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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 March 14, 2012
A Demanding, Daunting - and in Some Cases Destructive - Profession
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If the Da Vinci clean-up has been botched it wouldn't be the first time, writes Nick Clark THE RESTORERS The Last Supper was unveiled in 1999 after two decades of restoration. The work, under the direction of fresco expert Pinin Brambilla Barcilon alongside...
Americans Seem to Be Spending Again - That's Good News for Us All
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Economics It is coming up. Our Prime Minister's US visit is about politics, not economics, but he goes to a country that is showing, week by week, more pluses than minuses on the economic front. It is true that recovery remains achingly slow and there...
A New Street Spirit
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The Peruvian capital was once said to be the most dangerous in South America. Mark Rowe sees how Lima's changed on a new walking tour Back in 1988, I scurried through what was regarded by guidebooks as the most dangerous capital city in South America....
A Rare Exposure of Dodgy Dealing That Reveals the Real Charade in the City
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OUTLOOK Ah, the bankers. Free market economics dictate that they are worth more than doctors, scientists or engineers. Hence those bonuses. Question their bosses about these individuals' pay and they will urge you to consider Wayne Rooney and Lionel...
AstraZeneca Sues US Drug Regulator to Halt Generic Copies of Its Big Seller Seroquel
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AstraZeneca is taking the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to court, in an attempt to overturn last week's ruling that rivals can start selling generic copies of the pharmaceutical giant's second best-selling drug Seroquel in the country...
Basketball First - Then Down to Business
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THE TALKS Afghanistan is on fire and the leaders of the two largest Nato powers fighting there, Barack Obama and David Cameron, were headed for a college basketball game in Ohio. Popcorn and hotdogs were on the agenda.The Prime Minster and the President...
Binge Britain in the Spotlight
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Last summer, the performance artist Bryony Kimmings locked herself in a warehouse in Bethnal Green, east London and got drunk for a week. Not for fun, you understand, but in the name of art: her aim was to explore the links between intoxication and creativity,...
Both Sides Hope They Can Win in the Game of Basketball Diplomacy
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THE TALKS Afghanistan is on fire and the leaders of the two largest Nato powers fighting there, Barack Obama and David Cameron, were headed for a college basketball game in Ohio. Popcorn and hotdogs were on the agenda.The Prime Minster and the President...
Bridge
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I came across this problem, set by Tommy Gullberg, while trawling through some of the bulletins produced at the Nordic Junior Bridge Camp. Why not cover the East-West hands.West North East South 12 pass 17pass 15 pass 2NTpass 3NT all passWest leads the...
Campaign Brings Shocking Scale of Sexual Violence to Light
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Revelations about the shocking scale of sexual violence against women and girls have triggered an impassioned debate on Twitter, with hundreds of women sharing personal stories about shame, guilt and the fear of not being believed.The microblogging site...
Caught Short: New Jersey Capital Runs out of Toilet Roll
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Dispute between mayor and the council jeopardises supplies of tissue and paper cups They call it "the Garden State", but things aren't exactly rosy for the citizens of New Jersey, whose dysfunctional capital city is on the verge of running out of toilet...
Chancellor May Still Give Go-Ahead for 'Tycoon Tax'
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Clegg pushes for tax on super-rich as Osborne plans to take out 100-year loans George Osborne is seriously considering the "tycoon tax" proposed by Nick Clegg as he finalises the Budget he will deliver a week today.But the Chancellor has rebuffed the...
Chess
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When Bobby Fischer was in extremis, on the run from America for sanction busting and under arrest in Japan, it was Iceland that saved him, granting him citizenship so that he could avoid deportation to the USA.It was a noble gesture for a truly great...
Cinders and Ashes Rekindles McCain Hopes of Hurdling Title
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For the second year running, Donald McCain's lorry took the Champion Hurdle runner-up back to his Cheshire stables - but it also contained a horse that might redress matters next time round. For while Cinders And Ashes had to be driven out to win the...
Clough Triumphs in a Battle of Bad Blood against Forest
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CHAMPIONSHIP DERBY COUNTY 1 Buxton 90 NOTTINGHAM FOREST 0 Nigel Clough last night became the first Derby manager to deliver a double over Nottingham Forest since his father 40 years ago, substitute Jake Buxton's header from a Ben Davies free-kick halfway...
