The Stoke City manager, Tony Pulis, has been given the honour of carrying the Olympic torch. The 54-year-old will carry the flame as it passes through Stoke-on-Trent on Thursday. He is the only top-flight football manager to be given this chance.
Luke Blackall: I'm all for pies, pop-ups and "squatter" restaurants
Saturday 12 May 2012
My Policeman By Bethan Roberts
Tuesday 20 March 2012
Bethan Roberts's My Policeman was initially billed by its publisher as a novel inspired by E M Forster's relationship with a married constable, Bob Buckingham. Now it appears shorn of any reference to the author of A Passage to India, and it soon becomes clear why. Roberts's account of a polysexual ménage à trois has not simply been transposed to Brighton, but reimagined as a very different story. It is more obviously informed by Peter Wildeblood's Against the Law: the 1955 account of being prosecuted for homosexuality.
Hirst rewards lovers of his hot spots
Monday 23 January 2012
Intrepid fans who made 30,000 mile pilgrimage win prints that could be worth thousands
Switzerland's top banker – and his wife – in insider trading row
Thursday 05 January 2012
National Bank denies that Swiss franc currency dealings broke rules
Sam Rivers: Saxophonist at the cutting edge of jazz's avant garde
Friday 30 December 2011
The avant-garde work of the saxophonist Sam Rivers was the most accessible free-form music for the general listener. The more prickly practitioners of the Sixties avant-garde saxophone treated their audiences with aggression, but Sam was almost without ego, a brilliant teacher and among the nicest of men.
Stay The Night: Hôtel Americano, New York
Sunday 18 December 2011
This addition to Manhattan's Chelsea district encapsulates the gentrification of a formerly commercial area
Banksy sculpture targets church sex abuse
Thursday 15 December 2011
A sculpture of a "vandalised" priest by the underground artist Banksy has gone on display today alongside 17th-century Old Masters.
Berlin moves up on Europe's more lauded capitals
Sunday 11 December 2011
The appeal of property in Germany's premier city is outstripping London and Paris
An extraordinary bulb field – and there's no charge
Friday 25 November 2011
The rather jolly Christmas light display beloved of homeowners and local authorities across the land has been given a stunning 21st-century makeover for the Holburne Museum in Bath.
Portfolio: Jason Wilde
Sunday 21 August 2011
Who are the people that make up modern Britain? It's a question that documentary photographer Jason Wilde is attempting to answer with his ambitious ongoing project, "Free".
Liza Dracup captures the beauty of moonlight on film
Friday 22 April 2011
As day turns to night the rolling countryside landscape transforms, taking on a magical and ghost-like presence under moonlight.
The Life of the Mind: Love, Sorrow and Obsession, New Art Gallery, Walsall
Wednesday 09 February 2011
This group show with a rather grandiose title has been curated by a Turner-shortlisted male artist who goes by the name of Bob and Roberta Smith. Smith has been artist-in-residence at the New Art Gallery, Walsall, combing through a remarkable archive of the works and personal effects of Jacob Epstein, which were bequeathed to the city by Epstein's widow in 1973.
Wakefield gallery to honour Hepworth
Friday 04 February 2011
A new art gallery named after one of the country's greatest sculptors will open in May. The £35m Hepworth Wakefield is named after Barbara Hepworth, who was born and grew up in the West Yorkshire city. It will be the largest purpose-built gallery to open in Britain since the launch of Tate St Ives in Cornwall in 1993.








