Some 4.4 million homes will have to be built over the next two decades, writes Catherine Pepinster

HOLLYWOOD paid tribute yesterday to Gene Kelly, the man who transformed dance in the musical movie with a mix of athleticism and balletic grace.

Catherine Pepinster explains how Utopia came to Oliver Close

The essential ingredient of modern middle-class cuisine is in short supply, writes Catherine Pepinster

Catherine Pepinster sees Austen make way for Hardy on television

A FORMER abattoir worker is believed to be suffering from Creutzfeldt- Jakob Disease, the human equivalent of "mad cow" disease.

WHEN Sir Gordon Jones, the outgoing chairman of Yorkshire Water, comes to toast the New Year he, like the Queen before him, may look back on an annus horribilis like no other. It was the worst water shortage for a generation in Yorkshire, and however many times Sir Gordon and his cohorts blamed the weather, nobody believed them.

For single mothers who start saving in January, festive cheer is in short supply, writes Catherine Pepinster

THE future of the Thames Path, a 210-mile walk along Britain's most famous river from its source to the centre of London, has been put in jeopardy by a decision by the Environment Secretary, John Gummer, to allow new office buildings to be erected on its banks.

The nightmare continues ... Catherine Pepinster on the crisis of confidence as prices keep falling