Dalglish Wins Bragging Rights While Everton's Focus Slips
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Kenny Dalglish's first full season back at Liverpool has resembled Rafael Benitez's first year at Anfield in that it has largely been played on the brink. Until Andrei Shevchenko, his legs leaden with foreboding, squandered the last penalty in the European...
DC in DC: US Visit Begins with Pledge on Afghan Troops
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Cameron strikes sombre note on transatlantic trip. By Nigel Morris and Nicholas Cecil in Washington Afghanistan will not be "a perfect democracy" by the time western troops return home, David Cameron admitted as he arrived in Washington for a three-day...
DC in DC: US Visit Starts with Pledge on Afghan Endgame
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Cameron strikes a sombre note before showmanship takes over. By Nigel Morris and Nicholas Cecil in Washington Afghanistan will not be "a perfect democracy" by the time western troops return home, David Cameron admitted as he arrived in Washington for...
Di Matteo Knows Priority Is to Keep Chelsea's Seat at Top Table
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No one expects Italian to prolong club's interest in Europe tonight but there is still plenty to play for this season, writes Sam Wallace When, in September 2000, Roberto Di Matteo sustained the triple fracture to his leg that would end his career, the...
Di Matteo Overshadowed by Captain on Eve of Biggest Test
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Italian barely gets a word in as show is stolen by John Terry, who is confident Chelsea can keep European dream alive. By Sam Wallace If Roberto Di Matteo wished to project an image of being in control of Chelsea nine days after he took the caretaker...
Exillon on the Rise after Rumour of Russian Suitors
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MARKET REPORT It has been on its knees recently, but Exillon Energy spurted up yesterday after becoming the latest oil group to get a boost from takeover talk. The Russia-focused explorer - which has seen its share price more than halve over the past...
Fears of 'Black Wednesday' for Green Causes on Budget Day
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Activists expect bad news for the environment to be buried in detail of Osborne's speech Britain's green campaigners fear a Black Wednesday for the environment next week when Chancellor George Osborne's assault on environmental protection in the name...
Fears of 'Black Wednesday' for Green Causes on Budget Day
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Britain's green campaigners fear a Black Wednesday for the environment next week when Chancellor George Osborne's assault on environmental protection in the name of economic growth reaches its climax in the Budget. The Government is about to publish...
Fehily Delights the Crowd with Glorious Ride after Years Suffering in Silence
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No quieter man ever created the kind of din which filled the valley here yesterday and when finally it was spent there was one inevitable question. It asked simply: what took Noel Fehily so long? The best guess among the racing cognoscenti was that the...
Festival Diary
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Poole Master looks Honour-boundGood things come to those who wait, they say. Well, few jockeys have waited as long as Chris Honour to ride a winner at the Cheltenham Festival but well-backed Poole Master in today's Coral Cup could be the one to change...
Florence & the Machine Alexandra Palace, London ****
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Someone clever once remarked that all actors are ranged on a scale somewhere between Gary Oldman and Jack Nicholson. At one extreme is Oldman, who so absorbs his characters that you can barely recognise him. At the other, the character is subsumed by...
Francisco Xavier Do Amaral
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Politician who helped lead the struggle to liberate East Timor At the funeral of Francisco Xavier do Amaral the president of East Timor paid handsome tribute to the man he described as "a symbol of unity in our aspiration to independence and freedom,...
From Downton to the White House: Hugh May Be Coming to Dinner
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DIARY: THE US VISIT Glittering the White House dinner will be, but what stars will be there? Well, leaders of both political parties on Capitol Hill, of course, ambassadors from nations deemed worthy - the Syrian embassy presumably is still checking...
Gerrard's Hat-Trick Destroys Moyes
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LIVERPOOL 3 Gerrard 34, 51, 90 EVERTON 0 The club's standing might not be what one banner last night made it - "Liverpool FC: the benchmark" - and the search for someone to take on the torch from Steven Gerrard will come soon enough. But Kenny Dalglish...
Gerrard's Hat-Trick Destroys Moyes
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LIVERPOOL 3 Gerrard 34, 51, 90 EVERTON 0 There was a rather aching reflection this week from David Moyes who, in the course of explaining that Liverpool did not come calling for him two summers ago, said that he would have "loved to inherit" Steven Gerrard....
