The longest-serving female news presenter on British television has written a novel that settles a few scores. Liz Hoggard finds out what makes Kay Burley tick... more
Children's author Philip Pullman, an advocate of tomorrow's World Book Night, tells Alison Roberts why he is such a vehement opponent of library cuts... more
The 11-piece Bellowhead have been winning folk awards for the past five years - but their stomping folk-jazz-chanson-cabaret-rock is about to burst into the mainstream... more
Rajasthan was once the playground of the Maharajahs — now travellers can experience this luxury in new tented camps and hotels, as Teresa Levonian Cole discovered.... more
The First World War contains few stories more poignant than that told in the free, moving exhibition My Boy Jack, about the death of Rudyard Kipling's son.... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports