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The Independent (London, England)
The Independent is a Monday to Sunday newspaper, owned and published by Independent Print Ltd and headquartered in London, England. It was first published in 1986 in reaction to the conservative views held by the London Times and the London Telegraph. It has a liberal slant. The Independent's audience is London based, with 54 percent of its readership living in London and its surroundings. Other notable qualities of its readership are: the average reader is 43 years old; 59 percent are employed; 62 percent are married; 48 percent have a college degree or higher; and 73 percent own their own homes. Regions covered include: London and South East, South West, Midlands, North and North East, North West, Scotland, and Wales. The Independent is the youngest of Britain's daily newspapers and is notable for challenging London's more established and conservative daily newspapers. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. In 2010, Simon Kelner, Editor-in-Chief of The Independent, and Johann Hari, a regular columnist in the paper, each received a Comment Award, similar to the U.S. Pultizer Prize. Oliver Wright is Whitehall editor; Oly Duff is home news editor, and Katherine Butler is comment editor.
Articles from October 24, 2007
A Bracing Dip in Turbulent Waters
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Theatre water Lyric Hammersmith london HHHHThe influence of Complicite and Robert Lepage is strongly felt in Water, the newly devised work by the excellent Filter Company, premiered now in David Farr's deeply involving and imaginatively multi-media production...
All at Sea
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This historic fortress near the Isle of Wight is for sale. But who on earth will take it on, asks Kate Watson Smyth FOCUSIt's billed as the ultimate island hideaway. But there is no curving stretch of golden sand dotted with languid palm trees. There...
A Portrait of Britain in 2031
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According to the latest prediction, Britain's population will exceed 70 million by 2031. The country will be a very different place by then.By Nigel Morris and Jerome TaylorThe causes of the relentless increase over the recent centuries in the UK's population...
A Terrible Price in Blood and Treasure
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LEADING ARTICLE IraqThe human cost of the 2003 invasion of Iraq has rightly commanded a huge amount of public attention. We are well aware of the thousands of British and American soldiers who have been killed and injured in this war, as well as the...
At Least Let Justice Be Seen Not to Be Done
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The SketchDetective Sergeant Yates. I say this in tone of wonderment, really. What on earth did someone called Detective Sergeant Yates think he was doing? This isn't my question. Chairman Tony Wright asked it first, a little more politely than I will....
Baghdad May Be Unable to Stop Attacks by PKK Fighters
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The Iraqi government said it would shut down operations of the Kurdish guerrillas from Turkey based on its soil in order to avert the invasion of Iraq by the Turkish Army. But it is doubtful if the Baghdad government is capable of expelling the rebels...
Benitez Seeks Creative Spark for Turkish Test
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By Ian Herbertin IstanbulThe road to Istanbul will always hold special memories for Liverpool fans but Rafael Benitez has seen another side of the city, at the Inonu stadium, where his side dare not even contemplate the consequences of defeat when they...
Benitez Seeks Creative Spark for Turkish Test
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By Ian Herbertin IstanbulThe road to Istanbul will always be something special for Liverpool fans, but Rafael Benitez has seen another side of the city at the stadium overlooking the Bosphorous where his side dare not even contemplate the consequences...
Benitez Seeks Creative Spark for Turkish Test
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By Ian Herbertin IstanbulThe road to Istanbul will always be something special for Liverpool fans, but Rafael Benitez has seen another side of the city at the stadium overlooking the Bosphorous where his side dare not even contemplate the consequences...
Bobby Mauch
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'Prince and the Pauper' child starBobby Mauch, the actor and film editor, was one of a pair of identical twins, Billy and Bobby Mauch (pronounced "Mawk"), who starred in a distinguished version of the Mark Twain classic The Prince and the Pauper in 1937....
BP to Pay $303M over Charges of Fixing Market
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By Danny FortsonBP agreed last night to pay $303m to settle charges that it had manipulated the propane gas market in the United States.News of the deal came hours after the oil giant revealed res- ults that lived up to the warning by its chief executive...
