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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 June 29, 2005
A City on Top of the World ; Dominating the Landscape for Miles around, Lincoln Has Long Been Famed for Its Gothic Cathedral. but It Has Much More to Offer, Says Nick Lloyd Jones " a Modern Infrastructure, a University and Great Links to London
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Lincolnshire is often criticised for being flat and boring, but nothing could be further from the truth when it comes to its capital " the historic cathedral city of Lincoln, which perches on top of a massive limestone escarpment. The Romans first established...
Alam Denies She Lied over Sexual Harassment Claims
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Faria Alam, the personal assistant who worked at the Football Association at the centre of a sex scandal, was has been accused of lying under oath and claiming sexual harassment in order to secure a payoff from her employers. Ms Alam, 39, told an employment...
Art of Living on the Thames ; Maia Norman's Houseboat Has Become a Showcase for Her Colourful Collection of Mexican and American Indian Pieces. by Joey Canessa
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Maia Norman, fashion designer and wife of Damien Hirst, has a family home in Devon, but when she works in London, her base is a four- bedroom Dutch barge moored at Cheyne Walk. f I didn't work, I wouldn't come to London anymore, but when I do, this is...
ASK ALICE ; Do You Have an Interiors Dilemma? Consult Our Resident Specialist
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We are planning an outdoor dinner party to celebrate my parents' 40th wedding anniversary. We're going to hire or buy a gazebo, and I would love your tips on decorating this. n Pamela Forbes, e-mail First, go to a good ethnic deli and buy a huge quantity...
A Stately Pleasure Garden ; the Redesign of the Courtyard at the V&A Museum Has Transformed a Dated Space into a Dramatic and Colourful Area for Today's Visitors. by Jay Merrick
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Forget the Spiral. Say hello to the Ellipse. The V&A Museum in London lost its chance to deliver the strange folds, crumples and fractalised surfaces designed by Daniel Libeskind and Cecil Balmond that would have made its proposed Henry Cole Wing the...
ASYLUM IN BRITAIN: 'Interrogators Hung Me from a Ceiling Fan' Hatem Hussain, Cattle Farmer, 25, from Darfur
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When Hatem Hussain arrived in Khartoum after his asylum application was rejected, he was accused of being a spy, tortured, gassed and beaten up, without even leaving the airport. After only 24 hours in Sudan, he was put on another plane and dispatched...
Big Brother Helps Racial Integration, Says Phillips
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Reality television, routinely the butt of critics' abuse, has been unexpectedly praised by the chairman for the Commission of Racial Equality for doing more to help racial understanding than any other recent media phenomenon. Trevor Phillips said shows...
Bono Courts Ridicule with Bid to Get Back 18-Year-Old Trousers ; 'They Sound like Trivial Items, They're Really Not. They Are Important to U2' BONO ON THE TROUSERS, STETSON AND AN EARRING
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To most high-earning and globally successful rock stars, a pair of trousers, some earrings, a Stetson hat and a sweatshirt, all last worn sometime in the late 1980s, would be long since gone and forgotten. Except for Bono, front man of the anti-poverty...
BT Secures Deal to Deliver Television on the Internet
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BT Group took a significant step forward in its plans to enable its telecoms network to carry television programmes when it sealed an agreement with Microsoft to supply software that delivers TV over broadband internet connections. New set-top boxes...
Bush Urges Americans to Stand Firm in Face of Iraq Violence
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President George Bush is urging wavering Americans to remain steadfastly behind the war in Iraq despite the continuing violence on the ground. The US will ultimately prevail, he says in a speech to be delivered last night, arguing that the expenditure...
Bushy Tales ; A New BBC Programme Follows a Real-Life Version of the 'No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency'. for Alexander McCall Smith , the Author of the Best- Selling Botswana-Set Novels, It Is an Opportunity to Revisit and Reflect on the Colourful Country and Characters That Have Inspired His Writing
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The American doctor looked at me quizzically 'I found Tlokweng Road,' he said. 'And I drove up and down. Where exactly is that garage?' He was referring to Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, an entirely fictional garage which plays a major role in the No....
