The charge provoked an unnnusually fierce reaction from Pearson. A handful of very senior executives at the company contacted The Sunday Telegraph following publication of the article two months ago to complain.Robert...

Rotherham report a 150 per cent rise, although 150 per cent of not very much works out at only 500 sales.Only London Irish and Saracens are in a downturn situation, but attendances at both the Madejski Stadium and...

Printed on L'Enclume's menu is the request, "Can you be sympathetic to local residents when leaving the restaurant." Well, no actually We felt rather envious of them. Service comes with stakeholder pride - the chap...

Forty pictures reputed to be "lost" Van Goghs are to go on public display this week in an exhibition that will throw open one of the longest-running and most acrimonious controversies in the art world.A museum in the...

Margaret Hodge, now minister for children, led Islington Council in the years when Demetrious Panton, the man at the centre of Mr Stickler's story, tried to bring his case to public attention.In his Today reports, Mr...

At the end of a week in which the very existence of the National Hunt game, in its current form, has been under vociferous debate, the fact that a record crowd of 28,455 for the day could be attracted for what was not...

We know we need to be at our best against France and I don't think it's far away."It's little things here and there we need. People tuning in to each other, understanding what other people are thinking and what others...

The Colombian government under the dictatorship of General Pinilla, unhappy with these and other revelations, closed El Espectador down. Much of M?uez's later writing would similarly mingle journalism with a creative...

The news dropped last Thursday out of a clear blue sky. Shortly after 9am, Italy learnt that a huge lorry bomb had detonated at its Carabinieri base in southern Iraq. Hours later, as details of the atrocity were still...

Will Margaret Hodge be the Children's minister this time next week? I devoutly hope not. Cold-blooded, narcissistic and blatantly insincere, she is not fit for this vital portfolio. Medicinal herbs are grown at...

Vaccines only protect against specific strains, and every so often, the virus mutates significantly to form an altogether different, and nastier version. Six years ago, the discovery of so-called "bird flu" in Hong...

And in Shanghai, among the shining skyscrapers, elderly ragged beggars rummaged through rubbish bins. The same party that presided over a nation that cycled to work in identical blue overalls now has to cope with the...

Or, more accurately (like one of those Robert Ludlum titles), the Potato Questions. You can gauge how bored people were during work and pensions' questions because there was a ripple of excitement caused by a rumour....

The writer hired a Chevrolet Blazer which costs £269 for one week.Staying there: Accommodation in Gettysburg was at the Doubleday Inn Bed and Breakfast (001 717 334 9119; ). Farmers had to tend their crops around the...

But you can't be expected to take a baby with you on every trip, can you? And now you need never do so again, with our Plastic Passenger Baby! Lifelike and lifesize, it comes in three attitudes: Feet in the Air,...

Monty's Pass's National was a race he might not even have seen never mind won had he not confronted his alcoholic demons. A drop has not passed the lips for the last decade of his 48 years "It was a problem all...

"The transitory balanced" were described as those having the best work-life balance and were mostly in the north."Party animals" were found to be city-dwellers whose sole professional motivation was to fund their...

Nick loves Ferraris, Roger loves the lifestyle, the big house. But I love drums."There's certainly something very single-minded about his approach to the instrument, as shown by the way he prepared for the Ronnie...

That said, Pitman the Younger has not missed any of the City's expectations so far, even if the wild fluctuations in the share price suggest there is no clear view yet on what the company might be worth.With four...

It is also a disservice to a memorable first goal by the precocious David Bentley, a late substitute whose exquisite, gifted chip over 6ft 5in Mark Schwarzer from 20 yards ensured a repeat of the scoreline when the...