre Visits the Heart of the Conflict ; SATURDAY MAGAZINE
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Less than a kilometre past the hillside olive groves of the sprawling Palestinian village of Sinjil, Dror Etkes turns left off route 60 as it dips and winds north through the terraced West Bank hills halfway between Ramallah and Nablus. He drives his...
Frankfurt to Paris Trains Arrive after Six-Year Delay ; EUROPE
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The event was billed as a "milestone in European rail history", but the sleek French TGV and German ICE high-speed trains that pulled into Paris yesterday arrived six years late because of farcical rows about plastic crockery, exploding cap bombs and...
Gordon's Kitchen Heaven ; Restaurants
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I dimly recall a long-distant ad campaign which pictured a detached suburban house completely encircled by a web of motorway flyovers. The tagline read "Thinking of moving?" There's something of the same disjunction of scale about North Queensferry,...
Hard Luck, Old Bean ; the Weasel
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Last week, I cooked a recipe by Elizabeth Luard, winner of the 2007 Glenfiddich Trophy, the top prize in Britain's top food awards. The result was a comprehensive disaster, though no blame should be attached to Mrs Luard. I essayed sepia con pochas (cuttlefish...
Harrington Sitting Pretty in Hunt for Bumper Pay Day ; GOLF
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It is apt, some may suggest eerily so, that in a week when the game's main talking point has been how the European Tour could entice the sport's superstars to play in their events by offering yet more money, that one of that privileged breed has an unprecedented...
How to Move House without It Costing You a Fortune ; James Daley Looks at How to Make Moving Home More Affordable
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Moving home ranks behind only divorce and bereavement on the list of life's most stressful activities - and it's also one of the most expensive. Furthermore, it's about to get pricier. Although the Government announced this week that the introduction...
Ian McMillan, Writer & Poet ; My Secret Life
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Ian McMillan was born on 12 January 1956 in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. A poet, playwright and broadcaster, he presents Radio 3's The Verb and is a contributor to BBC 2's Newsnight Review. McMillan has written comedies for the radio and stage and will...
If You Ask Me ; SATURDAY MAGAZINE
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If you ask me, canape breath is the biggest cause of social unrest these days. Forget the recently "deselected" second wife - the blousy one with a fondness for large glasses of pinot grigio - forget the drunk and over-attentive auctioneer, forget the...
'In America You Have to Educate Them before You Crack the Joke' ; the 5-Minute Interview ++ Dave Fulton ++ Comedian
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Dave Fulton, 45, will be performing at the Soho Theatre in London, from 5-9 June. While I was talking to Dave he was skateboarding through Waterloo station and arguing with police officers. Of his show he said: 'You can get away with more here. In America...
In a Sporting World with Morals in the Gutter Golf Is a Heavenly Exception ; ON SATURDAY
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Some years ago, I had the privilege of interviewing the actor Albert Finney, a wise and rather wonderful old cove. We talked in his trailer on a film set, and because the shooting schedule changed while I was there, I got to spend the best part of a...
'I Need a Home for My Family but London's Too Expensive' ; WEALTH CHECK
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Bastiaan Los is a 38-year-old IT manager from London. Despite taking home a salary of around [pound]3,000 a month, he hasn't been able to achieve his dream of getting on the property ladder. As a father of two young children, he desperately wants the...
Influential Wilshere Lifts Salford Spirit ; RUGBY LEAGUE
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SALFORD 14 HUDDERSFIELD 12 Fiercely committed defence and two spectacular second half tries brought Salford a memorable victory in their first match following the sacking of Karl Harrison. Watched by Shaun McRae, who is likely to succeed him next week,...
Inquisitor 22 ; SATURDAY MAGAZINE
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MMM Eight helpful letters are missing from the wordplay in eight across clues. Nine spaces left after all answers are entered must be filled and highlighted, together with 13 other squares. Enantiomorphy, having right-left equivalence, was loosely shown...
It Is Time to Bring an End to This Pervasive Culture of Waste ; LEADING ARTICLE
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This week we finally began to get serious about rubbish. On Thursday the Environment Secretary David Miliband announced plans to allow local authorities to introduce a system of incentives and penalties to encourage householders to recycle more. The...