BUSINESS ANALYSIS: Why the Markets Have Fallen out of Love with Biotech Companies
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Is the stock market going to give up on biotechnology companies, and are biotech companies going to give up on it? In the past few days, one of the UK sector's oldest drug development companies, Xenova, announced it is to be taken over by a venture capitalist...
BUY OF THE WEEK LITTLE VENICE: Playing to the Gallery ; Two Theatre Producers Have Turned a Drab 1960s Pub into an Austin Powers-Style Home. Rosalind Russell Reports
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The next time you're looking for design inspiration when renovating your property, buy a ticket and go to the theatre. It worked for West End producers John and Danya Miller, who were so smitten with the glass stage-set they saw when watching Fiona Shaw...
Byers Accused over 'Plot for State to Take over Railtrack'
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The Government had been prepared to pay Railtrack shareholders pounds 1bn to 'go quietly', a High Court judge has been told. But that had not been necessary because, against the Government's expectations, the company had willingly co-operated in a petition...
Campbell Brings in Dark Arts as Lions and All Blacks Clash
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There have been allegations of censorship, media manipulation and favouritism towards journalists prepared to toe the party line. But this is not the communications strategy of a political party in campaign mode, but the matter of a rugby tour to New...
Can You Afford It?
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Victorian converted flat pounds 265,000 Camberwell, London SE5 Agent: Camberwell.com 020 7732 9000 What you get: Impressively large and airy two bedroom flat on the first and second floors of a double fronted Victorian property with private entrance....
Carpetright Bucks Retail Gloom with Upbeat Outlook
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Lord Harris of Peckham, the chairman and chief executive of Carpetright, brought a rare smile to the lips of retail investors yesterday when he predicted a spending recovery that helped drive the company's shares price 100p higher, a rise of 11.12 per...
Chess
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Michael Adams's match with the Austrian Chrilly Donninger's terrifying fusion of hardware and software, Hydra, finished on Monday at the Wembley Conference Centre in London. I fear, therefore, that, writing this on Sunday night, I don't know the final...
Citigroup Pays Pounds 13.9m to Settle with FSA over 'Dr Evil' Bond Strategy
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Citigroup, the world's largest banking group, was fined pounds 13.9m yesterday for a series of controversial bond trades last summer, which were conducted under a strategy dubbed 'Dr Evil' by five traders. It was the second-biggest fine ever imposed...
City Fund Manager and Fly-Fishing Fanatic Awards Himself Pounds 11m Catch
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A City fund manager has awarded himself a pounds 11.4m remuneration package, the equivalent to the yearly salaries of 1,130 workers on the minimum wage. A former captain of the England fly-fishing team, Jeremy Herrmann, 35, named his hedge fund after...
Clarke Announces Concessions over ID Cards
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Charles Clarke has made a string of concessions on his contentious plans for ID cards as he attempts to quell a wave of Labour opposition to the scheme. The Home Secretary pledged yesterday to cap the price of a card, floated the idea of cut-price fees...
Classical: ST MAGNUS FESTIVAL Various Venues ORKNEY HHHH
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It's hard to find fault with a festival whose main currency is whisky, sunshine and soft sea breezes. All the music in Orkney's St Magnus Festival is touched by magic, even the strident bleating of the festival's featured instrument, the carnyx (an Iron...
Classical: THE SIXTEEN: HERCULES Sheldonian Theatre OXFORD HHHH
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The Handel in Oxford Festival, now in its second year, is a twin debt repaid. It was Handel who supplied Harry Christophers' choir, The Sixteen, with some of its most enduring recordings " Esther, Samson, Israel in Egypt. Indeed Handel himself once took...
Coldplay Success Helps to Steady the Ship at HMV
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Coldplay's latest album, which recorded the second-highest sales in UK chart history in its first week of release, the imminent arrival of the latest Harry Potter novel and a strong schedule of DVD releases will help HMV ride out the tough trading conditions...
Computacenter Plans Job Cuts after Latest Deterioration
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Job losses and a cost-cutting initiative are being planned by Computacenter to 'reshape' its core business of selling computers to corporate clients after it yesterday issued its fourth profits warning since November. The warning came after revenues...
