Denmark's capital has another sleek, chic place to sleep. This new venue has big ideas, even if some rooms are tiny.

The flotilla of nightlights on the tables outside the Pipe & Glass – a welcome sight after much peering at the map and several U-turns on dark, narrow lanes – formed an infinitesimal reflection of the glittering constellations arching over rural East Yorkshire. Coincidentally, many of the customers, who pretty much filled the car park on a wintry Tuesday night, were lured by a single star of a distinctly non-celestial nature, being bestowed by a tyre company based in Clermont-Ferrand. Less than four years after taking over a "tired and unloved" pub in the village of South Dalton, local boy James Mackenzie was awarded his county's first and only Michelin star in 2010. This glory was further burnished when the Pipe & Glass was named Michelin's Pub of the Year for 2012.

It's a golden age for cycling After our successes at the Beijing Olympics and in the Tour de France, I've definitely seen a lot more people out and about on bikes when I go riding at the weekends. Although no one really recognises me without my helmet!

Life on Marsden

I walked down a Phoenician street the other day, built under Persian rule.

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P J Harvey starts by displaying her plumes, the crow-black dress and feathers of a carrion bird-lady, which she has worn this year while singing songs of death. Her latest, Mercury-winning album, Let England Shake, has gained undue plaudits for its weighty war themes, as if tackling them at all makes it a major work. But the slow, deliberate spell Harvey casts tonight taps new majesty from it.

Laura Marling's cathedral gig delivers great acoustics, but her dreamy songs are not as uplifting as Glen Campbell's final tour

Starring: Doraly Rosa, Paul Bettany, Harriet Walter

Brooklyn rapper Theophilus London probably never heard of Lenny Henry's caricature soulman Theophilus P Wildebeest; though he inhabits the super-dude cliches just as naturally.

Gordon Brown has stepped up his campaign against Rupert Murdoch’s News International media group, sending tape recordings to the Metropolitan Police earlier today which he says challenge the Sunday Times’s assurances that it broke no laws when investigating his personal financial affairs.

The big draws at this week's Venice Film Festival are notable for one thing: they have not required US money

The Victorians pioneered the pre-emptive approach to social ills. Their visionary reforms could teach our government a lot, says David Robinson

Ten rivers in England and Wales have shrugged off their industrial past to become havens for wildlife, walkers and anglers again.