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DVD: Merlin: Series 4 (12)
Friday 27 January 2012
"We shan't go to Camelot, 'tis a silly place," as Monty Python pointed out, and the BBC's sword-and-sorcery drama is pretty silly. It's also, however, enormous fun.
The digital enlightenment has already begun
Wednesday 25 January 2012
In the brave new world of social media development, budding entrepreneurs need more than bright ideas. How can educators nurture the skills required to produce a winning formula?
Sbtrkt, The Gilles Peterson Awards, Koko
Monday 23 January 2012
As mysterious as he is wary of vowels, Sbtrkt was the toast of the evening at the The Gilles Peterson Worldwide Awards.
Year of the Dragon roars into the UK
Sunday 22 January 2012
Two weeks of celebrations are set to start tomorrow as communities mark the arrival of Chinese New Year.
No death please, we're British
Thursday 19 January 2012
As a new festival at the Southbank explores the way cultures around the globe deal with our final exit, Arifa Akbar asks whether it is time for us to lose the morbidity left by the Victorians and reconsider the way we say goodbye
Wales blow as Lloyd Burns set miss Six Nations
Thursday 12 January 2012
Wales forward Lloyd Burns will miss the entire RBS 6 Nations Championship after being ruled out for three months with a neck injury.
Ex-MP Frank Cook dies aged 76
Wednesday 11 January 2012
Former Labour MP Frank Cook, who spent 27 years in the House of Commons, has died at the age of 76.
Wales lock Luke Charteris to leave Newport Gwent Dragons
Thursday 15 December 2011
Wales lock Luke Charteris is to leave the Newport Gwent Dragons at the end of the season, the Welsh region have announced.
Little Dragon, Shepherd's Bush Empire
Monday 05 December 2011
Take a bow, Damon Albarn. He's not actually on stage, but he may well be the reason a good portion of the crowd has turned up.
Matterson looks to seal play-off berth for Cas
Saturday 03 September 2011
Finishing in Super League's top eight might not sound like cause for dancing in the street, but for many clubs that is what defines the difference between an acceptable season and a disappointing one.
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart / The Golden Dragon, Traverse @ Ghillie Dhu / Traverse Theatre
Monday 22 August 2011
After the End, Pleasance Courtyard
Wednesday 17 August 2011
Dennis Kelly's tense two-hander begins in an underground nuclear shelter. Tony McGeever and Helen Darbyshire play colleagues, Mark and Louise; they'd been at her leaving drinks when a terror attack struck. Being a paranoid sort of guy, Mark's got a bunker in his backyard which he happens to keep all stocked-up with supplies. He's taken Louise there, apparently saving her life.
Business Diary: Lloyds buries the bad news
Wednesday 10 August 2011
Taxpayers hoping one day to get their money back from Lloyds Banking Group will be pleased to see it doesn't miss a trick. What better day than yesterday to announce 1,300 job losses? After all, the bank knew people would be focused on the riots. Just to make sure it was slipping the announcement under the radar, it was headlined "Lloyds Banking Group announces organisational changes" – the words "jobs" and "losses" were nowhere to be seen. With nous like this, it can be only a matter of time before the black-horse bank pays us all back.
A Dance with Dragons, By George R R Martin
Sunday 07 August 2011
- 1 Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress?
- 2 British business: We need to stay in the European Union - or risk losing up to £92bn a year
- 3 The moral case on tax avoidance is overwhelming - and we all know Google wants to do the right thing
- 4 Sam Wallace: The second coming of Jose Mourinho at Chelsea will be a reunion that can only end in tears
- 5 It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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