Have a Researcher on Us, Pricewaterhouse Tells MPs
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The DIARY Hazel Blears, the former Blairite Cabinet minister, is doing some sterling work trying to make it possible for youngsters who do not have wealthy parents or a place to live in London to work as interns in the House of Commons.It is a problem...
Have Art Restorers Ruined Leonardo's Masterpiece?
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A crucial detail in The Last Supper is no longer how the artist wanted it, says expert The restorer of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper "blundered" in refurbishing the central figure of Christ, according to research by a British art expert.Michael...
Have Art Restorers Ruined Leonardo's Masterpiece?
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A crucial detail in The Last Supper is no longer how artist wanted it, says expert The restorer of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper "blundered" in refurbishing the central figure of Christ, according to research by a British art expert.Michael Daley,...
I'm in Luck - I Have No Garden, No Driveway and No Pool
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The thing is The thing is that drought warnings are something which always alarm me. I don't remember the standpipe summer of 1976, but I am traumatised by it, nonetheless. The idea of queuing in the street for water seems to me only one small step from...
Israel 'Must End Impunity of Violence by Settlers'
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EU governments, including Britain, have secretly been urged by their top diplomats in Jerusalem and the West Bank to press Israel to enforce laws against Jewish settlers responsible for an "alarming" rise in violence against Palestinians and their property.A...
Labour Cries 'Outrage' but Could It Be They Started the Slide toward Privatisation?
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HEALTH BILL SIMON CARR'S SKETCH It's a constitutional outrage, a violence against the people, a forerunner of the apocalypse, oh let us discard party politics, let us forget our low tribal allegiances and rise together into the life- enhancing ozone...
Labour's Star Performer Cries Outrage over Privatisation - but He Fails to Kill the Bill
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HEALTH BILL SIMON CARR'S SKETCH It's a constitutional outrage, a violence against the people, a forerunner of the apocalypse, oh let us discard party politics, let us forget our low tribal allegiances and rise together into the life- enhancing ozone...
Last Night's Viewing
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There was a startling moment at the beginning of Horizon: Out of Control? when it sounded as if the BBC's premium science strand had found God. "At every moment of our lives an unseen presence is guiding us," said the narrator. It isn't half going to...
Liverpool Captain in No Hurry to Liken Himself to Hero Rush
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Steven Gerrard left with the match ball tucked beneath his jersey, like he would have done as a kid on the playing fields of Huyton. Like so much else in the career of the Liverpool captain, this was the stuff of schoolboy dreams, although Gerrard was...
Met Press Chief Reveals 'Incestuous' Murdoch Ties
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Dick Fedorcio tells Leveson Inquiry he let NOTW journalist file story on his computer The "incestuous" relationship between Scotland Yard and Rupert Murdoch's tabloid newspapers was laid bare at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday.In deeply embarrassing testimony...
Met Press Chief Reveals 'Incestuous' Murdoch Ties
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The "incestuous" relationship between Scotland Yard and Rupert Murdoch's tabloid newspapers was laid bare at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday.In deeply embarrassing testimony from the Metropolitan Police's communications chief, Dick Fedorcio, it was revealed...
More Horseplay in Chipping Norton
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LEADING ARTICLE The arrests yesterday morning of six people, including the former chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks, and her racehorse-trainer husband, coincided not just with the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival - embarrassment...
More Women Are Appearing on Boards, but That's Not the End of It
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MIDWEEK VIEW The chairman of a FTSE 100 company is said to have hissed at a newly recruited non-executive director recently that she only got the job because she was a woman, and there to fill the quota. If the remark, told to me by a headhunter friend,...
Mother Hits out as Government Sends Student to US for Trial
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Briton, 23, faces 10 years in jail if found guilty of breaking copyright laws with his website A British student has been "sold down the river" by the Government, his mother has said after his extradition was approved by the Home Secretary, Theresa May,...
Mother Hits out as Student Is Sent to US for Trial
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A British student has been "sold down the river" by the Government, his mother has said after his extradition was approved by the Home Secretary Theresa May yesterday.Richard O'Dwyer faces 10 years in jail if convicted by a US court after prosecutors...
Mouse's First and Four Are Ready to Roar
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The latest of several defending champions to return at short odds this week contains within his own career ample reproof against the assumptions made in their favour. Four years ago, Sizing Europe started hot favourite for the Champion Hurdle and so...
Naked Ambition: The Porn Stars Dancing into Italian Politics
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After months of sobriety in Italian politics since Silvio Berlusconi stepped down as prime minister, it's back to business as usual as three porn stars battle it out in mayoral contests.Luana Borgia, Milly D'Abbraccio and Amandha Fox have all declared...
Nice Words and a Soft Toy Won't Be Enough to Save This Dog's Reputation
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Notebook It's a pity the furore about over-breeding led the BBC to give up its coverage of Crufts. I find it hard to keep track, now it's been exiled to More4. In fact, the only reason I realised it was that time of year again was a poster that appeared...
Not Enough Books and No Sherry: Why the Fake Don's Study Fails
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EDUCATION In a bold experiment, a London sixth-form college has created a mock-up of an Oxford don's study in order to make "students from disadvantaged backgrounds" feel less intimidated by the prospect of applying to the university.Brooke House Sixth...
Not So Much an Edgy Tale of Modern Times as a Total Wash-Out
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Miss Fortune in name and deed. Sad to say but Judith Weir's sixth opera is an embarrassment. Sad because Weir's folk-inspired fables have won many friends, sad because she is a composerly composer whose luminous orchestral backdrops and singable vocal...
Oligarchs at War over Rusal Riches
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Viktor Vekselberg's decision to walk away from the chairmanship of the world's largest aluminium company ends a long-running dispute with Oleg Deripaska. Shaun Walker examines the egos behind the conflict A long-simmering conflict between two of Russia's...
Our Folly Is to Think of Houses as Dreams, Not Places to Live In
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Property Having a house in Pepys Road, says John Lanchester in his new novel, Capital, "was like being in a casino in which you were guaranteed to be a winner". It was, he says, "the first time in history" that this had been true. Britain, he says, "had...
Out Goes the Stepladder, in Come the iPad, Kristen Stewart and Pineapples
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New entries to official 'shopping basket' of items that helps measure inflation revealed What do the Twilight novels, a pineapple and an iPad have in common? The answer, from the tireless price-watchers at the Office for National Statistics, is that...
Peace in Greece.But Pain in Spain
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The latest bailout has brought a kind of calm to Europe's most debt-stricken country. But now, reports Ben Chu, a storm is set to burst at the opposite end of the continent There have been signs of spring returning to debt-stricken Europe. Eurozone ministers...
Peterson Pledges Death or Glory in Khan Title Rematch
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BOXING Lamont Peterson has declared that he will be "ready to die" in the ring, in order to to keep his belts, when he meets Britain's Amir Khan in a Las Vegas world title rematch on 19 May.The American, who took Khan's WBA super-lightweight and IBF...
Poisonous Atmosphere Adds to Growing Mistrust of American Troops
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ANALYSIS President Barack Obama yesterday vowed to "follow the facts wherever they lead" in the massacre of Afghan villagers allegedly carried out by an American soldier, whose trial and punishment could now transform the politics of the 11-year war,...
Police Watchdog May Reject Pounds 1.5bn Plan to Outsource Duties
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Private-sector deals may be blocked by new elected force overseers, as unions voice their opposition The elected figures set to oversee British policing could threaten the plans of two of Britain's biggest forces to farm out traditional police work...
Prisoners in Syria Face Ordeal by Torture Chamber
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Amnesty compiles new evidence of treatment inflicted by brutal regime President Bashar al-Assad's security forces are deploying an array of torture techniques against Syrians rounded up during a year of protests and bloodshed, a human-rights group has...
Rebekah Brooks and Her Husband Arrested over Phone-Hacking Cover-Up
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Former News International chief executive one of six people held on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice Rebekah Brooks was arrested in a dawn raid at her Oxfordshire home yesterday as Scotland Yard's inquiry into phone hacking moved...
Rebekah Brooks and Husband Arrested over Hacking Cover-Up
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Former chief executive of News International is one of six suspects questioned by police Rebekah Brooks was arrested in a dawn raid at her Oxfordshire home yesterday as Scotland Yard's inquiry into phone hacking moved into a dramatic new phase of investigating...
Refugees' Testimony Removes Any Doubt about This 'Orgy of Terror'
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COMMENT Gathering this latest batch of abuse testimony - from Syrian refugees across the border in Jordan - was a gruelling process. But, in the main, the survivors of this terrible abuse wanted to tell their stories.The testimony included "Karim" (not...
