"I don't have the best record as captain - played four, lost four, only one decent performance - and Colin has more experience," Williams explained "I feel better now that he has taken the job on. I believe he is the...

Sometimes it's just overwhelming," begins Rowlands, his words struggling to keep up with his own excitement. "When I'm in front of the decks, playing a sequence live, I can sense that the people I'm playing to are...

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...

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...

"This has been a total nightmare," one of the film's subjects told The New York Observer recently on condition of anonymity. "I look like a total moron, and that's not who I am." Certainly, finding the moron element...

I have no doubt that drugs are a significant temptation to our pupils," said Mr Little. "We are revising our policy so that pupils of concern can attend counselling and rehabilitation programmes."The move comes after...

The England captain, Billy Wright, never one to exaggerate, said: "There were people there that day who were of a mind to call him a traitor." It was not for the first time.In a remarkable life which had begun as one...

But the diet industry requires a simple message that can be sold to the gullible The press must be enlisted to support it. How else to account for the huge popularity of the Atkins diet, and of its predecessors...

The only glimpse you are likely to get of George Bush is of a silhouette through the tinted bullet-proof windows of a black limousine in a motorcade. But then again, given that even the limos now travel in pairs to...

The litany of setbacks, growing US casualties and the recent killing of 18 Italian servicemen has brought intense domestic and international pressure on the Bush administration to give the occupying force more...

"Azertyuiop was no more impressive last year than this horse," he said "You couldn't split them on the way he's won He jumps, he travels and he quickens. Like Azertyuiop, we've minded him over hurdles and not...

This is an allergy-like condition that causes all of the symptoms that you describe. No one knows the exact cause of PLE, although it probably has something to do with the body's immune system and its reaction to...

Since the trust will forever be at the mercy of a potentially feuding clan, there is no clear idea of where it may be taken.Look elsewhere.. The shares' discount to NAV has narrowed from 30 per cent to 21 per cent in...

"I was a bit surprised when I heard I was playing, and you do think to yourself that there will be people out there who doubt whether you can do it. It continued when he scored a first-minute own goal and conceded two...

But their efforts were drowned out bythe band of the Grenadier Guards and the Corps of the Drums of the Battalion playing the Americann national anthem. Reporter Parry excluded details of his journalistic career from...

Robbie Keane struck twice as the Republic of Ireland enjoyed a relatively easy win in their friendly against Canada here last night. Football doesn't work like that."WALES (probable 4-1-4-1): Jones (Southampton),...

Bad news for taxpayers, bad news for pensioners, bad news for people on low income, bad news for communities, bad news for people."Edward Davey, the Liberal Democrat local government spokesman, told MPs: "You know...

Pale and drawn, she alerts you to how the character's clich?clutchings at optimism tend to be curiously qualified "This will have been another happy day! [Pause] After all. In 1976, Peter Hall inaugurated the National...

It meant that a large number of Shanghaiese were sent to work in the countryside without completing high school and without going to university. They returned to Shanghai at the end of that period lacking the skills...

But those in-between years were the happiest of my life.Miller later had a cameo role in the all-star flop Won Ton Ton, the Dog That Saved Hollywood (1976), and made her final film, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, in...