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Mirror Mirror is a poor reflection of real fairytales | Morven Crumlish
Julia Roberts's latest film is part of the trend to jazz up fairytales for modern tastes. But the original stories need no adaptationWhen adapting fairytales for modern tastes, the trend has been to go...
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North Sea gas leak: plug plan gets green light
Intervention given go-ahead after inspection of leak on Elgin platform, about 150 miles off AberdeenPlans to "kill" a gas leak on an offshore platform by pumping mud into it can go ahead, experts said...
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Good to meet you… John Linfoot
A first-generation Guardian reader, he loves its 'distinctly more selective' letters page, and reserves at least half an hour each morning to go through the paper in bedAs a paper boy in Liverpool I...
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Letters: Dangers that lurk in Gove's plans
It would be really good to see some joined-up thinking from Mr Gove (Universities wary of Gove's plans for them to set A-levels, 4 April). Universities (for which read Russell Group) are apparently to...
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Corrections and clarifications
Cingulate cortex | Arm Holdings chip designs | What is a sister ship | Tweeting from employment tribunal• An account of watching a brain dissection said that one of the first areas of the brain to be...
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Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire: The best midwife in his field – a...
Sandy, Bedfordshire: Wrapping the slime-covered joint in the jumper, he tugged hard. The lamb popped out like a cork from a bottle and I felt a splash of amniotic fluid on my cheekThe maternity ward...
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Tax, that unlikely window on our politicians' souls | Marina Hyde
Forcing office-holders to be open about their finances is one part of the US system to which we should fervently aspireRifling through what I might facetiously style as my archives, I see that it was...
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Letters: Credibility gap for the Met and prosecution service on racism
You report that, in his address to staff, Met police chief Bernard Hogan-Howe said: "We work hard to forge close relationships with people who can advise us and rightly hold us to account" (I will not...
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Letters: Working together
Deborah Orr (31 March) says her worker co-op failed because the members argued. The ingredients for a successful co-op are easy to identify, but take years to learn – respect and solidarity,...
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Letters: Fallacy of the case for a third runway
Your recent article speculating about a possible Conservative party policy shift on Heathrow (Tories may be on the final approach to a U-turn, 26 March) suggested that the Committee on Climate Change,...
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Andrew Lansley performs the splits | Simon Hoggart
Response to the Telegraph story on abortion clinics shows this is is not a government but a PR agency with fabulous offices✒Andrew Lansley bizarrely diverted NHS resources to do a sudden investigation...
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Letters: Bigger brotherhood
Andrew Brown's suggestion (Cameron does God, 5 April) that the 2 million people in church every Sunday "dwarfs the membership of all political parties and trade unions" is misleading in the case of...
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Metropolitan police 'buried' report in 2004 warning of race scandal
Scotland Yard veterans claim spiralling crisis triggered by recording of racial abuse was 'accident waiting to happen'A secret Metropolitan police report warned police chiefs that they needed to take...
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Britain's retailers hope for extravagant Easter
Cold snap is bad news for 'make or break' holiday after number of retailers going bust this year reaches 69The nation's struggling retailers are preparing for a make-or-break Easter, and if weather...
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Russians could buy Athens' stake in Greek refiner
Gazprom Neft expresses interest in Hellenic Petroleum, which is being put up for sale under privatisation planRussia's fifth-largest oil firm, Gazprom Neft, has become the first potential bidder to...
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Markets record short but turbulent week
Shares fall amid eurozone fears and confusion around US Federal Reserve's attitude to more quantitative easingLeading shares recorded their third successive weekly decline as eurozone fears continued...
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The Irish question | Elaine Byrne
The Irish face yet another EU referendum, but monetary problems are increasing middle-class dissentIreland's tempestuous love affair with European treaty referendums is set for another date on 31 May....
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Police racism: social capital
More than 10 years after the Macpherson inquiry condemned London's police as institutionally racist, the Met's swift action this week is evidence of a better climateThe shocking soundtrack of a police...
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Petrol prices: pouring fuel on the electoral fire | Editorial
Spikes in crude prices have preceded every recession in industrialised countries since the second world warForget jerry cans. Memories of the government's mishandling of the tanker dispute may be...
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Unthinkable? A lawn tax
Lawns, once a celebration of status, are nowadays an affront to changing climateAs gardeners in eastern and southern Britain hang up their hosepipes for the summer, it may be worth considering one way...
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