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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 January 24, 2009
48 HOURS IN Berlin
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 made Charlies of the checkpoint guards, but even after 20 years its eastern side retains its own identity, says Simon Calder WHY GO NOW?Twenty winters ago, the city that is now capital of a united Germany was divided...
5 Hotels with Boats
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Sleep soundly, then set sail from these waterside retreats RAYAVADEEThailandAfter arriving at this luxurious Krabi resort by private speedboat, guests can wind down the pace with a trip on the hotel's Siamese junk, Pla Luang. The century-old teak sail...
A Chilly Milli Vanilli: Obama's Inauguration Music Was a Recording
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ALL WAS not quite as it seemed last Tuesday when two of the world's most distinguished musicians, Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman, filled the Washington Mall with their sweet notes moments before the swearing-in of Barack Obama. They were pulling what might...
A Feast for the Senses
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Kitchen-shy Rob Crossan takes on the cuisine of Lombardy "No, please; no, stop. Please. Robert stop!" This sort of thing never happens to Gordon Ramsay. Why is it that when he haphazardly throws ingredients into pots and pans, boiling water never leaps...
Album Reviews
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Pop CDs Bruce Springsteen: Working on a Dream (Columbia) 12.72The Boss's follow-up to Magic is the pop album promised, albeit in a vintage sense: the title track plays like a lost Roy Orbison track, for starters. After its predecessor's righteous rage,...
A Man in a Hurry
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LEADING ARTICLES the EXPECTATIONS that attended Barack Obama's arrival at the White House were stratospheric - not just in the United States, but around the world. It seemed impossible that he would be able to live up to them, and they still seem unrealistic....
Another Mountain to Climb for Messner
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What does a climber do when he's conquered every peak? Peter Popham reports on Reinhold Messner's battle to save the 'Strada del Vino' from destruction The warrior is strapping on his armour for another bout. Reinhold Messner, 64, is probably the most...
Another Tuscany
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Tracey Foss straps on her snowshoes to explore the high points of this beautiful region Mamma had just come into the dining room from the kitchen with a huge saucepan in one hand, a spoon waving around in the other. "Who wants more pasta? There's some...
Asolo
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TRAIL OF THE UNEXPECTED Taking it easy in the Veneto When I arrived in Asolo at dusk, the weather had closed in from the surrounding hills and the town was enveloped in a thick cloak of drizzle. Despite the soggy welcome, as I edged along the pretty...
A Visit from Gordon ... Then Recession Hit
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The Prime Minister shared Mo Knowles's settee 10 months ago. How has her family and the town of Stevenage fared since? Andy McSmithreports from the economic front line Recession Watch Stevenage Mo Knowles has been a minor celebrity in the Hertfordshire...
Bank British, and You Can Sleep Easy
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Sixteen months on from the collapse of Northern Rock, the question on everyone's lips is still - where will my money be safe? And as Britain's biggest banks shed billions from their market values this week, it's still not a question to which many people...
Barratt Dives on Renewed Covenant Concerns
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Market Report A WARNING that Barratt Developments may have to rework its financial covenants for a second time undermined confidence around the housebuilder, which slumped towards the bottom end of the FTSE 250 with losses of almost 17 per cent last...
Beach Perfect
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Four children. Two mothers. One tropical island. Friends and family in tow, Claudia Winkleman jets off to St Lucia's Windjammer Landing resort for the ideal winter escape Let me start by being totally frank. Going away with my two children and a girlfriend...
Benitez Calm at Heart of Anfield Storm
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Liverpool's manager was remarkably cool yesterday despite Steven Gerrard's problems, his recent outbursts and the speculation about the club's possible sale. By Nick Harris For a manager of a club where crisis and mystery are taking turns to put the...
Be Wary of Bankers but Mohaison Is Tough Enough for Testing Times
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Inside Track Allowing for its own, peculiar flaws, the Great Leighs shutdown is very much a parable for our times. As things have turned out, the new racecourse was very much built "on tick" - typical of those projects that bubbled away, among the seething...
Bloggin' All over the World
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Solo yachtswoman Sam Davies reveals how she keeps her spirits up during the gruelling Vendee Globe race. By Jonathan Brown She is in fifth place and on the home straight of an incredible voyage which has transfixed both sailors and non-sailors alike....
Bridge
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Sometimes it takes almost an exact order of play to succeed in a contract.West opened One Heart, North doubled for take-out, and in the modern style East pre-empted with Three Hearts.South made a free bid of Three Spades - a double of one major tends...