Regulators Risk Being Drowned in Red Tape, Says Bank Chief
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Deputy governor attacks new European 'Solvency II' insurance rules as too costly and over-complicated A deputy governor of the Bank of England has launched an outspoken attack on new European regulations that he warns could create further financial crises.Paul...
Robert Elwall
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Acclaimed historian of architectural photography Architecture's relationship with photography has been intimate and dynamic, and images of great buildings have profoundly influenced the creative processes of successive generations of architects. In Britain,...
Romeo and Juliet Royal Opera House, London ****
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Juliet is one of the most coveted roles at the Royal Ballet. Melissa Hamilton, a light, fleet soloist with a sweeping sense of movement, made a promising debut. She's still feeling her way into the drama of Kenneth MacMillan's ballet, with her most touching...
Ronaldo: Mourinho to 'Continue' at Real Madrid
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Jose Mourinho will stay on as coach of Real Madrid next season, according to Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese forward said so yesterday, amid reports that Mourinho, the self-styled "Special One", was poised to return to Chelsea.As Real prepared for...
Rowntree Says England Situation Is 'Strange'
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Red rose management prepare for Ireland game without knowing if they'll be in work next month If Graham Rowntree could have avoided three discussion topics yesterday they would have been, in descending order of potential embarrassment: the ongoing search...
Rowntree Says England Situation Is 'Strange'
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Red rose management prepare for Ireland game without knowing if they'll be in work next month If Graham Rowntree could have avoided three discussion topics yesterday they would have been, in descending order of potential embarrassment: the ongoing search...
Rowntree Says England Situation Is 'Strange'
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Red rose management prepare for Ireland game without knowing if they'll be in work next month If Graham Rowntree could have avoided three discussion topics yesterday they would have been, in descending order of potential embarrassment: the ongoing search...
Ruby Shines to Show the Beauty of Teamwork
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While spectacular Sprinter Sacre displays lustre of genuine stardom in winning Arkle There is, admittedly, a credulous tendency on the Turf to discover the imprint of greatness the moment a hoof leaves the grass. But the opening skirmishes of the Festival...
Russia: We're Happy to Sell Arms to Assad
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'Business as usual' pledge despite new torture revelations 'Why should we stop selling weapons to Damascus?' Russia insisted yesterday that it would not halt arms shipments to Syria even as evidence mounts that the regime is committing crimes against...
Sarkozy's Appeal to Right-Wing Voters Provides Poll Boost
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Nicolas Sarkozy's sharp right turn in the presidential election campaign appeared to draw blood yesterday when a poll suggested that he had taken a narrow first-round lead over his Socialist challenger.However, Mr Sarkozy's first taste of victory was...
Senior Banker Fined over Bond Issue 'Charades' but Keeps His Job
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A senior executive at Credit Suisse who leaked details of a 2.5bn (2bn) bond issue by playing parlour games with a fund manager has been fined by both the regulator and his own bank.Nicholas Kyprios is still in his job at the Swiss bank's Canary Wharf...
Syrian General and 'Friend' of Assad Set for Olympics Invitation
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A Syrian general said to be a friend of President Bashar al- Assad is set to be invited to the London Olympic Games despite the ruling regime's slaughter of anti-government protesters.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it was monitoring the...
Taliban Attack Karzai Delegation at Scene of US Shooting Massacre
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Afghan officials come under fire as they distribute money to families of the bereaved Taliban militants yesterday attacked an Afghan delegation sent by Hamid Karzai to carry out an inquiry into the alleged massacre of 16 Afghans by a US soldier in Kandahar....
Terry Thanks Capello for His Support
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John Terry spoke for the first time last night about Fabio Capello's resignation as England manager and thanked the Italian coach for standing by him in spite of the Football Association's insistence that the defender be stripped of the captaincy of...
That's an Awful Lot of Bad Apples
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US Army The case of the soldier who went berserk in Afghanistan and killed 16 people must be utterly baffling to psychiatrists. Who can imagine what might cause someone in a stable environment such as Kandahar, with reliable role models training you...
The Court Ruling That Shows the Injustice of Britain's Rape Laws
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Jailed wife loses appeal over 'falsely retracting rape claim' - yet judge accepts she feared for her children A woman who was jailed for "falsely retracting" rape allegations against her allegedly abusive husband has lost her bid to overturn her "unsafe"...
