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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 April 11, 2009
48 HOURS IN Geneva
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As the snow melts around this cosmopolitan Swiss city, warm up with a tour of the museums, then take a ride on a paddle steamer. Finally, feast on local produce, says Anthony Lambert WHY GO NOW?The hub of French-speaking Switzerland is shaking off the...
5 French Farmhouse Hotels
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Rustic charm and home comforts abound in these charming rural retreats. LE MAS DE LA ROSEProvenceFrom sheep to chic, this Provenal hotel has come a long way from its rustic 17th-century beginnings. Set in rolling parkland planted with pines, olive trees...
A Commodore, a Coup and an Island in Chaos President Bring Chaos to Fiji in Chaos
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Judiciary sacked after speaking out against Fiji's 'illegal' regime Military leader is urged to hold democratic elections by US FIJI, WHICH has lurched from one coup to the next in recent years, was plunged into fresh political turmoil yesterday after...
AIM Will Bounce Back When the Crunch Eases
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There is no doubt that the Alternative Investment Market, the London Stock Exchange's junior trading pitch known by its AIM acronym, is a casualty of the credit crunch. I have even encountered suggestion that it is doomed to follow other LSE attempts...
Album Reviews
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Pop CDsThe Juan MacLean: The Future Will Come (DFA) 10.76John MacLean's LCD Soundsystem links are all over his second album, in a good way. Sound of Silver's influence bejewels the Human League-go-house opener, "The Simple Life", in which LCD's Nancy...
'All We Now Want Is for Someone to Say Sorry'
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Twenty years after the Hillsborough disaster claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool fans, James Lawton hears the story of one family's long campaign for a simple apology It cannot be 20 years, not 20 years since all that muffled death accumulated in the...
A Long-Suffering People Who Just Want to Live in Peace
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Comment WHY SHOULD we care about what happens in Fiji? It is, some might argue, a tiny country, far removed from Europe, with a population of less than one million and no significance on the international stage.But the trampling of democracy in a region...
An Investment for Bears and Bulls
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I hardly need to say what a dire decade this has been for the UK stock market. We have now had two falls of 50 per cent in the stock markets and many investors have become disillusioned. That said, the further the market falls the more confident I become...
Another Win That's Too Good to Be True
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At a supposed vote in his favour of 90.24 per cent, Abdul Aziz Bouteflika, the 72-year-old Algerian leader, anointed himself President for an unprecedented - and quite possibly unconstitutional - third term yesterday, provoking riots in the Berber region...
ANTHONY HEAD 'LA Is a Beach Culture without Sitting on a Beach All the Time'
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My life in travel FIRST HOLIDAY MEMORY?My mother [actress Helen Shingler] used to do the TV show Maigret, so a lot of our early holidays revolved around France. They would film location stuff there and we would go along as well. We went all over: the...
Beauty Queen
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A recent April Fool's hoax claimed that the "Goo Facial", using the sugary filling of a Cadbury's Creme Egg, was the latest, hottest trend in beauty. It stated that, "in recent clinical trials, beauty experts have found that the sugar-rich 'goo' fondant...
Blackwell Lean and Mean in Pursuit of an England Recall
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CRICKET DURHAM 311-4 MCC JUST LIKE Samit Patel, failing to count the calories carefully enough has probably cost Ian Blackwell on the England front. But the two all-rounders have restated their determination to be fit for purpose when it comes to playing...
Bland Ambition
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Restaurants The initials stand for Jake Saul Watkins, the 37-year-old chef- proprietor of JSW who began operations in a tiny side-street restaurant, and moved into this 17th-century coaching inn round the corner two years ago. He's already picked up...
Born Survivors
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Anna Pavord salutes the harbingers of spring that made it through a chilly winter DIARY OF A DORSET GARDEN We had a particularly cruel dump of heavy, wet snow in March and it did far more damage than anything else that has happened this winter. The problem...
Bradford Hang on to Deny Leeds Top Spot
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ROUND-UP Leeds missed their chance to go back to the top of Super League when they lost 10-6 in controversial circumstances at Bradford. Level at 6-6 at half-time, the Bulls took the lead through a Rikki Sheriffe try that required intensive video scrutiny.Leeds...
Bridge
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East made a token gesture at deception, not really expecting anything to come of it, but South swallowed the bait hook, line and sinker, to go down in a lay-down contract. He really should not have done - the clues were there from the bidding - or rather,...
Britain's Security Hinges on Curbing Terrorism in Pakistan
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LEADING ARTICLE Tougher visa checks alone will not eradicate this menace This week's arrest of several Pakistani students in terror raids across the North West has prompted a fit of introspection about the integrity of our visa system. The Conservatives...
Brown's Scourge: He Hates the NHS and Loves Iceland
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Daniel Hannan was hailed for his 'brave' attack on the Prime Minister that became a YouTube sensation. But the Tory MEP's eccentric views are an embarrassment to his own party, reports Andy McSmith IN THE warm afterglow of the G20 summit, Conservative...
Builder Hits Back at the Pub Landlord
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Preston man lampooned by comic after they fell out over a patio threatens court action over jibes HIS STEREOTYPICALLY xenophobic and chauvinistic stand-up persona, the Pub Landlord, has earned him plaudits and riches on the comedy circuit and spawned...
Calendar Girls Laid Bare
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Naughty but nice is probably the best way of describing the nudity in Calendar Girls, Tim Firth's stage adaptation of his own film script that has arrived in the West End after a long tour. The girls manage to be cautious but coy while claiming to be...
Chess
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Today a heartening victory by a veteran in a strong open tournament: the Georgi Agzamov Memorial in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. It was held in memory of Uzbekistan's first grandmaster (and arguably hence Asia's), who died tragically in a mountaineering...
Cloud Hangs over Fallen McIlroy
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Rory McIlroy's dream debut at the Masters was in danger of turning into an embarrassing nightmare here last night as Masters officials reviewed videotape to see whether he had breached the rules on the 18th hole. If McIlroy was found guilty of kicking...
Computer Games
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Ultimate Band DS, Wii, Disney Interactive 29.99My living room is littered with a plastic drumkit, a clutch of ersatz guitars and a tangled mess of microphones. That's because my idea of a good night involes playing Guitar Hero and Sing Star. For anyone...
Councils Close Lending Gap
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The prospect of a return to municipal banks run by councils edges closer this month. Essex is launching its Banking on Essex initiative in conjunction with Abbey in the next two weeks and will stump up 50m to boost the local economy by offering short-term...
Counselling Needs a Legal Basis for Client Protection
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Comment Counselling and psychotherapy are first, last and always about being "client-centred". We do not sit in judgement or like a psychiatrist come up with a syndrome such as "sex addiction" to define your feelings away. We provide a safe space, perhaps...
Deadly Serious
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The Saturday profile JACOB ZUMA A disgrace to the nation or a populist leader - is Jacob Zuma the best man to lead South Africa on that long walk to freedom? It would be easy to caricature Jacob Zuma, the man who looks certain to win the South African...
Determined Tiger Fights to Unleash True Genius
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World No 1 forced to ride rollercoaster of magical and meagre moments as he tries to claw back former powers. James Lawton reports from Augusta The only trouble with omnipotence is that sometimes it can prove something of a stretch, especially when expectations...
Do Economists Know Any More Than Us?
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Our credit is crunched and the recession's gone global, so can the world's greatest economists rescue us? Nick Fraser searches for salvation I've been conducting an experiment. I've supplemented woeful headlines with a rich infusion of economics texts....
DVDs
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Red Riding Trilogy (15) Optimum Releasing 17949David Peace's harrowing quartet of novels has been condensed into a trilogy, set in 1974, 1980 and 1983, of suitably bleak, standalone films about police sleaze, child murder and, partly, the Yorkshire Ripper....
