British film director Michael Lindsay-Hogg will check paternity after years of rumours that giant of cinema was his fatherThe British film and theatre director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, best known for making films for the Beatles and for co-directing Brideshead Revisited for Granada television in 1981, is to settle the question of whether he is the son [...]
The country needed answers on Iraq, but this limp inquiry couldn’t touch such a consummate performer as the ex PMThere was a moment during Tony Blair’s appearance before the Iraq inquiry – it came in the stretch when his limp inquisitors were fumbling an attempt to pin him down on the legality of the war [...]
Last week, film-maker Robyn Whitehead died in the squalid east London flat of a friend of the Babyshambles frontman. In 2006, Mark Blanco fell to his death at a party attended by the singer. Jamie Doward examines the trail of misery left in Pete Doherty’s wakeSheila Blanco calls Pete Doherty the Pied Piper. “He leads [...]
While European train users get exemplary service, British rail bosses splash out on Highland estatesAnyone who loves the beautiful Argyll coast south of Tayvallich will know that the Edinburgh estate agents Rettie & Co were not exaggerating when they described the peninsula’s Keills Estate as “a rural idyll”. With Loch Sween on one side and [...]
Homeopathy is big business, but a report by MPs is expected to conclude that there is no place for the controversial treatment in the health serviceAt a session of the House of Commons select committee on science and technology, the professional standards director of Boots, Paul Bennett, had a remarkable admission to make about one [...]
Our parents had free education, fat pensions, and second homes. We’ve got student debt and a property ladder with rotten rungs. Thanks very much, says Andrew Hankinson, BScLast week a man in the jobcentre handed me a letter summoning me to a Back to Work session – come on! Back to work! Break’s over! A [...]
Ministers want everyone over the age of 70 to be eligible but campaigners say age limit is too highEvery person in their 70s could soon be vaccinated against shingles, a painful infection that can cause pain, scarring, sight loss and sometimes death in older people. Four million people in England will be eligible to receive [...]
A risk-embracing children’s book initially rejected by US publishers is poised to be a UK bestsellerIt is a book that some parents would not want in the house, but a thesis that was rejected by at least 16 publishers is now an unlikely sensation in America, and will soon be issued in the UK.”They told [...]
Crozier may not know much about television, but he and Norman deserve the benefit of the doubtUnkind observers see the appointment of Adam Crozier as chief executive of ITV as an extraordinary one: in the eyes of his critics, he has neither show nor business. Their view is that it is a crude matter of [...]
The reason why almost half of all smoke alarms fail is missing or flat batteries, say government studiesThe Fire Brigades Union is demanding to know why householders are not being warned that smoke detectors of the type fitted in millions of UK homes are developing faults.Thousands of people have complained that the alarms, which have [...]