London's blue plaque scheme goes to the wall
06 January 2013 10:17 PM
English Heritage plans to stop erecting the blue plaques that commemorate the lives of the great and the good in London because it can no longer afford to pay for them.
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Twelfth Night: Turn over new leaf, says Holly Man
06 January 2013 09:56 PM
An actor from The Bankside Mummers group announces the arrival of the The Holly Man – the winter guise of the Green Man, a character from pagan myth – near the Globe Theatre in London to celebrate Twelfth Night.
Auld Lang Syne ditched for Gangnam Style as Psy tops New Year's Eve karaoke chart
02 January 2013 09:38 AM
Karaoke fans rejected the traditional sentiments of "Auld Lang Syne" this New Year and saw in 2013 "Gangnam Style", according to a new poll.
The year in Trending: They came, they saw, they were found in Ikea...
30 December 2012 11:02 PM
Forget about the heroes of Team GB and the Royals, we salute those who really made 2012 great. Sort of
Being Modern: Bouncers
30 December 2012 12:00 AM
You will see them if you dare venture out in any town or city tomorrow night. They are the modern-day guardians of the gates of hell. They will be standing there, earpieces at the ready. They will invariably be bald, buffed and dressed in black.
West London's Egerton Crescent revealed as UK's most expensive street - with terraced houses sharing a communal garden costing over £8 million
28 December 2012 02:13 PM
A house on the street costs over 32.5 times the average UK house price
Being Modern: Lists
23 December 2012 12:00 AM
Though our telegram from the Queen appears to have been lost in the post, it must not be allowed to escape the nation’s attention that Being Modern is – as the more eagle-eyed among you may have noticed from the number above – 100 columns old today. Yay for us, etc.
Yule rules: Your guide to having a middle-class Noël
23 December 2012 12:00 AM
The authors of ‘The Art of Being Middle Class’ present their essential guide to surviving yuletide, from what gifts really mean to which guilty pleasures are socially acceptable (...and which most certainly aren’t)
The IoS's Great Britons 2012
23 December 2012 12:00 AM
The IoS presents its top 101 stars of the past year; inspirational characters who moved and uplifted us all. Plus, limping in with bloopers aplenty, the year's Plonkers − better luck in 2013, chaps
Away from the manger: Meet the people who spend Christmas in extraordinary circumstances
23 December 2012 12:00 AM
From Afghanistan and the Antarctic, to a maternity ward and rehab...
Sleigh down...! Santas sprint for the RNLI
16 December 2012 09:12 PM
Running in support of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, 2,000 people dressed as Father Christmas sprinted along the promenade at Southsea, Hampshire, in the winter sunshine yesterday.
Amazon locks and loads so you can pick up and go
16 December 2012 07:50 PM
Amazon.co.uk is coming to a convenience store near you. The online retail giant has been rolling out its self-service delivery lockers across Britain's supermarkets, train stations and newsagents since last September.
From Brighton to a lighthouse in Maine, the Christmas decorations that lit up our lives
16 December 2012 07:50 PM
If you're yet to dig out the decade-old string of fairy lights that are coiled around a clutch of gaudy baubles and haven't got round to stringing up the sparkly icicles along the guttering, why not take inspiration from this illuminating lot?
Christmas lunch off the menu for most
09 December 2012 09:30 PM
More than one in four Britons has never cooked or helped to prepare the Christmas dinner, a survey suggests. Younger people are most culpable, with 44 per cent of under-45s not getting involved, and almost a third still relying on their parents for the festive feast.
Kids say the unfunniest things
09 December 2012 08:00 PM
While we count down the days until Christmas and the national groanathon that is cheap crackers over turkey and all the trimmings, children everywhere are already dispensing terrible humour online. Strangely, however, they're often genuinely funny.
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George Washington: The father of the nation
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Cameron: Britain would fight another war with Argentina to keep the Falkland Islands
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Bulger killer reveals his identity as strain proves too much
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BBC broadcaster John Simpson says he plans to commit suicide rather than allow young son to see him as a 'gibbering wreck' in old age
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'Brighter than a full moon': The biggest star of 2013... could be Ison - the comet of the century
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