Educating the Teaching Unions
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LEADING ARTICLE IS "NAMING and shaming" appropriate in the world of education? The National Union of Teachers says not, pointing to two new surveys it has commissioned which suggest that schools identified as "failing" by the authorities find it harder...
End of the Glory Days?
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Bruce Springsteen's honest working man image has been tarnished by allegations of infidelity, reports Guy Adams Dancing in the dark is one thing. But, as Bruce Springsteen has just discovered, doing it with another man's wife is the sort of misdemeanour...
Even in the US Ice Hockey, Showmanship Has Its Limits
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American Way What's an exuberant Russian kid, the most thrilling hockey player of the age, supposed to do when he breaks a club scoring record: put on a Vladimir Putin-like scowl, skate back to centre-ice and pretend nothing has happened? The answer...
Falling Down on the Job in the French Alps
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Travel has few certainties, but a couple of them pertain to winter-sports holidays. One is that your ski instructor, whether male or female, is guaranteed to be good looking. The other is that, at some time during the trip, you will fall over.Given my...
Fatal Helicopter Crash Caused by 'Catastrophic' Gearbox Failure
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THE HELICOPTER which crashed in the North Sea last month killing all 16 men on board suffered a "catastrophic failure" in part of its main gearbox, according to an initial report.The report, released last night by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch...
Ferguson Revels in Benitez Onslaught
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United manager is in his element as relationship with Rafa takes a turn for worse So now it is all out war. The increasingly fractious relationship between Sir Alex Ferguson and Rafael Benitez deteriorated yet further yesterday when the Manchester United...
Ferguson Revels in Benitez Onslaught
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United manager is in his element as relationship with Rafa takes a turn for worse So now it is all-out war. The increasingly fractious relationship between Sir Alex Ferguson and Rafael Benitez deteriorated yet further yesterday when the Manchester United...
First Person 'I Escaped from a Hijacked Plane' Mike Thexton, 49
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My brother, Peter, died near K2 in the Himalayas in 1983. Three years later, I flew to Pakistan, where I went on a mountaineering expedition in his memory. I was supposed to return from Karachi to the UK on Pam Am flight 73, but the plane never took...
Five Best Films
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Let the Right One In (15)Tomas Alfredson's singular Swedish drama about pubescent love is also the most poetic, restrained and tender vampire film you could hope to see.The Damned United (15)This biopic of Brian Clough, the finest wit that football has...
Five Best London Shows
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Parlour Song Almeida TheatreIt will be a vintage year if we see a better-acted new play than Ian Rickson's beautifully measured production of Jez Butterworth's three-hander. Andrew Lincoln stars. To 9 MayThe Pitmen Painters NT: LytteltonLee Hall's drama,...
Free Money Is on Offer, but You Could Pay Later
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Fancy some money for nothing? It's still possible - but more of that later.If you leaf through the accounts of credit-card providers, they're littered with phrases like "cautious approach to lending" and "proactively tightening credit availability"....
French Sailor Killed in Gun Battle as Special Forces Storm Hijacked Yacht
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Four hostages rescued, including three-year-old boy US captain tries to escape in second hijacking stand-off By John Lichfield and Daniel Howden IN MOMBASA A hostage and two Somali pirates died when French special forces mounted a daring and controversial...
Geri Halliwell Singer & Children's Author, 36
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My secret life The home I grew up in ... was a semi-detached pebble-dash in Watford. I used to tell people we had sheep in our back garden, and a balcony. I wanted to sound interesting. I felt inadequate because we were poor.When I was a child I wanted...
Ginger Zingers, Banana Nirvanas and All My Other Juicy Nightmares
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Just occasionally a column should be a two-way thing. The small distraction I provide from rage and sorrow every week I provide without expectation of reciprocity. A job's a job. But today I'm the one in need. Help me, somebody. How do you juice? But...
