There were periods when PSG looked likely to score, but Arteta’s hyper-organised defence always looked good to see out the ...

SIR Keir Starmer told the Labour Party conference this week he knew plans to take away the winter fuel allowance from all but the very poorest pensioners was an unpopular move – as unions demanded the ...

ELLIE, a loveseeker on Channel 4’s First Dates, explained last week that she might fall asleep if her match was boring, and asked the barman to make her a disguised energy drink. She ordered some ...

WE’RE all born “astride a grave”, Samuel Beckett reminds us in his seminal 1953 play that has perplexed and delighted theatre-goers over the decades. While waiting for the enigmatic Godot, Estragon ...

Charles ‘Ruby’ Sparkes, aka Rubberface because he pulled grimaces in police photographs; and Lily Kendall, the real Bobbed-Hair Bandit [Mirrorpix] THE story of Charles Sparkes ends in 1988, when the ...

AS Joni Mitchell used to say, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. And that was very nearly the case with the BBC Singers, the elite vocal consort threatened with closure in a cost-cutting ...

THE tag of “underdogs” has been lost forever as a squad of mighty martial artists continue to “defy expectations” whenever they are given the opportunity to showcase their taekwondo skills. In the ...

THE autumn jazz landscape is dominated by the behemoth of the EFG London Jazz Festival which will take over all the city’s prime venues in mid-November. We will be covering that in a few weeks but, in ...

Opinion: A seemingly neverending supply of players were ready to explain their inability to beat a team which had played with only 10 men for nearly an hour THAT thing where somebody tells you they ...

FOOTBALL legends mingled with musicians and anti-racism campaigners at the Emirates Stadium for the launch of a new book that celebrates the connections between Arsenal Football Club and Black British ...

IN 1925 British astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne (Maureen Beattie) claimed that the stars are made of hydrogen and helium. Her PhD adviser, Henry Norris Russell (Julian Wadham), head of ...

Thirty-two years after its first staging, Stephen Daldry’s award-winning production of JB Priestley’s morality play An Inspector Calls has lost none of its power. Set in an English manufacturing town ...