Bridge by Maureen Hiron
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Can East fail to come to two trump tricks - one for superior length and one by force? Glyn Liggins showed how to prevent it, on this hand from the Swiss Teams Championship at the 2007 Brighton Summer Congress. The hand was reported in the Daily Bulletin...
Bring Peace to Schools by Meditation, Say Lynch and Donovan
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By Amol RajanOne is among Hollywood's most celebrated directors, with a reputation for making dark films and a fondness for creating "peace palaces" in his spare time. The other is an ageing Scottish folk singer who once collaborated with the Beatles....
Cash-for-Honours Investigator Complains of Political Interference
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By Colin BrownDeputy Political EditorThe senior Metropolitan Police officer at the centre of the aborted 1m inquiry into "cash-for-honours" allegations inside Downing Street was put under intense pressure by high-level political figures before the case...
Celtic Ignore Boruc Row in Quest to End Nightmare on the Road
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By Ronnie Esplinin LisbonCeltic are ignoring the furore surrounding their goalkeeper Artur Boruc to concentrate on their Champions League game against Benfica at the Stadium of Light tonight.The Poland international refused to shake hands with the Rangers...
Celtic Ignore Boruc Row in Quest to End Nightmare on the Road
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By Ronnie Esplinin LisbonCeltic are ignoring the furore surrounding their goalkeeper Artur Boruc to concentrate on their Champions League game against Benfica at the Stadium of Light tonight.The Poland international refused to shake hands with the Rangers...
Celtic Ignore Boruc Row in Quest to End Nightmare on the Road to Look for Stadium of Light
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By Ronnie Esplinin LisbonCeltic are ignoring the furore surrounding their goalkeeper Artur Boruc to concentrate on their Champions League game against Benfica at the Stadium of Light tonight.The Poland international refused to shake hands with the Rangers...
Chess by Jon Speelman
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I reported on Monday on the Bilbao Blindfold Chess World Cup, where the tall young Chinese player Bu Xiangzhi had been leading just after the halfway stage.In fact, Bu Xiangzhi had already won the event two days earlier, striding on to the extent that,...
China Holds the Key to Gyrating Markets
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The markets have been gyrating up and down again. What are they trying to tell us, and should we worry?Anyone who has gone through a couple of global economic cycles will know what it feels like to head into the dips as well as the upswings. Most of...
City Life
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'How nice it would be to have horses back on our streets. Instead of carbon emissions, we'd have compost'I saw something the other morning I haven't seen for years and years. It was a rag-and-bone man, complete with flat-bed cart and shaggy brown pony....
Class Still Rules. It's Just the Jobs That Have Changed
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One thing that almost all commentators, journalists and politicians can agree on is that there's no point in going on about class.Being working class was fashionable in the Seventies, like Curly Wurlys and The Sweeney, but now it's so retro, and postmen...
Clegg: Lib Dems Can Break 'Stifling' Political Deadlock
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By Nigel MorrisNick Clegg predicted the "stifling deadlock of two-party politics" could be broken within 10 years as he formally launched his campaign for the Liberal Democrat leadership.Declaring that his party was ideally placed to take advantage of...
Country and Western
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MY HOME Many performers are based in the capital, but not singer Lou Rhodes. Her communal home in rural Wiltshire is both spacious and sociableI live in a community in a Gothic manor house, near the village of Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire. I had been...
Curtis Biopic Leads Race for Independent Film Awards
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By Ciar ByrneArts and Media CorrespondentControl, Anton Corbijn's biopic of the Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis, leads the nominations for this year's British Independent Film Awards.The film, which traces the life of the singer who killed himself when...
Cyberclinic
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Is it now OK to file-share Radiohead?Radiohead launched their new album, In Rainbows, two weeks ago, on a "pay what you think it's worth" basis. There's much speculation on music and technology blogs about how much money they've made. One source claims...
Dance
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connect transfer Barbican transports exceptionals Jubilee Gardens LONDON ***/****Early in Connect Transfer, which comes to the Barbican as part of Dance Umbrella, the dancers start folding themselves into poses. But however tangled, the positions are...
Dancers Are Floored by Cuban Ballet Star's Cheesy Choreography
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First Night CARLOS ACOSTA Sadler's Wells LONDONThis is just horrible. Carlos Acosta, one of ballet's biggest international stars, is eager to honour his Cuban roots. For this programme at Sadler's Wells, he has brought dancers from the Ballet Nacional...
