Both Alan Pardew and scout Graham Carr must report to new director of football in Newcastle shake-up

No one said it would be easy ...

There is not as yet an adequate phrase to sum up the feeling of embarrassment and mild existential unease that comes about when you post a link on Twitter or Facebook only to be told that it has, like, been around longer than your gran.

It is in the nature of many great novels to create worlds of their own, entire ecosystems that may be wildly different from the reader's own experience and are yet so vivid as to become real. The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis is one such.

Psychological benefits may be the reason why so many people like to be beside the seaside.

Last week, it was Fenton the dog harassing deer in Richmond Park, London. Now the authorities are having to protect the deer from humans scavenging their food supply for conkers or to revive the Christmas tradition of chestnuts roasting on an open fire.

A London council is charging personal fitness trainers £350 a year to use its public parks.

Three youths face life sentences after being found guilty today of murdering schoolboy Nicholas Pearton.

Thousands of mourners attended the funeral today of a Pakistani politician who was stabbed in London in September in a slaying that set off rioting in his hometown of Karachi.

London is Europe's dirtiest and most expensive city and also has the worst cuisine, according to a poll of travellers.

The Capital's first public park opened in 1845 as a response to public health concerns.