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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 October 4, 2005
Andrea Levy's 'Small Island' Judged Best Book to Win the Orange Prize
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The Booker Prize waited 25 years before it named Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children the 'Booker of Bookers' " the best novel to have won the award in its first quarter century. But in response to requests from libraries and bookshops, the Orange Prize...
A QUESTION OF HEALTH: Can Adults Get Chickenpox a Second Time? Where Can I Get Help for My Incontinence?
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SPOT CHECK A 69-year-old overseas friend was staying with us when she suddenly developed a rash of spots over her body. She saw a pharmacist who diagnosed shingles (which she'd had last year) and advised her to see a doctor. A description of her symptoms...
Arts Previews: Magic Mix of Skill and Laughter ; JAMES THIERREE Sadler's Wells LONDON
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Circus 'I believe the new circus era has ended its cycle now,' says the Parisian James Thirre, who made his circus debut as a child with his parents Jean Baptiste Thirre and Victoria Chaplin (daughter of Charlie) in their Cirque Imaginaire. He might...
Arts Reviews: Dance: PUSH ; Sadler's Wells LONDON HHHH
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The star power of French ballerina Sylvie Guillem sells out theatres worldwide. Here on Friday, standing room was jammed tight. Guillem was opening the 'France Moves' strand of this year's Dance Umbrella festival, but she's based in London and works...
Arts Reviews: Hail a New Lord of the Ring ; SIEGFRIED Royal Opera House LONDON HHHH
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Opera Cometh the hour, cometh the superhero. And what a neat conceit on the director Keith Warner's part to have him grow up before our very eyes in the opening minutes of his ever-thoughtful and arresting staging. Our first glimpse is of a tiny hand...
Arts Reviews: Jazz: 'ALL RISE': WYNTON MARSALIS ; Royal Albert Hall LONDON HHHHH
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Taking time off from fund-raising for his native New Orleans, Wynton Marsalis concluded a triumphal British tour with a performance of his jazz symphony, All Rise, in the suitably grand setting of the Albert Hall. This 90-minute work, which would be...
Arts Reviews: Pop: JAMES BLUNT ; Barrowland Ballroom GLASGOW HHHH
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The name's Blunt, James Blunt, ex-Army captain, and educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. At 28, his CV may read like an old-school, upper- class spy, but just over two years ago, Blunt marched away from the parade grounds and transformed himself into the...
Bamber Says 'Suicide Note' Will Prove His Innocence
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Jeremy Bamber, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of five members of his family, is close to securing a third appeal after lawyers uncovered a 'suicide note' that could prove his innocence. Bamber's legal team claims that a 20-year-old police...
Best Is Treated in Intensive Care Unit for Severe Infection 'Responding to Treatment' in Intensive Care Unit
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George Best, the former Manchester United and Northern Ireland footballer, remained seriously ill in the intensive care unit of a London hospital last night after being struck down by an infection at the weekend. Mr Best, 59, who underwent a liver transplant...
BONHAMS ANTIQUES CAR ROADSHOW: Come on Then, What's It Worth! ; It Didn't Go off with a Bang, but Deals on Wheels Were Still Done at Bonhams' Valuation Day, Says Giles Chapman
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The Bonhams staff sported crisply ironed shirts and their best ties, plus clipboards. The wine was uncorked and paper plates overflowed with crisps. Several spaces in the car park were coned off; there was also, doubtless, a traffic-management plan,...
Bush Picks White House Counsel for Supreme Court
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Republicans, Democrats and concerned interest groups have begun an intense scrutiny of Harriet Miers, the White House counsel nominated by President Bush to fill the all- important vacancy created by the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day...
Bush Supreme Court Choice Angers Conservatives
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George Bush yesterday nominated Harriet Miers, his White House Counsel, to fill the key vacancy created by the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor " only to run into fire not from Democrats but from conservatives who normally form...
