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Dress up, get down: Festival fashion explained
Monday 28 May 2012
Whether you're planning to rock out in a field or rave it up this summer, make sure you look the part. Fashion experts Gemma Hayward and Rebecca Gonsalves show you how
My Secret Life: Gizzi Erskine, 32, TV chef
Saturday 05 May 2012
My parents were... completely bohemian – my father was a photographer, and my mum was a model and actress. They were really well travelled and way ahead of their time.
Sleeping Dogs gets 17 August wake-up call
Monday 16 April 2012
Limited edition pre-order extras also detailed.
Scenes of a graphic nature: Print and pattern go wild this spring
Saturday 07 April 2012
Styling: Sophie Kenningham
Crime boss held in Amsterdam
Friday 06 April 2012
One of Britain's most wanted crime bosses has been captured in the Netherlands. Kirk Bradley, who had been on the run since fleeing a Manchester prison van in July, was arrested with his uncle in Amsterdam on Wednesday, the Serious Organised Crime Agency said.
Festival Guide 2012: Anyone for wedgintons? Festival fashion rules
Friday 30 March 2012
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.
It's a cover up: Olympic beach volleyball players to be allowed to wear more clothes
Tuesday 27 March 2012
Beach volleyball, a sport with minimal following in Britain, was one of the most sought after events when tickets went on sale for this summer's Olympics.
Independent Bath Literature Festival: The book has a future – but what will it look like?
Thursday 08 March 2012
Authors ask what happens next for publishing as figures reveal print sales are down 18 per cent
Philo shows Paris that the best designs come in small packages
Monday 05 March 2012
Nothing short of perfect, says Susannah Frankel in Paris of the latest, understated collection from the creative director of Céline
Style shrinks: Our experts analyse Dame Helen Mirren's appearance at Milan Fashion Week
Sunday 04 March 2012
The hair/make-up
Police break alleged $300m smuggling ring
Sunday 04 March 2012
Police in the US claim to have broken one of the country's largest counterfeit goods rings, believed to have smuggled items worth more than $300m (£190m) into the country, mainly from China.
Alice Jones: Engelbert Humperdinck - Cheesy, populist and with a hint of the ridiculous – the ideal Eurosceptic
Saturday 03 March 2012
Engelbert Humperdinck. Of course. With a name like that, he was born to perform at the Eurovision Song Contest. Or he would be if he hadn't been born the rather less mellifluous Arnold Dorsey. In any case, the generously sideburned crooner, who last had a hit 42 years ago, has been chosen to represent Le Royaume-Uni at the annual extravaganza of poor taste and point-scoring. And the 75-year-old, best known for executing an unlikely chart coup when his soupy "Release Me" denied The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" the No 1 spot, will do so with a song written by the man behind James Blunt's wet-blanket anthem "You're Beautiful". This is ignominy indeed.
Steven Stapleton's Sleep Concert is the stuff of dreams
Friday 02 March 2012
Would you want to go to a bed-and-breakfast concert? A ticket to the UK premiere of Steven Stapleton's 12-hour Sleep Concert at Newcastle's AV Festival, includes a single bed, a blanket, a nightlight and a bacon or egg roll and coffee in the morning – all for £25. Stapleton performs his dark ambient music live from his laptop throughout the night, manipulating his own Nurse with Wounds records, to induce sleep and dreams.
Last night's viewing - Horizon: The Truth About Exercise, BBC2; Timothy Spall: All at Sea, BBC4
Wednesday 29 February 2012
"I have two doctors," the historian G M Trevelyan once said, "My left leg and my right." They seem to have served him well because he lived to 86, not bad for someone who was born when Disraeli was prime minister. And if Horizon: The Truth About Exercise was to be believed, more of us should be signing up with the Trevelyan practice. Amid the blizzard of acronyms that featured in this account of recent research into exercise was NEAT, which is short for Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis, pretty much everything you do that isn't sleeping or sitting in a chair. Eulogised by an excitable scientist who looked to be making a pitch for a show of his own, NEAT can make a change to your overall fitness without you really noticing.