Country Life ; My Fellow Judges Were Distinguished and Knew Their Weaves from Their Tufts
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A SMIDGEN OF renown goes a long way in a county in which human beings are outnumbered by sheep, cattle and poultry by a ratio, at a rough guess, of a hundred to one. As the author of a weekly newspaper column and a book about life in Herefordshire, I...
Cricket: Ashes Fire Blazes in Jones-Hayden Spat ; ENGLAND V AUSTRALIA
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Those who wondered whether yesterday's encounter between England and Australia would be treated as gentle warm-up for Saturday's NatWest Series final at Lord's ought to have been at Edgbaston at 2.55 pm. Players squaring up to each other on a cricket...
Diary of an Eco-Builder ; Make Use of Renewable Energy by Letting the Daylight in " It's a Vital Natural Resource
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Do you use renewable energy at home? If you worry that this question places you among the mass of unreconstructed gas-guzzlers, I can offer you a little encouragement: the answer for everyone, without exception, is 'yes'. The renewable energy I have...
England Is Mollycoddling Scotland into Sclerosis ; Scotland Now Has the Largest Public Sector in the Developed World
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For Scots who grew up in the Sixties, one ritual, enacted throughout the country, encapsulated their experience of a society excessively dependent on the state. Families gathered weekly outside municipal buildings to read the notices revealing who had...
Fishing Champion Turns City Shark with Pounds 11m Pay Deal a Pounds 11m Catch ; 'Jeremy Has the Uncanny Ability to Think like a Fish Better Than Anyone I Know'
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His first love is the gentle art of fly fishing, a passion he pursued so relentlessly, and some say aggressively, he eventually secured the world championship title. It might be expected then, that upon entering the altogether more predatory world of...
Football: Newcastle Say Farewell to Robert with Heavy Fine
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Newcastle United yesterday fined their departing Frenchman Laurent Robert two weeks wages after the player was critical of the club's manager, Graeme Souness. The 30-year-old Frenchman, who remains a Newcastle player until his move to Portsmouth comes...
Foreign Investment in UK Hits Record Levels
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Foreign investments in the UK rose by almost one-third to a record number in the latest year, government figures showed today. A total of 1,066 projects created 39,592 jobs in the 12 months to March, up from 25,463 jobs created by 811 investment projects...
France Wins Battle to Build First Nuclear Fusion Reactor
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France, and the European Union, have won a long diplomatic battle to host a EUR10bn (pounds 6.7bn) international programme to develop a clean and almost limitless new form of nuclear energy. World governments agreed yesterday that the Iter project "...
Freed MP Relives Eight Months of 'Hell' Spent in a Zimbabwean Jail
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A former Zimbabwe opposition legislator freed yesterday after he was jailed in October for assaulting a cabinet minister described his ordeal as a hell and said inmates were beaten daily and kept barely clothed. 'I feel very sad for those that are left...
Gang Rape Victim Celebrates as Pakistani Court Orders a Retrial
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Pakistan's Supreme Court overturned the acquittal of five men in a gang- rape case that has become an international cause clbre and put the treatment of women in Pakistani society under unprecedented scrutiny. The five men were originally found guilty...
Golf: Rose Falls Short in Open Qualifier
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Justin Rose and Bernhard Langer both failed to make it through their Open Championship qualifier in America yesterday. The only Europeans to survive were Langer's fellow German Alex Cejka and the Swedes Daniel Chopra and Wilhelm Schauman. Rose, fourth...
Greek Role in Srebrenica Massacre Investigated
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Greece has launched a judicial inquiry to discover the extent of its involvement in the Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst atrocity since the Second World War. An Athens prosecutor announced a preliminary investigation to find what role Greek volunteers...
Hewitt Hints at Ban on Smoking in Public Places
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A complete ban on smoking in all enclosed public places is likely to be introduced in England, Patricia Hewitt, the Secretary of State for Health, has said. In the strongest indication yet that the Government is moving towards an outright ban, Ms Hewitt...
