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Jam or cream first? The great scone debate ...

06.11.09

It is the great question facing anyone with a serious interest in tea time: what goes on scones first - the cream or the jam? ... more

Emma Thompson: BNP would love your university

06.11.09

Emma Thompson attacks a university for failing to accept enough ethnic minority students - and said the BNP would like it there... more

Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire - Mr & Mrs West End

06.11.09

Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire have quietly become the biggest players in theatreland. Here they reveal how their passion for the stage has finally paid off... more

Playing with clubs: meet the entrepreneurs of the night

06.11.09

Now that nights are getting longer, it's important to spend them well. Whether your tastes run to speakeasys, fire-eaters or a knees-up with Simon Le Bon, there's a club for you...... more

King Kong: Why Hong Kong is booming again

06.11.09

Hong Kong used to be the place to go to seek your fortune when you'd failed in the City. But now only the most successful Londoners can afford to brave the high-risk, high-rise island... more

First Ł1,000 rail fare in history of British train travel

03.11.09

The first Ł1,000 fare in the history of Britain’s railways has sparked fresh outrage over the 'ludicrously' high cost of train travel... more

Met chief: My job should not pay a bonus

09.10.09

Sir Paul Stephenson hit out at the practice of police chiefs receiving bonuses and vowed never to take one himself... more

Tesco under fire for offering Clubcard health scans

04.09.09

Tesco was criticised today for offering vouchers for health scans through its Clubcard loyalty scheme... more

Capital's food markets defy recession and pull in crowds

03.09.09

London's gourmet food markets are defying the recession and expanding in response to demand... more

Forget beaches and lakes: London is Britain's top holiday destination

28.07.09

London has beaten the Lake District and Cornwall to be crowned as the UK's top 'staycation' holiday destination... more

Introducing... Cornwall's Kelly Slater

02.07.09

Wave hello to Alan Stokes, the UK's number one surf dude... more

City Spy: It's a First Direct cashback mirage

26.06.09

First Direct is offering a Personal Loan at 8.9% APR, with the offer of "cashback" on your interest paid... more

The wonder of west Cornwall

17.06.09

Head to St Ives and you get glorious beaches and wonderful seafood — and now you can stay in apartments boasting five-star-hotel luxury ... more

Cornwall: The coast with the most

20.05.09

The enduring delights of Cornwall combine with the endearing charms of an individualistic hotel to give Jackie Annesley and her young family an unforgettable early-season break... more

A lesson in canvassing

20.05.09

The London council worker who has the same commute as his local MP, but instead of a Ł300,000 subsidised flat he pitches a Ł30 tent in Epping Forest... more

Can’t talk – I’ve got 80 books to judge

07.04.09

Judging a books prize is like the biggest essay crisis you have ever had. For the past three months I have spent every spare waking hour with my nose in a novel, trying to choose between 80 competing for the Ł10,000 Orange Award for New Writers. The winner will be announced at the same ceremony as the main Orange Prize in June.... more

Five to try: Indian Restaurants

01.04.09

Zanya's menu is unusually inviting, the cooking is fresh and inventive at Zeen and lunch at Trishna is a relative bargain.... more

Goss crosses world to finish voyage of past

09.03.09

Yachtsman Pete Goss has successfully recreated a historic journey across the world as he arrived in Australia after a five-month voyage in a wooden boat he built himself and navigating only by a sextant and stars... more

Identity crises can hit the thrifty, too

02.02.09

When it comes to money, you can file me under "c" for "careful"... more

Fact and fiction in Radioplay

10.10.08

It takes an Irish actor banished to remotest Cornwall in childhood to cook up a monologue as witty and fanciful as Radioplay.... more

Ł100 million NHS debt chief is suspended from new job

02.10.08

The ex boss of a debt-ridden London health trust has been put on leave from his post as head of another hospital, it was revealed... more

Bookings for foreign holidays soar by 150 per cent

05.09.08

Sun-starved Britons who holidayed at home this year to help save the planet and ease the credit crunch are now rushing to book overseas trips... more

To boulderly go... in the name of art

19.08.08

They arrived like massive meteorites from outer space... and ended up in Shoreditch Park and Homerton... more

Littler Britton Fern is back in a bikini as she hits the beach five stone lighter

17.08.08

Fern Britton strides confidently down the beach in her bikini, displaying a trim tummy and toned thighs. The TV presenter, pictured in Cornwall last week, must be feeling that all the fuss over her figure was worth it. ... more

High winds blamed for arrival of poison jellyfish

13.08.08

Swarms of poisonous tropical jellyfish are invading British beaches, warn marine experts... more

Streets of gold by the sea

30.07.08

As the Camerons and Browns choose British resorts for their summer holidays, Connie Allfrey seeks out the seaside towns where demand for second homes is still soaring... more

Impressing a date the English way

14.11.07

Situated directly opposite Tate Modern, Northbank is a smart, upmarket new restaurant to take your smart, upmarket date.... more

Docklands to be surfers' paradise

17.09.07

Forget Newquay, dudes! The surf will soon be up - in London's Docklands.... more

Return of the natives...

05.09.07

The oyster season is back so what type should you eat and where?... more

Father, I have seen the light

23.03.07

A tale of two monks struggling to get acquainted at the top of a Cornwall lighthouse-cum-monastery, excessive rambling stops Saints And Superheroes realising its full potential.... more