What’s the story behind Britain’s richest road? There’s a simple way to check if your house is a super-mansion or not: look for the boiler cupboard. If you find one, you fail. Of course, there are other tests. Do you have your own cinema, for instance, or could you hold a five-a-side football tournament in[…]
What is a cricket club doing in a 9/11 novel? As its acclaimed author – and Staten Island cricketer – Joseph O’Neill tells, it’s obvious Joseph O’Neill, a lean, dark, Irish-born author raised in Holland, educated at Cambridge, trained at the English bar and resident in New York, was, until recently, unaware of his genius.[…]
Twenty-one young people who have killed themselves in the past 18 months who lived in or were connected with Bridgend in south Wales — and all chose death by hanging. The police now believe they were not part of a suicide cult — so why did they do it? All at once, Chris Claypole, a[…]
What happens when William and Harry hit the town? One man spent a month trawling the nightclub world of the Turbo-Sloanes to find out Please don’t call it a scene. Norman Mailer and Mikhail Baryshnikov ordering drinks while Jerry Hall and Debbie Harry hit the dance floor at Studio 54 – that’s a scene. Francis[…]
Donald Trump wants to build a billion-dollar resort on a rural Scottish shore. But he’ll have to do battle with this man first — who says he won’t budge for love or money After thousands of years of continuous human settlement, something interesting has happened in Balmedie. The locals don’t know where to look. Camera[…]
He’s just 5ft 7in and a Manchester ‘scallywag’ who loves curry and chips. But Ricky Hatton is also Britain’s most exciting boxer, and is facing the fight of his career. Can he become a fully fledged national hero? They came, in late September, to Manchester’s Albert Square – 3,000 of them, mostly young men in[…]