BUSINESS ANALYSIS: Investors Question Chemistry of Pounds 7bn Boots- Unichem Merger
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If Boots and Alliance UniChem were under any illusion that their proposed pounds 7bn tie-up was the solution to all their problems, then the City's reaction yesterday said it all. Shares in Alliance UniChem, which have rocketed by one-third in the past...
Calls for Prince Charles to Halt Pipeline
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A pipeline intended to carry up to 40 per cent of Britain's imported natural gas is set to become the latest environmental cause clbre over proposals to route it through some of Britain's most beautiful countryside. Campaigners opposed to the multimillion-pound...
Can Spacey Reclaim His Crown?
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Tonight, as at all first nights, there will be jangling nerves backstage, and posh frocks and famous faces front of house. But Kevin Spacey's British Shakespearean debut, as Richard II, at the Old Vic in London has more riding on it than straightforward...
CAR CHOICE: Supersafe Estate
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Duncan Cooper and his wife are looking for an estate with an automatic gearbox from 2003 or 2004 to drive on the snowy, icy winter roads of Stockholm. They wondered which would be the better bet, particularly from the safety point of view " a Subaru...
Censorship the Victorians Would Be Proud Of
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There is always much smug amusement to be derived from the anxieties and hang-ups of our uptight ancestors " the Victorians and their obsession with self-abuse, or the days of early Hollywood when the Hays Code decreed that a film which included nudity...
Cheers! Palestinians Lift Their Glasses to the First Beer Festival in the Occupied Territories
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With its arm-wrestling contest for the under 16s, the brisk trade in embroidered cushion covers and home-made pastries made by the local equivalent of the Women's Institute, a boy scout parade, and the chance to drink draught lager in the afternoon sunshine,...
CLASSIC CARS: MERCEDES-BENZ 300SL GULLWING COUPE: Art on Wheels
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This is, for me, a year of many half-centenaries.It was in 1955 that I first saw the Mille Miglia, the great Italian road race to which Nemesis was about to put an end, and on the same journey I first encountered the most outrageous and famous of post-war...
Cloud Cover Fails to Take Shine off Annular Eclipse
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Look closely. You might almost think it's the shadow of Nelson's great hat that's blotting out a chunk of the sun. But it's not, of course. It's the moon. This was how yesterday's partial eclipse of the sun looked from London's Trafalgar Square as the...
Equitable Drops Claim against Two Former Directors
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Equitable Life has dropped negligence claims against two of the 15 former directors it has been pursuing for a total of pounds 1.7bn. Peter Martin, a former non-executive director, and Shaun Kinnis, a former sales and marketing director, have both agreed...
Ernst & Young Fee Income Rises to Record Pounds 945m
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Ernst & Young, the auditors at the centre of the Equitable Life case, yesterday reported a 15 per cent rise in UK fee income to a record pounds 945m. The auditor's annual results for the year to the end of June, also showed a 30 per cent increase in...
Europe's New Frontier ; Deal Heralds Historic Talks over Turkey's Membership of EU Continent's Borders with the Islamic World Set to Be Redrawn
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Overcoming deep divisions and hostile public opinion, the EU yesterday launched membership talks with Turkey in an historic gesture aimed at reconciling Europe and the Muslim world. Hours of wrangling in Luxembourg ended with a decision to embark on...
EUROPE'S NEW FRONTIER: 'Membership of the EU Would Mark the Culmination of All Ataturk's Work'
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It was an American intervention that saved Turkey's EU accession talks from breaking down even before they had started. As Britain and the others bore down on a recalcitrant Austria, the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Turkey's Prime Minister,...
Five Arrests Take Total of Foreigners Held for 'National Security' to 23
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Five foreign terror suspects are being held in prison under immigration laws after being arrested yesterday in dawn raids across Britain. The unnamed men, all Muslims, are being detained by the Home Secretary because he says their presence represents...
Football: Barcelona and Chelsea Lie in Wait as Henry Stalls on Contract Talks
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Thierry Henry's future at Arsenal has been thrown further into doubt by the striker's decision to postpone talks on a new contract until next summer. The announcement will fuel Barcelona's undoubted interest in the 28-year- old " an offer has already...
Football: Bellamy Doubtful for Wales Qualifiers
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Craig Bellamy will visit a knee specialist this week before a decision is made over whether he can play for Wales in either of their World Cup qualifiers against Northern Ireland or Azerbaijan. The signs are not encouraging for the Blackburn striker,...
Football: Keane Ready to Turn Down Ireland Post If Kerr Goes
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Roy Keane is set to rebuff approaches to make him the manager of the Republic of Ireland if Brian Kerr is sacked next week. Kerr will lose his job should Ireland not win their final two group matches " away to Cyprus and home to Switzerland " and fail...
Football: Real Madrid End United Reign as the Game's Biggest Earner ; the Galactico Policy Is Finally Paying Dividends for Real President Florentino Perez. Nick Harris Reports
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Real Madrid have ended Manchester United's eight-year reign as the biggest earners in world football on the back of a galactico policy that truly started paying dividends when David Beckham swapped Old Trafford for the Bernabeu two years. Real's income...
Football: Reich Restores Palace's Pretensions ; QUEEN'S PARK RANGERS 1 CRYSTAL PALACE 3
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Crystal Palace had been waiting nearly 12 months to win a League match away from Selhurst Park but they did so in emphatic fashion last night. Iain Dowie's men had too much attacking nous for Queen's Park Rangers and a thoroughly deserved victory at...
Football: Title Talk off Limits for Chelsea's Players, Says Lampard
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Huddled in the centre of the Anfield pitch in one final act of defiance on Sunday, the victorious players of Chelsea vented their frustrations upon each other as they turned their backs on the lingering detractors. The air turned an appropriate shade...
Football: Today in the Premiership
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ARSENAL Arsenal will hold a three-day auction of Highbury's contents next summer, with a substantial figure being donated to charity. More than 5,000 lots are expected with the North Bank being used as the venue. A date has yet to be decided. ASTON VILLA...
French General Strike Threatens De Villepin's Presidential Hopes
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The French Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, faces the first major challenge to his authority today, when more than a million people are expected on the street in a nationwide display of defiance against his programme of cautious economic reform....
French Predator Prepares to Raise BPB Bid by 10%
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France's Saint-Gobain extended its pounds 3.7bn bid for BPB yesterday, with analysts saying it might increase the terms of its offer for the British plasterboard maker by up to 10 per cent in order to guarantee victory. The British company has until...
Games: CHESS
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The FIDE World Championship tournament is nearing the half way stage in San Luis in Argentina with the sixth of the 14 rounds this afternoon " or rather 7pm British time. The two top seeds Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov dominated the first three...
Games: CREATIVITY
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Texting becomes the official English language. And consequentially... .Latest version of Stuffit Expander instantly decompresses texts back into English. Sudden revival of interest in Babylonic Cuneiform. Audiences flock to productions of Vaclav Havel's...
HARLEY DAVIDSON STREET BOB: A Hog Back to the Bone ; A Lighter Clutch in the New Harley Makes Handling a Breeze. Cornering Is Another Matter, Says Tim Luckhurst
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After Pearl Harbour, when America belatedly awoke to the need to fight Nazism, Harley-Davidson was quick to see where duty lay. The company stopped making motorcycles for the civilian market and dedicated its efforts to churning out despatch, reconnaissance...
Health: Cocaine Anonymous ; Not All Users Can Afford to Go to Rehab. but There's Another Way " and It's Never Been So Much in Demand. Ed Caesar Pulls Up a Seat for an Addicts' Self-Help Session
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'My name's Dave and I'm an addict,' says one. 'Hello, Dave,' the group chants back. 'My name's Jane and I'm an addict,' says another. 'Hello, Jane...' And so we continue; 30 souls in a fluorescent- stripped community centre with plastic teacups and Labour...
