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Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and The Group of Seven, Dulwich Picture Gallery - review

20.10.11
Seventy years before Peter Doig even thought of producing his first richly embroidered landscape, Canadian painters had set the standard for him... more

Gem Diamonds mines a whopper

31.08.11
Gem Diamonds has unearthed a huge 553-carat diamond at its Letseng mine in Lesotho... more

The armed robbers who struck every fortnight for 16 months

03.02.11
Video: The masterminds behind one of Britain's biggest networks of robbery gangs have been jailed after netting £3.6m... more

Gone in 60 seconds… gang who netted £3m haul in lightning raids on jewellers

24.01.11
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

SThree looks for overseas growth

03.12.10
Recruiter SThree signals further international expansion, as it flags up forecast-beating results this year... more

10 held in terror swoops across Europe

23.11.10
Ten terror suspects are arrested in armed swoops in Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands... more

SThree up 15% despite public-sector squeeze

10.09.10
City recruiter SThree said more firms hiring an increased number of staff for permanent jobs helped its third-quarter gross profit rise 15% to £43 million... more

Jenson Button ... catch him if you can

23.07.10
Jenson Button is a F1 World Champion, a multimillionaire and has the physique of a Greek god. And he's actively looking for a girlfriend. Hermione Eyre feels his G-force... more

Cheryl Cole dazzles in De Grisogono jewels as she plays £250,000 star-studded gig

19.05.10
Cheryl Cole stole the show at a Cannes dinner and party hosted by luxury jewellery firm de Grisogono.... more

Top guns - London's latest runway stars

19.02.10
Championed by Michelle Obama and Sienna Miller, the designers behind the Peter Pilotto label are flying high.... more

Newcastle sign up Man Utd defender Danny Simpson

14.08.09
Newcastle have signed defender Danny Simpson on loan from Barclays Premier League champions Manchester United... more

Jaguar Land Rover pushes the boat out to sell its cars

30.06.09
It may be cutting costs to the bone back home in the Midlands but Jaguar Land Rover is not shy of extravagance when it needs to keep up appearances... more

Women lack that ruthless lust for power

09.06.09
Caroline Flint, the former Europe minister, is angry at the shortage of powerful women in Gordon Brown’s Cabinet... more

Russian duel as Gazprom launches rival bid for Sibir

23.04.09
Shares of Sibir Energy remained suspended at 176¾p, where they have been since February... more

200 model elephants to cover capital for charity

21.04.09
A herd of 200 fibreglass elephants is to invade London in a show billed as the capital’s biggest public art exhibition... more

Worry for Vauxhall over GM's job cuts

18.02.09
Engineering: General Motors' plans to cut 47,000 jobs worldwide spread more gloom over its Ellesmere Port Vauxhall plant on Merseyside... more

Investors take shine to diamonds online

13.02.09
Investment: Investors can now get their cut of diamonds more easily, with the opening of the first online exchange for the gems... more

Eddie’s words no transport of delight...

03.12.08
Stobart Group, famed for its Eddie Stobart green lorries with girls’ names, is clearly delighted to have bought Southend Airport for £21 million... more

Highlights of the lowlands in Bruegel to Rubens

28.11.08
The fashion for Dutch and Flemish masters has waned in the past half century. Bruegel to Rubens reminds us of the odd riches we now overlook.... more

V&A leads celebration of 'dazzling' age

20.10.08
London is set to go Baroque next year when the Victoria and Albert Museum heads a cavalcade of events celebrating the style epitomised by Louis XIV's palace at Versailles... more

Will the party soon be over for the Frieze crowd?

16.10.08
As London’s largest art fair opens to the public, our critic reveals the best — and the worst excesses — of the inflated contemporary market... more

October parade to honour heroes of the Games

19.08.08
Britain's Olympic heroes are to be paraded through London to mark the nation's best medal tally since 1920... more

Britain 'set for Olympic record'

05.08.08
Britain will enjoy its best Olympics in living memory in Beijing, the minister in charge of sport claimed... more

Brits prepare for bumper medal haul in Beijing

02.07.08
British athletes will enjoy their most successful Olympics since the 1920 Games in Antwerp, according to forecasts... more

Tate launches appeal to buy £6m Rubens sketch

05.06.08
Historian David Starkey has backed a Tate campaign to buy a £6million oil sketch by the 17th century master Peter Paul Rubens... more

Right Rubens, wrong gallery

25.04.08
The Glynde sketch is a masterpiece worth saving for the nation, even at £6 million. But it should not go to Tate Britain, says Brian Sewell.... more

Porn from the provinces

07.12.07
Discoveries at the National Gallery is a worthy project that aims to catalogue every publicly owned painting in Britain but it is populated by some surprisingly low-rent works.... more

Found in storage... the 1650s painting used as a dartboard

21.11.07
A painting once used as a dartboard by juvenile delinquents has been identified as depicting the house of the Old Master Peter Paul Rubens.... more

Extensive range of Belgian booze on offer

03.07.07
The Dovetail Bar does a good impression of being Antwerp rather than London and provides a refreshing change from the tide of gastropubs... more

Galleries sign up for fifth Frieze Art Fair

18.04.07
New galleries from Sao Paulo, Los Angeles, Oslo and Antwerp will join the line-up for the fifth Frieze Art Fair in London this autumn.... more


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