The latest update of Charlotte Brontë's inexhaustible creation allows for a magnificently intense Michael Fassbender as Mr Rochester and possibly the best ever Jane Eyre in Mia Wasikowska... more
US National Guard helicopters rushed water and food to 13 cut-off towns in the state of Vermont after Hurricane Irene washed out roads and bridges... more
A team of 12 British bikers are riding 3,500 miles to the scene of the Great Escape during the Second World War to raise money for the Royal British Legion... more
A £13 million rehabilitation project has given Chatham Historic Dockyard a worthy centrepiece — and brought a piece of naval heritage back from the dead... more
Humming with sexual electricity, peopled by intellectuals and movie stars, the London library and the British Library are the capital's most unlikely hotspots - and each has its own ardent fans... more
A Tate Modern gallery supervisor is claiming thousands of pounds in compensation because the "cold" temperature in the former power station made her health deteriorate... more
Poverty, health, homelessness and racial tensions abound in a city awash with money. These are the people who are trying to do something about it. ... more
The most influential people in London gathered at the launch of the Evening Standard's glossy magazine The 1000: London's Most Influential People 2008... more
Planning a day out to remember? Sarah Kingsley checks out what's new at the major theme parks and attractions and tells you how to make it an enjoyable day that the kids will really treasure.... more
Der Rosenkavalier is a comedy of a boy whose voice has not yet broken but whose busy libido has been awakened by a woman old enough to be his mother.... more
She was never a plain Jane. But with her long blonde hair and girl next door sunny looks, there was little inclination that this fresh-faced teenager would undergo a stunning metamorphosis, into brunette bombshell and burlesque star Dita Von Teese
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In attempting to trace the evolution of children's portraiture from the 17th to the 19th century the German curated exhibtion at the Dulwich Picture Gallery falls short.... more
David Lean's classic, Brief Encounter, had audiences rolling in the aisles with laughter when it was released in 1945, and the film has lost little of its original charm.... more
The National's director Nicholas Hytner has attacked London's theatre critics for their alleged misogyny. The Standard's man in the stalls could not disagree more.... more
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