Hamilton on Wind-Assisted March
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The birdie-filled excitement of Thursday gave way to the bogey- filled torment of Friday as Augusta once again bared its notorious fangs. Tougher pin positions combined with winds and drying greens to make the National course almost unrecognisable from...
Harlequins Can Beat Leinster at Their Own Game
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Calling The Shots Victories on the road in the Heineken Cup quarter-finals are not quite the rarities they once were: there have been five in the last four tournaments, which marks something of an increase in a competition that once went three full seasons...
Hiddink Will Leave despite Roman's Plea
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Chelsea owner finally has a manager he likes - it's just a shame he's leaving in 50 days Roman Abramovich has spent nearly six years searching for the ideal manager who can meet his exacting standards. Now it seems he might have finally found his man,...
Holy Orders
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Wine What did you give up for Lent? Work? Religion? Giving things up? If you gave up wine, having duly purified mind and body, you will doubtless have been looking forward to easing yourself into wine's answer to a luxurious bubble bath. I'm not much...
Hospes Madrid
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24-HOUR ROOM SERVICE Madrid Until relatively recently, Barcelona had the contemporary edge on the more regal and traditional Madrid. But the Spanish capital has now embraced a number of hip new hotels (such as the Puerta America and Urban Hotel), trendy...
House Prices 'To Fall 10%' in 2009
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HOUSE PRICES across the UK will fall by up to 10 per cent this year, before beginning to recover in 2010, a report to be published later this month by the Centre for Economics and Business Research will show.The think-tank believes this weekend is likely...
'I No Longer Have the Money to Fight My Case'
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Q I was divorced in 2005, when I was also off work because of ill health. This led to arrears on my mortgage with the West Bromwich Mortgage Company. At the final divorce proceedings the judge said that as the house was up for sale and to avoid further...
In the Main, This Tank Business Can Be Quite Confusing
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Errors & Omissions Between the 1950s and the 1970s there was a revolution in military tank design. Hitherto, armies had deployed heavy, medium and light tanks, designed to fulfil different roles in infantry support, breakthrough and pursuit.Each type...
I Only Really Tipped Bayern Because I Thought It Was April Fool's Day
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What I Learnt This Week WHAT A gripping week of Champions League football. Who would have thought Manchester United would have looked so vulnerable at the back? Sir Alex Ferguson will be desperate to have Rio Ferdinand back, but he will have to avoid...
Italy's Requiem for Earthquake Victims
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As the mass funerals were held in L'Aquila, a nation stopped, mourned and wept for those that lost their lives in the disaster THE PHOTOGRAPH taped to the lid of the small white coffin showed a pudgy-cheeked little girl with a clasp in her brown hair...
It's Time to Move On: HIPs Are Here to Stay
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New laws which came into force this week will make it harder than ever for people to sell their homes. Despite much opposition, Home Information Packs (HIPs) are now a compulsory part of the home- selling process.Rule changes which came into effect on...
Kim Turns It on as McIlroy Cracks
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The Augusta roar tried to depart the scene yesterday, but Anthony Kim was having none of it. Chad Campbell and Kenny Perry might have been holding the halfway lead in the Masters but all the talk last night on the neon-lit Washington Road focused on...
League Is Priority, Says Carragher
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Jamie Carragher has illustrated the significance of today's lunchtime encounter with Blackburn to Liverpool's pursuit of Manchester United, making the bold declaration that it is the most important league game of his 13-year career at Anfield. "I'm not...
League Is Priority, Says Carragher
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Jamie Carragher has illustrated the significance of today's lunchtime encounter with Blackburn to Liverpool's pursuit of Manchester United, making the bold declaration that it is the most important league game of his 13-year career at Anfield. "I'm not...