Brits in the Thick of It at Sundance
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When the Sundance Film Festival kicked off in Park City, Utah, last week, Robert Redford, who started the event in 1984, wasn't all that interested in talking about "it being the 25th year of our existence as a festival".?He said, "I'm more interested...
Can We Learn from Moyes' Value System? Yes We Can
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The Last Word The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States unarguably gets the nod as the most exhilarating spectacle of the week on our living-room television, but not far behind in the cheering stakes were Everton's spirited...
Charles Brings Hisherbal Medicines to the High Street
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Duchy Originals rangeof treatments includes controversial Detox Tincture THE PRINCE of Wales attracted praise and ridicule yesterday for launching a range of herbal medicine in high street shops. Marketed under his Duchy Originals brand, the tinctures...
Coltart Turns Back the Clock with Sparkling Display
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GOLF Former Ryder Cup player recaptures old form to lie second in Qatar Masters As the Monty versus Olly debate began to rage hard on the fairways of the European Tour yesterday, a name from the Ryder Cup's past reacquainted itself with the leaderboard....
Computer Games
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Fable II: Knothole Island Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft, 800 MSP/ 6.80In Fable II: Knothole Island, each play-through has the potential to be unrecog-nisable from the last - it's always nice to have some fresh vistas to explore. It might not comprise endless...
Consolidating Debt
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How does it work?The theory is that, by putting all your debts in one place, you can save money on interest and time on making lots of individual payments. You can usually consolidate any unsecured loans including store and credit cards and personal...
Cost of the Troubles: Pounds 40m for Victims' Compensation, Pounds 170m for Inquiries
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Controversy over Pounds 12,000 settlement as killers to get same payout as victims THE FAMILY of every person killed in the Northern Ireland Troubles - whether soldier, policeman, civilian or paramilitary - should be given 12,000, according to a government-commissioned...
Credit Crisis Diary
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Don't shoot the messengerFair play to the British Bankers' Association for daring to air that hoary old chestnut about the credit crunch: that it's all the fault of the media. Lesley McLeod, the BBA's top spinmeister, is plastered all over the front...
Cup Half Full as French Face Battle for Survival
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Rugby gods have saved organisers as shock results leave tournament open The Heineken Cup organisers are truly blessed: even when they go the extra mile towards messing up their own tournament, as they did in introducing a seeding system designed to make...
DITA VON TEESE 'I Would Love to Go on the Orient Express with a Lover'
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My life in travel FIRST HOLIDAY MEMORY?Going to Mackinac Island in Lake Huron, Michigan. It's this lovely small island that has no vehicles of any kind, only horses and carriages and bicycles. It's famous for having the most beautiful antique Grand Hotel,...
Ditch Your Own Car - and Share
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Owning and running a car is one of the biggest annual expenses for most families in Britain. If you add up the cost per year of insurance, road tax, parking permits and a service, you'll be lucky to have any change back from 1,000. Then there's the petrol,...
Don't Give Up on the Stock Exchange
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The present crisis in financial markets and the economy is profoundly depressing. My mood was made even worse by Gordon Brown's admission that he had no idea that over 80 per cent of RBS's lending was overseas. Remember, this is the man who has been...
DVDs
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Jar City (15) Universal 15.99"Don't be a sissy," growls Ingvar Eggert Sigurd-sson's Erlendur, the cardigan-wearing, chain- smoking detective in Baltasar Kormakur's taut, severe Icelandic crime drama. A pensioner has been bludgeoned to death in his grotty...
Earnshaw Makes Sure Clough Has to Sweat
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DERBY COUNTY 1 NOTTINGHAM FOREST 1 Brian Clough sent out a team for 22 East Midlands derbies during his years at Derby and Forest, finishing on the winning side in 14 of them. The only FA Cup tie among them, however, he lost, so at least his son Nigel,...
Earnshaw Makes Sure Clough Has to Sweat DERBY COUNTY 1 NOTTINGHAM FOREST 1
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Brian Clough prepared teams for 22 East Midlands derbies during his years at Derby and Forest, winning 14. He lost the only FA Cup tie among them, however, so at least his son Nigel, with probably the toughest parental act to follow outside the Ferguson...
Easy Does It
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Skiing with a family can be a stressful and complicated business. Unless, of course, you book a package. By Siobhan Mulholland You know the type of traveller - perhaps you are one yourself - who swears by DIY holidays, assembling all the components of...
Emerging Markets Are Down but Not Yet Out
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Investors in emerging markets took a hefty hit in 2008, with most of the major emerging indices losing more than 50 per cent of their value. Although investors in Latin American funds may have been lucky enough to escape with losses of about 30 per cent...
Feast Days
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Celebrate Chinese New Year in style with Mark Hix's sumptuous banquet Unlike traditional British end-of-year celebrations, where the food plays second fiddle to a festive booze-up, the Chinese celebrate in a different fashion. In communities all round...
Feels like Team Spirit
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After the turmoil of losing captain and coach, a happy looking England squad got back to work in St Kitts yesterday watched closely by Stephen Brenkley Never can a net session have been more anticipated or scrutinised. The spectators gathered early,...
Ferguson Keen to Put an End to Replays
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HAVING seen his long running campaign for a winter break fall on deaf ears, Sir Alex Ferguson has hinted that FA Cup replays could become a thing of the past at Manchester United.Ferguson sends his depleted United side into fourth-round battle against...
Five Best Films
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The Wrestler (15)Mickey Rourke, sporting an Eighties peroxide hairdo, gives a career-best performance as an ageing and battered American pro- wrestler whom you can't help but feel for in Darren Aronofsky's sad and truthful film.Frost/Nixon (15)The actual...
Five Best London Shows
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Umberto Boccioni Estorick CollectionTo mark 100 years since the Futurist manifesto, a celebration of the master of dynamic forms. To 19 AprJane Harris Hales GalleryFloating elliptical forms, with wavy, spiky contours; friction as one colour meets another,...
Five Best London Shows
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The Pitmen Painters NT: LytteltonLee Hall's drama, based on the real-life experiences of the group of Geordie miners who achieved fame as the Ashington Group in the Forties, is full of warm, gritty humour. To 14 AprLoot Tricycle TheatreSean Holmes has...
Get Your Tailoring Right, and You Can Set out to Solve the World's Problems
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How does he get that dimple in his tie? Obama, I mean. Who else? Obama the beautiful. Obama the sonorous. Obama the Messiah.I don't make a habit of admiring people younger than me, unless they are of another time and long dead, in which case their anteriority...
Gilding Lily
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ART OFFER To celebrate our latest exclusive print offer, the Turner Prize-winner Gillian Wearing tells Sophie Morris how she found inspiration in the supermodel Lily Cole - plus, on page 25, your chance to buy the limited-edition signed artwork Most...
Good Enough to Eat
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Urban gardener A friend, harping on about how he's one step ahead of the game by planting Aralia elata, the Japanese Angelica tree, needed reminding that he was on a misguided mission. "It's a resolution," he said, "to use some of the more unpopular...
Government Must Act to Revive Bank Shares
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Outlook Another day, another hammering for bank shares. I've no more idea than anyone else where the rout will end. Nationalisation is certainly a distinct possibility, which is one of the reasons share prices keep falling, making it an almost self-fulfilling...
Grand Design
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Restaurants Anyone looking for a neat illustration of the Two Britains would find the polarity starkly showcased in the Shoreditch area of east London. Just off Shoreditch High Street, where Brick Lane market peters out into a grungy warren of warehouses...
Hacker Wins Right to Challenge Extradition
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High Court reprieve for man who broke into US military computers THE COMPUTER hacker Gary McKinnon was given a dramatic last- minute reprieve from the threat of extradition yesterday after the High Court said he could challenge a Home Office decision...
Harry's Magic Touch
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Injury-riddled and out of form, Spurs should have no chance at Old Trafford tonight. Except that Harry Redknapp has a long history of knocking Manchester United out of the FA Cup. Glenn Moore reportsAfortnight ago, Harry Redknapp was honoured by the...
Healthy Eating Is a Snap with an Electric Steamer
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Steaming is widely acknowledged as one of the healthiest ways to cook your vegetables. It keeps in many more nutrients than boiling, and is just as simple to do - especially if you invest in a purpose- made electric steamer.And these days, buying a steamer...
Heaven Help the White Working Class Now
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"Do you live round 'ere?" said the woman at the bus stop. "Wiv a voice like that?" And then she laughed. The bus stop was in the Walworth Road and the "voice like that" was mine. I had just bought my first flat. Seeking light, space and Georgian elegance,...
Hotel Signum
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24-HOUR ROOM SERVICE Salina, the Aeolian Islands, Sicily Like all good Italian sons, Luca Caruso is full of reverence for his mother. Showing us to our room, he tells us that Hotel Signum's understated style and charm is all her doing. The antique furnishings;...