The Error Was to Alienate NHS Professionals
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LEADING ARTICLE The debate on the Government's health reforms in the House of Commons yesterday, despite the mini-revolt by a number of Liberal Democrat MPs, was never going to change anything. It was little more than a gesture. Matters will be different,...
The Jayhawks Barbican, London ***
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The Jayhawks are one of the great unsung American bands of the 20th century. Gary Louris and Mark Olson, the chief songwriters and mainstays of this sensational country-rock act, are comparable to Squeeze luminaries Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford,...
The New Victims in the Firing Line
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TELEVISION As The Apprentice returns to our screens, Gerard Gilbert meets its new stars - and finds out who'll be giving 200 per cent I will literally roar my way to the top...", "I would call myself 'the blonde assassin'...", "I truly am the reflection...
The Paradox of Our Obsession with Long Life
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'Locked-in' ruling In shock medical news from the United States, people have been dying again. They will do it. You can warn them not to until you are blue in the face from dying yourself, but will they listen? The dead in question are the 24,000 souls...
This Is Life by Dan Rhodes Canongate, Pounds 12.99
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Comic writer Dan Rhodes likes to spend time in the company of young French women. He has even posed as one. Under the nom de plume Danuta de Rhodes, his 2004 novel, The Little White Car, told the story of Veronique, whose Fiat Uno was allegedly involved...
This Week: The Best Way to Travel to North-East Spain; and Is 'API' Still a Requirement?
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Q&A TRAVEL UNRAVELLED Q I'm contemplating a long weekend in Cadaqus in north-east Spain in March or April. What is the best way to get there - and where should I stay?Gerald Featherstone, IsleworthA The most attractive approach is by train from London...
Trump's Sons in Firing Line over African Hunting Trip
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Tycoon father joins chorus of disapproval after photos emerge of pair with dead leopard and elephant With their bouffant hairstyles and pin- striped suits, the millionaire sons of Donald Trump are a chip off the old block when they appear among New York's...
Van Persie Playing like a Man Who Wants to Stay
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It is less than a month since the obituaries were being written, reluctantly, respectfully, but written nonetheless. The era of Arsne Wenger, went the consensus, was over. Out of contention in all competitions, humiliated in Milan, with next season's...
Van Persie Playing like a Man Who Wants to Stay
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It is less than a month since the obituaries were being written, reluctantly, respectfully, but written nonetheless. The era of Arsne Wenger, went the consensus, was over. Out of contention in all competitions, humiliated in Milan, with next season's...
Vincent Tchenguiz Property Magnate
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SPOTLIGHT ON ... Of the Tchenguiz brothers?Yes, together and separately, Mr Tchenguiz and his younger brother, Robert, have been among Britain's largest landlords - at least until the little matter of the credit crisis. The financial meltdown threatened...
Wales Wait on Warburton as Jenkins Vows to Respect the French
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Neil Jenkins, the Wales skills coach, said yesterday that the team's poor record against France meant there was no way they would underestimate their opponents on Saturday, when Wales will attempt to win a third Six Nations Grand Slam in eight seasons.France's...
Wales Wait on Warburton as Jenkins Vows to Respect the French
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Neil Jenkins, the Wales skills coach, said yesterday that the team's poor record against France meant there was no way they would underestimate their opponents on Saturday, when Wales will attempt to win a third Six Nations Grand Slam in eight seasons.France's...
Wales Wait on Warburton as Jenkins Vows to Respect the French
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Neil Jenkins, the Wales skills coach, said yesterday that the team's poor record against France meant there was no way they would underestimate their opponents on Saturday, when Wales will attempt to win a third Six Nations Grand Slam in eight seasons.France's...
What Will the Arts Centre of the Future Look Like?
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In the years after the war it was a utopian vision of what an arts centre could be: theatres, galleries, halls and cinemas, not cut off from life, but placed at the heart of a residential estate. That estate was a result of an idealistic post-war aspiration...
Where Children Are Guests, Not Pests
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Once upon a time, the most stylish accommodation was always the least child-friendly. No longer, says Aoife O'Riordain - Europe now has plenty of chic hotels for all ages What's the attraction?Gone are the days when hotels merely tolerated smaller guests....
Which One of These Meals Does Not Have Too Much Red Meat?
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We've grown up with roast beef dinners, fry-ups and steak and chips. But according to new guidelines, we are cooking our way to a health crisis. Jeremy Laurance reports Separating an Englishman from his roast beef was never going to be popular. Like...
