The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from April 2006:
Energy bills soar
Apr 02, 2006 ... Britons have seen pounds 2.82bn added to their energy bills sincethe beginning of the year, according to uSwitch, the price comparisoncompany. The spate of utility price increases since January 1 adds ...
Look out for intriguing contests
Apr 02, 2006; ... West Ham v Charlton Today: 4pm Sky Sports1 CHARLTON'S LAST two home performances against Middlesbrough andNewcastle were far better than in previous weeks. Two weeks ago, intheir last away game at Arsenal, they produced an inept display bothin attack and defence, which ...
Warriors march on
Apr 02, 2006; ... N'hampton 25 Worcester 34 Franklin's Gardens: 9,531 A marvellous away victory puts Worcester within two wins of afirst appearance in the Heineken Cup. Last season, Worcester's first in the Guinness Premiership, thetalk was of the Warriors' forwards. But ...
Hull fall to Deacon and Harris
Apr 02, 2006; ... Bradford 23 Hull 12 Odsal Stadium Hull fought grimly in the Odsal mud to keep their hands on thePowergen Challenge Cup, but Bradford ground out a hard-fought win infoul conditions which went against open rugby. The champions' half-back partnership of scrum-half ...
Mr Happy, the multimillionaire
Apr 02, 2006; ... When I was very young, my father tried to read the Beatrix Potterstories to me. As he ploughed his way through the tales of talkingwildlife in bucolic idylls, he became visibly sickened. I becameconfused. My eyes darted from the delicate drawings of the FlopsyBunnies surrounded by ...
A dwarf's-eye view of Renaissance sex
Apr 02, 2006; ... Sarah Dunant caused a stir when her latest novel, In the Companyof the Courtesan, knocked The Da Vinci Code off the top of theAmerican independent charts, thanks in part to its sensualdescriptions of Renaissance Venice. Here Dunant, 55, talks about her new book. You have a ...
How to laugh like a lion
Apr 02, 2006; ... I'M NOT FEELING TOO CLEVER TODAY. IT'S the anniversary of theDanish fleet being destroyed by the British during the Battle ofCopenhagen. The one where Admiral Nelson put his telescope to hisblind eye and said he never saw the order to withdraw. On the whole,I like Nelson. Here was a man ...
Openings Private views and public lives; All chilled out at the deep end
Apr 02, 2006; ... THE FOURTH ANNUAL BERLIN BIENNALE TOOK place this year on just onestreet. Auguststrasse hosted 100 exhibitions in its beer halls, theclassrooms of the Old Jewish School and in residents' apartments.Citizens of the art world turned to Stadtbat, a disused swimmingpool, for the night's ...
Dude, is that a snake in your luggage?
Apr 02, 2006; ... In the late 1990s, an amusing story about Cantonese translationsof Hollywood film titles was reported as fact by CNN and the New YorkTimes. Leaving Las Vegas, it was said, had been re-titled I'm DrunkAnd You're A Prostitute. The Crying Game became Oh No! My GirlfriendHas A Penis. None of ...
The doctor will see you now Eight-year-old Louis Norman braved a rampaging werewolf to meet David Tennant and Billie Piper on the set of the new Doctor Who series. His father Matthew tells all
Apr 02, 2006 ... AS WE WALK NERVOUSLY TOWARDS A hideous Victorian pile on theoutskirts of the grimy Welsh city of Newport, I catch myselfengaging, rather fittingly, in a little time-travel. Transported fiveyears into the future (by fearful imagination rather than theTardis), I am wondering whether my ...
My parents and other enemies What do you do if you've been brought up by New York Bohemians locked in permanent combat? Have therapy, then make a movie about IT - as Noah Baumbach explains to John Preston
Apr 02, 2006; ... JUST IN CASE YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A RECIPE FOR THE MOST SELF-INDULGENT movie ever made, this one would be hard to beat. You writea script about your parents' divorce and how badly it affected youwhen you were growing up. You hire an actor to play your father - andeven dress him in your ...
CINEMA
Apr 02, 2006; ... The White Countess Basic Instinct 2 Two women in white. Two films to plug. One battle for box-officeglory. In the red corner we have Countess Sofia Belinski (NatashaRichardson), a widowed Russian aristo who has fled with her family to1930s Shanghai. No matter how lowering ...
OTHER FILMS
Apr 02, 2006; ... The Ballad of Jack & Rose (15) HHHII Paradise is lost pretty pronto in Rebecca (daughter of Arthur)Miller's oddly hypnotic biblical drama, complete with snake. OurEdenic couple are a father and daughter: Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis,Miller's real-life husband), and 15-year-old Rose ...
ART
Apr 02, 2006; ... The American painter Ellsworth Kelly is in his early eighties, buthis recent work, on display at the Serpentine Gallery, is bothvigorous and exacting. Kelly works on the borderline betweenpainting, collage, cut-out and sculpture. Some of his new works takethe form of delicately shaped ...
THEATRE
Apr 02, 2006; ... Whistle Down the Wind Rockaby/Ohio Impromptu One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest There are those whose heart's cockles are warmed by the sound ofmany children singing at the same time and there are those who wantto leave the room - or in my case the Palace Theatre where ...
Ketil Bjrnstad Music
Apr 02, 2006; ... At the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the revered Norwegian poet, novelistand pianist Ketil Bjrnstad patiently leads an assortment of musiciansthrough nearly three hours of music that is mostly busier andcertainly friskier than the beautiful, bare music he has recorded forthe ECM label ....
Classical
Apr 02, 2006; ... The Sixteen OAE/London Symphony Chorus City of London Choir The Sixteen, one of the most outstanding choirs in a countryrenowned for choral music, has set off on the latest of its so-called Choral Pilgrimages and will criss-cross Britain until Novemberthis year. Don't ...
TELEVISION
Apr 02, 2006; ... Alive: Back to the Andes How to Have a Good Death Tony Robinson: Me and My Mum Whoever dreamed up the idea behind Alive: Back to the Andes(Wednesday, Channel 5) is, I suspect, to be found chortling manicallyaway in a strap-down facility of their choice. It is one of ...
Radio
Apr 02, 2006; ... Life after Rover Dounreay My Wizard It's not easy to think of a subject for a documentary moreunenticing than a long look back at the defunct car factory ofLongbridge, particularly when you throw in those Brummie accents.What could be more dispiriting than ...
Opera and concerts
Apr 02, 2006; ... Royal Opera House London, 020 7304 4000. Dmitri Hvorostovsky singsthe title role in Steven Pimlott's staging of Tchaikovsky's EugeneOnegin (Mon, Wed, Sat) with Rolando Villazon as Lensky. ENO London Coliseum, 0870 145 0900. Felicity Lott leads the castin Offenbach's La Belle Hlne ...
Rock
Apr 02, 2006; ... Placebo Bouncing back with superb new album Meds - yet anothertour de force accompanied by androgynous artwork and drenched insexual innuendo. Blackpool Empress Ballroom, Wed, 01253 292 029;Glasgow Academy, Thur, 0870 771 2000; Newcastle Academy, Sat, 0870771 2000. We Are ...
Films
Apr 02, 2006; ... Strayed (18). Subtle piece of film-making from Andr Techin, set inNazi occupied France, about a young ...
Dance
Apr 02, 2006; ... Bolshoi Ballet Lowry, Salford 0870 787 5793, Tue-Sat: YuriGrigorovich's testosterone-crazed Spartacus (Tue, Wed) and Swan Lake(Thur-Sat). Royal Ballet Royal Opera House, London, 020 7304 4000, Tue: Christopher Wheeldon's Polyphonia, ...
Theatre
Apr 02, 2006; ... Chatroom, Burn, Citizenship Cottesloe, London, 020 7452 3000, inrep to June 3. Three bright, energetic plays aimed at young people,written by Enda Walsh, Deborah Gearing and Mark Ravenhill. Art HORATIA HARROD Modernism: Designing a New World Victoria and Albert ...
Royal Ballet mixed bill Ballet
Apr 02, 2006; ... Take a sledgehammer to the Royal Ballet's patio and you will findthe unmourned remains of virtually every new ballet created on thecompany in the past two decades. So far, the Royal Ballet's directorMonica Mason hasn't had to dig up the crazy paving anything like asfrequently as her ...
DVDs
Apr 02, 2006; ... THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Buena Vista, U, pounds 20.99 The first of C. S. Lewis's seven fantasies is filmed as a would-be successor to the Tolkien franchise. The Christian allegoryunderpinning the sacrificial death and resurrection ...
Pop
Apr 02, 2006; ... PINK I'M NOT DEAD. LAFACE, pounds 12.99; (WITH DVD) pounds 14.99 Given the nature of Pink's own musical odyssey - from productionline r'n'b to solipsistic soft-rock and back again - 'Stupid Girls',her current assault on the lack of integrity of her female pop peergroup, ...
Classical
Apr 02, 2006; ... WAGNER: DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN Bayreuth Festival Ch. & Orch./Boulez. Unitel/DG, 8 DVDs including56-minute documentary, pounds 89.99 Patrice Chreau's 1976 centenary production of The Ring at Bayreuthprovoked an outcry of abuse (and physical violence) fromtraditionalists, was ...
Poetry Seamus Heaney's detractors distrust his accessibility. So they won't like this new volume, says Caroline Moore
Apr 02, 2006; ... District and Circle BY SEAMUS HEANEY FABER, pounds 12.99, 76 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p)0870 428 4115 'Famous Seamus' is recognised by taxi-drivers, praised by JerryHall and mobbed by 'Heaneyboppers'; he has won the Nobel Prize, andcreated a bestseller ...
Autobiography It takes a 'nutty creature' to play one, finds Mark Sanderson
Apr 02, 2006; ... Our Betty: Scenes from My Life BY LIZ SMITH SIMON & SCHUSTER, pounds 14.99, 227 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 It took Liz Smith 70 years to become a household name. Today sheis best known for her roles in two of the greatest televisioncomedies ...
TITLE DEED: HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD' BY J. M. SYNGE
Apr 02, 2006; ... In Synge's famous play, Christy Mahon boasts that he has killedhis father with a spade, and is fted as a 'playboy' - slang for achampion or hero - by the villagers who take him in. Synge said thatthe plot came from an old Aran Islander who told him in the 1890sabout 'a Connaught man who ...
Art Michael Prodger on an artistic house-share that produced great paintings but tragic consequences
Apr 02, 2006; ... The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Tumultuous Weeks inArles BY MARTIN GAYFORD FIG TREE/PENGUIN, pounds 14.99, 356 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 In the late autumn of 1888 Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh spenta little over two months ...
Religion WONDERS IF WE ARE GENETICALLY PROGRAMMED TO BELIEVE IN GOD
Apr 02, 2006; ... Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon BY DANIEL C. DENNETT ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 25, 448 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25p&p) 0870 428 4115 Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Originsof Belief BY LEWIS ...
Confectionery Heaven is made of chocolate, discovers Melissa Katsoulis
Apr 02, 2006; ... Candyfreak: Confessions of a Chocoholic BY STEVE ALMOND HEINEMANN, pounds 10.99, 266 pp T pounds 10.99 ( pounds 1.25p&p) 0870 428 4115 Call me a traitor to post-feminist food-porn, but when I heardabout the memoir of a thirtysomething chocoholic's life-long ...
War Was it moscow that really broke hitler? asks Max Hastings
Apr 02, 2006; ... Moscow 1941: A City and its People at War BY RODRIC BRAITHWAITE PROFILE, pounds 20, 488 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870428 4115 If Hitler's armies had got across the Channel, some of us believethat Britain must have fallen. However courageous had been ...
LITERARY LIFE
Apr 02, 2006; ... When editors and agents reject a manuscript they tend to use atried and trusted formulation: 'Thank you for your submission, whichI read and enjoyed. Unfortunately I don't feel it is quite right forus.' John Howard's children's book, The Key to Chintak, garnered somany of these identikit ...
Law and order This trumpet blast against current dogma shows how far britain has given in to crime, says Leo McKinstry
Apr 02, 2006; ... A Land Fit for Criminals BY DAVID FRASER THE BOOK GUILD, pounds 17.99, 528 pp For decades, policy on crime has been dominated by an anti-punishment ethos, which holds that offenders are really victims ofdeprivation and therefore need support instead of incarceration ....
SUSANNA YAGER ON NEW CRIME FICTION
Apr 02, 2006 ... Part of the pleasure in reading Donna Leon's books is wanderingaround Venice in the company of her engaging sleuth, CommissarioBrunetti, and eavesdropping on his conversations with his formidablyintellectual wife. So it doesn't matter that for the first half ofThrough a Glass Darkly ...
PAPERBACKS
Apr 02, 2006; ... ROSEBERY: STATESMAN IN TURMOIL BY LEO McKINSTRY, MURRAY, pounds 10.99 Lord Rosebery is probably better remembered now as a successfulracehorse owner than as the Liberal politician whose premiership of1894-95 was so ingloriously brief. Yet in his day his oratory drewthousands ...
PAPERBACKS
Apr 02, 2006; ... FEED MY DEAR DOGS BY EMMA RICHLER, HARPER PERENNIAL, pounds 7.99 Sherlock Holmes, William Blake, Shakespeare, and we are still onpage four. The literary references fly thick and fast in EmmaRichler's densely written coming-of-age novel. Jem, the middle offive bright ...
FICTION LISA HILTON IS SEDUCED BY A TALE OF VICE IN 16TH-CENTURY VENICE
Apr 02, 2006; ... In the Company of the Courtesan BY SARAH DUNANT LITTLE, BROWN, pounds 12.99, 408 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25p&p) 0870 428 4115 Poppy Shakespeare BY CLARE ALLEN BLOOMSBURY, pounds 12.99, 342 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25p&p) 0870 428 ...
FICTION There's method in the madness of these two heroines, finds Katie Owen
Apr 02, 2006; ... Broken Biscuits BY LIZ KETTLE FIG TREE/PENGUIN, pounds 12.99, 238 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 These two distinctive dbut novels treat the depressing subject ofmental illness with humour and a surprising lightness of touch. Bothhave young, ...
Fiction Speed and quality are not mutually exclusive, says Matt Thorne
Apr 02, 2006; ... The Chase BY CANDIDA CLARK HEADLINE, pounds 17.99, 274 pp T pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p)0870 428 4115 While the majority of commercial authors write at least one novela year, prolific writers of literary fiction are a rare breed. Somebooks undoubtedly require ...
BOOK CLUB Ali Smith, right, on her choice for april, angela carter's 'wise children'
Apr 02, 2006; ... Angela Carter's last novel, Wise Children, is arguably her finest.It's certainly her most ebullient, cheerfully orgiastic and comic.It's quite simply a blast - of energy, laughter, art, love,entertainment, history, voice and hope. It opens on Shakespeare's birthday, on a gusty ...
MOTORING THE MITSUBISHI L200 LOOKS LIKE A BIG GIRL'S BOUDOIR, SAYS NEIL LYNDON, BUT IT'S GOT OOMPH
Apr 02, 2006; ... Mitsubishi L200 2.5 DI-D Warrior Double Cab Price (as tested) pounds 18,799 BHP 134 0-62mph 17.8 seconds Top speed 102 mph Average fuel consumption 29.7 mpg Insurance group n/a YOUR INNER VIOLET HAD BETTER not be in a shrinking mood if ...
TURN ON THE COMPOSER AND LYRICIST DON BLACK READS IN BED WHILE HIS WIFE SNOOZES ...
Apr 02, 2006 ... I KNOW IT ISN'T NEW OR particularly groundbreaking, but having abook-light means that when you're in bed you can go on readingwithout disturbing your partner. I bought my first when I was inShanghai last year and it turned out to be quite dim, but the BookLite has a beam that is bright ...
GADGETEER
Apr 02, 2006 ... The watch lover Everyone in the watch or jewellery business has gone toSwitzerland, writes Nick Hurrell. Basel, or Baselworld, The Watch andJewellery Show, as its promoters properly call it, is where debutantewatch models are paraded. The talk of Basel will surely be Zenith, ...
A FOOT ON THE LADDER With names such as iPad and i-Life, the next generation of starter homes aims to be cutting edge as well as compact. But will it solve the problem of affordable housing? David Hoppit has an exclusive viewing
Apr 02, 2006; ... David Cameron may lose more votes for his party than he gainsafter suggesting that planners and rural communities were "bananas''for resisting developments of affordable housing. He believes the not-in-my-backyard (Nimby) mentality contradicts social justice and wantsto encourage more of ...
First-time buyer facts
Apr 02, 2006 ... * Couples must find an average pounds 24,000 deposit for theirfirst home. * The average first purchase has now reached pounds 137,000, withparental help averaging pounds 17,000. Prices in the south-east arethe most expensive. * Pressure on housing is increased by the ...
How the 2004 Housing Act affects landlords
Apr 02, 2006 ... Three new licences - Mandatory, Selective and Discretionary - willbe introduced when the 2004 Housing Act comes into force on April 6.Mandatory licences are for owners of Houses in Multiple Occupation(HMOs) of three storeys or more and at least five sharers. Landlordshave until July to ...
Landlords keen to wash their hands of new law Student flat owners and their tenants could suffer under rules requiring a sink in every bedroom, writes Christopher Browne
Apr 02, 2006; ... Landlords who let their apartments and houses to students andsharers are about to experience a nasty sinking feeling - literally.New rules in the 2004 Housing Act that become law on April 6 say thatany property with five or more sharers must have a wash-basin or sinkin every bedroom - ...
Odd one out When Hurst House was built, it lay on the edge of a forest. Now it nestles in suburbia, writes Ross Clark
Apr 02, 2006; ... As with many an 18th-century country house, if you look from thewindows of Hurst House you can see down a long, sweeping avenue.Except in this case it isn't an avenue of yew or oak. It is moreAcacia Avenue. Two rows of mock Tudor semis flank either side of therear garden. It was ...
