Visitors to Hampton Court Palace's spectacular gardens at this year's flower show are being encouraged to create displays in slightly more modest spaces... more
London is full of people wanting - and succeeding - to grow their own. Whether it's in a window box or by turning previously derelict stretches of land into vegetable growing plots where people can garden together, food is a great uniter... more
Lord Mandelson's admission that the Government may delay plans to part-privatise Royal Mail is a foretaste of the Prime Minister's coming difficulties. The legislation had been timetabled for next month but with only a few weeks left before Parliament recesses and fierce backbench opposition to the plans, it seems ministers may have lost their nerve. That does not bode well for the new direction which the Gordon Brown will today attempt to set for the Government's approach to public services.... more
Rosie Boycott, Boris’s Food Tsar, is a born- again gardener whose mission is to convert Tesco-buying metropolitans to the joys of grow-your-own food... more
Plans for a "London carafe" to serve tap water in thousands of restaurants across the capital were unveiled as a shortlist of 10 designs went on show at City Hall... 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
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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