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Simon Hoggart's week: War Horse's stable closes its doors
Twickenham Film Studios' sad end, gunfight at a vacant lot near the OK Corral and Joely Richardson's family semaphore habit✒ Round where we live we're very sad indeed about the likely closure of...
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Rescued French journalist arrives home
Edith Bouvier met by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who on Tuesday prematurely announced her evacuation from HomsThe injured French journalist Edith Bouvier was met by President Nicolas Sarkozy as her...
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Justice and security green paper: silence in court
The secretary of state would be free to shroud in secrecy any civil trial involving 'sensitive information' whose disclosure is likely to harm 'the public interest'The government's proposals to extend...
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Sue Akers: Met to core model for Helen Mirren's Prime Suspect role
No-nonsense reputation carried into the Met deputy assistant comissioner's appearance at the Leveson inquiryThe daily diet of burglaries, robberies and violence was interrupted at Islington nick one...
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Syria: no road back
Were the schoolchildren in Deraa tortured for scrawling graffiti really agents of a foreign regime?The appalling scenes as the Syrian army on Friday"cleansed" Baba Amr, the suburb of Homs which has...
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Secret Policeman's Ball recruits New York's finest to Amnesty celebration
Ground-breaking comedy gala is making its American debut – but will the Last Supper be on the menu?It has been 36 years since some 1,200 people crammed into Her Majesty's Theatre in London's West End...
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Gay-Straight Alliance club confronts homophobia at north London school
Copland community school in Wembley imports US model in which gay and straight pupils join forces to tackle discriminationThere are rainbow-coloured posters set high on the wall where they can't be...
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Greeks try to keep the peace with their dwindling German tourists
Hotel and restaurant owners insist holidaymakers are welcome despite resentment towards Germany over bailout conditionsIn Rhodes old town, unseasonal gales are blowing chairs down the street. It takes...
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Manslaughter verdict for man who 'botched' boiler installation
Zoe Anderson was killed in 2010 by carbon monoxide fumes which leaked from a boiler fitted by Andrew HartleyA gas fitter has been found guilty of killing a 24-year-old woman who was overcome by carbon...
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Kristy Bamu's murder was child abuse, first and foremost | Albert Tucker
Kristy was killed because his attackers thought he was a witch, yet we should not view this abuse differently from other formsThe murder of Kristy Bamu, tortured to death because his attackers believed...
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Middlesbrough nightclub lists while residents try to stay afloat
City, like once-floating Tuxedo Royale, may have fallen on hard times but that doesn't mean everyone has give up on the futureThere's a ship in Middlesbrough dock that's been listing like the Costa...
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Steve Hilton: the 'big society' guru who's opting out ... for now
David Cameron's strategy chief was a Tory moderniser who traditionalists believe was responsible for election 'failure'Steve Hilton's decision to leave Downing Street and decamp to California's Silicon...
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Cameron tries to close stable door after Rebebak Brooks horse story has bolted
David Cameron confirms rode former police horse Raisa while it was on loan to Rebekah Brooks - but not while prime ministerDavid Cameron's efforts to edge away from Rebekah Brooks, the fallen News...
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'Never explain, never apologise' is the Met police way. It's not good enough...
The Met seem at pains to highlight criminality at News International, as if they themselves are hapless victims. It's absurdThe Metropolitan police and the Independent Police Complaints Commission have...
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Country diary: Black Mountains: Spring is coming to the hills
Black Mountains: Gravid ewes kneel to chew at sparse fescues. A raven observes, waiting for her annual portion of sickly lambs' eyesA sleek streak of russet pelts down the field, making for a friend's...
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Good to meet you … Sally Welsh
The Guardian's Women's page turned her a 14-year-old feminist, and three decades on she is still a regular reader of the paperI grew up in Lancashire and remember reading the Women's page in front of...
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As the recession bites, is a new kind of northern politics emerging? | Ian Jack
Socialism in the north has a local, amiable identity – socialism at its most social – that makes it increasingly attractive today'You should have told me. We could have gone." I've never been sure if I...
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Letters: Ways to make Britain a biking nation
In your leader (On your bikes, 27 February), you state that "the most dangerous place to ride your bike is down a rural A-road". This was confirmed recently when I drove along the A580 – the East...
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Letters: Curse of Victorians' laudanum habit
As a footnote to Kathryn Hughes's review of Peter Ackroyd's biography of Wilkie Collins (What-happened-nextness, Review, 25 February), I would guess that much of the ill health Collins suffered from...
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Letters: Gay culture, the rise of corporate rock, and dodgy musicals
Alexis Petridis's article about the decline of gay culture in pop music (Straight and narrow, G2, 29 February) was thoughtful and interesting. Further reasons why it declined: during the 1950s and the...
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