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A tale of two heartthrobs
Born one day apart, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth both turned 50 this month. From Jane Austen to Notting Hill, their careers have run in parallel, but their film characters, finds Vanessa Thorpe, tell a subtly different story.
Born one day apart, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth both turned 50 this month. From Jane Austen to Notting Hill, their careers have run in parallel, but their film characters, finds Vanessa Thorpe, tell a subtly different story.
Fabio Capello's bad luck with injuries to his key defenders continued when it emerged that John Terry is likely to miss tomorrow's Euro 2012 qualifier against Montenegro with an injury aggravated in training yesterday.
On-screen, she's the queen of food porn. But off-screen Nigella Lawson is much messier, grumpier and shyer, she tells Stephen Jewell.
The Independent looks at a vanishing breed - the investigative journalist.
Jess Hamill added to New Zealand's medal tally overnight when she finished second in the parasport shot put.
Since it opened in 1872, Hastings Pier has hosted everyone from Victorian holidaymakers to the Rolling Stones.
Kate Atkinson began as a prize-winning literary novelist with Behind the Scenes At The Museum and has reinvented herself by using the tropes of detective fiction.
London insurers have radical plans to reduce seaborne hijackings.
Dannii Minogue has opened up about the loves of her life in her autobiography, My Story.
Greg Henderson might not be flying British Airways again after his world road championships preprations were stalled by a lost bike.
John le Carre takes the reader into the vicious underside of the global free market.
Daniel Vettori has warned against complacency as the Black Caps headed to Bangladesh today for a five-match ODI series.
Best-known for her rollicking blockbuster romances set in the horse-riding world, Jilly Cooper is one of Britain's most-read authors. Robyn Langwell meets the prolific writer at home, a setting straight out of one of her novels.
After leaving Christchurch's Xavier College at 16 Eric Watson's first job was as a butcher's apprentice. He later became a sales and branch manager at Whitcoulls, then a manager at Xerox, before beginning a business career.