Call of the wild Canada boasts dramatic scenery, huge empty territories and superior standards of living. No wonder Britons are flocking there, to invest or even to emigrate, says Cheryl Markosky
Apr 02, 2006; ... Once, British explorers crossed the Atlantic and ventured up theSt Lawrence Seaway to barter whisky and guns for beaver pelts. Todaythe exchange has matured, as the Brits turning up on Canadian shorestrade their sterling for log cabins and ski chalets. Canada - a beautiful country ...
The room planners How to extend your kitchen space
Apr 02, 2006 ... Paula suggestsIf your kitchen is impractical, short onworksurfaces, feels cramped and uninspiring, it's time to re-think.Extending a kitchen to be more user-friendly does not always requiremajor works and can be achieved creatively, even if your budget islimited. The possibilities are ...
Lessons in good taste With a new three-bedroom flat to decorate, Zoe Dare Hall finds herself listening to lectures on looking glasses and discourses on doorhandle decorum at interior design school
Apr 02, 2006; ... After years of living in, and working from, a 400-square foot, one-bedroom flat - a space so tiny that a wastepaper basket caused amajor obstruction - I'm downsizing in area and upgrading in scale toa three-bedroom garden flat in Greenwich. I may no longer have Gwyneth or Jude as ...
One Foot In The Country
Apr 02, 2006; ... Now that driving a 4x4 carries the same social stigma as walkingdown the street in a full-length mink coat shouting "more troops toIraq!'' what on earth are we country dabblers supposed to get aboutin? What is stylistically and ethically the right vehicle if you spendhalf your ...
COUNTIES OF BRITAIN 9. EAST LOTHIAN The chef and television presenter savours the sights and tastes of a region of great fertility - and says that on a sunny day, she'd back it against anywhere in the world
Apr 02, 2006; ... It is 13 years since I moved from the London of my birth to EastLothian and it is a landscape that has woven itself around my heart.The county takes its name from King Loth of Lothian, the husband ofMorgan le Fey, half-sister of King Arthur - which gives some credenceto the legend that ...
A pot to plant
Apr 02, 2006; ... Begonias are extremely happy in pots in sheltered corners of thegarden, and white B. sutherlandii provides a pretty centrepiece forthis blue and white tin-glazed urn. The red of the stems is picked upby the bright leaves of solenostemon, while variegated thymes andtrailing starry ...
3 of the best Small tables
Apr 02, 2006; ... Eat out Get the family round the garden table at Easter with thisaffordable "Winchester'' dining table. It measures 120cm across(4ft), is made of Balau hardwood and seats four. pounds 79.98 from B&Q (0870 0101 006; www.diy.com). City chic Powder-coated steel ...
Rehabilitating begonias
Apr 02, 2006; ... Banished to the style doldrums for far too long, begonias are inneed of an image update. The rex and cane-stemmed types have some ofthe most stunning foliage around - striped, streaked, spotted andswirled in gloriously unlikely colour combinations. Leave the red anddark green varieties ...
Conservatories Part II: plants and blinds
Apr 02, 2006; ... My conservatory has been designed as much for plants as for peoplein respect of temperature, humidity and light. Can you give me ideasof great plants to grow? Lemon trees are easy to please, so perhaps start with these beforegoing on to other exciting citrus such as Djeruk limes ...
Tchenguiz readies M&B bid
Apr 02, 2006; ... Robert TCHENGUIZ'S R20 investment vehicle is putting the finishingtouches on a pounds 2.6bn bid for Mitchells & Butlers, the owner ofthe All Bar One chain of bars and Harvester restaurants. The Iranian-born entrepreneur is expected to put in a bid ofbetween 500p and 550p per share ...
Brown seeks to wean pension funds off gilts
Apr 02, 2006; ... THE TREASURY has signalled to pension funds that it does not wishto encourage them to switch from equities into bonds as it takessteps to avert a dangerous bubble developing at the long end of thegilt market. In his Budget two weeks ago, Gordon Brown, the chancellor,announced ...
Rose says thankyou to staff with pounds 65m bonus
Apr 02, 2006; ... STUART ROSE, the chief executive of Marks & Spencer, is planningto hand all the store's 63,000 staff a share in a pounds 65m bonuspool as a thankyou for the part they have played in the high streetretailer's return to form over the past year. Rose, who two years ago fought off a ...
Tod's moves from the red carpet to the check-in
Apr 02, 2006 ... KURT GEIGER, Europe's largest retailer of luxury accessories, isforming a joint venture with Tod's, the up-market handbags to shoeshouse, that will see a number of Tod's boutiques open at airports,writes Edward Simpkins. The first store, which will sell handbags, aselection of ...