Feature: London 2012 will be a new experience for one volunteer. Urvasi Naidu, who has been a volunteer for every Olympics since the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, always carries some masking tape in her handbag... more
The Olympic Park will be a no-go area for most publicity-seeking companies next year. Thanks to the International Olympic Committee's "clean venues" policy, only official partners and top-tier sponsors will be able to flaunt their brand... more
Much excitement that "52 economists" have written to The Observer saying that the Government debt reduction strategy is too severe. But the Adam Smith Institute claims that "only 15 of the 52 are actually practising mainstream economists"... more
Gang of 51 professional criminals escape with £3.6 million after carrying out a campaign of lightning armed robberies on jewellers, a court hears... more
Artworks by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein taken by burglars who tunnelled through the walls of a New York home while its owners were away during Thanksgiving... more
Daring daylight raid on a jewellery shop foiled by members of the public who wrestled masked robber to the ground and held him until police arrived... more
Advertising and marketing: The stereotype about people in creative industries is that they are fickle and flighty - but businesses are built on strong relationships... more
He’s been accused of glorifying violence in his films, but as his latest is released, director Nick Love takes a tour of the gritty London streets where he grew up and insists his work only reflects reality... more
London is to host a giant philanthropic arts festival with Martin Scorsese, Youssou N’Dour and African Nobel Prize-winning writer Wole Soyinka.... more
British retailers have long been accused of "cashing in on Christmas - the inaugural Eid in Dubai event is drawing whispers of similar criticism here... more
Bob Wigley of Merrill Lynch is one of the new meritocrats running the business world. Now he's helping Boris Johnson defend London's role as the centre of global finance
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The latest bunch of attention-seeking exhibitionists and eccentrics, unveiled on Big Brother last night, look likely to take the show back to its outrageous worst.... more
Big Brother's Shilpa Shetty has a squeaky-clean image in the UK. Yet in India her effigy has been burned and her parents face jail if convicted of extortion. We talk exclusively to the star.... 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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