London is the ideal playground for women who are solvent and young at heart but old enough to know better. Liz Hoggard opens her little black book for this discerning band of pleasure-seekers... more
Which retailer will be the first to warn that this week's supposed heatwave will hit sales? We suggested Thorntons or Blacks Leisure or Clinton Cards...... more
John Swannell, the respected photographer commissioned by Diana, Princess of Wales, is hosting a public lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, in order to raise funds for the National Autistic Society ... more
Nobel Prize-winning author VS Naipaul has raised hackles by dismissing women writers as 'unequal' to him and criticising their 'sentimentality'... more
London Night Hike, which raises money for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres, was also where cancer survivor Nicole Brancheau met her future husband... more
The murder of David Rattray, the charismatic historian from Rorke’s Drift, shocked his many friends, including Prince Charles. Here Rattray’s widow talks exclusively about how her husband died ... more
Youngest British woman to climb Mount Everest tells family members she's 'safe' and 'made it to the top' in an emotional telephone conversation hours after reaching the summit... more
Renowned photo-journalist Nick Danziger speaks of his outrage after the student behind his exhibition missed the opening night because of immigration red tape... more
Britain is in desperate need of constitutional
reform and should change its electoral methods in the wake of the expenses scandal, Standard debate concludes... more
Do charities really need their own bail-out? Everyone I know is lit from within and bubbling over about their own projects — and they’re all either charitable or voluntary... more
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