Demographic Trends That Speak Wellof Britain
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LEADING ARTICLE populationNot so long ago, forecasts that the UK population could reach 65 million within 10 years and 70 million by 2031 would have been greeted by calls for voluntary limits on the size of families and a clamour for more education about...
Diplomas to Replace A-Levels as 'Jewel in the Exam Crown'
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By Richard GarnerEducation EditorThe end of A-levels was signalled by the Government yesterday as it announced plans to offer three new diplomas in secondary schools from 2011.In a dramatic policy shift, the Schools Secretary, Ed Balls, said that diplomas...
Don't Move Improve
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How to bring the outdoors in WHEN THE BUILDERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR GARDEN, THE IMPACT ON YOUR LIFE IS MUCH LESS NOTICEABLEI don't know if it's just a boy thing, but I love the idea of having outbuildings. For me, it would be a workshop filled with...
Dropped Lehmann Warns Wenger
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By Sam WallaceThe Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has warned Arsne Wenger not to "humiliate" him by leaving on the bench and criticised rival Manuel Almunia after he was left out of the Arsenal squad to play Bolton Wanderers on Saturday.Having been dropped...
Drop Your Car, Join the Club
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A new breed of development bans private vehicles and encourages residents to share transport. By Paul Gosling FOCUSDo you really need a car if you live in a city? The argument for giving up on four wheels is pretty convincing. First, there's money: you're...
EU 'Blue Card' to Lure Skilled Labour
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The EU has unveiled plans to launch Europe's biggest global job advertising blitz and set up a US-style "green card" visa programme to lure skilled workers.The plan aims to improve the EU's ability to attract and retain professionals such as doctors,...
Europe Outnumbered in Monmouth Battle
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By Chris McGrathat Monmouth ParkThis place has long been a crucible for America's sense of her place in the world.In 1777 George Washington fought the British in the battle of Monmouth, one of several engagements that made New Jersey "crossroads of the...
Folk
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fairport acoustic convention 100 Club london ***Devotees of the current freak-folk revival know better, perhaps, than to seek out their venerated forebears, Fairport Convention, in this rare, intimate excursion from their Oxfordshire base. Instead, a...
Gender Surgery That Cuts to the Quick of China's Double Standards
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The Wednesday Book shanghai tango By Jin Xing atlantic, Pounds 10.99 Order for Pounds 9.89 (free p&p) on 0870 079 8897It's a line straight out of Dame Edna Everage. When Jin Xing, a former colonel with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China, spends...
Gerald Howat
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Writer of cricketing biographiesYou had to be quick to keep up with Gerald Howat. The short, staccato sentences were delivered at machine-gun pace. Usually either as statements or questions. And there were rapid changes of direction. It reflected a fecund...
Government Advice for Teenagers: Be like WAGs
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By Richard GarnerEducation EditorBritain's much-maligned WAGs are probably best known for the expensive shopping expeditions they undertook while their partners plotted England's unsuccessful football World Cup campaign last year.But today Wives and...
Hamas and Fatah Both Accused of Torturing Their Opponents
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Gross and illegal abuses against political opponents - including torture or ill treatment of arbitrarily held detainees - have been repeatedly committed by both Fatah and Hamas since last June, according to Amnesty International.A detailed new report...
Hayles Storms Valley Fortress
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charlton athletic 1 plymouth argyle 2By Evan FanningPlymouth became the to first team to win at the Valley this season with a spirited, if slightly fortuitous, win over a bedraggled Charlton side. The Plymouth manager Ian Holloway will take whatever...
Hayles Storms Valley Fortress
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charlton athletic 1 plymouth argyle 2By Evan FanningPlymouth became the first team to win at the Valley this season with a spirited, if slightly fortuitous, win over a disjointed Charlton side. The Plymouth manager, Ian Holloway, will take whatever away...
Hughes in Frame If Jol Fails to Survive
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By Sam WallaceHe has had more than one stay of execution already, but it would now seem that the deciding game for Martin Jol's ailing Tottenham regime will be Sunday's visit of Blackburn Rovers. Should he lose that game at White Hart Lane then the Dutchman's...
