PIERS MORGAN: 'I'd like a photo of you pouring me vintage Krug,' I told Sting. He chuckled... then realised I was serious
CHRIS EVANS: What has four wheels and is so mind-blowingly gigantic it probably needs planning permission every time you park it?
CRAIG BROWN: The audacious story of 100 Israeli commandos flying into Idi Amin's Uganda to free the hijacked occupants of Air France Flight 139
Whether you're drinking cheap wine and dancing with pretty girls in Seville or finding skulduggery and romance in the Isle of Wight, your literary companion should be chosen with care, says the best-selling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin. ...read
More than a century on, the company Gerald Rusgrove Mills and his publishing partner Charles Boon founded, Mills & Boon, sells 5.5 million books a year - that's one every four seconds.
The writer loves telling tales... from breathless gossip to high drama: maybe that's why her novels keep being made into smash movies - including The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
It wasn't until last week that I had a real taste of a cuisine that had entirely passed me by. More fool me. OK, so it helped that Taberna do Mercado, sitting on the edge of Old Spitalfields Market in London, is Nuno Mendes' new baby. And as regular readers well know, I think Mendes is one of the capital's great cooks.
Whether they are bittersweets, bittersharps or dessert apples, it's these that inform the final blend. The orchard site, too, is important.
Brush up on your Turner, get bowled over by the Ashes, or Bend It Like Beckham... the musical!
It wasn't until last week that I had a real taste of a cuisine that had entirely passed me by. More fool me. OK, so it helped that Taberna do Mercado, sitting on the edge of Old Spitalfields Market in London, is Nuno Mendes' new baby. And as regular readers well know, I think Mendes is one of the capital's great cooks. From high-end (but laid-back) Viajante to the star-soaked electricity of Chiltern Firehouse, the man is endlessly innovative. ...read
Whether they are bittersweets, bittersharps or dessert apples, it's these that inform the final blend. The orchard site, too, is important, with heavy soils in the west and chalky soils in the east offering the cider grower a wealth of terrains. Middle Farm, near Lewes in East Sussex, is the home of the National Collection of Cider and Perry and one of my favourite places to sample real cider with excellent guidance from director Rod Marsh. ...read
A good start is Champagne Lanson, exclusive supplier to Wimbledon whose bottles are united by crispness and zing.
For most Dads I reckon red rather than white is the way to go - while whites can age beautifully into creamy and nutty richness, reds tend to deliver a bit more muscle and power.
Astell & Kern's Junior aims to be a Rolls-Royce among digital music machines, with an anodised aluminium finish, a metal click wheel, and a suitably preposterous price tag: £400. The gimmick is that the A&K; Jr, like all their players, sounds better than an iPhone - or indeed any other phone. Britain has spent an eye-wateringly vast amount of money on 'big' headphones in recent years (as the home hi-fi market has swirled off down the plughole, that's where our money's gone). Yet the mobiles we all listen to don't have the power or precision under the bonnet to drive big cans properly. Astell & Kern hopes to change that. ...read
You may actually feel the need to seek planning permission just to park the Volvo XC90 D5 Inscription in your drive. And that's bearing in mind the one they sent me was in the more slimming shade of Ice White. Goodness only knows how huge this beast looks in fat black or moody mahoosive blue. Once I'd walked around it, which took about a week, I found myself edging backwards, like when you look up at a really tall building or the vast hull of an aircraft carrier. ...read
I had never actually driven a brand-new MX-5 until this week, when this beauty landed on my drive. 'Gorgeous car,' I thought immediately.
Puts me in mind of a mini Alfa Romeo 8C Spider.
The Juke Nismo RS is the aesthetic motoring equivalent of the entire cast of The Only Way Is Essex. Too much pocket money and too long at the Max Factor counter.
Sting shook his head slowly, then chuckled again. 'Oh sod it, come on then.' The next day, as we met at JFK to fly back to London, Sting was waiting with a copy of the International Herald Tribune - the world's most serious newspaper. He was shaking his head again, and still chuckling. The paper had chosen one large image from Concorde's return to adorn its front page - Sting serving me champagne. ...read
The 70-year-old and his Welsh wife split briefly in 2013 after his shock diagnosis with cancer but are now stronger than ever, Mr Douglas revealed in an interview with Event Magazine today. Talking of their separation, the Wall Street star said the couple 'worked things out', adding: 'We're about to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary and it feels great.' ...read
If you fancy having an argument about animal rights with Ricky Gervais or are brave enough to trade insults with James Blunt about his musical prowess then you're probably already one of the 300 million users pumping out half a billion tweets a day on Twitter. No other website gives you such a personal peek into the lives of celebrities. ...read
The Woman's Hour presenter has an explosive temper and is brutally honest... which is why she's having gastric surgery - she knows it's the only thing that'll make her lose weight.
Terry Waite endured five years chained to a radiator. He comforts families of other hostages captured or killed by jihadis. No wonder he says he needed to 'cheer himself up'.
The Last English Poachers is not a book you are likely to see on sale at Waitrose. It shows nature so very red in tooth and claw that the teeth and the claws have been hacked off and fed to the pigs.
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