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Minor British Institutions: Sunday lunch
Saturday, 15 October 2011
This traditional meal is a Major British Institution gone Minor. According to legend, there was a time when every British family sat down together round the Sunday lunch table to exchange hopes, fears, frustrations and aperçus when they were not listening respectfully to the sage counsels of their father or negotiating over-cooked cabbage.
Coastal erosion: Can a retail guru save Margate?
Monday, 10 October 2011
Andrew Ashenden gave Marylebone a lift. Now Dominic Prince asks him whether the Kent town can be saved.
Picture of the Day: West Africa? No, it's Weston-super-Mare
Monday, 10 October 2011
It might look like the Paris-Dakar rally, but this was in fact the scene at the RHL Weston beach race in Somerset yesterday. Beach racing is an offshoot of enduro and motocross, with riders competing on a course of man-made dunes and jumps
Small pumpkins as unusual weather hits Halloween
Monday, 10 October 2011
This year's unusual weather means Halloween pumpkins could be on the small side, the Royal Horticultural Society says.
Men in stitches: they're taking up knitting to relax
Sunday, 9 October 2011
Women outnumbered at woollens event, as male interest in retro crafts increases
'Bluebird' just could not take the speed
Sunday, 9 October 2011
Michael Glover: New evidence: Campbell wasn't 'reckless'.
Minor British Institutions: Lollipop people
Saturday, 8 October 2011
What better sign of a society's priorities and care for its future than a genial official figure stopping traffic to allow children to cross the road to get to school? Well, perhaps, news that local authorities are planning cuts to our 20,000 lollipop people.
For £500,000, the perfect place for the downwardly mobile
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Kevin Rawlinson gets a viewing of the tunnels that Hackney's 'Mole Man' called home
Indian summer: It was fun while it lasted...
Monday, 3 October 2011
The unseasonably warm weather will end abruptly for some this week as Hurricane Ophelia heads for our shores. Forecasters warned yesterday the tail end of the hurricane would lash parts of the country from Wednesday, putting a stop to the record-breaking October temperatures.
Not my bag: tea loses youth appeal
Monday, 3 October 2011
The great British tradition of brewing a cuppa could become a thing of the past as just 4 per cent of tea-drinkers are under 25.
Zombies are coming! Why urban games are all the rage
Sunday, 2 October 2011
The undead are taking over our cities - and no one is safe. Rhiannon Harries braves the streets of Leeds to report on the new phenomenon of 'thriller nights'
Poet's corner: The battle for TS Eliot’s village
Saturday, 1 October 2011
East Coker is being threatened by a sea of cheap housing. John Walsh reports.
Minor British Institutions: The 50 pence piece
Saturday, 1 October 2011
British design tends to the sturdy rather than stylish. Things like red buses, telephone boxes and the JCB do not excite wows from besilked Italians or cool Swedes.
Great grandson returns with medals of hero who led the Charge of the Light Brigade
Thursday, 29 September 2011
A collection of medals honouring the heroism of the last surviving officer of the Charge of the Light Brigade was returned to Britain yesterday after half a century in an American safety deposit box.
Britain's beasts – and the battle to save them
Sunday, 25 September 2011
Jonathan Owen: UK mammals face serious threats, new study shows, but there's hope.
Minor British Institutions: Silence in public
Saturday, 24 September 2011
Charles Nevin: On this crowded island, silence and reserve are cherished.
It's grim down South for birds as species fare better in the North
Friday, 23 September 2011
Michael McCarthy: If birds are struggling to survive, that may say something about our countryside and our quality of life.
'Miracle babies' pastor to be extradited
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
A pastor who claimed he could give infertile couples "miracle babies" is to be extradited to Kenya where he stands accused of child abduction, the Home Office confirmed today.
Flying tribute to killed pilot
Monday, 19 September 2011
The Red Arrows fly over the Tyne Bridge as runners take part in the Bupa Great North Run in Newcastle. Dr Emma Egging, the widow of Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging, the Red Arrows pilot killed in a display last month, started the race in which more than 54,000 people took part. She wore the number four in tribute to her husband, who flew as Red 4.
Minor British Institutions: Antiques Roadshow
Saturday, 17 September 2011
Plenty of native obsessions on view here in selected stately spots around the country.
Loved ones 'keep ashes for months'
Monday, 12 September 2011
People are hoarding the ashes of their loved ones because they are confused about where they can legally scatter cremated remains, a survey has found.
Behind the scenes at the greatest show in town
Sunday, 11 September 2011
Kate Youde: Culmination of the Proms combines three things guaranteed to rouse passions in the British.
Queen Charlotte's Ball: The new debutantes
Sunday, 11 September 2011
Jonathan Owen: Ball-gowns and bling are de rigueur, but today's high-society girls aren't in the marriage market.
Minor British Institutions: the three-pin plug
Saturday, 10 September 2011
The three-pin plug is a fine British thing. None of your Continental slightness or American economy, with their suggestions of flimsy gimcrack: just the two pins indeed!
Manchester may get Playboy Club
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
When Hugh Hefner flew to London in June for the opening of the first Playboy Club in Britain for more than 20 years, the event was picketed by feminists. But that hasn't put the octogenarian off the idea of expanding.
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