How to Take on Goliath in the Courts and Win
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It has all gone horribly wrong. Banks are hastily pulling out of a dodgy protection market, mortgage endowment policyholders are about to receive another flurry of red letters, and the Government's intervention in banking has left thousands with worthless...
Iceland Crisis Hampers Booker Performance
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A share overhang is continuing to depress Booker, the nation's largest cash-and-carry chain. Although it has rolled out another resilient sales performance, its shares are unlikely to display much determination until the ownership of a 22 per cent stake...
Iceland PM Is First Globalpolitical Casualty of the Crunch
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Prime Minister pays price for economic meltdown and civil unrest. Sophie Morris reports from Reykjavik Iceland's embattled Prime Minister Geir Haarde may have become the first political casualty of the global credit crisis, announcing his resignation...
In Another World
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The executive excesses uncovered by the end of the long boom initially incited just employee and shareholder anger. They have now given rise to public fury. Stephen Foley reports So Wall Street excess has a new face. Step forward Merrill Lynch boss John...
It Is Time for Our Leaders to Be Honest about This Crisis
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LEADING ARTICLES Neither Labour nor the Tories are being entirely straight on the economy The Office for National Statistics confirmed yesterday what anyone who has eyes to see or ears to hear has long known: Britain is in recession and the economy is...
'I Try Not to Look Back on What Happened at Arsenal'
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Still haunted by how he left the Gunners Jay Bothroyd sees tomorrow's tie as a chance for salvation. By James Corrigan The last time Jay Bothroyd looked at an Arsenal shirt in anger it was heading out of his hand towards Don Howe in the dug-out. It was...
'I Try Not to Look Back on What Happened at Arsenal'
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Still haunted by how he left the Gunners, Jay Bothroyd sees tomorrow's tie as a chance for salvation. By James Corrigan The last time Jay Bothroyd looked at an Arsenal shirt in anger it was heading out of his hand towards Don Howe in the dug-out. It...
'I Went from Slob to Marathon Man' Rory Coleman, 46
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First person I was always a happy-go-lucky-character. I grew up on a farm and never wanted for anything. Everything was pretty perfect, until I left home. After A-levels, I went to study photography at university in nearby Derby. It was a shock living...
Johnny Dixon
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Footballer who led Aston Villa to victory in the 1957 FA Cup final The enduring image of Johnny Dixon is as the beaming skipper of Aston Villa, perched jauntily on the broad shoulders of his team- mates Peter Aldis and Stan Lynn while brandishing aloft...
Lloyd Plans to Separate Britain's Men from Boys
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The dearth of British male talent is such that 35-year-old Greg Rusedski, who retired two years ago, recently sounded out John Lloyd, the Davis Cup captain, about a possible return to the national team. Lloyd did not take up the suggestion - "It's time...
Mighty Malbec
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Wine Making my predictions for the new year, I mentioned that Argentina's malbec grape was well placed to take a starring role in 2009 and nothing I have tasted since has changed that view. The improvements in winemaking since the great 2002 vintage...
Mourinho Seeks Win to Calm Storm
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ITALY The Serie A leaders Internazionale begin the second half of the league programme at San Siro tomorrow against struggling Sampdoria with pressure mounting on coach Jose Mourinho.The Portuguese has overseen a series of unconvincing performances which...
Moyes and Hibbert Draw Positives from Staff Shortage
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Having a small squad and no fit strikers has at least made David Moyes's team selection easier in recent weeks. The Everton manager conceded that much yesterday, and one of his players talked about another knock-on benefit of being short on staff: an...
My Week Oz Clarke
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The wine critic launches a book, catches up on the 2008 vintages and explains why his alarm clock stubbornly refuses to work MondayI begin work on the next wine guide in my publisher's office. There are vintage reports strewn everywhere. I concentrate...
Never Mind Who We're Playing, It's the Ref Who Will Make or Break Us
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What I Learnt This Week 1. Snooker saved me from kicking the dogsWe had a very strange game last week, losing 4-1 at home to Ipswich in a match that to this moment I think we should have won. At 2-1 down, I can't understand how the referee did not give...
New Films
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Frost/Nixon (15)Director Ron HowardStarring Michael Sheen, Frank LangellaIt can be argued that this film, and the Peter Morgan play that it expands upon, overstate the historical significance of the event that is their centrepiece: David Frost's 1977...
New Leaders Face the Same Old Fears
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President Franklin D Roosevelt never forgot his first day on the job in March 1933. It started slowly because FDR was disabled, crippled from the waist down by polio, but eventually he was wheeled into the Oval Office and left to get on with the business...
No Ordinary Joe
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He is the best player you've never heard of: the (uncapped) New Zealander who feels very at home in Bath and is widely regarded as the thinking man's winger. Chris Hewett finds Joe Maddock happy to be an unsung hero Steve Meehan seemed a little surprised...
Nu Hotel Brooklyn, New York
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24-HOUR ROOM SERVICE Until recently, there hasn't been much variety for visitors wanting to stay the night in Brooklyn. In spite of the fact that hip New Yorkers and savvy tourists have been flocking to the borough for several years now, drawn in part...
Passport Factory That Took Orders by Text Message
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Sophisticated forgery business set up by Brazilian immigrant discovered by police WHEN WYLLKYNSTOM Correa lost his job in a London sweatshop he followed a path familiar to many illegal immigrants. In order to obtain the documents he needed to find work,...
Pfizer and Wyeth in Takeover Talks to Create Pharmaceutical Giant
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PFIZER, the world's largest drugs group, is in talks with its US rival Wyeth about a takeover that, if finalised, would be one of the biggest merger deals ever seen in the pharmaceutical sector.The two companies are reported to have been in talks for...
Platini Attack Gains Fresh Force as Shankly's Legacy Goes on Sale Again
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There are, we are told, compelling reasons why La Liga and Serie A remain free from the colonisation that has left the Premier League with only marginally more autonomy than the Isle of Dogs. None of the explanations are likely, though, to appease the...
Platini Attack Gains Fresh Force as Shankly's Legacy Goes on Sale Again
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There are, we are told, compelling reasons why La Liga and Serie A remain free from the colonisation that has left the Premier League with only marginally more autonomy than the Isle of Dogs. None of the explanations are likely, though, to appease the...
Plots, Sense and Nonsense: The View from the Post Bag
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Robert Fisk's World Mail that you don't see in the Letters to the Editor column. First, here's reader Jack Hyde tipping me off about a possible (real) reason behind Israel's bloodletting in Gaza. He encloses a paper by University of Ottawa economist...
Recession Could Be Worst for 60 Years
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Economy shrank 1.5 per cent in last quarter of 2008 Unemployment set to reach three million next year THE BRITISH economy has "fallen off a cliff" and entered a recession that shows every sign of developing into the worst since the Second World War,...
Robinho Wants to Know That City Mean Business
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Brazilian star will seek assurances from manager Mark Hughes on Monday Robinho will demand to know which players Manchester City intend to sign before the end of the January transfer window when he meets manager Mark Hughes on Monday.The Brazilian -...
Santa Cruz Return Gives Allardyce Cup Boost
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Blackburn manager feels fit-again striker will suffer no 'hangover' from City interest Blackburn Rovers manager Sam Allardyce hopes Roque Santa Cruz is not suffering any hangover after failing to reunite with Mark Hughes this month. For the first time...
Scale of the Downturn Sends Sterling Diving
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Banks under renewed pressure and Barclays' shares hit by nationalisation fear Pound hits 24-year low as worst economic showing since 1980 troubles investors CONFIRMATION that the UK economy seems set for its worst downturn since the Second World War...
Scapegoat for the Banking Crisis? Look No Further
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Richard Ingrams's Week The convenient scapegoat for the collapse of Britain's banks has emerged in the person of the former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, Sir Fred Goodwin. He has all the best kinds of qualifications for a scape-goat,being...
Scardino and Sorrell Disclose Loans to FSA
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AS THE last disclosures of share-secured loans taken out by various company directors was made before yesterday's deadline, Dame Marjorie Scardino and the advertising guru Sir Martin Sorrell were among the directors whose loans were revealed.Sir Martin...
Sealed with a Kiss, the Demise of Dati
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THE French Justice Minister Rachida Dati, who returned to work five days after giving birth this month, has been banished by President Nicolas Sarkozy into the "internal exile" of the European Parliament. Mme Dati, 43, will retain her job until May but...
Shannon Case Involved Others, Judge Suggests
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Mother and accomplice given eight-year jail terms THE JUDGE in the trial of Karen Matthews suggested yesterday that others may have been involved in the hoax abduction of her daughter Shannon.Sentencing Matthews, 33, to eight years in jail for her "truly...
Something for the Weekend
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It's Squeaky Bum Time For... Australian Open spectatorsThe Happy Slam has turned distinctly ugly again, with some rather tasty violence breaking out among the rival Balkan fans. There were more chairs and punches flying through the air than tennis balls...
