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Sports centre that grows on you

10.08.09
London's 'greenest' sports centre opens with a grass roof, wind-catchers instead of air conditioning and recycled flooring... more

Iran's sorry tale of two embassies

29.06.09
It was the sort of response that shows the other side holds all the cards. "Unacceptable," said the Foreign Secretary of the Iranian government's arrest over the weekend of up to nine locally hired Iranian staff working at the British embassy in Tehran... more

Expert who stole pages of rare texts has prison term halved

29.04.09
An internationally-renowned scholar who was jailed for cutting out and stealing pages from rare and ancient literary texts had his sentence halved... more

Crying for change in Fall of the Peacock

12.03.09
Firstly there's bewilderment, then frustration and finally narcolepsy in Fall of the Peacock. ... more

London’s last-minute one-stop small shops

19.12.08
Too late for the internet, too tired for the shopping mall? Here’s our guide to the stores where you’ll find original presents for every member of the family — and all in less than a few hours... more

The man who has made this the UK’s top ticket

08.04.08
The Terracotta Army exhibition made the British Museum the second most visited in the world. London is a modern city, says director Neil MacGregor, and we try to reflect that.... more

Fancy dress the Madonna and Guy way: A smoky sophisticated Edith Piaf and.... Asterix

24.03.08
As a legend in her own right perhaps Madonna wanted to draw comparisons with France's most famous singer. The Queen of Pop chose to recreate the smoky look of tragic jazz singer Edith Piaf for a Kabbalah fancy dress party. Dripping in diamonds and shrouded in a fur stole the 49 year-old singer's sophisticated look was in stark contrast to that chosen by her husband. Guy Ritchie, 39, opted to dress as cartoon character Asterix - donning a shapeless white tunic, platinum blonde plaits and a Viking helmet with horns... more

£100m plan for bigger British Museum

05.07.07
The British Museum are drawing up plans for a new £100 million centre to house blockbuster exhibitions... more

Where is Wilberforce in all this?

05.03.07
The V&A has commissioned a series of new works to mark the bicentenary of the abolition of slavery in Britain. Yet it ignores the politician who finally made Parliament see sense.... more

Medieval Hindu art goes on show at RA

07.11.06
Some of India's rarest and finest sculptures, never before seen in the UK, have gone on display at the Royal Academy.... more

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