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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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