Something to Declare
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Where to go, how to save, what to avoid DESTINATION OF THE YEARBURNS COUNTRYIn Scotland there is only one anniversary worth mentioning this year. If you didn't already know that tomorrow marks 250 years since the birth of Robert Burns, the nation's best-loved...
Spot the Story Buried in the Jargon - If You Can Find One
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Errors & Omissions The English language became a political issue this week when a House of Commons committee urged the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills to use plain English in its reports, and castigated it for impenetrable jargon.Our...
Spring Sails
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Keen to avoid the crowds, Graham Hoyland chartered a yacht to Venice's 'Festa della Sensa' Thousands of tourists trample around Venice, the Queen of the Adriatic, every day, and take in the same views from the same places. The real Venice, though, is...
Staying in Films on Television
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TODAYThe Age of Innocence 4.25pm Fiver *****(Martin Scorsese, 1993) An astute, composed and graceful adaptation of Edith Wharton's ironically titled 1920 novel. Daniel Day-Lewis (left) stars as a lawyer in 1870s New York high society whose marriage to...
'Stealth Tax' on Recession Victims
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Ministers impose huge rise in court fees for those on brink of bankruptcy Steep rise in court fees 'rubs salt in wounds' for debtors MINISTERS WERE accused last night of profiteering from the soaring numbers of people facing bankruptcy after they announced...
Stephen Wiltshire Artist, 34
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My secret life The home I grew up in ... is in Little Venice, Maida Vale, London. They have some beautiful houses there: luxury flats, boats and barges, and my mum's house.When I was a child I wanted to be ... an artist, drawing with pen and pencil....
Stevens Scandal Sets Bath Acid Test of Character
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Calling the shots Bath could have done without the Matt Stevens business landing in their laps this week. There is no good week for something of this magnitude to occur - not for Bath, not for English rugby, not for the sport as a whole - but when a...
Streep Life
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She's one of the greatest stars of our time, and the most nominated actress in Oscar history. But Meryl Streep has never surrendered to the Hollywood system. As her 60th birthday approaches, she discusses her acclaimed new film - and how she manages...
Systems Failure on South Island
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On The Road I take the bus from Dunedin to Invercargill, the last town of any consequence in New Zealand's South Island. I am going to get my van out of storage, where it has been for the past 15 months. It starts first time. Unbelievable. Massive celebrations....
Talk of the Town
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Those white Zambians are bad, bad people. They are the ones who, on the last day of 2000, introduced me to the most dangerous legal thing I've ever ingested, namely the VCR cocktail - vodka, champagne and Red Bull (often referred to simply as liquid...
Tea and Sympathy
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On a journey to the heart of the troubled nation of Sri Lanka, Sophie Lam finds serenity amid ornate temples, ancient reservoirs and fields of emerald green A distant rumble cut through the chatter of birds as I lay by the pool of the serene Park Street...
THE 50 BEST Spring Beauty Buys
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Turn your bathroom into a private spa with Beth Dadswell's pick of the most luxurious things that come in small packages If you wish to purchase any back issues of The Information, please contact Historic Newspapers on 01988 402221, stating the relevant...
Theatre Reviews
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Oliver! Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London WC2Well, is it a great musical? Yes. Is Rowan Atkinson any good as Fagin? Fairly good, fairly funny, but he can't sing very well, and keeps missing the beat. And what about Jodie Prenger, the people's choice...
The Bargain Hunter
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* With just one week of the January sales left, the high street is packed full of bargains. However, despite the competition, the discounts currently being offered at Next stand out a mile. The high- street chain has reductions of up to 70 per cent across...
The Complete Guide to SPANISH JOURNEYS
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Whether you crave a spiritual pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela or prefer to follow in Don Quixote's fictional footsteps, you can find your perfect route, says Cathy Packe I FANCY A LONG WALKSpain's best-known route is the Camino de Santiago, the...
The Fakes That Are Good Enough for V&A
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Celebrated counterfeit manuscripts by mysterious 19th-century Spanish Forger to go on display at museum The Victoria and Albert Museum has acquired five "medieval" miniatures worth 20,000, despite knowing that they were created by a forger.The works...
The Flowers of Loss
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More than three thousand people die on Britain's roads each year. Andy Barter has photographed the haunting floral tributes to them. Words by John Walsh More than a decade after the death of a princess inspired thousands of grieving strangers to leave...