Making a Meal of Things in Chiapas
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On The Road When it comes to Mexican food I confess to being a complete addict. The cuisine from the south of the country is as far away from your average Tex-Mex fare as you can get. From the wonderful chocolate-chilli concoction known as mole, to the...
Masters Diary
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Lightweight Daly ready to get on the road to EuropeThe John Daly Roadshow has parked itself across the street from the Augusta National this week and is selling autographed shirts for $20 a pop as the man himself desperately tries to avoid bankruptcy....
May the Fortissimo Be with You, Always
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First Night Star Wars, A Musical Journey O2, London **** The exploitation of the Star Wars franchise continues at light speed. The 1977 space adventure has already spawned two much-loved sequels and three derided prequels and having rung up more than...
McIlroy Begins to Live Up to His Billing
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What makes Rory McIlroy so good? He could be the definition of an old head on a young body. The latter gives him a power game with a solid technique, the former a maturity beyond his years.Earlier this week, McIlroy said: "I realise that I have the talent,...
McIlroy's Heavenly Start Ends at Hellish 16th
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What makes Rory McIlroy so good? He could be the definition of an old head on a young body. The latter gives him a power game with a solid technique, the former a maturity beyond his years. But it does not matter how young or experienced you are, a triple...
Midlands Braced for Jobs Cull as Car Industry Pain Rolls On
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Regional agencies warn of cuts as financing for small companies dries up THOUSANDS MORE workers in the West Midlands car industry face redundancy, despite government attempts to free up finance for cash- strapped businesses.Some 50,000 people work in...
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday Is Over
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Jacques Tati may be dead, but his greatest creation is returning with a starring role at Cannes and a new animated adventure. One of the greatest icons of cinema history - tall, trilby- wearing, pipe-smoking, bumbling and melancholy - is about to resume...
MP3s in the Dock, Make Sure You Get It Right
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MP3 players have revolutionised the way we listen to music on the move. Speaker docks aim to take the revolution a stage further - allowing you to put your MP3 player at the heart of your home music system and clear away that pile of dusty old CDs for...
Naaqoos Fluffs His Lines in Opening Classic Rehearsal
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Inside Track Given enough time, they say that a monkey with a typewriter will randomly replicate the works of Shakespeare. Admittedly, even that would scarcely account for the way the racing fixture list sometimes seems to have been thrown together....
Naming and Shaming 'Hurts Weaker Schools'
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THE "TOXIC" intervention of naming and shaming struggling schools is creating more problems for them than it solves. It leads to teacher resignations soaring, heads being sacked and staff taking more time off due to stress-related illness, according...
New Films
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Let the Right One In (15)Director Tomas AlfredsonStarring Kre Hedebrant, Lina LeanderssonThere are precedents for the kind of dispassionate and naturalistic approach to the depiction of vampirism taken by Let the Right One In. George Romero's 1977 film,...
Northern Plights
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With Sunderland, Newcastle and Middlesbrough all struggling to stay up, Michael Walker charts the build-up to a crucial weekend for the North-east In the North-east, they give thanks hourly for West Bromwich Albion. But for the Baggies, the bottom three...
Oil Demand Expected to Hit Five-Year Low
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IEA cuts forecast for eighth month in a row, with no recovery expected until 2010 THE THIRST for oil will plummet to five-year lows in 2009, a respected energy advisory group warned yesterday, as countries around the world continue to suffer the effects...
Only an Ocean Away
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On parts of the island of La Reunion, you could be in Paris. Elsewhere in this astounding, volcano-blasted landscape, you could be on another planet. By Mark C O'Flaherty A heat haze dances over the debris on La Reunion's cte sauvage, the wild, undeveloped...
Our MPs Are Honourable. Honest
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Inside politics Here's some shock news: the vast majority of our MPs are not corrupt, or lining their pockets at the taxpayers' expense. I suspect they are a much more honest and honourable bunch than many of their foreign counterparts, including members...
