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First £1,000 rail fare in history of British train travel

03.11.09
The first £1,000 fare in the history of Britain’s railways has sparked fresh outrage over the 'ludicrously' high cost of train travel... more

Pythons power past 40 years on in Not The Messiah

26.10.09
Not The Messiah was oddly entertaining, from the bombastic opening theme courtesy of Sousa to the Lumberjack Song encore, courtesy of Michael Palin. ... more

Terry Gilliam - My London

23.10.09
Terry Gilliam was born in Minnesota, but hasn't lived in the States for more than 40 years. He renounced his US citizenship in January 2006 in protest against George W Bush... more

Historic Phoenix cinema rises with lottery cash

09.07.09
Britain's oldest continuously-working cinema is to be restored to its art deco glory thanks to a lottery grant... more

Palin ventures into uncharted waters as head of warring geographers

19.05.09
Michael Palin is to take on what may be his toughest challenge yet — president of the Royal Geographical Society... more

200 model elephants to cover capital for charity

21.04.09
A herd of 200 fibreglass elephants is to invade London in a show billed as the capital’s biggest public art exhibition... more

Pub is closed by Monty Python grenade

19.03.09
Buildings were evacuated, a street was cordoned off and a bomb disposal team called in after workmen spotted a suspicious object... more

Hampstead celebrity residents fight plan for road across heath

30.01.09
Thousands of residents - including actor Michael Palin and film director Ken Loach - have joined forces to fight plans to build a road across Hampstead Heath... more

Private equity: dead or just resting?

16.01.09
One of the big questions brought on by the credit crunch is whether the private-equity industry is dead, or as Michael Palin famously argued about the Monty Python parrot, merely resting... more

Palin's centre for stammerers wins £340,000 grant

09.09.08
Michael Palin’s Centre for Stammering Children has just won a £340,000 grant. Here he tells how his father’s speech problems led him to offer help to today’s fellow sufferers... more

Good time Charley

08.09.08
In his new TV series which launched last night, Charley Boorman is back playing the intrepid, blokey traveller. Here he talks to Lucy Cavendish about living in his father’s shadow, his years as a failed actor and how Ewan McGregor rescued him ... more

Palin show censured over inaccurate facts of war in former Yugoslavia

04.08.08
A Michael Palin documentary on Eastern Europe has been censured by the BBC Trust. It said the former Monty Python star had been inaccurate and had oversimplified the war in the former Yugoslavia.... more

Streets of gold by the sea

30.07.08
As the Camerons and Browns choose British resorts for their summer holidays, Connie Allfrey seeks out the seaside towns where demand for second homes is still soaring... more

Revival for great Dane Vilhelm Hammershøi

27.06.08
Michael Palin is urging all art-lovers to snap up a ticket for what is Vilhelm Hammershøi's first major retrospective in the UK. ... more

Comical explorers desperately seeking Djibouti

25.09.07
The duo in World in One City want to meet someone from all 192 UN-recognised countries. It's not so much a comedy show, more an exercise in listmaking anal retentiveness.... more

Pythons on parade

18.10.06
Nobody expects a full-scale Monty Python reunion. But this is the nearest you can get - four on stage at once to celebrate the opening of Spamalot.... more

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