Hughes in Frame If Jol Fails to Survive
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By Sam WallaceHe has had more than one stay of execution already, but it would now seem that the deciding game for Martin Jol's ailing Tottenham regime will be Sunday's visit of Blackburn Rovers. Should he lose that game at White Hart Lane then the Dutchman's...
Hughes in Line to Step into Jol Shoes at Spurs
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FOOTBALLBy Sam WallaceHe has had more than one stay of execution already, but it would now seem that the deciding game for Martin Jol's ailing Tottenham regime will be Sunday's visit of Blackburn Rovers. Should he lose that game at White Hart Lane then...
Insurance Bosses Face Jail after Fraud Verdict
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By Sean FarrellFinancial EditorThe former bosses of Independent Insurance have been found guilty of lying about reserve shortfalls that led to the collapse of the one-time star of the insurance industry.Michael Bright, who was the insurer's chief executive,...
Invasion of the Killer Monkeys
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The death of Delhi's deputy mayor - as he tackled simian intruders - highlights the problem of man and the long-tailed primates living side by side in India's capital. By Andrew Buncombe Monkey businessAt the home of Sawinder Singh Bajwa, friends and...
Investors Seeking a Comfortable Fit Might like to Try the Debenhams Recovery Play
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the investment columnEdited by Andrew DewsonOur view: BuyCurrent price: 103.75pThe conventional wisdom on profit warnings is to sell on the first and buy on the third. Debenhams has delivered three profit warnings in the last 10 months, so is now the...
It Won't Help to Sprinkle Black Faces in High Places
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The unbridled joy at South Africa's Rugby World Cup triumph has been dampened by gloomier speculation that the winning squad is likely to be broken up and its coach sent packing, to make way for a new regime that will, through enforced government quotas,...
Kim Beazley
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'Honest' politician and campaignerEveryone wants their politicians to be honest, and Kim Beazley, who served for 32 years in the Australian Parliament, made honesty his policy. His Cabinet colleague Bill Hayden, later Governor- General of Australia,...
King Zog's Albanian Summer Palace Gets Timeshare Makeover
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The former summer palace of the king of Albania is being turned into a timeshare villa as his impoverished nation takes its first steps into the world of second home investments.The palace is in Durres, the Adriatic port city not far from the capital,...
Lessing Angers America by Saying September 11 'Was Not That Terrible'
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By Emily DuganDoris Lessing, the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, has risked incurring the wrath of Americans by accusing them of over-reacting to the September 11 attacks on New York's Twin Towers, which she said were "not that terrible".Comparing...
Lucky Dip: Art Scavenged from Skip Valued at $1M
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On the streets of Manhattan, finders are not always keepers, even if the item concerned is in a rubbish skip. At least, not when it turns out to be a stolen masterpiece by the Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo which has been missing for 30 years.That was...
Made to Measure
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Had your fill of flat-pack furniture? Time to invest in the lovingly made bespoke alternative. By Kate Watson-Smyth DESIGNMaybe it's an age thing, but it seems that, sooner or later, many of us can't face buying any more of that cheap mass-produced Scandinavian...
Mafia Is 'Italy's Biggest Commercial Business'
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The Mafia is now the biggest business in Italy, with organised crime netting Mob bosses more than 63bn a year, or 7 per cent of the country's gross domestic product, from drugs, extortion and prostitution.Last year, the turnover raked in by criminal...
Market News
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GOING UP...The average stamp duty bill has risen 24.76 per cent in the last 12 months. As if the rise in borrowing costs was not enough, property price inflation has forced up the size of the mortgages we need, and the amount of stamp duty that nine...
Milan Progress Could Hinge on Kaka's Recovery
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By Mark Meadowsin MilanThe Milan playmaker Kaka is a slight doubt for tonight's Champions League Group D match at home to Shakhtar Donetsk because of a knee problem. "We still have a day, we will see if he can recover or not," the coach, Carlo Ancelotti,...
