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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

Thousands lodge complaints over Britain's 'tacky' Olympics handover ceremony

Thousands of people have savaged Britain's 'tacky' and 'embarrassing' handover from the Beijing Olympics.. more | Add your view

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Standard poll: Olympic legacy

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

Credit crunch hits Londoners

Middle class Londoners are four times more in debt than other parts of Britain

London childcare slammed

Parents are being warned to check nurseries & childminders after a damning Ofsted report

Treat children like dogs

Small children should be taught how to behave by treating them like dogs, an expert says

Lessons for London

The 2012 Olympics could learn from the first time London hosted the games in 1908

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. Douglas McGeorge said he had reshaped the nose of one and fitted breast implants for others... 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

Evicted at a cost of £500,000: 200 squatters who took over four blocks of flats next to £1m homes

A large group of squatters who took over four block of flats on a road lined with �1 million houses have been evicted... 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

Land of elf 'n' safety: EU Proms police order musicians to keep the volume down

Rousing crescendos and dramatic orchestral arrangements are the trademark of a night at the Proms. But this year's classical programme has been stifled by the constraints imposed by the health and safety brigade... more | Add your view

Fifth suspect arrested over 'Islamic internet plot to kill Gordon Brown'

A fifth person has been arrested in connection with threats to kill the Prime Minister which were posted on an Islamic website... 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

Father beaten senseless with snooker ball in sock for telling teenagers not to throw chips

David Thomas was badly beaten after confronting a group of youths at his home

A father-of-two was beaten senseless with a snooker ball in a sock after confronting a group of youths throwing chips. .. 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 go-ahead 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

Murder probe as mother-of-two is found dead after 'arson attack' on family home in leafy suburb

Fatal blaze in Greenmeads, Woking, Surrey

A murder inquiry has been launched after the body of a mother-of-two was found in a blazing house today... 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

British woman seized and handcuffed in Las Vegas casino after travel agent gave her fake dollars

A British holidaymaker was seized and handcuffed in America after she was wrongly given counterfeit money by the UK's biggest travel agent. .. 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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Russia accuses US of shipping arms to Georgia as military ship docks at Black Sea port

Russia has accused Nato of 'ratcheting up tensions' in the Caucasus as a US military ship docked at a Black Sea port... 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

Hillary Clinton's dramatic intervention seals Obama's fate as husband Bill declares he is 'the man'

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 is ready to lead America and is 'the man' to be the next president of the United States, former president Bill Clinton said... more | Add your view

White supremacists cleared of gun plot to assassinate Barack Obama

Three men held in a suspected race hate plot to kill Barack Obama will not face any charges relating to an attempt on his life. Instead they are to face charges of possessing firearms and the drug methamphetamine... more | Add your view

Denmark and Germany agree to £4bn bridge which will link the two countries together

A bridge linking Germany to Denmark will finally be built after 15 years of squabbling over costs... more | Add your view

Pictured: The British mother whose daughter was taken into care by Portuguese police after she 'went out drinking'

A British girl of eight has been taken into care in Portugal over claims her mother had neglected her, it emerged yesterday... more | Add your view

Fears the 'Israeli Madeleine McCann' has been killed by her own mother and grandfather

Israeli police fear a 4-year-old French girl who disappeared three months ago has been murdered by her grandfather and her own mother... more | Add your view

Oh mummy! Archaeologists unearth ancient tribe members sacrificed 1,300 years ago

Archaeologists working at an ancient Peruvian burial site have unearthed the first intact ruins belonging to a tribe which existed centuries before the mighty Incas... 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