FOCUS ON: CRAWLEY, WEST SUSSEX August 20, 2009 BADGERS BANK, OLD BRIGHTON ROAD NORTH, PEASE POTTAGE, RH11 9AJPrice: £1.15mThis modern five-bedroom property is located in a quiet cul-de-sac in a village just outside Crawley, which is just under an hour from London by train. There is a large master bedroom suite which includes a dressing area and a bathroom with a jacuzzi bath. [...]
You don’t have to sacrifice style when going small August 20, 2009 ACCORDING to research published last week by Cabe – the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, if you please – almost half the people who live in new-build housing in and around London say reckon they don’t have enough space in their homes. The fact is, London life can all too often feel like [...]
Dunlop’s Swingkeel today’s banker bet August 20, 2009 THIS afternoon’s York card features the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes, the Group 3 Strensall Stakes and the Listed City of York Stakes, however, the best bet of the final day comes in the final race of the meeting. John Dunlop’s horses are flying at the moment and he can send punters home happy by saddling [...]
Back Chelsea to win it the hard way again at 25/1 August 20, 2009 FULHAM vs CHELSEASUNDAY 4PM, SKY SPORTS 2 CARLO ANCELOTTI has made a pleasing start to life in the Premier League and his side were awesome in the second half against Sunderland on Tuesday night. They don’t have far to travel on Sunday when they make the short trip over to Craven Cottage to face local [...]
NEW SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BUSINESS EDITOR ON STEEP LEARNING CURVE August 20, 2009 AS A replacement for Sky’s newest business recruit Mark Kleinman, a man with one of the fattest contact books in journalism, the appointment of Kamal Ahmed as Sunday Telegraph business editor was never going to sit well with his jilted rivals. Ahmed, currently head of comms at the Equality and Human Rights Commission and a [...]
Not Quent’s most glorious moment August 20, 2009 FilmINGLOURIOUS BASTERDSCert: 18 THE LONG opening sequence of Quentin Tarantino’s latest film is a piece of scintillating cinematic bravado that must rank alongside the café scene that opens Reservoir Dogs and the “watch up the ass” passage from Pulp Fiction for virtuoso brilliance. In it, an urbane, superficially-charming Gestapo official – who relishes his nickname [...]
NOW SHOWING SIX OF THE BEST August 20, 2009 THEATRE Arcadia Tom Stoppard’s brilliantly inventive drama, starring Samantha Bond (left) ART Richard Long Tate Britain’s retrospective of the influential land artist. FILM Sin Nombre Searing immigration drama. ART Serpentine Pavillion This year’s Hyde Park architectural project is a sensuous aluminium construction by Japan’s Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. FILM Les Demoiselles de Rochefort At [...]
OUT THIS WEEKEND PREVIEWS August 20, 2009 FILMI LOVE YOU BETH COOPER Low-watt high school romance bobbins with Hayden Panettiere. SCARFACE Re-release time for Al Pacino’s crime lord and his “leedle friend”. CHIKO German drama set in Hamburg’s dark and violent underbelly. DVDIN THE LOOP Armando Iannucci’s hilarious political satire, starring Peter Capaldi. I LOVE YOU, MAN Half-baked “bro-mance” with Paul Rudd [...]
Down to earth style August 20, 2009 WHAT a coincidence. Two weeks after the Trade Union Congress declared high heels a menace to health in the workplace, flat shoes have surged to the fore as the must-have fashion accessory for fall. Comfort and style in one – who knew? “Every season, brogues for women come back with more vengeance,” says a spokeswoman [...]
The best of both worlds: new builds take a historic turn August 20, 2009 EVERYONE from Kate Moss to Kylie Minogue to Roman Abramovich has one. Leonardo DiCaprio wants one. That’s because nothing says “I’ve made it” quite like a British country pile, preferably one with stables, guest cottages, tennis courts, carriage houses and swimming pools. Nowadays, if you don’t want the hassle of maintaining an old house, there [...]
