Fresh air and birdsong? Been there, done that, says novelist Lucy Cavendish as she plots her return to the big city
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Ocado founder Jason Gissing, who is half-Japanese, tells the Standard about being torn between two cultures and how he plans to help
Spare a thought for commuterland. I live near Henley-on-Thames - home of Antony Worrall Thompson and others great and good - and the town centre is akin to a ghost town
I don't think it's a surprise to any parent that when it comes to getting their children into their preferred secondary school the odds are stacked against them
Charley Boorman talks to Lucy Cavendish about living in his father's shadow, his years as a failed actor and how Ewan McGregor rescued him.
Driven and ferociously hard-working, 29-year-old Clare Smyth reveals how she thrives in the macho restaurant world – just don’t patronise her as a woman chef.
Careful, Tony - owning a small stately pile comes with as many drawbacks as running the country.
A new phenomenon is sweeping the States. Called the "Miranda complex", it involves high-powered women lying about how much they earn in case their high salaries put men off.
It was a revelation. Having agreed, against my better judgment, to spend the weekend camping at a friend's house, I turned up to find myself and my baby daughter put up in a capacious tent.
This morning I was hit by the terrible thought that the summer holidays are virtually over and that when my eldest son, Raymond, nearly 11, gets back to school he will be asked to write an essay on what he has done in the past eight weeks.
When I tell people I live in a small village in Oxfordshire surrounded by woods and fields, most urban types yawn and say, "God, nothing ever happens in the countryside, does it?"
For the modern family, the next six to eight weeks constitutes a nightmare consisting of bored children, irascible partners and the nerve-wracking disaster that is Going on Holiday.
When I moved out of London to the Ox-Bucks borders some time ago, all my friends were shocked.
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