Health: FROM THE THERAPIST'S COUCH: Sex Won't Heal the Pain for Ever
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It often takes time to work out why someone has decided to come for analysis, as complicated, barely articulated uncertainties emerge. It was much like this for the woman in my consulting room. The initial reasoning as to why she had come was delivered...
Health: Not as Seen on Television ; an Epidemic of Medical Dramas Is Spreading across Our Screens. but, Says Dr Ed Walker, If You're Hoping to Learn about Life in a Real Hospital, You're Looking in the Wrong Place
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Medicine is, as we all know, very stressful. Hence the alarmingly high number of doctors who are alcoholics, have drug habits, or are simply complete tossers. What fewer people realise is that watching medical dramas on television can be just as nerve-racking....
Internet Advertising Revenues Set to Break the Pounds 1bn Barrier
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The growth of Google and other search engines is helping the internet to take a greater share of Britain's advertising cake than more traditional media such as radio, cinema and even billboard posters. Figures produced by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)...
James Lawton: Beckham's Genius for Self-Advertisement Revels in the Revival of a Singular Talent
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You can feel it in your bones. A big David Beckham week is coming on. No one does the orchestrating better. We can start at the most basic level " the picture decorating so many breakfast tables yesterday. It shows the aftermath of the Brazilian Julio...
Last Chance to Buy. Kia Magentis
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When's it going? Not until February next year, but then most people would struggle to remember that there is a current Magentis in showrooms. Is the old one worth bothering about? Let's give it a chance. An executive car at a family car price? Well,...
LAST NIGHT'S TV: Keeping Up Observances ; Our Hidden Lives BBC4 the Battle for Britain's Soul BBC2
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Choices, choices. On one channel: Hidden Lives: It's Not Easy Being a Wolf Boy, a sensitively titled documentary about a young man suffering from hypertrichosis. On another channel, at exactly the same time: Our Hidden Lives, a dramatised version of...
Leading Article: Life and Death Cannot Be Decided by a Means Test
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The case of Barbara Clark, a former nurse suffering from breast cancer, illustrates both the best and the worst aspects of the National Health Service as it currently operates. The best part is that Mrs Clark will now be able to receive the potentially...
Leading Article: This Is about More Than DVDs and Sandwiches ; BOOTS MERGER
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Considerable changes are going on behind the faade of the British high street. This weekend, it was announced that Boots plans to merge with another pharmacist, Alliance UniChem, in a pounds 7bn deal. This will create one of Europe's largest drugs, beauty...
Manufacturing Output Rising at Fastest Rate in Six Months
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Britain's manufacturing industry showed unexpected resilience yesterday when a survey revealed the fastest growth in the sector for six months. Factory output and new orders reached the highest levels for this year, while inflationary pressures increased,...
MARKET REPORT: Boots Proposal Sparks New Round of Bid Fever
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Hopes that a raft of mergers and acquisitions are on the way in the run- up to Christmas led investors to pile into London shares yesterday. It was news of the planned tie-up between Boots and Alliance UniChem that sparked the latest wave of M&A speculation...
MFI Chief Quits after Two Profits Warnings in a Month
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John Hancock, the chief executive of MFI, has bowed to the inevitable and resigned from the troubled retailer after it issued a second profits warning in a little more than three weeks. Shareholders have been calling for a change at the top since the...
New Team Running TSL Receive 20% Stake
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Bernard Gray and the other management installed to run the TSL Education publications, bought yesterday from News International, will be given an equity stake of up to 20 per cent in the business. Exponent, a new private equity group formed by former...
NFL: Brave New World Beckons for NFL ; American Football Is Poised for the Next Frontier after the Success of the First Game to Be Staged in Mexico. Nick Halling Reports
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The globalisation of the gridiron game entered a new phase on Sunday night when hot dogs gave way to tacos and baseball caps were replaced by sombreros as the Arizona Cardinals beat the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City. The National Football...
