The party season began early last night when Ms Paltrow hosted a dinner for a new club. Summer Litchfield on the haunts opening on heritage-rich sites... more
The long-lost tombstone of a cartoonist who killed himself after a young Charles Dickens ousted him from The Pickwick Papers project has been found... more
The extraordinary delays which have beset the May case are turning it into one which makes the convoluted Jarndyce and Jarndyce legal epic in Charles Dickens's Bleak House seem like an example of summary justice.... more
The real battle for the future of Heathrow starts today, as the Transport Secretary announces his approval for a third runway - as this paper predicted last Friday... more
Plans for a Thames Estuary national park returning 50 miles of Kent and Essex wetlands to the state of wilderness immortalised by Charles Dickens were unveiled today.... more
George Bernard Shaw declared Little Dorrit "a more seditious book than Das Kapital"; George Orwell said that "in Little Dorrit, Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached". This Sunday the BBC kicks off its 14-part adaptation of the Charles Dickens story adapted for the screen by Andrew Davies. ... more
The largest collection of London's historical records ever to go online will reveal details of Charlie Chaplin's spell in a Southwark workhouse and the baptism of Charles Dickens's son... more
Prominent authors have complained that two the British Library's Reading Room has been overtaken by frappuccino drinking students giggling with their friends, playing on laptops and texting their mates.... more
A vigorous production of Nicholas Nickleby is a feast of comic amusement in part one which declines into a session of extended dullness in part two.... more
From some classic Charles Dickens to Stephen Fry's racy Old Vic production, Fiona Mountford rounds up this year's bumper crop of festive family shows.... more
A visitor attraction devoted to the life and works of Charles Dickens will open at a £62million complex in what was once the Royal Naval Dockyard.... more
Kate Moss has decreed that pubs beat parties, clubs or bars. Luckily, London has a fantastic array of watering holes. Here we select the best places to huddle this Christmas.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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