Military Planners Doubtful of Early Iraq Withdrawal
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By Kim SenguptaA British force of 2,500 troops may have to stay in Iraq for the foreseeable future and additional numbers could even be sent as reinforcements if the security situation deteriorates, a senior British commander warned yesterday.While outlining...
Mother Goes Missing after Daughter Falls from Majorcan Hotel Balcony
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By Charlotte Bailey and Jack DoylePolice in Majorca were searching last night for the mother of a British girl who fell from a hotel balcony.Gianna Cooper, seven, is seriously ill in hospital after the fall from the fifth floor of the Hotel Samoa in...
Mother Goes Missing after Daughter Falls from Majorcan Hotel Balcony
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By Charlotte Bailey and Jack DoylePolice in Majorca were searching last night for the mother of a British girl who fell from a hotel balcony.Gianna Cooper, seven, is seriously ill in hospital after the fall from the fifth floor of the Hotel Samoa in...
Mother Nature's Revenge against Human Development
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Everyone who comes to southern California learns to be afraid of the Big One, the earthquake that will level everything. But even major tremors do not present such an immediate, visceral and terrifying threat as wildfires, which strike with shocking...
MPC's Barker Plays Down Housing Fears
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By Sean O'GradyOdds on a cut in interest rates lengthened yesterday. Most economists took remarks in a speech made by Kate Barker, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, to mean that a reduction in the base rate from 5.75 per cent was unlikely at...
Murray Turns on Power to Tame the 'Beast of Belarus'
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--tennisBy Steven Moorein St PetersburgBritain's Andy Murray continued his fine recent form here yesterday with a slick victory over Max Mirnyi, of Belarus, 6-2, 6- 2 to advance to the second round at the St Petersburg Open.The 16th-ranked Murray broke...
Murray Turns on Power to Tame the 'Beast of Belarus'
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--tennisBy Steven Moorein St PetersburgBritain's Andy Murray continued his fine recent form here yesterday with a slick victory over Max Mirnyi, of Belarus, 6-2, 6- 2 to advance to the second round at the St Petersburg Open.The 16th-ranked Murray broke...
Murray Turns on Power to Tame the 'Beast of Belarus'
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--tennisBy Steven Moorein St PetersburgBritain's Andy Murray continued his fine recent form here yesterday with a slick victory over Max Mirnyi, of Belarus, 6-2, 6- 2 to advance to the second round at the St Petersburg Open.The 16th-ranked Murray broke...
National Guard Mobilised as California Goes Up in Flames
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The wildfires laying waste to southern California raged unabated yesterday as a third day of high winds and scorching temperatures pushed flames further into suburban communities and mountain towns, forcing the evacuation of 350,000 homes and destroying...
Nationalist Riots Mar Anniversary of Hungarian Uprising Uprising
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Budapest yesterday, the anniversary of Hungary's uprising against Soviet domination, and authorities were braced for a second night of violence after 19 people were injured in clashes between police and...
Nike Is World's Biggest Player with Pounds 285m Purchase of Umbro
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By Danny FortsonUmbro, the maker of England's national football team kit, has agreed to a 285m buyout by the American sports apparel giant Nike that will make the latter the world leader in football clothing.The board of the Manchester-based company...
Now Cameron Fuels Eurosceptic Anger over EU Treaty Vote
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By Colin BrownDeputy Political EditorDavid Cameron has upset Eurosceptic Conservative MPs by refusing to promise a retrospective referendum on the EU Reform Treaty should his party win the next general election.Nearly 40 Tory MPs have signed a Commons...
Opera
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the fortunes of king croesus Grand Theatre leeds ****An opera in which one of the lead roles is sung by a male soprano (originally a castrato, and not to be confused with a countertenor) would be a daunting prospect for any opera company. First, find...
Optimism as Burma Adopts More Open Approach to UN
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The special United Nations envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, said in New Delhi last night that he may be allowed to make a return visit to the country earlier than he had expected, perhaps as early as next week.Mr Gambari voiced cautious optimism that...
Orange's Tough Calls
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Britain's one-time mobile upstart lost its way under French ownership. Can new management rediscover the magic? By Nic Fildes Business AnalysisOrange has been something of a lame duck in the UK mobile phone sector over the past few years with the likes...
Overseas: Six to View
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Renaissance revisitedPalazzo Tornabuoni, FlorencePrice: from 139,000Agent: Knight FrankTel: 020-7861 1058They say: Europe's first city-centre private residence club, accommodation ranges from studios to three-bed apartments. The renovated 15th-century...
Pandora
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'The Sun' seeking its own Warsaw Pact with plumbersWhat with the gradual disappearance of Britain's tradishnul white working classes, to be replaced by something more diverse, any good red-top editor would be thinking about how to attract readers of...
Pay-Off the Final Act of Staunton's Troubled Tenure
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By Michael WalkerSteve Staunton's tenure as manager of the Republic of Ireland was approaching its official end in Dublin last night after Staunton was summoned to a meeting with the senior decision-makers of the Football Association of Ireland. The...
Pay-Off the Final Act of Staunton's Troubled Tenure
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By Michael WalkerSteve Staunton's tenure as manager of the Republic of Ireland was approaching its official end in Dublin last night after Staunton was summoned to a meeting with the senior decision-makers of the Football Association of Ireland. The...
'People Think I'm Hard and a Bit of a Diva but I'm Very Down to Earth'
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The 5-minute Interview Jamelia Singer-songwriterIn 1999, EMI signed a half-Jamaican, half-Zimbabwean teenager named Jamelia Davis. She became one of the UK's leading R&B acts, with a string of hits including 'Superstar' and 'Thank You'. Now 26, the mother...
Picture Post
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Winter's here: Swans at SlimbridgeWith their distinctive yellow beaks and silhouettes, two Bewick's swans, Dario and Dorcus, arrive to spend their winter in Britain. Every year, it gets harder for migrating swans to find suitable habitats in the UK...
Porsche Accelerates Takeover Plan as 'VW Law' Rejected
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By Sean O'GradyEconomics EditorA piece of German industrial tradition was consigned to the scrapheap yesterday by the European Court of Justice. Germany's "Volkswagen Law", which in effect protected the car giant from takeover, was struck down.VW has...
Post Office to Enter Broadband Market
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By Nic FildesThe Post Office has set itself ambitious growth targets in the broadband sector as it looks to tap into the growing "silver surfer" market and appeal to subscribers who want to pay for a high-speed internet connection with cash.The company...
Professor John Klier
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Indefatigable historian who challenged scholarly opinion on the Jewish community under the TsarsJohn Klier was one of a group of historians who, in the last 30 years, transformed our understanding of the history of the Jews of the Tsarist empire. From...
Rangers Survive the Siege of Ibrox
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Rangers 0 Barcelona 0By Nick HarrisYou can't enter Scotland these days without falling over a famous footballing night and this, the sweetest of stalemates, was just the latest. That is what the blue side of Glasgow will be thinking this morning after...
Real Must Live Up to Schuster's Attacking Promise
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By Simon Baskettin MadridReal Madrid are under pressure to deliver a handsome home win and an impressive footballing performance when they take on Olympiakos in their Champions League Group C match at the Bernabeu tonight.The jury has been out on Bernd...
Resurgent Rangers Stand Firm to Withstand Siege
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Rangers 0 Barcelona 0By Nick HarrisRangers earned the sweetest of stalemates at Ibrox last night - in the face of constant pressure from some of Europe's finest individual talents - to maintain their odds-defying start in the Champions League and move...
Resurrected
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On her latest disc, the mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter pays homage to the extraordinary music and spirit of the inmates of the Terezin concentration camp, says Michael ChurchThe hurried pencil drawings are eloquent. One is of a cafe, with smartly...
Return of Winning Habit Lifts Grant's Spirits
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By Conrad LeachFive weeks ago, at Chelsea's last home Champions League game, you could see Avram Grant, but he was still sitting behind Jose Mourinho. His presence, as the director of football, was a brooding and slightly mysterious one. Two days later,...
Return of Winning Habit Lifts Grant's Spirits
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By Conrad LeachFive weeks ago, at Chelsea's last home Champions League game, you could see Avram Grant, but he was still sitting behind Jose Mourinho. His presence, as the director of football, was a brooding and slightly mysterious one. Two days later,...