NISSAN FIGARO: Rust-Free Retro Chic, Celebrity Style ; for Cuteness and Power, This Ticks All the Boxes, Says Elizabeth Skerritt
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It is a dream of mine to own a vintage car. But not just some old banger that doesn't require road tax any more; I want something with a bit of personality. One day I will, when I live near some country lanes along which I can drive it and have a garage...
Nobel for Scientist Who Poisoned Himself to Prove His Ulcer Theory
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The discovery that bacteria rather than stress cause stomach ulcers and that antibiotics can cure the condition has won this year's Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. Two Australian scientists who isolated the microbe responsible for peptic ulcers...
Nurse Wins 'Right' to New Cancer Drug on NHS
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A nurse with aggressive breast cancer has won the right to be prescribed a potentially life-saving drug after the NHS initially refused to provide it. Barbara Clark was told yesterday she would begin receiving Herceptin within a couple of weeks following...
Obituary: AUGUST WILSON ; Author of 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'
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Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, August Wilson was one of America's most important playwrights, famed for chronicling the Afro- American experience in the 20th century, which he did in 10 plays, each set in a different decade. His writing was described...
Obituary: KEN NORRIS ; Engineer on the Speed-Record Attempts of Donald Campbell and Richard Noble
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Ken Norris was the godfather of British land- and water-speed record-breaking. He first came to prominence in 1953 when Donald Campbell decided to carry on with his Bluebird endeavours despite the death of John Cobb when his jet-powered Crusader crashed...
Obituary: RAY RUFF ; Record Producer with a Knack for Publicity
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The music business is filled with larger-than-life figures and Ray Ruff was one of them. He was a vocalist, producer and record- label owner, but he had also been a police officer and a professional basketball player. He stood for Congress in his home...
Open Eye: How to Be a Well Qualified Success ; A High-Profile Career Doesn't Have to Be at the Expense of Academic Achievement, as Actress Lisa Coleman and Badminton Player Richard Vaughan Explain to Peter Taylor-Whiffen
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Lisa Coleman found fame playing a nurse in TV drama 'Casualty'. But now that she has an Open University psychology degree, she may quit acting to do the job for real. The 35-year-old, who starred as feisty Jude Kocarnik in the BBC series, collected her...
Open Eye: OU NEWS IN BRIEF
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OUT OF THIS WORLD The Huygens team from the Open University has received recognition in the pages of Guinness World Records, an annual compilation of 'the best of the best'. The OU team appears under a new category of Most Remote Planetary Landing, thanks...
Open Eye: We're Helping to Make History in Hackney
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The OU hosts a Family Day focusing on black history and culture, taking place in Hackney on 16 October. It's part of a programme of events, Black Voices and Stories At The OU, organised by the university in October to celebrate Black History Month. Among...
OPEN VIEW: Why the OU Is at the Top of the Class
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When the Open University was established in 1969, many academics and politicians deemed it unworkable. Over the last 35 years, however, the OU has confounded those sceptics by providing a learning experience equal, and often better, in quality to that...
OUTLOOK: Cable Industry Finally Comes of Age
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It's been a long time coming, but finally Britain's beleaguered cable industry is to be united in just one company, regulators allowing. The Thatcher government made a mistake when back in the mid-1980s it decided to fragment the award of cable franchises...
OUTLOOK: In the UK, Boots Has Nowhere to Go but Down. That's Why the Alliance Merger Makes Sense
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There are three ways of looking at the nil-premium merger of Boots and Alliance UniChem. One is that this is just a cynical way of diverting attention from the seemingly intractable problems of Boots the Chemist " just a sticking plaster solution which...
Owen Goes on the Attack to Defend Under-Fire Eriksson
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The competition to partner him in attack promises to dominate England's build-up to Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Austria but Michael Owen yesterday sought to head off the scrutiny that is bound to be focused on Sven Goran Eriksson's regime...