Kempinski Grand Hotel Heiligendamm Germany ; 24-HOUR ROOM SERVICE
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When George Bush and Tony Blair check into the Grand Hotel in Heiligendamm for the G8 Summit on 6 June, they'll add their names to a famous (and occasionally infamous) guest list that stretches back 200 years. Founded in 1793 by Duke Friedrich-Franz...
Kenny Tunes Up to Follow Stein Way ; FOOTBALL
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Jock Stein's first trophy as a manager was the Scottish Cup in 1961, when his Dunfermline Athletic side shocked Celtic 2-0 in a replayed final. Many observers have already predicted a great future for the Fife club's current manager, Stephen Kenny -...
'King David' Has Last Laugh over Real Doubters ; Last Autumn He Was a Burnt-Out Galactico Living on Borrowed Time in Madrid. Now the Former England Captain Is Hailed for His Performances as a Revitalised Side Close in on the Spanish Title. John Carlin Reports
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The hints dropped by his exhibitionist wife provide rich scope for speculation regarding what David Beck-ham gets up into the privacy of his home. But as far as we solemn-minded dwellers of the back pages are concerned, all we know for sure is that he...
Labour Raps Hodge over Call to House 'Britons First' ; POLITICS
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Margaret Hodge's chances of surviving as a minister under Gordon Brown were fading after her call for a "Britons first" housing policy came under fire from all sides of the Labour Party. Two deputy leadership candidates accused the Industry minister...
Lennon Trial Ends with Twist as Owen Survives His Return ; FOOTBALL
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ENGLAND B 3ALBANIA 1It was billed as the Michael Owen show - or rather a trial given his fitness - but England were dealt an unwanted sub-plot last night as they lost Aaron Lennon to injury, with a twisted knee, while winning an entertaining encounter...
Let's Raise a Glass to Baby's Good Health ; EDITORIAL & OPINION
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It is no secret that pregnancy hormones can make a person somewhat fractious. I am three and a half months gone, and bad- tempered even in my sleep. So one can only marvel at the bravery of the Department of Health, whose latest diktat might have been...
Liverpool Put [Pound]12m Price Tag on Bellamy to Lead Anfield Exodus ; FOOTBALL
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Liverpool's efforts to meet the transfer demands of their manager Rafael Benitez have produced an ambitious [pound]12m price tag on the head of Craig Bellamy, the Wales international striker expected to lead an exodus of players from Anfield this summer....
Loco Hero ; from Darwin to Adelaide, 'The Ghan' Plots a Course through over 1,800 Miles of Hot Red Deserts and Untamed Outback. Michael Williams Hopped Aboard
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'You see, it depends on whether you are going to do a big one or a tiddler," says Jade, hooting with laughter. We're in the middle of nowhere on the edge of the Australian outback, inspecting the Heath Robinson flushing mechanism of a train toilet. The...
'Lucky' Jim Fifield Seeks New Financial Backer for Bid for EMI ; BUSINESS
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"Lucky" Jim Fifield is on the hunt for a new financial backer to support a bid for EMI after Corvus Capital, his private equity partner, pulled out of a deal. Corvus Capital, run by the controversial financier Andrew Regan, pulled out of a bid for EMI...
Mark Eley & Wakako Kishimoto ; 'If You Find Yourself in a Bad Hotel, You Should Spend More Time Outside'
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First holiday memory? ME: All my childhood summer holidays were quite beach-bound, mostly spent with my parents in West Wales around Tenby because my grandparents lived near there. We'd go most summers and camp, or stay in caravans or B&Bs. Best holiday?...
Market Confidence in Duke of Marmalade Points to Upstart Rebel Being Put in His Place ; on Racing
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The big spenders of the Turf cannot complain if the racing public takes mischievous satisfaction in their occasional embarrassment. After all, there has never been a more brazen admission of their priorities than the premature retreat to Cool-more Stud...
McClaren to Face Sack If Comeback of Beckham Fails ; FOOTBALL
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David Beckham will be named today in Steve Mc-Claren's England squad for a comeback after 10 months in the international wilderness. The England manager has made the decision to bring Beckham back into the fold to lend experience to his depleted squad...
My Grandfather and the 'Cutty Sark' ; EDITORIAL & OPINION
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A bit of the Fisk family went up in smoke last week. For when the Cutty Sark burned, the wooden deck upon which my grandfather Edward once walked - no doubt a little unsteadily in the great storms off the Cape of Good Hope - was turned to cinders. Edward...
