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The Only Way Is Essex wins a BAFTA

23.05.11
ITV2's The Only Way Is Essex won the YouTube Audience Award, the only prize chosen by viewers. Mark Wright, who appears in the reality show, said it felt "incredible" to win... more

Dr Who versus Sherlock Holmes for Bafta

26.04.11
Who's against Holmes for Bafta... and Watson is up for award too as Matt Smith takes on Benedict Cumberbatch... more

Julian Barnes scoops £40,000 'British Nobel' for lifetime literary achievement

18.03.11
Tenth David Cohen Prize for Literature, worth £40,000, has gone to English novelist, essayist and short story writer Julian Barnes ... more

Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes ready to compete at National Television Awards

26.01.11
TV heroes Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes will do battle tonight as they try to take the glory at the National Television Awards... more

Confessions of a cannabis eater

02.12.10
The Wellcome Collection’s investigation into mind-altering drugs inspires in our critic happy memories of hazy days and hash salads... more

We’re just popping out for a smoke... leaving an unpaid £572 dinner bill

15.11.10
Couple tucked into gourmet food and fine champagne worth £572 at a Michelin-starred restaurant, slipped outside for a cigarette — and vanished without paying the bill... more

A wizard weekend at Bovey Castle

12.11.10
Owls swoop along Bovey Castle's corridors, ferrets race about terraces, and you can brew your own sloe gin. There's nothing bleak about this moorland retreat, says Sasha Slater... more

The best August Bank Holiday events in London

19.08.10
From colourful parades to musical shows, there are lots of ways to spend the August bank holiday. Kate Whiting suggests family-friendly activities for the weekend and beyond... more

Simon Rich is the laughing boy

03.08.10
At 26, Simon Rich has already sold three film scripts to Hollywood, is a writer for Saturday Night Live and has just published his first novel. It’s an old-fashioned comic tale, he tells Tom Teodorczuk ... more

A summer stroll for our detective friend in The Secret of Sherlock Holmes

21.07.10
Benign twaddle about the world’s favourite detective but it's not clear who the target audience for this show might be ... more

Why we’re all still crazy about Sherlock Holmes

19.07.10
With a new West End play, a Nintendo game and a series of BBC films, Sherlock’s stock has never been higher... more

Different strokes from Andrew Wyeth

15.07.10
Andrew Wyeth’s bleak nature paintings bring to London the romantic myth of the solitary American — but the accompanying works of his father and son merely show that talent doesn’t run in the family.... more

Daisy Lowe wears see-through dress to party

03.02.10
Model of the moment Daisy Lowe was wearing an almost entirely see-through red lace number for the 135th birthday of the Criterion Restaurant.... more

Sherlock Holmes: Exemplary, my dear Watson

24.12.09
Guy Ritchie’s action-packed reinvention of the great Victorian detective is one of the finest movies of the year, with Robert Downey Jnr leaving an indelible mark as Holmes and Jude Law making the perfect foil as Dr Watson ... more

Why Sherlock Holmes is a hero for our times

23.12.09
I once heard a boy in the Sherlock Holmes Museum in Baker Street asking his father, “Dad, when did Sherlock Holmes die?”... more

Elementary but splendidly droll in Sherlock Holmes, my dear Mr Ritchie

15.12.09
Gorblimey. Guy Ritchie's larky go at Britain's greatest detective Sherlock Holmes really isn't bad.... more

Nikolai Valuev proves to be more gentle giant than ‘Beast from the East’

05.11.09
It would be a huge mistake for Haye to underestimate the boxing brains of the softly-spoken, well-read Russian... more

Five great hoaxes in history

16.10.09
Following the supposed hoax that a boy was carried away by a weather balloon, we take a look at five other hoaxes that have fooled people everywhere... more

Patrice Gouty: King of clubs

22.05.09
In his ultra-secret VIP rooms, stars run wild - the naughtier they are, the happier he is. No wonder Patrice Gouty is the lord of misrule at Raffles... more

Try to practise what you preach, Derek

15.04.09
If only Derek Draper had followed his own advice. Two weeks ago I attended the launch of his new book, Life Support: A Survival Guide for the Modern Soul... more

Guy Ritchie's film is not an ideal Holmes show

18.02.09
Guy Ritchie has been ordered to reshoot five weeks' worth of filming on his new Sherlock Holmes movie.... more

Kill off that golden goose and hear your readers squeal

25.11.08
Belgium’s most famous son, Hergé, confessed privately to his wife that Tintin and his dog Snowy made him “sick”... more

Can we learn from our greatest Games?

27.08.08
As the spotlight shifts from Beijing to London’s preparations for 2012, one writer reveals how the problems facing today’s organisers mirror those that plagued Britain’s first Olympiad in 1908.... more

Murder mystery that led to Holmes and Morse is £30,000 winner

16.07.08
An account of a gruesome Victorian murder which sparked our obsession with detective novels has won the world's most lucrative non-fiction book prize... more

Wembley's pit stop pub has a great heritage

13.05.08
Charles Dickens, William Pitt and Arthur Conan Doyle were all regulars at The Globe, but now the north London pub is more likely to be visited by fans on the way to Wembley.... more

He's not alright Jack

06.11.07
The First World War contains few stories more poignant than that told in the free, moving exhibition My Boy Jack, about the death of Rudyard Kipling's son.... more

People really like them

17.04.07
The clownish theatre group Peepolykus talk to Claire Allfree about the merits of being populist and the barmy side of Sherlock Holmes.... more


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