Fire fighters have linked increasing call-outs to people trapped in handcuffs to the popularity of books such as EL James' "mummy porn" trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey.

‘It’s important the Pope is coming… hopefully things will get better’

Former head of Ofwat lambasts privatised firms for paying excessive dividends

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Test breakthrough links man who confessed to the 1960s killing spree with the final victim

Louis XIV used fashion as political tool, says our style columnist

Baby was discovered after neighbours reported meowing noises emerging from a communal drain

British shoppers are a fickle bunch. We moan ad nauseam about the high street's death yet as a nation we are the world's most avid online shoppers. As latest sales showed, online is booming.

When she was young, a tomboyish Griffiths longed to do everything her brothers did.

Every now and again, fashion alights on the old cliché of the bourgeoise woman as a focal point. Generally, it means primness, plenty of pearls, maybe a bit of free-falling georgette and a pussy-cat bow. It's a look Miuccia Prada loves, hence the rest of the fashion world does too. It smacks of old Saint Laurent, a bit Belle de Jour. All terribly French. But personally, I can't see those bourgeoise stalwarts without thinking of Margo Leadbetter in The Good Life – opening the style up to a very different interpretation indeed.

A garment worker who spent 17 days trapped in rubble has been offered a job in a hotel

A mural which disappeared from the wall of a north London shop last year but resurfaced  in an auction in Miami – only  to be withdrawn at the last minute – has gone on sale in London and was on Sunday evening expected to raise £900,000.

This summer, full-length and floaty doesn’t have to be boho, says Emma Akbareian

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