Myhome Can Expect More Domestic Success ; NO PAIN, NO GAIN
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Shares of Myhome International hit a new high after the ambitious franchise group posted its first figures since arriving on AIM at the turn of the year. Followers of the company may be surprised at the stock market's ecstatic reaction. After all, the...
Nasdaq's OMX Deal Achieves Wish to Buy a Bourse in Europe ; BUSINESS
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The New-York-based Nasdaq stock exchange finally achieved its ambition of pushing into Europe yesterday after agreeing to take over the Nordic exchange operator OMX after two failed attempts to buy the London Stock Exchange. The heavily indebted exchange...
Not-So-Little Italy ; Wine
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If you were looking for someone to unravel the intricacies of Italian wine without inducing an alligator-sized yawn, you could hardly ask for a better exponent than Riccardo Cotarella. After three decades, Cotarella's work as a wine consultant in all...
O'Connor Sees the Light with Album Inspired by the Bible ; HOME
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Once she was the bad girl who caused one of the biggest rock and roll outrages since John Lennon described the Beatles as bigger than Jesus Christ. Now, Sinead O'Connor, the young singer who ripped up the Pope's portrait, has returned as a mellowed,...
OFT Investigates Kier over Price-Fixing in Building Sector ; BUSINESS
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Kier Group, the construction company, said yesterday it was co- operating with an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading into bid rigging and price fixing in the building sector. Kier said the OFT had asked it for an explanation of its conduct in...
Performance Notes ; EDITORIAL & OPINION
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The Film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Certificate 12A General release OVERVIEW Directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, the third instalment in this hugely profitable action franchise is 168 minutes long and it stars,...
Preservation Society ; Smoking, Salting, Drying ... Curing Gives an Exciting New Edge to Familiar Foods, Says Mark Hix. Photographs by Jason Lowe
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Beetroot soup with smoked duckServes 3-4Some of you may have read newspaper reports recently in which Gordon Ramsay was unfairly accused of "borrowing" some of my recipes for his new boozer, The Narrow, but I don't think being inspired by other chefs'...
Price Pressures Rise as Britain Clocks Up Fifth Quarter of Growth ; BUSINESS
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Britain's economy clocked up its fifth consecutive quarter of above -trend growth in the first three months of the year as booming financial services offset slower growth in consumer spending. The Office for National Statistics' second stab at calculating...
Print Empress ; She Is David Hockney's Muse - and Her Own Work Helped Define Sixties Design. Celia Birtwell Shows Sarah Harris Round Her Colourful Notting Hill Home. Photographs by Philip Sinden
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"A room is like a painting," says Celia Birtwell blithely, "it's an extension of the way you see things. I don't know what that says about me - I'll leave that to you." We are standing in the new sun-drenched conservatory of her Notting Hill house. It...
PROFESSOR ENZO FERRONI ; Leading Art Conservation Scientist
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The present intense activity in conserving the medieval paintings on the walls of Santa Croce Basilica in Florence ( La Leggenda della Vera Croce by the 14th-century painter Agnolo Gaddi), and indeed the restoration work of murals in churches across...
Race-Hate Preacher Is Deported from Britain ; NEWS
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Abdullah al-Faisal, who influenced one of the July 7 bombers, has been deported from Britain. The Home Secretary, John Reid, welcomed the removal of the Jamaican convert to Islam, who was placed on a flight to Kingston just after midday yesterday. Mr...
'Reaching 100 Was as Fine a Feeling as I Have Felt in the Game' ; CRICKET
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Michael Vaughan may have reached the ultimate pinnacle as an English cricketer by captaining his country to an Ashes series victory, but he admitted that nothing in his back catalogue of personal triumphs could match the emotions engendered by his stunning...
Regent Inns Shares Dive 15% on Problems at Old Orleans ; BUSINESS
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Shares in Regent Inns plummeted yesterday after the pub operator reported difficulties turning around its Old Orleans chain. Regent Inns, the owner of the Australian-themed Walkabout chain of pubs, said that delays in obtaining permission from landlords...
Reggie the Fugitive Alligator Is Captured Alive ; NEWS
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For almost two years, Reggie played the part of the classic American outlaw - a fugitive living by his wits to elude the authorities, a folk hero celebrated in books and song, and a permanent headache for law enforcement officers as they spent ever more...