Paddy O'hanlon
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Politician and lawyer who became a founder-member of the SDLP As a young politician from a border area of Northern Ireland in the late 1960s, Paddy O'Hanlon was one of a new breed of nationalist figures who helped transform the face of politics. He was...
Pakistani Immigrants Must Not All Be Cast as Extremists
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Comment For many Pakistani students, the notion that Britain's visa regime is somehow "lax" will come as a surprise. While thousands of applicants meet with success each year, many are denied the ability to even visit Britain, let alone claim their places...
Pavlova Wars: New Zealand Reclaims Its National Dessert
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NEW ZEALAND'S new Prime Minister, John Key, faces a host of diplomatic challenges as he adjusts to the job. But of them all, the one exercising him most at the moment is the weighty matter of the provenance of a meringue dessert topped by cream and tropical...
Police Leaders Must Regain Control of Their Subordinates
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Brian Paddick, formerly Deputy Assistant Commissioner at the Met, on the force's mounting problems Seeing the video of Ian Tomlinson being assaulted by a police officer during the G20 protests - an apparently innocent man being subjected to what appeared...
Prepaid Cards
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What is a prepaid card?Essentially, it's a pay-as-you-go debit card. Money is loaded on to the card and it can be used to pay for purchases in shops, restaurants and online, or to withdraw money from a cash machine. You can only spend what has been loaded...
Psychotherapists in Turmoil over Plans to Start Regulation
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Government aim to protect clients from abuse will 'stifle creativity', say opponents Their aim, as they put it, is to turn "neurotic misery" into ordinary human unhappiness. But now Britain's psychotherapists have heaped anguish on themselves with a...
Regular Savers Feel the Benefit
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Drip-feeding a stocks and shares ISA makes the most of a fluctuating market, says Simon Read Keep checking the performance - if your fund has slumped drastically, consider switching to another Investment timing is impossible to predict. Anyone presuming...
Rite of Spring
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I've been cooking a lot of mutton over the winter months - so it makes a refreshing change when tender new-season lamb starts to reappear on the shelves. It's sometimes hard at this time of year to know whether you're buying new or old meat. One of the...
Rovers Survive Onslaught to Win Fierce Derby
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RUGBY LEAGUE HULL 14 HULL KR 18 Rovers climbed above their city rivals and at least briefly into third place in Super League yesterday afternoon as the Hull derby maintained its reputation as the most intense in the game. It was rarely pretty and there...
Rovers Survive Onslaught to Win Fierce Derby
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RUGBY LEAGUE HULL 14 HULL KR 18 Rovers climbed above their city rivals and at least briefly into third place in Super League yesterday afternoon as the Hull derby maintained its reputation as the most intense in the game. It was rarely pretty and there...
Rush Repair Puts Powell on Sidelines
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RUGBY UNION Welsh forward overlooked as Cardiff prefer All Black No 8 to face Toulouse It says something about the strength of European club rugby that the eight Heineken Cup quarter-finalists can whistle up an all- international line-up from their respective...
Secret Garden
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Stretched out between two Spanish resort towns lies a rocky, undeveloped landscape. With no map (and a wild boar for company) Mick Webb explores Valencia's Sierra de Irta Amazing as it may seem, there is a stretch of land halfway down the east coast...
'Sewing? I Hate It! but There's This Lovely Man at My Local Dry Cleaner'
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So, another week's gone by and I've yet to return that Topshop skirt. For those of you who missed last week's column, it's not a terribly complicated story: I missed the bus, my skirt ripped, general annoyance ensued. To be honest, it's not that surprising....
'Should I Pay Back My Debt or Try to Save?'
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Tim Fiennes, 23, was made re- dundant from his consultancy job last October and now freelances for a climate change charity. He hopes to get on the property ladder in his late twenties, and would like advice on whether to pay back his debts or try to...
Should the Tests for 11-Year-Olds Be Scrapped?
