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Colonel Harland David Sanders always vowed to take his ultra-secret family recipe of 11 herbs and spices for making his legendary chicken, fried in the Kentucky way, to his grave, a resting place he reached back in 1980. The recipe remains a trade secret, one …

A sign of this country’s creeping Torification, with Britain’s top two Blues boasting their two-wheels-better philosophy at any opportunity (never mind the traffic signals)? Or merely a sensible policy that could help get more people on their bikes? Kensington and Chelsea are to trial a …

Rats have taken over Muswell Hill. And we’re not just talking about the clowns from Haringey Council who dumped those confidential documents a few months back. No, these are the genuine deal, the scurrying little beggars themselves, all brown of fur and sharp of claw. …

Much as we love digital photography – heck, we regularly feature the work of our Flickrpool snappers – there’s something about the fading world of film photography that still appeals. The people at Lomography agree, and this week sees the Photographer’s Gallery play host to …

Just a normal, stressful morning, getting your wee ones ready for the day ahead. Has Taynor remembered his lute? Does Duchy have her ballet shoes? Everything in order? Great, just enough time to drive them to the nursery, pass through the fingerprint scanner, and kiss …

In the words of The Smiths (we loosely paraphrase here:) Some towns modems are bigger than other towns modems. We think that’s what Morrissey was singing, his cadence is a little hard to follow at times. Anyway, it seems the biggest broadband speeds in Britain …

Sitting in a jerry-rigged boat, floating in a flooded sculpture park atop the Hayward as the sun bustles through the clouds and lights up the London Eye, the building’s Brutalist architecture almost melts away and resolves itself into a dystopian reverie, one not entirely unpleasant: …

London to Scotland in under three hours? Well you could go Ryanair and enjoy the bum-rush for seats at Stansted, the teeth-gritting discomfort, and the faint but palpable sense of guilt at your carbon footprint. Or you could jump in Jeremy Clarkson’s motor and see …

Entreaties from badly-barnetted glam-rock acts notwithstanding, residents living in Heathrow’s flight path can’t help but feel the “noize”, every sodding morning as the first jet of the day – BA Flight 26 from Hong Kong – roars out of the dawn sky and touches down …

Adelaide, Australia could become “the next international education hotspot”. No, really, stop laughing – it’s true. Our very own University College London certainly seems to think so – they’ve just signed an agreement to establish a satellite branch in the southern Australian city. The UCL …