Sadly, they have lost ground in the horse-trading, and while Duncan McRae, that peculiar combination of victim and villain, should do them a turn at outside-half, the World Cup will deny them three months' worth of...

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...

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...

But investors will be eager to learn if business is picking up in the West End and the City.The market will want to focus on the fundamentals at Royal & SunAlliance now that it has completed its £960m rights issue....

Last week the visiting Alfredo Di Stefano, still very much the Real thing, was given the freedom of his native Buenos Aires.insidelines independent.co.ukExit LinesI have always had an interest in doing good as opposed...

Of course they have still more work to do, and last night they were solemnly listing the virtues of both England and France. Nor could another potential man of destiny, the ferocious No 8 Jerry Collins. But I do think...

Ferrell plays his man-child part with wholehearted brio, and writer David Berenbaum and director Jon Favreau find the balance between sharp comedy and festive wonderment. I can't be too critical of a film whose hero...

The term suggests there is something medically, or perhaps socially, wrong with me - but in fact I'm far from alone. According to one parenting website, about 14 per cent of women aged 18 to 34 want just one child.The...

Mr Brown's supposed concern about the differences within the EU is just a device to bolster his political campaign against the euro.. As with most of the issues of "convergence" that Mr Brown cites as barriers to...

The hearts were filled with patriotic certainty, while the heads did not seem quite so sure.Early on Sunday morning horns honking excitedly down the streets provided a wake-up call, and the caf?that were showing the...

To its credit, too, the new leaders are evidently very worried about inequality and seek to do something about it.But it is impossible not to be troubled. You do not need to listen hard to hear of serious corruption....

In 1976 he joined the Royal Ballet School where he mostly taught the boys at White Lodge, the junior section. An expert in the transforming power of make-up, he also gave classes in this. In 1980 he left the Royal...

These could include Associated British Foods and Doughty Hanson, the owner of Ranks Hovis McDougall.Weetabix, which also owns the Alpen and Ready Brek brands, has a 14.2 per cent market share by volume of the...

In fact it turns out to have been British all along, a high profile brand with a surprisingly low profile corporate presence.The chairman, Sir Richard George, the third generation of his family to be involved with the...

As the pumice floats away from the volcano, its bubbly structure becomes waterlogged. The smallest fragments sink first, followed by larger pieces later. "There is a pattern of pumice contained in the deep-sea...

They showed that Britain, and especially London, would shortly come under attack from a generation of appalling new weapons, codenamed by the Germans Vergeltungswaffen, or "revenge weapons".The British reacted...

Felicity Kendal, 57, was born in Warwickshire, but she spent her childhood touring India and the Far East with her parents' theatre company. In 1965 she appeared in the Merchant Ivory film Shakespeare Wallah, which...

But tango is the great uniter, and certainly was in the civilised ambience of the Dean Street Pizza Express, where Sandra Luna was promoting her new CD, Tango Varon. For this charismatic exponent - who started singing...

But the current chairman, David Cordoza, a 33-year-old property developer, has insisted on continuity. The oleaginous chat-show host and entertainer, who came to Northampton as an evacuee during the Second World War,...

He usually manages five in an afternoon.Nearby, Steve was talking about "game-specific" gear, such as woven half-Chelsea/half-Boro scarves "They've gone," he said, snapping his fingers "This is a rare chance. Where...