Relaxed, Even in the Face of Strike Threats and TV Cameras ; Allan Leighton Credits His Informal Style for Much of His Success at Asda and, as Cliff Feltham Discovers, He's Now Using It to Head off a Strike at Royal Mail ++ A Day in the Life of
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6am Another day for a man who turned a basket case of a retailer into a [pound]6.7bn business before famously leaving the job to "go plural" - taking on a host of directorships at companies including lastminute.com, Leeds United, Bhs, BSkyB and Selfridges....
Rudolph Vigil Fails to Deter Durham ; CRICKET
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YORKSHIRE 393& 218-9 DURHAM 481 Jacques Rudolph caused enough annoyance when he was signed during the winter under the Kolpak ruling, now he is threatening to irritate Yorkshire's Championship rivals even further by doing what he does best - scoring...
Sadr Uses Dramatic Reappearance to Deliver Blast of Anti-US Rhetoric ; WORLD
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The nationalist Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has reappeared before thousands of supporters for the first time in months to call for American troops to end the occupation of Iraq. In an impassioned sermon to 6,000 worshippers in a mosque in the holy city...
Scandalous Business at the Bristol Old Vic ; the Week in Arts
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I have a soft spot for the Bristol Old Vic. It's partly because I once worked in Bristol, and it was my cultural haunt. It's partly because it is a beautiful 18th-century building, and it's partly because it's the oldest working theatre in Britain. Well,...
Schofield Answers County Pros' Prayers by Setting Up a One-Dayer for the Chop ; What I've Learnt This Week
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The Schofield Report has been in the headlines this week and I was delighted to see the recommendations into ways to improve the English game included losing a competition from the county scene. As captains' representative for the Professional Cricketers'...
Schools in Grammar Areas More Likely to Fail Inspections ; HOME
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More schools are failing inspections in selective areas of the country than where councils have gone fully comprehensive, according to research. In addition, selective councils have twice as many schools labelled by Ofsted, the education standards watchdog,...
Selectors' Spotlight Falls on Out-of-Tune Strauss ; CRICKET
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The headache that selectors in any sport face, we are always told, is the one that results from having more good players than can be accommodated. The make-up of the team for the third Test will not have been given much thought by England's cricket selectors...
SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE ; My Week ++ Book Signings, Interviews and Festival Appearances Make Up the Author's Week
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Sunday I am going to my country cottage to do some gardening and plant some vegetables. I am putting on my beloved blue boiler suit and we, my children and I, are going to get muddy. In the evening I will be coming to London. I'll probably go to bed...
So This Is What It Feels like to Be a 'Premier Client' ; Thrifty Living
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I FEEL LIKE weeping. Or going on a spending spree. I know, it's very wrong of me to go over my overdraft limit. But, as I explained to my lovely bank manager, Anne, my income is erratic. "I have an erratic income!" I shout at her. Yes, it's come to this:...
'Squalid and Dreadful': Fry Joins the Debate about the Morality of Reality TV ; HOME
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Stephen Fry has launched a withering attack on reality television, describing it as a "squalid and dreadful" format that he "loathed and despised".The actor and presenter of the game show QI went on to single out ITV's Dancing on Ice for particular criticism,...
Sven Drifts off with the Fairies but Kenny Scowls at Any Happy Ending ; SPORT ON TV
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In what feels like another life, when Iraq was a faraway place known only for being at war with the Khomeini boys next door, I worked in the operating theatres in a hospital in Baghdad. We had a lovely old Swedish anaesthetist, who's name I'm ashamed...
Talon Contest ; Kazakhstan Is a Vast Land Where Ancient Pursuits - Such as Hunting with Eagles - Contrast with the Trappings of Modern Life, Says Christopher Robbins
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Kazakhstan: go on, admit it. You couldn't find the place on a map if your life depended on it. It's just another Stan to you. You might know something about a couple of Stans - such as Pakistan and Afghanistan - but all those other troublesome, tongue-twisting...
THE 50 BEST Markets ; Fresh Food, Fabulous Frocks, Fragrant Flowers, Even the Most Reluctant Shopper Will Be Seduced by the Right Environment, Says Rhiannon Batten
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1 St Georges Market One of Belfast's oldest attractions, St Georges was originally built in the 1890s. After a [pound]4.5m refurbishment 10 years ago, it now offers one of the UK's most atmospheric shopping opportunities. On Fridays, stalls sell everything...
