Sven-Goran Eriksson's former assistant Hans Backe has confirmed he will have talks with Notts County regarding the vacant managerial post at the Coca-Cola League Two club... more
How do you turn a family of urban couch potatoes into hiking, yodelling, muesli-eating von Trapps?
Anne McElvoy packs her knapsack and heads to Austria’s Kinderhotel to find out... more
Halston, the seriously glamorous 1970s fashion label, has found its ideal creative director in Marios Schwab, an Athenian Austrian with a forensic eye for the female form... more
Red Bull Salzburg face UEFA charges after an assistant referee was hit in the head by an object thrown from the stands during their Champions League qualifier against Dinamo Zagreb... more
Jamie Neale, the Muswell Hill backpacker lost for 10 days in the Australian bush, is doubtless relieved to have been found before succumbing to dehydration or unpleasant Antipodean wildlife... more
The Austrian arm of discount supermarkets chain Aldi launched the company’s first petrol stations with astonishingly cheap fuel, triggering hopes that it may do the same in Britain ... more
No other festival offers so much for so little money. Here is a round-up of the concerts not to be missed as part of this year's Proms festival.... more
Amanda Roocroft’s singing career looked burnt out — but her comeback at English National Opera next week offers a lesson for the next generation of divas... more
The first big event in London’s music calendar is the UK premiere of Die tote Stadt, Korngold’s 1920 work that finally brought opera into the real world... more
Priscilla on stage, Blur reunited, Michael Sheen as Brian Clough — we bring you the highlights of London’s arts calendar for the coming months.
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Millionaire amateur conductor Gilbert E Kaplan satisfied his lifelong obsession with one symphony when he led the New York Phil in a passionate performance this week.... more
If singer Katherine Jenkins needs any pointers on how to maintain her poise in front of the cameras, she could do worse than ask an old pro like Joan Collins.... more
Musical standards ruled, even if the tedium of the Pelléas and Mélisande production did its devilish and level best to hijack minds and flatten imagination.... more
Our critics introduce the names to watch out for over the next 12 months - the ones you won’t have heard of before, the ones that you’ll suddenly see everywhere – and the one the critics will love best in 2007.... more
They're the new golden couple of opera, and although any romantic linkage between Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon is strenuously denied, few at the Barbican believed it... more
There's always a special buzz when foreign ensembles come to the Proms. So make the most of tonight's concerts, which mark the end of the overseas visitors to the Albert Hall this season.... more
Sofia Coppola's boyfriend is lead singer and they won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album this year. Now, Phoenix tell Nosheen Iqbal, they are set to conquer London
Move over, Mahiki. Nightclub entrepreneurs Charlie Gilkes and Duncan Stirling are soon to launch a new Eighties-inspired club in Chelsea, in honour of Lady Thatcher
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