Goldsmiths is launching training for Tech City start-ups. By Stephen Hoare

He has a mastery of the off-cutter: many of his victims are castled shouldering arms

1. Zippo Lighter

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A lighter is a must. For lighting the gas hob, romantic dinner candles or just finding your way to the fuse box in a power cut, you'll almost certainly need one.

A baby wallaby has made her home in a zoo keeper's rucksack after being found outside her mother's pouch.

Unions argue that planned grammar, spelling and punctuation tests are unnecessary

The clock at All Saints' Church in the village of Wrington has rung out every quarter of an hour for a century.

It has been a part of village life for a century.

The New York-based, Italian-born artist-photographer Paolo Ventura works by building and then photographing his own extraordinarily detailed models and dioramas; whole miniature worlds have a strange, half-remembered or dream-like quality.

Britain’s Leigh McMillan completed an impressive four days to win the second event in the 2012 series of the Extreme Sailing Series in Qingdao, China.

This extraordinary, vast little book enacts Larkin's almost-instinct, almost true: what has remained of him is love. Tom Lubbock was art critic of this paper for many years until a brain cancer removed, inch by inch, his language and then he died, stupidly young.

1. Chemistry Lab

A drug trafficker has been jailed for attempting to smuggle cocaine-stuffed peppers into the UK.

When the baby Kea parrot named Nelson was born at Bergzoo, Halle, Germany last week he quickly became a contender for the ugliest bird in the world.

Philately has never got me anywhere, although my early interest in stamp-collecting means I still take an interest in matters relating to postage stamps. As a boy, I loved everything about stamps: they were like miniature works of art (the good ones, anyway), and I found them a much more interesting and engaging way to learn about geography.