If we're better, connected, then the National is certainly better with Connections. This annual jamboree involving young people's theatre groups has been developing splendidly for over a decade... more
What could be better than a stately pile complete with its own hi-tech hydrotherapy suite and crack team of top-notch facialists? ES rounds up the UK's finest spa hotels, and bumps into Cameron Diaz along the way... more
Comedian Jack Whitehall is jumping on the Brand wagon - this year Jack has presented Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth and appeared as a panellist on the satirical show Mock the Week. ... more
Prince Edward joined the grieving families of eight young soldiers killed in Afghanistan’s bloodiest 24 hours as their loved ones were returned to them... more
Hundreds of mourners lined the streets in the Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett today as the coffins of five British soldiers who have died in Afghanistan in the past week were driven past... more
So the City generates - or at least it did- £13 billion in income a year for other businesses, and, I am told, one hedge manager kept two other people in work... more
Princess Eugenie has been reprimanded by her public school after she was involved in 'high jinks' towards the end of her school term. The princess 'danced around without any clothes'.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows