The election campaign is in full swing, and you'd think that wouldn't have much to do with video games. In years past it hasn't, after all. This year, however, Labour has released a policy about the 'Interactive Production industry'....
Friday 22 August 2014
Another day, another ice bucket challenge: Rosie Huntington Whiteley, Natalie Massenet and Marigay McKee
It's the dawning of a new day, which means more ALS Ice Bucket celebrity challenges to report. Overnight we had fashion figures everywhere taking the challenge and dumping ice cold buckets of water over their heads - or rather having their minions do it for them. Today we are sharing ALS ice bucket challenges from model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Net-a-Porter's Natalie Massenet and Saks' President Marigay McKee. Enjoy the screams.
Britain's porky pets: The obesity crisis in the animal world
WITH half of all dogs and one in four cats now considered obese, simple tips such as swapping treats for toys will help keep them healthy.
Spark wants 70,000 Lightboxers by June
Spark's new internet television service is aiming to attract at least 70,000 paying customers by the middle of next year.The venture, Lightbox, has launched in beta mode and is due to become available to the wider public at...
Kate Bush returns to the stage - but where did she go?
FOR the first time since 1979 the singer is about to perform live again to sell-out audiences. Why has she been away so long?
Katie Holmes speaks out 'Confidence took time'
HAVING had a lacklustre film career over the past decade Katie Holmes has spoken out about being an anxious mother and her own worst critic in a tough industry.
Dominic Corry: The best female-led action movies
This week sees the New Zealand release of Lucy , a new action thriller starring Scarlett Johansson as a young woman who gains superpowers when an experimental drug leaks inside her stomach. It's not the best film ever made, but...
Pampered Pets: What’s causing my cat’s nosebleeds?
OUR vet David Grant works his animal magic.
Handbags, family photos and pets: Five things that Darcy Bussell can't live without
FORMER ballerina and Strictly judge Darcey Bussell, 45, lives in London with her husband Angus Forbes, 48, and their daughters Phoebe, 13, and 10-year-old Zoe.
Children's theatre round-up: Hetty Feather, The Elephantom and Aliens Love Underpants
IF YOU want to drag your children away from the telly or their computer screens you need to find something worth taking them to. Here's a selection of the best kids' shows around that are sufficiently entertaining for mums and dads as well.
Calamity Jane review: Jodie Prenger stars in 'pleasurably barnstorming' show
THE Wild West lands in Newbury for a thigh-slapping jamboree with an all-singing and all-dancing cast in the stage version of Doris Day's classic film
Adultery by Paulo Coelho: Explores subjective reality via a woman's torn heart
THE potential of youth and happiness are put under the microscope in Coelho's latest philosophical novel where matters of the heart rule over the mind
I Can't Begin To Tell You: Resistance, spies and family in gripping drama
A BRITISH-born wife and mother faces increasing danger as she struggles to reconcile the emotional ties of marriage and motherhood with being part of the Danish resistance during the Nazi occupation
24 Hours At Waterloo review: A gripping hour-by-hour of Wellington's victory
HISTORIAN and former soldier Robert Kershaw uses contemporary diaries, letters and reports to reconstruct the events of June 18, 1815 - the Duke of Wellington's most famous battle against Napoleon
A Simple Plan, Pet Sematary and Hell House: Reece Shearsmith's six best books
THE League Of Gentlemen star finds himself returning to thrillers, classic horror and a 19th century sci-fi classic
Kate Bush, Bee Gees and Chaka Khan: Beverley Craven's six best albums
PROMISE Me singer Beverley Craven shares the records and artists who have touched her most and why she doesn't buy music any more...
What If review: Daniel Radcliffe like 'a young Hugh Grant' in charming rom-com
THE Harry Potter star is a leading man for the Millennial generation with an engaging, goofy When Harry Met Sally-style fairytale romantic comedy
Lucy review: Scarlett Johansson electrifies in brain-power thriller
WHAT if you could use your entire cerebral capacity? Well watch Luc Besson's heroine transform from a drug mule to a turbo-charged heroine
More graphic novel noir in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For review
TWO-timing dames and hardboiled fellas are central to this series of brutal and sadistic stories in the cult comic's movie sequel
Thursday 21 August 2014
US inspector finds Beyonce, Jay-Z Cuba trip legal
HAVANA (AP) The U.S. Treasury Department's inspector general has determined Jay-Z and Beyonce's fifth-anniversary trip to Cuba last year was legal under rules allowing educational travel to the island.The music superstars angered...
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