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Derek Malcolm

quote It beats most of this summer's blockbuster entertainments into pulp quote

Hellboy II: The Golden Army Restaurants

Fay Maschler

quote You know that fusion works when you eat something and you think why has this not been done before? quote

The Modern Pantry Music

John Aizlewood

quote James Yorkston is the quietly rising future of folk-tinged British songwriters quote

James Yorkston

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Ben S, London

quote This new animated Star Wars movie is much better than final Star Wars prequel quote

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Restaurants

Chris, London

quote The service is awful, much worse than somewhere like Wagamamas quote

Cha Cha Moon Music

Derrick, London

quote 'Tuku' was excellent. The show was above expectations ... hope you come back again quote

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Where are they? Murky past of millionaire feared dead with family in 'arson' blaze

The millionaire businessman feared dead along with his family after a suspected arson attack had recently been branded untrustworthy by a judge, it emerged last night... more | Add your view

Guilty: Thug who ran gun factory linked to murder of WPC Sharon Beshenivsky and at least eight other gangland killings

Grant Wilkinson: Guilty of running a 'gun factory' converting replica weapons to fire bullets

A car dealer working in a garden shed converted replica weapons into live submachine guns that were used in a string of robberies and gangland killings... more | Add your view

British journalism student gang-raped by asylum seekers in Calais squatter camp

Refugees in Calais, France. The student was a journalist reporting on illegal immigration from Calais to Britain

A British student has been gang-raped by illegal immigrants in Calais, it has been revealed... more | Add your view

Lite poll: Cold War

Are we heading for another Cold War? Vote

Standard poll: Olympic legacy

Will the 2012 Olympics leave a positive legacy for London? Vote

Fat map of London

A new 'fat map' has revealed the location of London's obesity hotspots

Historic house price fall

About �30,000 has been wiped off the value of a typical London home in the past year

Proms toned down

Orchestras playing at this year's Proms have been ordered to keep the volume down

Kate slams fashion world

Kate Moss has blamed the fashion industry for being too skinny

On the run again: Paedophile Gary Glitter seeks police protection after hate mob discovers his seaside bolthole

Shamed paedophile Gary Glitter has fled the secret seaside hideaway where he had been staying since his return to the UK, it has been revealed... more | Add your view

Children having cosmetic surgery to escape school bullies, surgeon reveals

Girls as young as 14 are having plastic surgery to avoid being bullied at school, a surgeon has revealed. .. more | Add your view

Ryanair jet forced to make emergency landing - after passenger suffers allergic reaction to mushrooms

A packed jet was forced to make an emergency landing after a jar of mushrooms leaked onto a passenger and triggered a severe allergic reaction... more | Add your view

Jacqui Smith's 'Stasi': Now council posts 'Wanted' pictures of litterbugs and keeps them on file

Town hall snoopers armed with police powers are issuing 'wanted' photographs of suspected litterbugs, it emerged last night... more | Add your view

Children woke as schizophrenic stranger 'stabbed their father 82 times in his own home'

A father of three was hacked to death in front of his children by a schizophrenic stranger, a jury heard today... more | Add your view

'Fat map' shows obesity hotspots emerging in 'healthier' South

A map showing Britain's obesity hotspots has highlighted the emergence of problems in the South East. Old mining and steel towns still dominate the 'fat map'... more | Add your view

18 sailors test positive for cocaine on Navy ship used in fight against drug smugglers

Eighteen sailors on a Royal Navy warship have tested positive for cocaine, the Ministry of Defence said today. .. more | Add your view

Men want women to be more traditional - and women 'are HAPPY to be the housewife'

Women have abandoned the feminist dream of equality to seek a more traditional role - and want men to be more 'retrosexual' than 'metrosexual', according to research. .. more | Add your view

Muslim council chiefs ban ALL members from 'tea and sandwiches' in meetings during Ramadan

Muslim council leaders have sparked outrage after trying to ban all councillors eating in meetings until sunset during the holy month of Ramadan... more | Add your view

'Little Mozart', 9, will make BBC Proms debut on weekend

Nicknamed Little Mozart, on Sunday, the nine-year-old will make his debut at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London... more | Add your view

Labour's flexi-work for parents angers business bosses: 'This is the last thing we need during a downturn'

Labour is on a collision course with business leaders after refusing to delay plans for the extension of family-friendly hours to millions more workers... more | Add your view

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Guilty of cruelty, the Muslim who ordered boys to flog themselves

A Muslim man who ordered two boys to flog themselves in a traditional religious ceremony was convicted of child cruelty. In a British legal first, Syed Zaidi faces up to ten years in prison. .. more | Add your view

£100m bid to save masterpieces by Titian from being sold abroad

A �100million appeal has been launched to save two of the most important paintings in Britain from being sold overseas... more | Add your view

'Find our son's killers': Plea by family of Arab student killed in race attack

The father of a foreign student who died in a racist attack yesterday demanded justice for his son. .. more | Add your view

Hillary Clinton makes speech of her life for Barack Obama ... but stops short of actually helping him

Hillary Clinton embraces her daughter, Chelsea, after her introduction at the Democratic National Convention in Denver last night

Hillary Clinton delivered the speech of her life as she made Barack Obama's nomination as the Democratic candidate official... more | Add your view

Russia warns U.S. naval build-up may lead to war and accuses America of shipping arms to Georgia

Tensions between Russia and the West were ratcheted even higher today after Moscow warned that U.S. naval build-up in the Black Sea may be seen as a 'declaration of war'. .. more | Add your view

Barbarians v Australia

The Barbarians will take on the Wallabies at Wembley on December 3 - buy tickets here

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Obama seals historic nomination after Hillary's intervention, then he receives the thumbs-up from husband Bill

Barack Obama and Joe Biden applaud after Biden's speech while a monitor with Hillary Clinton's image looks on at the convention

Barack Obama has been confirmed as the first black presidential candidate of a major American political party after a dramatic intervention by Hillary Clinton... more | Add your view

Pictured: The miniature Greek temple from which Barack Obama will launch his final push for the U.S. presidency

Barack Obama's big speech tonight will be delivered from an elaborate columned platform resembling a miniature Greek temple, it has been revealed... more | Add your view

New Orleans braces for Gustav to become a 'powerful hurricane' as it strikes city almost three years to the day after Katrina

New Orleans is preparing to evacuate as a giant storm that has already claimed 23 lives on the Caribbean island of Haiti bears down almost three years to the day after the American city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina... more | Add your view

North Korean spy who used sex as a tool to seduce officers into giving her their secrets faces execution

Spy suspect Won Jeong-hwa in a picture from her album which was a piece of evidence

A woman posing as a defector from North Korea has been arrested and accused of being a spy who seduced South Korean army officials for their secrets... more | Add your view

Today's lesson: How to survive a school shooting

Rescuers rush an injured student to safety during the Virginia Tech shooting

Thousands of American schoolchildren are being taught what to do if a gunman shoots at them in class. .. more | Add your view

Miliband 'may be made Chancellor to keep him quiet' say key Labour aides

Gordon Brown is being pressed to move David Miliband in a Cabinet reshuffle... more | Add your view

Et tu, Boris? Johnson admits he wants to be Prime Minister

Boris Johnson has compared himself to the maverick noble Cincinnatus who left Rome to work on his farm but was summoned back by the Senate and made dictator... more | Add your view

House prices plummet by more than 10% in a year... the biggest drop since 1990

House prices are falling at their fastest rate for nearly 18 years as potential buyers stay away from the market, figures showed today... more | Add your view

Britain is facing 18-month recession, economic experts warn

Britain is facing a recession that will last 18 months, a top economic consultancy has warned. Capital Economics predicts that in 2009 gross domestic product will fall... more | Add your view

Network Rail ordered to cut engineering disruption by more than a third

Rail regulators have demanded Network Rail reduces the disruption of engineering work to passengers by more than a third over the next five years... more | Add your view