Pandora
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Now I'm a Gypsy, I can't be a racist, says Tory MP People accused of racism often claim that many of their best friends are black. A Tory backbencher is about to go one better, by declaring himself a Gypsy in response to criticism of his attitude towards...
Parents May Be Told What to Put in Packed Lunches
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Traditional fish and chips on Fridays will soon be replaced by healthier alternatives in plans by the Government to reduce fatty and salty foods in schools that may even lead to parents being told what to put in their children's packed lunches. Proposals...
Parkinson Talks Down 'Trivial' Chit-Chat Hosts
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Michael Parkinson has often been derided for giving interviewees an easy ride, but now he has taken a swipe at his fellow chat show hosts, accusing them of trying to be 'smart arses' and resorting to trivial chit chat. The veteran presenter, who defected...
Police Hunt Bali Bomb Accomplices as Task of Naming Dead Begins
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Indonesian police appealed to the public to help them identify the suicide bombers responsible for three blasts in Bali, as a Hindu ceremony was held to purify the beachfront site where dozens were killed and injured. Photographs of the heads of the...
Porsche Is the Loser in This Sale
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VOLKSWAGEN WAS inspired by an Austrian fanatic (yes, that one). It was resurrected by a British army major, and it became wealthy by producing Europe's most successful export to North America (yes, that car). More recently, it made a series of high-profile...
Private Schools May Devise Own Exams, Heads Warn
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Private schools will abandon GCSE and A-levels and devise their own exams unless the Government acts quickly to improve the existing exam system, independent school heads warned yesterday. Increasing numbers of fee-paying schools will switch to exams...
Racing: Stud Next for Motivator but Hurricane Runs On
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As Hurricane Run came back sloshing through the Longchamp paddock puddles after thrillingly capturing the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on Sunday, the immediately disheartening thought was that he would soon be creating another slosh, a financial one away...
Racing: THE FEUD ; THE TITANS OF THE BLOODSTOCK WORLD, JOHN MAGNIER AND SHEIKH MOHAMMED, ARE LOCKED IN A BATTLE FOR SUPREMACY by Richard Edmondson, Racing Correspondent
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Park Paddocks, with its high-domed main arena, is the name of the horse-sales complex perched on a hill within the Suffolk town of Newmarket. It represents an unusual battleground. Each autumn, the premises alternatively known as the Temple of Mammon,...
Rivals Demand Access to NTL's New Cable Network
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Rival telecoms groups are to demand access to the newly merged UK cable network as a condition of allowing NTL to acquire Telewest in a deal announced yesterday that will create a new pounds 10bn telecoms and media giant. Simon Duffy, NTL's chief executive,...
ROAD TEST: RENAULT CLIO: Papa, I've Put on a Bit of Weight ; Never Mind, Nicole; the Extra Size Creates a Supermini That Sets New Standards, Seating Four Adults in Refined Comfort, Yet Offering All the Small-Car Driving Fun You Want. by John Simister
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You wait for years, then four come along at once. Not buses but superminis, even though they're not very mini any more. We've had the new Punto, the longest of them all. We'll shortly have Toyota's new Yaris and Peugeot's 207. And now, meet the new Renault...
Roger's Revolution ; Roger Waters Had Little Trouble Getting Pink Floyd to Re-Form. but Asking the French to Stage His Opera about 1789 Was a Tall Order, He Tells Pierre Perrone
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'It was ever thus. If you look at literature and take the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge at the end of A Christmas Carol, for instance, he's just a character who suddenly discovers that the secret of happiness is in sharing with others.' Roger Waters,...
RUGBY UNION: Competitive Fires Burning Bright for Dallaglio
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Lawrence Dallaglio, one of the very few men who might have eased the pain suffered by the British and Irish Lions in New Zealand last summer if not cured the red-shirted patients of their chronic case of incompetence, will benefit once more from his...
