I have to confess to being a bit of a boxing fan on the quiet, and one of the biggest events in the sports history is about to kick off on October 17th. The 'Super Six' tournament brings together six of the worlds best Super Middleweights to...

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Just when you thought that Neighbourhood Watch was just about curtain-twitching and chasing away door-to-door salespeople, along comes this new idea for crowdsourced crimestopping.

Users of this new website will be shown random CCTV...

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Like most middle class parents who extol the virtue of old fashioned wooden toys, organic everything and buggies that cost the same as a race-spec mountain bikes, I initially said I wouldn’t let my toddler watch TV lest his brain rot and...

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For the masses of football fans in the country and throughout Europe, in which I include myself, now is the summer of our discontent. It’s been a while since the official close to the last European football season with the...

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Well last night saw the start of the 10th series of Big Brother on channel 4, with contestants entering the house for the first time. 

With viewing figures down on last year, an attempted change to the format and channel 4 bosses...

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Anyone who knows me would know my love for river rafting….I started out when I was in school and my love for rafting has just grown over the years….my favorite destination being Rishikesh, India.

When the summer heat makes...

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It’s been two weeks since the finale of Britain’s Got Talent, and now that the media circus surrounding it has died down I thought it was worth a thought. An audience of over 19 million brits tuned in to see dance troupe Diversity...

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I’ve taken the mickey, but I’m now a fan: without a hint of irony I think John Barrowman has brought good old fashioned entertainment back to Saturday night TV. “Tonight’s the night” is the kind of show you can...

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The advertising and marketing awards season has begun again...

Last night the Guardian innovation awards were held in fashionably eclectic Sketch and suitably it was a causal stand-up affair for bearded chaps in turned-up jeans. Right...

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I love the Today programme. On the rare mornings when I’m not woken by one of my kids, then it’s the dulcet (or not so dulcet) tones of Messrs. Humphrys, Naughtie, Davies, Stourton & Montague that rouses me from my slumber into what...

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