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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 August 16, 2008
17 August 1998
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From the Archive From a leading article on the Omagh bombings IN ULSTER, it seems, the war is not yet over. There was always the fear that something like the Omagh bombing would happen, even after the euphoria of the Good Friday agreement, and all the...
20 Reasons to Cheer Up Fabio Capello at the Start of the Season the Best English Youngsters at Each Club
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ARSENALJack Wilshere (16). Theo Walcott is only 19, but this 16-year- old has been given a first-team squad number and has played in pre- season against Real Madrid and Juventus. Wenger has already tried to calm the hype.ASTON VILLAHarry Forrester (17)....
48 HOURS IN la Rochelle
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Soaring stone towers and a historic port define this French Atlantic city. And now that there are fewer holidaymakers, you can also enjoy the Ile de Re, says Mary Novakovich WHY GO NOW?The return of French holidaymakers, en masse, to the cities is under...
5 Best Autumn Events
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From marauding machines to alfresco art, Tom Henry picks the best of the North-west FREDCumbriaEurope's largest festival of site-specific contemporary art can best be described as a creative invasion of the landscape. For 16 days, a host of international...
5 Chic Airport Hotels
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Stopovers should be an opportunity to relax. Tom Henry selects repose near the runway RAINFOREST LOUNGEChangiMore pay-as-you-go rejuvenation-centre than hotel, this is an ideal pit-stop for weary travellers in South-east Asia's favourite hub, Singapore....
6-5 Against
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The behemoth that is the Premier League struts on to centre stage today, swatting the men's Olympic 100 metres final, cricket's Friends Provident Trophy and everything else into the wings. The "big four" teams all get full-blown television treatment...
A Different Dimension
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Manchester and Liverpool comprise a pair of contrasting cities. But they are linked by striking architecture, cultural clout - and a certain Ship Canal. Simon Calder goes west, slowly The two great cities of North-west England are dramatically, deliciously...
After Georgia, Moscow Issues Nuclear Warning to Poland
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Deal over US missile shield provokes threat A senior Russian general has revived fears of a new Cold War by threatening Poland with a possible nuclear strike, as the President of Georgia bowed to the inevitable and signed a ceasefire, the terms of which...
Album Reviews
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The Week That Was: The Week That Was (Memphis Industries) 9.99"The detail is the difference," sings Peter Brewis on 2008's second great album from a Field Music brother. Week's bookish conceptual bent anatomises today's media in sonic minutiae, drawing...
All about Miu
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For her latest Miu Miu collection, Miuccia Prada takes a typically maverick approach to sportswear. Susannah Frankel reports I wanted to take sport in a new direction," says Miuccia Prada of her autumn/winter collection for Miu Miu and, true to her word,...
... and It Started with a Rout
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THE one gold medal on offer in cycling yesterday ended up in British hands as the team sprinters Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny and Jamie Staff vanquished favourites France with jaw-dropping ease.A three-lap contest in which each component of the trio leads...
A Region Boiling with Tales of Kings, Gangs and War
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Robert Fisk's World I call it the back of the book, the ream of reports and stories that pile up in my reporters' notes which cannot be used; because the sourcing isn't quite good enough for every detail or because there simply isn't enough information...
Art at the End of the Line Picture Perfect in Penzance
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TRAIL OF THE UNEXPECTED Penzance station is the end of the line for rail travellers. The southernmost railway station in the UK, it has a fittingly remote air.Trains make their final approach to the terminus directly along the sea wall. Out at sea, the...
Artistic Endeavour
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LEADING ARTICLE When Sir Nicholas Serota took over as head of the Tate Gallery 20 years ago, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin were still at college, the Turner Prize was in its infancy, and the Tate was still called the Tate. Many of the changes in the art...
B&B Faces Uncertain Future after Getting Its Rights Issue Away
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Bradford & BINGLEY, whose accident-prone rights issue finally closed yesterday with a better than expected take-up, will get its 400m capital boost, but the mortgage lender still faces a precarious future.B&B's shares hovered around the rights price...
Beautiful and the Damned
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Today's 100 metres final looks certain to thrill its global audience but the event's drug culture casts a long shadow and many retain serious doubts about the race's true value. James Lawton, Chief Sports Writer, reports from Beijing When the three...
Beautiful and the Damned
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Today's 100 metres final looks certain to thrill its global audience but the event's drug culture casts a long shadow and many retain serious doubts about the race's true value. James Lawton, Chief Sports Writer, reports from Beijing When the three...
Beauty Queen
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I'm going to write a word that is hard to compute while we're still in the month of self-tanners, sunscreens and nice, summery bright-pink pedicures: Goth. Yes, the street style that stalked the Eighties is back this autumn. Fashion is into black lace,...
Benitez Driven to Point of Resignation
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RAFAEL BENITEZ came close to walking out on Liverpool because of the Gareth Barry transfer fiasco, sources close to the Spaniard revealed last night. The club's failure to sell Xabi Alonso to Juventus or Arsenal this summer, which would have funded Barry's...
Benitez Driven to Point of Resignation
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RAFAEL BENITEZ came close to walking out on Liverpool because of the Gareth Barry transfer fiasco, sources close to the Spaniard revealed last night. The club's failure to sell Xabi Alonso to Juventus or Arsenal this summer, which would have funded Barry's...
Bridge
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If South's hearts had been spades, there wouldn't have been the same bidding problem. The modern tendency is to make simple overcalls on hands containing up to 17 points if the hand is unbalanced. With stronger hands, players first double for take-out,...
Britain's 48 Hours of Glory
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What to watch and how we'll do TODAY03.13 SWIMMING: Women's 800m freestyle final (Rebecca Adlington)Swam this morning in pursuit of her second gold medal of the Games, having won the 400m freestyle. British team-mate Cassie Patten also took partPrediction...
Business Digest
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Merrill Lynch freezes hiring worldwide*Merrill Lynch has reacted to the credit crunch with a freeze on hiring worldwide, until at least the end of the year. The decision to put on hold any further hires in 2008 was outlined in a memo sent to employees...
Buzzards Spread Wings across UK - but Where Have the Kestrels Gone?
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Two of Britain's best known birds of prey are undergoing starkly contrasting changes in abundance - one very much up, and the other plummeting.The differing fortunes of the common buzzard, which is soaring in population, and the kestrel, Britain's commonest...
Casanova Hotel Barcelona, Spain
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24-Hour Room Service Arriving at the Casanova felt like walking on to a film set. This wasn't without grounds, because we were (if only for the day). A TV crew filming a beer advert had set up in the hotel's bar, which meant that cameras, bright lights,...
Cathedral Quarter Hotel
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24-HOUR ROOM SERVICE Derby Ashort walk from the cathedral tower, Derby's first boutique hotel opened four months ago. It captures the spirit of the city's ambitious reconstruction programme, which is carefully preserving the old, while altering the skyline...
Chess
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The annual Mainz Chess Classic is one of the absolute top rapidplay events on the calendar - an extravaganza both of pure rapidplay and (the chess variant) "Chess960".This year's tournament took place a fortnight ago and I reported at the time on the...
Chris Boardman's Greatest Olympians
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1 SIR STEVE REDGRAVE (GB)Winning a gold medal in five Games is just amazing. It's not just having your best form once, it's having it over a period of 16 years Gold 5 Bronze 1 Total 61984 Gold (Coxed four)1988 Gold (Coxless pair) Bronze (Coxed pair)...
Chris Boardman's Greatest Olympians
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1 SIR STEVE REDGRAVE (GB)Winning a gold medal in five Games is just amazing. It's not just having your best form once, it's having it over a period of 16 yearsGold 5 Bronze 1 Total 61984 Gold (Coxed four)1988 Gold (Coxless pair) Bronze (Coxed pair) 1992...
Chrysalis Sounds Off-Key after Year of Troubles
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Chrysalis, the publisher of David Bowie and Gnarls Barkley, is predicting full-year losses after a "perfect storm" of events wreaked havoc with its performance.The first 10 months of the financial year saw the company's Net Publishing Share (NPS) fall...
Computer Games
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Braid Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft, MSP 1200/10.20Super Mario Bros fans, hopeless romantics and platform fans looking for a new challenge should prepare to dance with glee as one of the most accomplished games ever to grace XLA is released. High praise...
Cost of Britain's Road-Building Projects Soars by Almost Pounds 4bn
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BRITAIN'S ROAD-building programme will cost the taxpayer billions of pounds more than expected, with some major projects more than doubling in price in five years, research indicates.Figures compiled by the Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) pressure...
Courgette Set
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Real food Every gardener will tell you that there is nothing quite so intimidating and unstoppable as that flush of courgettes that arrives like a tidal wave, usually during the fortnight when you are away on holiday. For the home cook, courgettes are...
Crazy Daisies
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Urban gardener On wanting to introduce some daisy-action to a client's garden recently, I was told in no uncertain terms: "OK, but no yellow, thank you very much." It's not often that I'll get a client barring a specific colour from a plant list, but...
Crazy Game Can Make You Sane Again
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The Last Word You don't have to dislike football to welcome the new Premier League season with arms firmly folded. The first Saturday of the season, heralding another nine-month burst of feuds between managers, savaging of referees, flawless triple Salchows...
Crazy Game Can Make You Sane Again
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The Last Word You don't have to dislike football to welcome the new Premier League season with arms firmly folded. The first Saturday of the season, heralding another nine-month burst of feuds between managers, savaging of referees, flawless triple Salchows...
Cutting Edge
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Ozwald Boateng is the man who shook up stuffy old Savile Row. He's got an OBE, a glamorous Russian wife and a client list that includes many of the world's biggest stars. But is he more than just mouth and trousers? Portrait by Jonathan Worth THE DEBORAH...
Derby Days
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It's weathered the Romans, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Industrial Revolution. Now this marvel of the Midlands is re- emerging as a force to be reckoned with. WHYThe nearest city to the geographical heart of England, Derby is making a virtue of being...
Determination Takes Radcliffe in Search of Crowning Glory
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*ATHLETICS Wherever Paula Radcliffe finishes in tomorrow morning's Olympic marathon - always assuming she manages to do so given that only three months ago doctors were advising her she had no chance of competing because of a stress fracture to her left...
Dibaba Sets Games Record in 10,000m Win
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Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba completed the first leg of her proposed 10,000 and 5,000 metres double here last night, winning at the longer distance in an Olympic record of 29min 54.66sec after accelerating past Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse at the bell.But...
Domestic Violence Laws Fail to Increase Convictions
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LABOUR'S FLAGSHIP reforms to protect women from domestic violence have failed to increase criminal convictions, a government study has found.Tough laws unveiled in 2003 were hailed by ministers as the "biggest overhaul of legislation on domestic violence...
Dom Joly's Alternative Olympic Highlights
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The Games have been full of excellence and endeavour. But what about the cock-ups? The bad losers? And George Bush? So, we present ... Most inappropriate greetingThis has to go to the Spanish basketball team, who starred in a pre-Games advert pulling...
Don't Call Me 'Big Phil'
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Chelsea's new manager, Luiz Felipe Scolari, is ready to give his all to the club and his players as long as they put in the hard graft. Jason Burt says the ultimate football chameleon has got what it takes IT'S A CURIOSITY of football that managers are...
DVDs
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Love Is the Devil (18) BFI 14.99John Maybury's 1998 biopic of Francis Bacon focuses on the artist's tumultuous seven-year relationship with the East End thug George Dyer, who first enters Bacon's home in a bungled burglary. Having been denied the use...
Exam Marking Firm Loses Contract over Late Results
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The American firm at the centre of this summer's exams fiasco for national curriculum tests has lost its five-year contract to mark the papers.ETS Europe, which failed to deliver the results on time, has also agreed to repay 19.5m to the Qualification...
Experts' Choice
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James LawtonChief Sports WriterChampions ArsenalRunners-up Manchester UnitedChampions League Chelsea, Tottenham HotspurBottom three Hull, Stoke City and Newcastle UnitedWhy Arsenal? The Gunners are supposed to be down and out in terms of another title...
Experts' Choice
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James LawtonChief Sports WriterChampions ArsenalRunners-up Manchester UnitedChampions League Chelsea, Tottenham HotspurBottom three Hull, Stoke City and Newcastle UnitedWhy Arsenal? The Gunners are supposed to be down and out in terms of another title...
Fantasy Lines
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THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PHONE-SEX OPERATORS When I see the late-night ads for premium-rate phone sex lines featuring nubile, tanned young women, I get curious about who is actually on the other end of the phone. Like many people, I sometimes imagine that...
Fattest Children to Be Taken Away from Their Parents
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Dangerously overweight children will have to be taken from their parents and put into care because of Britain's worsening "obesity epidemic", council leaders have warned.One million children will be clinically obese within four years on current trends,...
Fear Rises among Defeated as Invaders Show No Sign of Retreat
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"How long shall we stay in Gori? As long as we want to," the young Russian tank commander replied with casual arrogance. A mile down the road Georgian troops endured the sweltering heat for a second day, waiting for the Kremlin's permission to enter...
Fergie's Long Goodbye
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This season's Premier League could mark the beginning of the end for Sir Alex Ferguson. But until he retires, he looks ready to face down every challenge, including the one from a revitalised Chelsea, writes Sam Wallace SIR ALEX FERGUSON is learning...
Fergie's Long Goodbye
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This season's Premier League could mark the beginning of the end for Sir Alex Ferguson. But until he retires, he'll take on everyone - including a revitalised Chelsea. Sam Wallace reports SIR ALEX FERGUSON is learning to play the piano ("I've no left...
Ferguson: Rooney Will Emerge from Ronaldo's Shadow
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IF John Terry's midweek claim that Manchester United would be unable to repeat their highs of last season was meant to hurt, then the barb appears to have well and truly missed its target. Sir Alex Ferguson has never knowingly under-played his own side's...
Ferguson: Rooney Will Emerge from Ronaldo's Shadow
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If John Terry's midweek claim that Manchester United would be unable to repeat their highs of last season was meant to hurt, then the barb appears to have well and truly missed its target. Sir Alex Ferguson has never knowingly under-played his own side's...
Gaz-Guzzler Stocks Motor Ahead as Oil Drops
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MARKET REPORT As the oil price fell from its lofty perch, dealers seized the opportunity to buy shares in the gas guzzlers who will benefit the most.After hitting a record $147 a barrel in July, the price of crude continued back down the slippery slope...
Giants to End Speculation and Start Push for Play-Offs
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*RUGBY LEAGUE Huddersfield will put an end to guessing games when they make what their chairman has called "an historic announcement" at half- time in tonight's Super League game against the Catalan Dragons.Suggestions have veered from the signing of...
Gig of the Week
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Reading Festival Fri to 24 AugHarkening back to its rock-ist roots, Reading looks like it's hungry for heaviosity this year. The riff-worshipping Sunday- headline slot is owned by Metallica, with Jack Black's Tenacious D and those daft old masked men...
Great Whites
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Wine Last time I brought up the subject of South African wine, I promised to follow up with the results of the Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show I was involved in in May and an update of the source of the problem flavours found in some Cape reds. After a...
Hang on to Your Joysticks for Olympics with Video Games
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Trackside and Trigger Happy These are my very first Olympics and overall I'm absolutely blown away by the whole thing. It's the sheer scale of the operation that defies belief. Sometimes, when I'm rushing between venues I do wonder whether it hasn't...
Hell Is Other People
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Confessions of a hermit The castaway who spent a year on a deserted island still prefers the life of a recluse. As she prepares for a rare visit to Britain, Chris Green finds out why Lucy Irvine just wants to be alone LUCY IRVINE is holed up in a crumbling...
Help Now for Hard-Up Homeowners Facing a Bruising Battle with the Bailiffs
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Outlook What's to be done about the worrying trend of increasing home repossessions? Mortgage lenders were quick yesterday to point out that a 24 per cent rise in repossession orders does not necessarily mean all those people will leave their homes -...
Here Comes the Gold Rush
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Britain's sportsmen and women are poised for their greatest deluge of Olympic medals in more than a century. Paul Newman reports from Beijing It has been a while since Alistair Darling has been able to report good news, but some time around tomorrow...
High Art in Lancashire
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One man and his dog leave the city behind to take in a view of the Pennine's panopticons - four new hilltop landmarks that are enchanting a growing number of visitors. Panopticon is a word which has never quite taken hold in the Lancashire lexicon....
Hounded and Vilified as a Serial Homewrecker - Who'd Be Sienna?
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It is difficult to summon a whole heap of sympathy for Sienna Miller. Not so long ago, she was known only as the girlfriend of Jude Law, who started seeing her not long after leaving his wife, actress and fashion designer Sadie Frost, and her four children.A...
How to Look Good When You're Dodging Bullets
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For the discerning Russian oligarch, possession of an armoured Bentley and a guard of special forces veterans is de rigueur for personal safety. But what to wear if one wants to mingle with the public or slalom downhill at Verbier?London's latest sartorial...
Ibrox Braced for Protests over Sale of Cuellar to Villa
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The Rangers Supporters Trust have warned the club's chairman, Sir David Murray, that they expect a demonstration against the sale of Carlos Cuellar at today's game against Hearts.Sir David accused those who suggest there is a conspiracy behind the sale...
Ice Queen Leads O'Brien's Campaign to Conquer York
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Inside track THE DERBY winner may be at York this week, but the Oaks heroine will not. Look Here's career on the track is on hold after she picked up an injury during her final gallop ahead of Thursday's Yorkshire Oaks, scheduled as her first outing...
'I Could Spend Pounds 30m but I Don't Need To' Claims Wenger
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AFTER ANOTHER parsimonious summer Arsne Wenger yesterday insisted he could spend 30m on a striker if he wanted to, but he did not need to. Wenger has spent a net 3.2m pre-season, most of it on Samir Nasri who should be fit to make his debut against West...
'I Could Spend Pounds 30m but I Don't Need To,' Claims Wenger
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AFTER ANOTHER parsimonious summer Arsne Wenger yesterday insisted he could spend 30m on a striker if he wanted to, but he did not need to. Wenger has spent a net 3.2m pre-season, most of it on Samir Nasri who should be fit make his debut against West...
If You Ask Me
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If you ask me, the music you hear in spas is massively underrated. Honestly, it's not the drugs talking here; I mean it. And anyway, I'm not on medication right now, not seriously.Having had back problems for the past five years or so - and if you've...
In a Crunch, Don't Forget the Classics
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First-half results this year for banks might be depressing reading, but it's a different story for the auction houses, which are notching up ever increasing sales in their best-selling categories - including art, furniture and jewellery. As equity markets...
In the Media World, Only Pretty Girls Pass A-Levels
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Errors & Omissions It's that time of year again, when pretty girls pass their A- levels. This week the Chinese authorities were widely criticised for getting a pretty girl to mime the anthem at the Olympic opening ceremony, because the girl who sang...
It Isn't All Bad News for Banks, and Brave Investors May Find Value There
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Barely a week has gone by this year without a banking disaster story. With just one exception, the latest reports from the UK banks have shown significant declines in profits. Desperate measures have been taken to get the cash flowing again. Assets are...
It's a Fool's Game, but Here Are My Predictions for This Season of Shocks
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What I've Learnt This Week 1 The same top four, but Chelsea to win it this timeWe've already been back at work for a week in the Championship but I guess for a lot of you the season really kicks off today when the Premier League returns. I'm looking...
It's a Fool's Game, but Here Are My Punts This Season
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What I've Learnt This Week 1 The same top four, but Chelsea to win it this timeWe've already been back at work for a week in the Championship but I guess for a lot of you the season really kicks off today when the Premier League returns. I'm looking...
It's Showtime, Folks
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The Weasel It was the 89th Annual Show in the North Yorkshire village of Thornton-le-Dale last week and I feel like I have been a judge in at least 80 of them. Called upon yet again to apply the wisdom of Solomon, I decided to brush up my powers of...
'I Want to Pay off My Main Mortgage Early'
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Wealth check Peter Martin, 48, is a self-employed property manager and he and his wife own their home and two further buy-to-let homes."I want to pay off my main mortgage early, ideally before my retirement," says Peter. "I've been working for Holiday...
Jeepers Creepers
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Shepherd's purse, sow thistles, bindweed, willowherb, hairy bitter cress ... Anna Pavord gets tough on some exotic-sounding - but thoroughly unwelcome - weeds Diary of a Dorset Garden Am I winning, or am I not? The fact that every time I wander up the...
Jeepers Keepers
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Kent's former England wicketkeeper Geraint Jones finds refuge from the pressure of cricket by also being a pig farmer. Will Hawkes chews the fat with him before today's Friends Provident final In terms of inspiration, Geraint Jones can take his pick...
Jerry Wexler, Rhythm 'N' Blues Pioneer, Dies Aged 91
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Jerry Wexler, the invisible force behind some of the legends of American 20th century music, died yesterday from congestive heart failure. He was 91.It was never his mouth at the mic or his fingers on the keyboard or guitar strings, but as a producer,...
John Edwards His Mistress, the New Age Guru, and the Cover-Up
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Political scandal Once a clean-cut hero for the Democrats, the senator's fall from grace has refused to go away. The news that he paid his mistress $14,000 after she left his campaign reveals more than personal deception. By David Usborne IT WAS THE...
Keegan Hails New Spirit at Newcastle
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An upbeat Kevin Keegan yesterday talked of new-found harmony at the top of Newcastle United and about his improved relationship with owner Mike Ashley. This had been in doubt from the moment Keegan said Newcastle were "miles off" the top four following...
Ken Thomas
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Civil Service trade union leader AFTER A short spell as a trainee journalist in Cardiff, Thomas became a career Civil Service trade union leader and is accepted as the architect of the modern Civil Service pension scheme introduced in 1972/73. He felt...
