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THE BBC has been accused of “bribing” staff to move up to its new Manchester hub by letting them keep generous London allowances, at a cost to the licence-fee payer of nearly £40m. In addition to receiving generous relocation...
We love to hate the suburbs but for Paul Barker they are places of humanity where individuality flourishes, says Rachel Cooke I grew up on the west side of Sheffield, close to Broomhill , a place which, in 1961, John Betjeman...
Maurice Chittenden and Steven Swinford American newspapers and magazines may stop selling copies in Britain and block access to their websites because of our draconian libel laws. An article that would be regarded as free...
For two decades Darcey Bussell was Britain's greatest ballerina. So what's it going to be like for the Strictly Come Dancing contestants when she starts judging on the show next month? Here, she talks about her new life in...
Falcon Wharf, Battersea, London SW11 It was, most unusually, the press release that I noticed. Writing about architecture for an international paper means a daily inundation of hysterical claims from demented flaks, earning...
For Reigate resident Evelyn Brunt, 11 November always brings back very personal war memories. In 1941, a seven year old East End boy called Alan came to live at Evelyn's home in Surrey to escape the blitz. At the end of the...
4:50pm UK, Friday November 06, 2009 Jon di Paolo, Sky News Online A major supermarket chain has installed a network of electric car recharging points outside its London stores. No charge is made for the service Shoppers using...
The moving of problem prisoners ahead of security audits has happened at a third London jail Dangerous prisoners were removed from one of Britain's biggest jails just before an internal security audit, raising fears that the...
Forty years ago, had you asked a child to name a work by Thomas Arne, they would likely have answered "Where the bee sucks, there suck I". Along with "Nymphs and Shepherds", "The Raggle-Taggle Gypsies" and "The Drunken Sailor",...
The way New York has turned itself around gives hope for a lot of London's ills, says Simon Heffer. I have been in New York this week, following reasonably hot on the heels of Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, who turned up...
