GardensDepend on flowers to brighten up your plot and add a little magic to savouries, salads, puddings and cocktailsI ate a lot of flowers last year. Not terribly filling, I'll admit, but they proved to be the most magical of ingredients, turning a green salad into a flowery mead and a scoop of ice-cream into a fairy castle. They earned their keep pre‑harvest, too: they looked so at home on the allotment, nestling brightly and dependably among the veg, and providing something to lift the heart even when skies were grey and produce was lacking.
Food tales of the rich and famousFoodIt wasn't easy grabbing a decent stew in Carnaby Street with the Led Zeppelin singer, says Caroline BoucherOh lordy, but Robert Plant was good looking in the heyday of Led Zeppelin. And it fell to my good fortune to interview him an awful lot in those early days of the 70s. The band's office was at the mucky end of London's Oxford Street towards Tottenham Court Road– the bit that now has tacky leather jacket and dodgy shoe shops (in those days it boasted a Dolphinarium.
Movies This article is more than 12 years oldHow Women in Love's nude wrestling scene romped past the 1960s censorsThis article is more than 12 years oldSecret letters released by the British Board of Film Classification reveal how film-making shed its innocence over the past centuryThe controversial nude wrestling scene in the 1969 film Women in Love was passed for release only as the result of a secret pact between the then British Board of Film Censors and director Ken Russell, it has been revealed in archive correspondence released by the BBFC.
FashionMorrissey in photoshoot beef with SupremeThe former Smiths frontman is unhappy with New York skatewear label Supreme’s choice of images of him, and its association with a burger brand
Morrissey, fashion photographer Terry Richardson, and skatewear brand Supreme: what should have been a perfect storm of cool has backfired after the former Smiths frontman reacted badly to photographs of himself modelling for the label.
Taking to his fanzine, True to You, over the weekend, he released the following statement: “I apologize [sic] enormously for the enfeebled photograph of me issued this week by Supreme.
Microsoft This article is more than 17 years oldWhatever happened to these people? The software pioneers now worth $73bnThis article is more than 17 years oldAs Bill Gates announces he is about to step down, we catch up with his fellow Microsoft founders1 Bill Gates Co-founder of the company alongside Paul Allen. He built Microsoft into the world's largest software company. Today he is the world's richest man, worth around $50bn.
US television This article is more than 7 months oldDanny Masterson, star of That ’70s Show, found guilty of rape This article is more than 7 months old47-year-old actor, who allegedly drugged women’s drinks, faces up to 30 years in prison after jury finds him guilty
Danny Masterson, the actor best known for his role in That ’70s Show, was found guilty of two counts of rape on Wednesday in a Los Angeles retrial in which the Church of Scientology played a central role.
Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán This article is more than 7 years oldEl Chapo's daughter offers to take DNA test to prove identityThis article is more than 7 years oldRosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz responded to claims by drug lord Joaquín Guzmán’s wife questioning her family link: ‘I have a document which says I’m his daughter’
Leer este artículo en español The eldest daughter of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has offered to take a DNA test to confirm her identity, after the imprisoned drug lord’s common-law wife claimed that his family did not know her.
Anxiety This article is more than 9 months oldExposure to other people’s sweat could help reduce social anxiety, study findsThis article is more than 9 months oldExposure to chemo-signals from body odour enhances response to mindfulness therapy, trial suggests
People with social anxiety may benefit from mindfulness therapy combined with exposure to odours from others’ sweat, according to a study.
The approach could be used in treatment for the mental health condition, where people worry excessively about participating in social situations, it was suggested.
United Nations This article is more than 7 years oldFormer UN chief Boutros Boutros-Ghali dies aged 93This article is more than 7 years oldEgyptian diplomat served one term as secretary general from 1992-96 and was first African to hold position
The former UN secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali, whose term was marked by war in the former Yugoslavia, massacres in Rwanda and repeated battles with the US, has died at the age of 93.
SportblogThe Masters This article is more than 2 years oldGary Player’s apartheid history is not quite as smooth as his Augusta retellingThis article is more than 2 years oldAndy BullPlayer invited Lee Elder to play in South Africa and was praised by Nelson Mandela but admits his past is not blameless
It has been almost 50 years since Lee Elder became the first black man to play in the Masters, and five months since Augusta National announced they were at last going to mark his achievement by inviting him to join Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player as one of the tournament’s honorary starters.