Rugby Union: Powergen Cup Gives English Clubs Chance to Learn from Welsh
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Though Anglo-Welsh fixtures used to go on spasmodically throughout the season, it is with this time of year that I associate them most strongly. Autumn was the season when Llanelli, Swansea, Cardiff and Newport would arrive at Twickenham in rapid succession...
SLEEPING AROUND: Three Can Be My Magic Number
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My first threesome happened, at least in part, because there was nothing good on television. It started by accident: I had been out dancing with a female friend from university and a mutual male friend when we stumbled back into my flat at 4am for a...
SPEED ADDICTS: Race Aces from Fangio to Schumacher ; in an Extract from His Book, Mark Hughes Looks into the Psyche of the Strange Breed of Men Who Build and Drive the Fastest Cars
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Sir Henry Segrave, a Grand Prix winner of the 1920s and twice a holder of the world land-speed record, claimed: 'The attainment of speed is an instinct inherent in the normal human being and in the vast majority of animals, and one which has played a...
Sporting Digest: TENNIS
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Andy Murray has confirmed his entry in this week's Ethias Trophy in Mons, Belgium, and is due to play his first match tomorrow against the Swiss player Ivo Heuberger. Since the Scot's rise in the world rankings to 72 after reaching the Thailand Open...
Tales of the City; How Dare Hollywood Not Warn Us about the Dangers of Sex with an Apple Pie?
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A zephyr of sanity has drifted into the fetid playroom of Hollywood films. For too long, the makers of blockbuster movies have shoved their irresponsible messages of anarchy down the throats of the impressionable and now they're being called to account,...
Tax Evasion Charge Sours Start of EU's Summit with Russia
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Diplomatic relations between Russia and Britain have been damaged on the eve of an EU/Russia summit starting in London today by accusations of tax evasion against the British Council, the UK's cultural and educational non-profit arm, said to involve...
Television: WATCH ROUND THE CLOCK ; YOUR GUIDE TO TODAY'S MUST-SEE TV BY GERARD GILBERT
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BEFORE 6PM Britain's Streets of Booze 9.15AM BBC1 Three binge-drinkers talk about 'their lifestyle and motivation'. That's right, their lifestyle and motivation. The Daily Politics: Conference Special 11.3OAM & 2.30PM BBC2 Hears from the Shadow Education...
The Brnnhilde of Oz ; Lisa Gasteen Has Sung Her Way from Australia to Valhalla and Has Become the Toast of Covent Garden. Jessica Duchen Visits Her Backstage to Hear about a Remarkable Musical Journey
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When a young girl from Brisbane began to sing to herself while riding her horse through the outback, she little thought that one day she'd be riding a Wagnerian horse into the flames of Valhalla on the world's finest operatic stages. Today, though, Lisa...
The Century's First Genocide Is Nearly Over
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At last, some good news from Darfur: the genocide in western Sudan is nearly over. There's only one problem " it's drawing to an end only because there are no black people left to cleanse or kill. The National Islamic Front government has culled over...
The Classical Collection
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Mozart's Violin Concertos, although fairly popular, are hardly among his most profound masterpieces; and yet the best of them feature music that is both vivacious and abundantly tuneful. The latest to offer the standard cycle of five concertos is Anne-Sophie...
The Classical Diary
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Bryn Terfel, speaking from the New York Met " where he's doing Falstaff (pictured below) " exudes paternal pleasure over a CD entitled Simple Gifts that is designed to replicate the achievement of his platinum- selling Bryn. Critics were impressed by...
THE INVESTMENT COLUMN: It's Still Safe to Stick with Northern Rock
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No one else is doing this " at this speed. So says Bob Bennett, finance director of Northern Rock. He is pointing out that the former building society, based in Newcastle, has pulled off a remarkable feat over the past year. Despite stagnating property...
The Tory Party Itself Is on Trial at Blackpool as Much as the Leadership Candidates
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Leading Conservatives proclaim the need for their party to change. On this at least there is unity at the top of their party. They cannot go on like this. They must not go on like this. On the conference platform and at fringe meetings in Blackpool,...