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YesWith all the maelstrom of preparing for the SATs (national curriculum tests for 11-year-olds), you get a narrowing of the curriculum in the two years leading up to them.History, geography and arts almost disappear from the curriculum as a result....
Show Boating
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Take to the water in Menorca and you'll discover a new side to the island, says Gerard Gilbert After the second rudder broke, it dawned on me that maybe I was doing something wrong: perhaps attempting to turn too sharply with the thing held too deep...
So Blair Has Turned into the Trendy Clergyman after All
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Richard Ingrams's Week Although he has been a Roman Catholic only for a year or so, Tony Blair already feels confident to speak on behalf of millions of what he calls "ordinary Catholics" throughout the world.Thus in an interview for a gay magazine with...
Something for the Weekend
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We Applaud You...Pig farmer Luis Miguel ArraztoaDesperate for the club he supports, Osasuna, to beat fellow La Liga stragglers Espanyol, the farmer fan decided to offer the players a tasty little bonus, but not in the form of hard cash due to these globally...
Something for the Weekend
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We Applaud YouPig farmer Luis Miguel ArraztoaDesperate for the club he supports, Osasuna, to beat fellow La Liga stragglers Espanyol, the farmer fan decided to offer the players a tasty little bonus, but not in the form of hard cash due to these globally...
Something to Declare
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Where to go, how to save, what to avoid DESTINATION OF THE WEEKTHE SOMMEThe most unusual of the new air routes launched this summer connects Leeds/Bradford with the town of Albert, in the Picardy region of France. This was the location for some of the...
Southampton Blown Away as Vokes Leads Wolves' Aerial Attack
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WOLVES 3 SOUTHAMPTON 0 An early, irresistible flurry of goals swept Wolverhampton Wanderers into an impregnable lead yesterday, plumping up a five- point cushion at the top of the Championship while pushing Southampton closer to the third tier for the...
Southampton Blown Away as Vokes Leads Wolves' Aerial Attack
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WOLVES 3 SOUTHAMPTON 0 An early, irresistible flurry of goals swept Wolves into an impregnable lead yesterday, plumping up a five-point cushion at the top of the Championship while pushing Southampton closer to the third tier for the first time in 49...
Staying in Films on Television
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TODAYFinding Nemo 5.10pm BBC1 ****(Andrew Stanton, 2003) In its best works - Toy Story, Monsters, Inc. and Wall-E - the Pixar studio brings whole other worlds to life. Finding Nemo (left) doesn't have as good a story as those films, being the simple...
Struggling Tiger Fights to Unleash True Genius
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World No 1 forced to ride rollercoaster of magical and meagre moments as he tries to claw back former powers. James Lawton reports from Augusta The only trouble with omnipotence, Tiger Woods learnt again yesterday, is that sometimes it can prove a stretch,...
Talk of the Town
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Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom-time! You have exactly seven amphetamine-fuelled days left to catch one of the best rock exhibitions you will ever see - Mick Jones's Rock & Roll Public Library, currently showing at the Chelsea College of Art & Design. The...
Tamils Plan Weekend Mass March on Westminster
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THE TWO Tamil protesters who are on a hunger strike outside the Houses of Parliament have accepted a few sips of water in return for a promise from MPs that their case will be heard.Sivatharsan Sivakumaravel, 21, and Parameswarn Subramaniyan, 28, who...
Tam Paton
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Disgraced former manager of the Bay City Rollers Behind the fun-filled, facile, fluffy, occasionally inspired, sing-along hits - "Keep On Dancing", "Remember (Sha-La-La)", "Shang- A-Lang", "Bye Bye Baby" - the Bay City Rollers scored in the 1970s lurked...
Ten Best Club Nights
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Escape from New York SunAn afternoon/evening rooftop rave in heart of the city, featuring Trevor Jackson's (right) punk funk, new wave and electro disco, Mock & Toof's psychedelic house and Toby Tobias's trippy disco. Queen of Hoxton, London EC2Mulletover...
