Sports fans will pay £2.10 for a toasted teacake, £2.30 for a 500ml bottle of Coca-Cola and £4.20 for a 330ml bottle of Heineken at the London 2012 Games.
Diary: Crossed wires make a splash out of Letwin's bin dumping
Saturday 26 May 2012
Henry Macrory, the former tabloid hack and much-liked spinner for the Tory Party, told a tale of classic misunderstanding at his farewell party in Downing Street.
Kitchen confidential: Nooror Somany Steppe
Sunday 06 May 2012
'My dream dining companion? Jennifer Lopez. I love her music'
Everything but the pips: Arc Café is pioneering the vegetarian version of zero-waste cooking
Friday 06 April 2012
Samuel Muston discovers why we should think twice before we throw away those peelings.
MasterChef lacked one ingredient: suspense
Friday 16 March 2012
You have to have a big appetite for superlatives if you're to consume an entire MasterChef final.
John Walsh: Nailcare really is a worthy school subject
Thursday 02 February 2012
The current kerfuffle about "academic" and "non-academic" school subjects – on the difference between "proper" subjects like History and Maths and "soft" or "vocational" ones that lead only to "Mickey Mouse qualifications" – seems hopelessly misguided. Whatever the value or otherwise of their appearance on school league tables, vocational subjects shouldn't be casually dismissed by traditionalists. I want to make the case that almost all subjects (with the usual proviso about incest and folk dancing) are worthy of the concentrated attention of schoolchildren.
Susie Rushton: You can track down every old flame – but that doesn't mean you should
Tuesday 10 January 2012
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Susie Rushton: You can track down every old flame – but that doesn't mean you should
Tuesday 10 January 2012
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Alarms alert after house fire death
Monday 26 December 2011
Fire safety officials have reiterated the importance of ensuring smoke alarms are working after the death of a 79-year-old man in a blaze on Christmas Day.
Curry workers turn up heat for better conditions
Saturday 22 October 2011
A new union is striving to win fairer job rights for some of the UK's 100,000 Bangladeshi-British chefs
Brixton Commander apologises for failing to tackle 'war zone'
Tuesday 09 August 2011
The Metropolitan Police Commander in charge of quelling riots in Brixton yesterday admitted his force had been stretched to the limit as mob violence erupted across London.
The Hacker: As if playing this game isn't enough of a lottery already
Sunday 31 July 2011
The bubble has burst. Our glorious run in the foursomes knockout ended on the 18th green in the twilight of Thursday evening and led to an unseemly dispute on the club veranda.