Homage to Orwell: India's Opium State Plans Park at Author's 'Home'
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In a nondescript Indian town hammered by the monsoon rains, hundreds of miles from the nearest city of any size, a small, unimpressive-looking house is slowly falling down. The roof is bowed and cracked from years of rain. One of the walls is giving...
Hong Kong Hustler ; Stephen Chow Is South-East Asia's Biggest Star, and Now He's Conquering the West Too. Kaleem Aftab Admires His Kung Fu Moves
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Stephen Chow movies have been high-kicking all comers off the top of the Hong Kong box office for more than a decade. Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat and Jet Li may all be better known to Western audiences, but back in Kowloon, Chow is the undisputed dan of...
INVESTMENT PROBLEM TENANTS: Tact Can Save Money ; Landlords Going to Court over Unpaid Rent Can Lose out. A Little Diplomacy Costs Far Less, Says Chris Partridge
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Taking a bad tenant to court takes, on average, six months and costs pounds 800 plus the loss of five months' rent, according to new research. As a result, private landlords are using eviction less, in contrast to the social sector where actions for...
ISSUES YOUR HOME AS AN INVESTMENT: Our Future Pensions: They're on the House ; What's Going to Happen in 15 Years' Time When the Fortysomething Generation Cashes in Their Bricks and Mortar Pensions? Christopher Middleton Looks into the Future
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I had a nasty turn outside the estate agent's the other day. You know those queasy moments when you suddenly see a photograph of an old flame in the newspaper? Well, I saw a picture of our old house. It was looking remarkably good for its age " obviously...
Italian Village in Shock as Gunman Kills Three
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A once brilliant student whose IT business had collapsed and who was due to have his home repossessed has killed three people and wounded 9 in a homicidal frenzy that left a northern Italian village stunned. Angelo Sacco, 54, had received notice that...
Jailed Egyptian Candidate Denies Forgery
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An opposition leader who plans to challenge President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt's first multi-candidate elections denied forgery accusations at a trial which he denounced as politically motivated. Hundreds of supporters of Ayman Nour, the leader of the...
John Paul Set on Road to Fast-Track Sainthood
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The Catholic Church placed the late Pope John Paul II on the path to possible sainthood yesterday during a ceremony at a Roman basilica " the fastest start to a beatification process in memory for a man many considered a saint long before he died. Cardinal...
Leading Article: ID CARDS - A Bill That Empowers the State and Not the Citizen
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The Government's plan to introduce biometric identity cards was always a thoroughly bad idea and it has not improved with time. Indeed, the more desperately that ministers argue for the benefits of such a system, the more blindingly obvious the defects...
Leading Article: SCIENCE DEGREES - Our Universities Must Have a Free Hand
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It is an understandable cause for concern that some academic subjects " particularly the sciences " appear to be waning in popularity. Almost one-third of university physics departments have closed since 1994. When Exeter University shut its chemistry...
Letter: Blood of Zimbabwe Asylum-Seekers Will Be on Blair's Hands
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Sir, I am am a white Zimbabwean who arrived in this country in 2003. Unlike the Zimbabweans in detention waiting to be sent back to Zimbabwe I hold a British passport; my father was born here. I am therefore not being sent back to Zimbabwe and certain...
Livingstone's Advice to London: Don't Flush the Loo
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Londoners were asked to refrain from always flushing the loo yesterday by the capital's mayor, Ken Livingstone, as reports showed that the water shortage facing the south of England was becoming acute. Lavatories should not be flushed when merely 'taking...
Lord Bell Buys VCCP for Pounds 30m
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Chime Communications, the public relations company chaired by Margaret Thatcher's former media adviser Lord Bell, has acquired VCCP, netting the advertising agency's partners and staff up to pounds 30m. Chime announced yesterday that it was paying pounds...
MARKET REPORT: Investors Dump Centrica amid Oil Price Fears
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Worries that Centrica profits could be hit by the ongoing oil price strength caused a rushing among investors to exit the electricity and gas distributor yesterday. The problem that Centrica, down 3p to 231p, faces is that it is a net purchaser of wholesale...
More University Science Courses Likely to Close
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The closure of more university courses in key subjects such as maths and science are inevitable, the head of the Government's higher education funding watchdog said. Sir Howard Newby, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
MOTOR RACING: Michelin Condemns Mosley over US Grand Prix Fiasco
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Edouard Michelin, the Michelin chairman, has rebuked Max Mosley, the president of the governing body of international motor sport, the FIA, for 'erroneous' allegations about the tyre company after the US Grand Prix fiasco. 'I feel it necessary to let...
National Stages First Stubbs Exhibition
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One of the National Gallery's most popular paintings has become the centrepiece for its newest exhibition. The stark, iconic image of the horse Whistlejacket greets visitors to Stubbs and the Horse, the first British exhibition to be devoted to the paintings...
New Tax Breaks for the Well-Off Could Cost Pounds 500m, Say Lib Dems
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The Treasury could lose half of the tax revenue it had budgeted to recoup by closing tax loopholes thanks to new rules that allow wealthy people to buy goods such as homes to invest in their personal pension plans, the Liberal Democrats claimed yesterday....
Now the United States Has Finally Woken Up to the Economic Challenge from China ; the US Is Taking a Clearer and Cooler View of Its Long- Term Strategic Position, and Not before Time
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Washington DC " Viewed from the outside, the principal economic concerns of the United States ought to be the fiscal and current account deficits and the impact of higher interest rates on what some people believe is a housing bubble. Viewed from within,...
OBITUARY: PROFESSOR SANJAYA LALL ; Prodigiously Productive Professor of Development Economics at Oxford
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Sanjaya Lall, Professor of Development Economics at Oxford University, was in the front echelon of contemporary development economists, and arguably without peer in his own fields of specialisation: technological capability, skill acquisition and industrial...
OBITUARY: SANDY DUNCAN ; Athlete and Olympic Administrator
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Sandy Duncan was a stalwart of post-war British sport who ran the British Olympic Association as its General Secretary for 26 years. After his retirement, he was recognised internationally as a pre- eminent source of information on Olympic history and...
OBITUARY: VALERIE BESTON ; Francis Bacon's Loyal 'Miss B'
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As friends often find, discretion can be mistaken for secrecy, loyalty for control. Such was the case with Valerie Beston, whose long career as dealer and friend to Francis Bacon ended under a cloud that was almost certainly undeserved. Miss Beston,...
Only Half of Parents Encourage Children to Eat a Healthy Diet
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Nearly half of parents are doing little to ensure that their children eat a healthy diet, despite the growing concern over childhood obesity, research indicates. Although the majority of parents claim that they try to make their offspring eat healthily,...
Only Half of Parents Encourage Children to Eat Healthy Diet Eating
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Nearly half of parents are doing little to ensure that their children eat a healthy diet, despite the growing concern over childhood obesity, research indicates. Although the majority of parents claim that they try to make their offspring eat healthily,...
Opera: Figaro Thrives in the Open Air ; LE NOZZE DI FIGARO Garsington Opera OXON HHHH
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The garden at Garsington Manor would do Count Almaviva proud. One can just imagine the sculpted conifers concealing many a nocturnal assignation. The last act of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro is full of them, of course, and with the garden in plain view,...
Our Modern Obsession with Respect ; What Tony Blair Is Really Talking about When He Chirrups about a Culture of Respect Is Law and Order
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'R-E-S-P-E-C-T' yowled Aretha Franklin in her 1967 barn-stormer, 'Find out what it means to me'. It's a poser for politicians as much as for pop stars. Tomorrow Tony Blair, with scarcely less pizzazz than the energetic Ms Franklin, will chair the first...
Our Security Is Dependent on Sacrifice, Bush Tells America
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In a bid to rally faltering public faith in his leadership, President George Bush has insisted the war in Iraq was worthwhile and the insurgents were failing, and that success was vital to America's future security. In his keenly awaited prime-time television...
Our Woman in Crouch End: My Prices to Open an Emporium, Give a Lecture " and Advise on Birth Control (No Guarantees)
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I am pleased to inform you that, unlike Cherie Blair, I haven't recently pulled out of any money-making stunts, largely because there has been absolutely no chorus of disapproval accusing me of cashing in on my position as my partner's consort, which...