Key's Opening Bid Can Give Kent the Final Say
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The Knock-Out Competition for First Class Counties was launched to rescue county cricket following a dramatic decline in attendances. Earlier this week, 48 years after MCC took their momentous decision by a single vote, a brief but plaintive announcement...
Key's Opening Bid Can Give Kent the Final Say
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THE Knock-Out Competition for First Class Counties was launched to rescue county cricket following a dramatic decline in attendances. Earlier this week, 48 years after MCC took their momentous decision by a single vote, a brief but plaintive announcement...
Korma Blimey
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Restaurants The requests start coming in at the beginning of August, from friends, and friends of friends. "We're going to Edinburgh - any ideas where to eat?" It's one of the hardy perennials of the restaurant reviewer's calendar, and it never seems...
Let's Put the Brakes on Discrimination
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The volumes of anti-discrimination legislation that have passed through the corridors of Westminster and the European Union over the past few years are undoubtedly a good thing. Companies who try to pay employees less because they're female, disabled,...
Life on the Outside
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Michelle Diskin fought tirelessly for the release of her brother. She explains to Mark Hughes how Barry George is adjusting to his freedom - and reveals the help he is receiving from another man convicted of a crime he did not commit EXCLUSIVE The sister...
Lord Bruce-Lockhart
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Powerful advocate of local government who became an effective chairman of English Heritage Few would have thought when he was first elected to Kent County Council in 1989 that Sandy Bruce-Lockhart would eight years later lead his Conservative group back...
Louise Trotter Fashion Director, Age 39
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How do I look? Trench coats are my main investment each season; my wardrobe is full of them.I found this one on one of my weekly pilgrimages to Portobello Road in west London. I love to customise pieces, to make them personal to me. I took off all the...
Mathers Sent off but Wigan Clinch Their Play-Off Spot
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*RUGBY LEAGUE WIGAN 32 WAKEFIELD 22 Twelve-man Wigan made mathematically certain of their place in the Super League play-offs, although they were pushed most of the way by a Wakefield side striving to end their long wait for a win.The dismissal of Richie...
Mathers Sent off but Wigan Survive Rally by Wakefield
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*RUGBY LEAGUE WIGAN 32 WAKEFIELD 22 Twelve-man Wigan made mathematically certain of their place in the Super League play-offs, although they were pushed most of the way by a Wakefield side striving to end their long wait for a win.The dismissal of Richie...
Maureen Lipman
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My secret life The house I grew up in ... I lived with my parents and my older brother in a small, three-bedroom terraced house in Northfield Road, Hull. It was in the part of Anlaby Road that lay somewhere between commercial and suburban living.When...
Michael Page Halts Talks with Adecco after 'Unattractive' Offer
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Michael Page has pulled out of talks with Adecco after three months, rejecting its rival's attempt to take control with an offer that values the group at 1.3bn as "materially undervaluing the company".The UK headhunter has called on the takeover watchdog...
More Borrowers Set to Lose Homes as Repossession Orders Soar
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The number of court orders granted to mortgage lenders, allowing them to repossess the homes of customers who have defaulted on their loans, rose by more than 12 per cent between the first and second quarters of the year, breaking through the 30,000...
My Best Is Yet to Come, Warns Bolt as Great Showdown Looms
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*ATHLETICS His work done for the day in the home-straight office of the Beijing National Stadium yesterday, Usain Bolt waited for his pal to finish his business, then strolled off towards the exit as though the only care in his world was whether to pick...
New Films
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You Don't Mess with the Zohan (12A)Director Dennis DuganStarring Adam Sandler, John TurturroIt is unusual to be able to discuss the politics of an Adam Sandler film, which are usually tasteless comedies about nothing at all. You Don't Mess with the Zohan,...
Old McDonald's
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TRAIL OF THE UNEXPECTED Back to the fast-food future in Kokomo, Indiana The comfort of breakfast in an American diner: the choices included cinnamon swirl French toast, two sunny-side-up eggs and bacon, or a bone-in strip steak breakfast platter ($9.99)....
Pacific Quest
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When a BBC team was despatched to find new marine species in Micronesia, the trip gave Kate Humble the chance to dive in some of the world's most spectacular underwater environments Chuuk Lagoon is a long way away. From anywhere. Which makes it all the...
Phelps Tracks Spitz after Sixth Gold in Record Style
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*SWIMMING British swimming and Michael Phelps had good days at the office here yesterday. Both went to bed dreaming of turning six gold medals into seven. And there the similarities end.Before day dawned on the Chinese capital this Saturday morning,...
