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Cheaper fish being passed off as cod and haddock
Tuesday 02 April 2013
Consumers are being routinely cheated when they buy cod and haddock, a study has found.
'One pound fish' is the anthem for an austerity Christmas
Monday 24 December 2012
The Punjab province of Pakistan anxiously waited to learn whether the UK Christmas number one would be claimed by one of their own
British snowboarder Emily Watts in critical condition after accident in French Alps
Wednesday 12 December 2012
A British student left critically ill after a snowboarding accident in the French Alps is still fighting for her life, her family said today.
Jackson Pollock would have been reluctant 'spiritual father' of performance art
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Jackson Pollock is one of the spiritual fathers of performance painting, according to the curator of a major new show at Tate Modern, “but it is not what he would have wanted”.
Jackson Pollock: Painting a picture of long island
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Jackson Pollock would have turned 100 this weekend. Chris Coplans travels to New York state to explore the locations that inspired the artist during his short and turbulent life
Alberto Burri: Form and Matter, Estorick Collection, London
Sunday 15 January 2012
The Italian war medic turned artist Alberto Burri proves to be a neglected master and innovator in a show of power and beauty
'Big Man' charged over train assault
Thursday 22 December 2011
A man has been charged by police over an alleged assault when a teenager was removed from a train by another passenger.
Man charged over train assault
Thursday 22 December 2011
A man has been charged by police over an alleged assault when a teenager was removed from a train by another passenger.
Patrick Wolf: A red-letter day for the bad boy of indietronica
Friday 25 February 2011
His impending gay marriage means Patrick Wolf's new album is very different to its angry predecessors. Elisa Bray meets him
'We want to keep our father's story alive': A new generation is taking Holocaust stories into classrooms
Thursday 27 January 2011
It was an accident that alerted Motek Grzmot's saviours to his presence. An accidental groan. Unconscious, slumped atop a cart, all but buried under a mound of corpses, Grzmot's battered body was destined to join a thousand others in the mass graves of postwar Europe. And then he groaned. Without realising it, he had saved himself. The Danish troops around him heard his cry and removed him from the pile – a pile headed directly for burial – before placing him on another vehicle, this one headed to a nearby hospital.
Claude Monet, Grand Palais, Paris
Sunday 26 September 2010
Five curators trawled 14 countries to find works for Paris’s first major Monet show in 30 years
Tom Brooks-Pollock: I had to take a bar job to pay for my work in the Commons
Tuesday 14 September 2010
First person: Not paying people favours rich kids whose parents can support them
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Heading for America? Prepare for the longest US immigration queues ever
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Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress?
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You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots
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'Swivel-gate': David Cameron goes to war with the press over 'swivel-eyed loons' slur
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It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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