Secondly, digital technology gives other broadcasters the means to charge people for watching television, which means they can match the huge amounts BSkyB can offer for the television rights to Premier League games.The decision by the MMC and Mr Byers means that when the rights come up for renegotiation, Mr Murdoch will be competing on [...]

The brush is just shy of teddybear fluffy, and separates the lashes nicely while avoiding clumping. Pitched as the product that will get you through the longest tear-jerker in history and/or 32 lengths in the pool.Where: at department stores & major chemists.How much: pounds 14.50.13ELIZABETH ARDEN VISIBLE DIFFERENCE EIGHT-HOUR CREAMThe best-selling multi-purpose balm by Elizabeth [...]

The alliance that for decades earnestly maintained peace finds itself not only in a war with Serbia, it is threatened with losing. The primary war goal of Nato – to stop the murder and expulsion in Kosovo – has not been achieved. In a few days Milosevic’s troops and gangs will have completed their ethnic [...]

First past the post was Esha Ness, trained by Jenny Pitman, and her tears of frustration won the hearts of the nation in the face of what looked like upper-class bungling on a “Light Brigade” scale.Two years later, Pitman’s redemption was more than completed by the victory of the 12-year-old Royal Athlete, a fragile horse [...]

Some curious ruins and a deserted city lie behind the figures. Above them is blue-green sky with a frail stroke of lightning and a clouded moon. Nobody knows what the painting is about.
Marcantonio Michiel, a Venetian nobleman and antiquary, kept a notebook between 1525 and 1543 in which he refers to the picture as Giorgione’s [...]

How much: pounds 28.48BORGHESE FANGOPenny Chorlton says that a face pack of this brownish-grey goo is “like a gentle sandpaper It gets rid of all the awfulness. Just make sure to use it when you’re alone.” However ridiculous you look with this slapped all over your mug, it really does clean deeply, and can annihilate [...]

Number 19 seemed a most unlikely museum, with no plaque outside, and apparently derelict I rang the bell anyway, but there was no response. I took a left up Brick Lane and found the turn-off for Princelet Street. After travelling for about an hour I arrived at Aldgate East station. The address, 19 Princelet Street, [...]

This man, Rodinsky, his neshamma [spirit] is connected to yours; you must continue your search, it is this search that will lead you to the right path.” His last words had made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. You are connected to the olam ha sod, the secrets of the earth, [...]

The suspension will keep him out of West Ham’s opening three Premiership games next season, and the fine is probably equivalent to his weekly wage at the club.A week after saying he wanted to stay at Portman Road, the England Under- 21 midfielder Kieron Dyer has shocked Ipswich Town by submitting a transfer request, following [...]

DARREN BICKNELL found top form at The Oval yesterday, scoring 114 for Surrey on the second day of their County Championship match against Somerset and helping his side to 425 for 8, a lead of 226. Bicknell, 32 next month, had not scored a Championship century since September 1997. That was his last Championship innings [...]