OUTLOOK: Citigroup Punished, but What For?
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The nearly pounds 15m in fines and relinquished profits imposed by the Financial Services Authority on Citigroup is the largest ever such penalty in the City regulator's five-year history and is no doubt thoroughly deserved. Yet the most striking thing...
OUTLOOK: Shell Makes Historic Leap to Unified Structure, but Will It Do Any Good? It's a Tough Call
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Shareholders duly voted through proposals to get rid of Shell's dual domicile and capital structure yesterday, but if you can fully get your head around the supposedly simpler structure that's replacing it, then you are a better man than me. For many...
OVERSEAS CANADA: A Destination for All Seasons ; There's Something to Do All Year in Canada, So It's Ideal for Second Homes, Says Cheryl Markosky
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Once, British explorers crossed the Atlantic and ventured up the St Lawrence Seaway to barter whisky and guns for beaver pelts. Today, Brits are turning up on Canada's shores eager to invest in holiday homes. As well as clear blue skies, wide-open spaces...
Pandora
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Cash-strapped Tories face return to Smith Square Just one year after the Conservative Party hailed a new beginning by moving out of their antiquated Central Office in Smith Square, they look set for an embarrassing return. At the time, the then party...
PASSAGE TO AFRICA ; Change Is in the Air; New Routes Are Bringing an End to the Era of Ramshackle Planes and Expensive Fares That Have Crippled the Continent's Growth. Meera Selva Bids Farewell to the World's Most Hair-Raising Airlines
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The signs seemed good: the flight was due to leave on time, I checked in my bag, picked up a bottle of Zimbabwean red wine at duty- free and then watched through the plate-glass window in the departure lounge as a man driving a souped-up golf cart with...
Phillips Praises Reality TV for Breaking Down Racial Stereotypes
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Reality television, routinely the butt of critics' abuse, has been unexpectedly praised by the chairman of the Commission of Racial Equality for doing more to help racial understanding than any other recent media phenomenon. Trevor Phillips said shows...
Q&A: PLANNING PERMISSION ; Jason Orme Answers Some Frequently Asked Questions
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QHow do I make a planning application? A An application form should be submitted to your local authority along with a comprehensive set of plans and elevations, an Ordnance Survey siteplan and a site layout plan. These should be prepared to the best...
Racing: Montjeu Fast Emerges as the Wonder Stallion
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The weekend's events in Ireland ensured that the prince has already eclipsed the king in one respect. Sadler's Wells, the modern European monarch of stallions, started his stud career in spectacular style, with the winner of two Derbys " Old Vic, at...
Railway May Be Shut by Strike over 'Creeping Privatisation'
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Passengers face the threat of a total closure of the rail network after union leaders called for a ballot on the first national strike for more than a decade in protest at 'creeping privatisation". The annual conference of the industry's biggest union...
Rebels Halve Blair's Majority in Vote on ID Cards ; 'Stops and Searches on Black and Asian and Muslim People Will Rise' and I Believe That This Will Be Detrimental to Community Relations.' '; DIANE ABBOT, MP; 'ID Cards Won't Fight Terror, Won't Tackle Crime, Won't Control Immigration'; DAVID DAVIS, MP
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Tony Blair's majority was cut by more than half last night as concessions over plans for ID cards failed to prevent the first major Labour rebellion since the general election. Twenty Labour MPs rebelled over the measure, and others abstained, sending...
Record Delays Hit Sanctuary Profits
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Sanctuary, the record company and pop star management business behind Elton John and Mario, reassured investors yesterday that delayed releases and rising debts would not undermine its long-term future. Andy Taylor, the chief executive, said although...
RESTORING THE GLORY OF WATERWORLD ; an Ancient Landscape Is Revived; A Project to Replace Arable Fields with Pools and Reedbeds Will Create Habitat for Threatened Wildlife in the Fens. Michael McCarthy Reports
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The Fens are coming back. Southern England's long-lost great wetland is to be recreated on a massive scale by several huge restoration projects which will turn farmland into watery wilderness. In terms of putting back the countryside to the way it once...
