Country music lost its Man in Black yesterday. Renault has obviously decided to make it quirky on purpose, but the quirkiness has no real effect other than looks It is quirky for quirky's sake. It doesn't feel like it...

"I thought," she says ruefully, "that in London everyone was gonna be into Iggy Pop, because I had some back issues of the NME. And then I came here, and no one had heard of Iggy Pop, so I was really bummed. In 1970,...

Even the poster images are identical: various permutations of evening-dressed Grants, McConaugheys and Bullocks placed back-to-back against the New York skyline, the boy looking helpless, the girl poised to issue some...

Yes Tim, we get it.When he tries to be clever - "I believe in a ghetto for the poor" (wha?) - he stumbles. But there's something simple and sweet, na? and childlike about Burgess which carries him through.It's some...

The team are getting old, too many players are in their 30s, although given the way the Under-21 side dazzled against England at St James' Park, the solution may already be at hand."We have a tremendous wave of talent...

They never destroyed the ground beneath their manager's feet.Old Leeds players like Giles, Lorimer and Norman Hunter, a local broadcaster, have certainly seen the most dismal evidence of the passage of the years these...

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...

Prices start at £575 per person, including transport, accommodation and some meals, but not flights. With flights, it would cost from £875 (01473 667337; ).'DR LIVINGSTONE, I PRESUME?' AND OTHER FAMOUS WORDS"In the...

D'Annunzio proved too famous to pull out.The poet was photophobic, so the light is dim. When you have a bad tooth, Mussolini remarked on another occasion, you either pull it out or cover it in gold. Young Benito...

Guests became known as "Billies" after tour operators banned staff from referring to them as punters. Several were placed by well-known companies; only one specified a salary (of about £100 per week). But running a...

She also says Ms Nichol's HSBC overdraft rate is competitive. She says the real danger comes from credit cards, although Ms Nichol has cut hers up.Mr Dempsey thinks Ms Nichols should pay off her overdraft with her...

They really did let the boom go on for far too long without so much a proverbial quiver of the Governor's eyebrows to alert us to the possible problems ahead.Or, as the Bank's current inflation report puts it: "The...

Savvy analysts say Antisoma shares could double if its first drug, for ovarian cancer, is successful, or halve if it is not. And third, Reckitt's main market of western Europe was especially strong. The wisdom of...

He no longer makes limited editions.Of the 10 limited editions in our survey, only the goblets and the silver coffee service are the work of an individual artisan. Today, the plain goblets would cost Mr Gulland £20...

The Met will devote 5,000 officers to the tour, and about 250 White House Secret Service agents and 150 other US security officers are in the UK overseeing arrangements. The Met has already clashed with the White...