Children’s show Echoa came to Sadler’s Wells as part of a Family Weekend, which featured workshops and activities as well as performances.

The hat

A serial armed robber who dressed up as Elvis Presley and wore other bizarre disguises when he targeted betting shops was jailed yesterday.

The season is almost upon us and all those interested in hats – and there's no better time of year to celebrate their flamboyancy, of course – might like to pay a visit to the genteel city of Bath for inspiration.

Let's get one thing straight: when it comes to what to wear at a festival, there are no rules, only preferences and free will.

The hat/glasses

The hair/make-up

The headpiece

It must be terrifying to set up this show. L’Immédiat starts with a stage full of clutter. Furniture, cardboard boxes, ladders and stage equipment pack the whole space, out to the wings and right back to the loading bay. It looks like a junkyard, but there must be some method in the madness: performers charge through it, over it, under it, as furniture collapses under them and the scenery caves in.

Annie Deakin finds space for new Christmas toys and increases home storage for 2012.

There's nothing fashion loves more than a posh punk, and with the pick of the world's most beautiful women at his bejewelled fingertips, Karl Lagerfeld has opted for Alice Dellal as the forthcoming face of the Chanel Boy bag.

The Christmases of my youth were quite traditional British ones, but endured in sweltering-hot Melbourne, with my grandmother sweating in the kitchen over roasting meats, vegetables and a perpetually steaming plum pudding on the hob.

Footage of obscene racist rants by two men accused of murdering Stephen Lawrence was shown to a jury today.

Make the perfect picks and get any man looking and feeling fantastic for Christmas – from head to toe...