RIVERSIDE PROPERTY RESTAURANT FOR SALE: Room at the Inn as Hotel Hits the Market ; If You've Ever Entertained a Fantasy about Owning Your Own Gastropub, a Rare Opportunity on the Thames Provides Plenty of Food for Thought. Cheryl Markosky Reports
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Townies who have enjoyed nearly two decades escaping to the Egon- Ronay-fted Beetle & Wedge hotel, in Moulsford, Oxfordshire, are about to lose their favourite Thames-side inn. But their loss could be someone else's gain, with the hotel and the house...
Rugby Union: Only Test Victory Can Win Back All Blacks' Respect
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There is sometimes the finest line between contempt and, worse still, pity, but the All Black feelings towards the British and Irish Lions could hardly be painted in less subtle brush-strokes. For the moment at least you have to settle for contempt....
Rugby Union: The Lions in New Zealand - Throw, Jump, Catch ; How Hard Can It Be to Win a Line-Out? the Lions Found It Almost Impossible in the First Test against New Zealand Last Saturday. Chris Hewett Tries to Unravel the Biggest of the Many Problems Facing Sir Clive Woodward
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Prior to last Saturday's opening Test match in Christchurch, the biggest jokes on the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand had been the heavy-handed neuroticism of the media relations, which mattered very little in the great scheme of things,...
RUGBY UNION THE LIONS IN NEW ZEALAND: Williams Inspires Lions Rampage of Absurd Irrelevance ; MANAWATU 6 Penalties: Hargreaves 2; HALF-TIME: 6-38; BRITISH & IRISH LIONS 109 Tries: Williams 5, O'Gara 2, Cueto 2, Corry, Murphy, Robinson, Hodgson, Smith, Back, D'Arcy, Cooper. Conversions: Hodgson 7, O'Gara 5. ATTENDANCE: 32,000
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Lions in creativity shock! Hang out the bunting, crack open the cold ones and throw the chicken on the barbecue. Well, why not enjoy it while you can? Sir Clive Woodward's chastened charges put 17 tries past some embarrassingly lightweight second-tier...
Science & Technology: THE STARS IN JULY
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Look to the deep south of the sky this month and you will spot the summer constellations of Sagittarius and Scorpius. Our northerly latitude does neither any justice. Sagittarius looks rather like a teapot, while the 'sting' in Scorpius' tail is cut...
SELF-BUILD PLANNING PERMISSION: Choose the Right Plan of Attack ; Self-Builders Need to Know the Planning Rules, as Well as How to Bend Them, If They Are to Transform Their Dream into Reality. by Jason Orme
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Of all the many hurdles that beset the wannabe self-builder, it is planning permission that seems to have the reputation as being the most frustrating, unpredictable process of all. The concept of getting an individual piece of genius house design approved...
SELF-BUILD UNDERFLOOR HEATING: Good for Your Soles, Better for Your Wallet ; Underfloor Heating Not Only Gives You a Warm Glow, It Also Saves on Heating Bills, Says Graham Norwood
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Self-builders already know the advantages of creating their own homes over buying mass-produced ones. But if any one feature demonstrates the customised stylishness and efficiency available in a self-build, it must be underfloor heating (UFH). Although...
Six to View: Properties of the Week
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You get your own minimalist-style granny annexe, too MERIDIANS Orwell, Hertfordshire. Price: pounds 595,000 Agent: Carter Jonas Tel: 01223 368771 They say: A contemporary house with outstanding views to the side and rear, in a convenient location, south...
Sporting Digest: ATHLETICS
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The 100 metre world-record holder and the 100m Olympic champion will race against each other in London next month. The American sprinter Justin Gatlin, who won the Olympic gold in Athens last summer, and Jamaica's Asafa Powell, who lowered the world...
'Springwatch' Presenter Oddie to Host 'Wild Autumn' on Effects of Climate Change in UK
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The BBC hopes to repeat the surprise success of its Springwatch wildlife show, which monitored seasonal change, with a new programme reporting on the first signs of autumn. Bill Oddie, whose wildlife programmes have regularly pulled in more than three...
Still Rebelling and Driving Road Policy after All These Years, the AA Celebrates Its Centenary
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Exactly a century ago today a group of irate motorists gathered at the Trocadero in Piccadilly and plotted to combat the menace of over-zealous constables. The modern Automobile Association (AA) may pride itself on its respectable reputation but its...
Teenagers with GCSEs Lack Basic Skills
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Teenagers with top-grade GCSE passes in maths and English are having to be tested again when they look for a job because so many lack basic skills. A report to be published today reveals a growing number of school- leavers with GCSE's lack the skills...
Tennis: Nick Bollettieri's Wimbledon Dossier - Skipping Can Help Pierce to Make Ripping Start ; Coaching Report; Williams Found Her Comfort Zone Early and Control of First Set Was Decisive as French Hope Took Too Long to Open Fire
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Mary Pierce's match against Venus Williams yesterday came alive as a contest only in the second set, and that's why Venus won. The first set was handed to her far too easily. It gave her a margin of comfort. So even when Mary got into her stride " for...
Tennis: Nick Bollettieri's Wimbledon Dossier - Today's Big Match: Sbastien Grosjean V Andy Roddick
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These guys are pretty close friends. They often practise together in Boca Raton. But they know how to put that aside for a tennis match and I expect full-blooded commitment from both sides for the duration today. Grosjean moves extremely well, he's got...
Tennis: Ruthless Federer Tempers Hopes of Title Pretenders
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Eight nationalities, five native tongues, four Grand Slam winners and no unseeded players for the first time since 1975. Today's men's quarter-finals promise contrasts and quality across the board. Yet for seven of the contenders, there remains one reason...
Tennis: Scary Intensity of McEnroe Double Act
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In this age of Lleytons, Rafaels, Felicianos and Sbastiens, the clash of three Johns and a Peter could only be a match in the over- 45s men's doubles. But when one of the Johns is surnamed McEnroe, it becomes a match worth watching, not least for Richard...
Tennis: Sharapova Wins War of Russian Attrition
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Sometimes life just isn't fair. Nadia Petrova was a set and 5- 3 down to Maria Sharapova in yesterday's all-Russian quarter-final and trading fearsome blows on her first break point when a forehand from the Wimbledon champion clipped the top of the net...
Tennis: Venus Targets Sharapova after Snuffing out Pierce Comeback
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The biggest roar on a blustery Centre Court yesterday was born of relief. Mary Pierce had finally won a game against Venus Williams after 37 minutes of torture. Having gleaned only 11 points in the opening set and lost seven games in a row, the 30-year-old...
Tennis: Young, World's Best Junior Talent, Chases the Tiger
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There seem to be two types of player which win the boys' singles here at the All England Club. You can be either a Federer, an Edberg or a Cash, or a Whitehouse, Mahut or Mergea. It is Donald Young's intention to bracket himself with the first group....
The Asylum Crisis ; Teenage Suicide at Detention Centre Is New Blow to UK Policy
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Britain's asylum policy came under renewed scrutiny yesterday as dozens of Zimbabweans staged a hunger strike in protest at their imminent deportation and Kurdish Turks mourned a teenage detainee who has killed himself. The Archbishop of Canterbury and...
Theatre: TELSTAR New Ambassadors Theatre LONDON HHH
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A tiny flat over a hat shop on the Holloway Road, in London, sounds an unlikely birthplace for a three-million-selling international No1 hit. But his cramped apartment acted as the makeshift recording studio of Joe Meek, maverick producer of The Tornados'...
The Essential Decency of Richard Whiteley ; Ninety-Nine TV Presenters out of a Hundred Could Drop Dead and No One Would Feel Anything Much
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Probably a lot of people picked up the paper on Monday, glanced at the headline, and, as I did, felt a small tug at the heart. 'Oh " Richard Whiteley " oh, no, that's not supposed to happen.' As with all one's thoughts about Richard Whiteley, this one...
THE INVESTMENT COLUMN: Stick with Exel as It Battles to Stave off Unwelcome Predators
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Exel has been one of the top performers in the FTSE 100 this year. Shares in the logistics and freight services group have rocketed as takeover rumours to swirl around the company, especially after its German rival Deutsche Post received approval from...