THE TUESDAY BOOK: What Effect Does Being Abandoned at Birth Have on a Child? ; NOBODY'S CHILD by Kate Adie HODDER & STOUGHTON, Pounds 20. ORDER FOR Pounds 18 (FREE P&P) FROM 0870 079 8897
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There is an almost mythic quality attached to the foundling, those babes left in blankets or on post-office counters, in phone boxes or the backs of cabs. But for the child who begins life knowing nothing and never likely to know anything more about...
THE VERDICT MERCEDES-BENZ ML500: A Merc in Rude Health ; the ML500 Sport's Beefed-Up Design Attracts Admiring Glances. and It's a Powerful New Contender in the SUV Market, Says David Wilkins
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In the old days, Mercedes-Benz cars only really needed to appeal to two sorts of people; German taxi drivers and businessmen. That meant that Mercedes' magnificent engineering was usually clothed in bodywork which, if not actually dull, was certainly...
TORIES IN BLACKPOOL: Challengers to Davis Given 15 Minutes to Secure Support from the Tory Faithful
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The crucial battle to emerge as the main challenger to David Davis in the Tory leadership election will be fought out on the floor of the party's Blackpool conference today. Kenneth Clarke, the 65-year-old former Chancellor and David Cameron, the 38-year-old...
TORIES IN BLACKPOOL: Conference Diary
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CAUSE CELEBRE Madonna's mother-in-law gave Liam Fox the lock, stock, and two smoking barrels at his Fringe meeting. She interrupted the panel's discussion to complain about the number of women in the party. 'I would like the panel to look at the audience...
TORIES IN BLACKPOOL: How the Rivals Scored
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DAVID DAVIS The shadow Home Secretary rejected right-wing demands for him to campaign on Thatcherite Tory policies and declared he would end 'grumpy conservativism'. He told the Bow Group: 'We must be open to all who share our values and our beliefs...
TORIES IN BLACKPOOL: THE SKETCH: Ya Boo! Theresa Has Her Fun, Then Spoils It for the Rest of Us
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Friend of mine ate a snake in Vietnam. They brought a writhing basket to the restaurant table; he chose the fattest one. The waiter cut its throat, pulled its head back and stripped its skin from the body like pulling off a long sock. Then a chef cut...
TORIES IN BLACKPOOL: Time to End Our 'Paranoia' over Europe, Insists Clarke
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Kenneth Clarke urged the Tory party to end its 'paranoia' over Europe yesterday and warned it would be consigned to the electoral wilderness if it rejects his third attempt to become its leader. Speaking at a packed fringe meeting staged by The Independent...
Tour-Boat That Sank Killing 21 People May Have Been Capsized by Wake
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Federal investigators descended on Lake George in the Adirondack region of upstate New York to determine how a tour-boat capsized during picture-perfect weather, pitching its full complement of mostly elderly passengers into the deep water, killing 21...
Triad's Suspended Chief Starts Legal Action
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Mira Makar, the suspended chief executive of Triad Group, the IT services business with sales of pounds 46.2m, has begun legal proceedings against the company to force disclosure of certain accounting records. Ms Makar is a 30 per cent shareholder in...
TUESDAY LAW REPORT: Employment Was Not Terminated by Intervention ; TUESDAY LAW REPORT 4 OCTOBER 2005 Rose V Dodd (Formerly Trading as Reynolds & Dodd Solicitors) and Others ([2005] EWCA Civ 957) Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Waller and Lord Justice Mummery) 27 July 2005
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An intervention by the Law Society in the respondent's solicitors' practice was not an 'event affecting' the respondent which terminated the appellant's contract of employment by operation of law, and was not to be taken as a dismissal by him of the...
UK Patients Denied Access to Drugs
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Excessive bureaucracy and a penny-pinching attitude to life- saving drugs mean that British patients are being denied the latest cancer medicines. Although Barbara Clark won her personal battle to be treated for breast cancer with Herceptin, two reports...