Return of Winning Habit Lifts Grant's Spirits
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By Conrad LeachFive weeks ago, at Chelsea's last home Champions League game, you could see Avram Grant, but he was still sitting behind Jose Mourinho. His presence, as the director of football, was a brooding and slightly mysterious one. Two days later,...
Rip Currents Dragged Parents to Their Death off the Algarve Coast
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By Emily DuganFriends of three Britons who drowned after being caught in rip currents off a Portuguese beach have spoken of their devastation.Bob and Debbie Fry died trying to rescue their two children off Praia do Tonel, near Sagres. Their friend Barbara...
Rip Currents Dragged Parents to Their Deaths off Algarve Coast
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By Emily DuganFriends of three Britons who drowned after being dragged out to sea by rip currents in Portugal have spoken of their devastation.Bob and Debbie Fry died trying to rescue their two children on Praia do Tonel, in Sagres, the Home Office...
Rockies Rise from a Hard Place to Enter Battle with Boston
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Unfancied Colorado stormed to baseball's World Series but it will be no tea party against the aristocrats of the Red Sox. Rupert Cornwell reports from Washington David faces up to Goliath in the fall classicEvery World Series has a story line, but the...
Rockies Rise from a Hard Place to Enter Battle with Boston
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Unfancied Colorado stormed to baseball's World Series but it will be no tea party against the aristocrats of the Red Sox. Rupert Cornwell reports from Washington David faces up to Goliath in the fall classicEvery World Series has a story line, but the...
Ronaldo Keeps United's Goal Machine Purring
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dynamo kiev 2 manchester united 4By Glenn Mooreat Olympic StadiumWhen Manchester United defeated Roma in their last Champions League tie it was their sixth 1-0 win in eight matches. "It's a disease, I'm trying to get a vaccine for it," said Sir Alex...
Rooney and Ronaldo Keep United Goal Machine Purring
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Dynamo Kiev 2 Manchester United 4 footballBy Glenn Moore at Olympic StadiumA vibrant display of attacking football, aided and abetted by some diabolical defending, took Manchester United to the brink of a place in the knockout stages of the Champions...
Same Difference
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The issue of science and race is highly sensitive. But the study of mankind's genetic variations is revolutionising our understanding of human origins. By Steve Connorames Watson's controversial remarks last week about the supposed differences in intelligence...
SFO Proves It Can Be a Force, Not a Farce
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OUTLOOKThe conviction of Michael Bright, the former boss of Independent Insurance, yesterday was one in the eye for critics of the Serious Fraud Office, unkindly dubbed the Serious Farce Office by Private Eye. The SFO has been repeatedly attacked for...
Shoppers Predicted to Spend Pounds 500 Each Online This Christmas
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By Martin HickmanConsumer Affairs CorrespondentShoppers are expected to spend more than 500 each online this Christmas as Britons turn from the cold and bustling high street to buy presents on the internet, leaving e-tailers celebrating a record year.Internet...
Six to View
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Gadget valleyLANE ENDItchingfieldWest SussexPrice: 1.5mAgent: SavillsTel: 01483 796 820They say: Superb single-storey dwelling with a wealth of oak joinery and solar-glazed windows. It has four bedrooms, four bathrooms, three receptions, covered terraces,...
Smith & Nephew Boosted by US Takeover Talk
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MARKET REPORTSmith & Nephew was in rude health yesterday, as pre-summer takeover speculation returned to bolster the stock. The group, which makes artificial hips and knees, continued its solid rises over the past week, on rumours of an 850p-per-share...
Social Issues with a Sugar Coating
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Theatre hairspray Shaftesbury Theatre londonIf there were an accolade for the show with the greatest longevity and pliancy in the last 20 years, then perhaps it should go to Hairspray, which opens in the West End this month. Originally a 1988 John Waters...
Specialist Expertise, Free from the Burden of Knowledge
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Today, your questions are answered on inheritance taxQ. I recently half-heard an item on the radio saying that Gordon Brown had changed the arrangements for inheritance, making the limits for the surviving spouse's inheritance much higher. What was all...
