Still, this was not the old two-spheres theory, and it was now axiomatic that earth and water had a single centre, which was both the geometrical and the gravitational centre of the globe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It hit dead centre and busted through some paper and runged a bell. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They knew that the countryside had risen against them, and plainly meant to deal with the rebellion ruthlessly, at its centre in Bywater. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They could then have continued to claim that the earth stands still at the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I opened the door and walked right in, and there she was in the centre of the Sick Room floor locked in some kind of an embrace with the Latin master, Mr Victor Corrado. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground split open down the centre of the courtyard. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The Square was looking a bit like that time I’d come to the centre with Ruth the day we’d gone to see the boat. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood up there on centre stage in her green breeches with legs apart and riding-crop in hand, glaring at the sea of upturned faces before her. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of these three centres was held to be the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She sailed over the heads of the Cyclopes and ogres, landed in the centre of the courtyard and pushed her way into the circle of giants. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There had been a hard ball in the centre of his belly. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

‘I still don’t get it,’ Coach Hedge muttered as they roamed the centre aisle. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

These elements naturally arrange themselves in concentric spheres outwards from the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Most donors at the Kingsfield get their own room after third donation, and Tommy was given one of the largest singles in the centre. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood shivering in the night, looking back out as the beetle ran by and skidded back to the centre of the avenue, whirling laughter in the air all about it, gone. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw poked his finger into the centre of one, and the fine strands clung to it and came away, cold and slightly sticky. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

This week they ’re making a roof for a cafe in a shopping centre in Birmingham. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like the centre of a small circle coinciding with the centre of a much larger one. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The number 18 was nailed to the centre of the door. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“You must be off, my dear. They’ll be waiting for you to take your place in the centre. Farewell, till your next Birthday.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Dear Muslim brothers, There is a school, the Khushal School... which is a centre of vulgarity and obscenity. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A spine of forested hills twisted down its centre. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It might seem odd, but on the journey back to Ruth’s centre, we didn’t really discuss any of what had just happened. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village centre of Moscombe, in the morning sunshine, could be seen to be a number of small shops surrounding a church, the steeple of which I had seen from the hill yesterday evening. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the centre of gravity of the earth still coincides with the centre of the universe, but its geometrical centre does not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The centre Ruth was in that time, it’s one of my favourites, and I wouldn’t mind at all if that’s where I ended up. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was reached by a round hole in the centre through which the ladder passed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a feature about the great families which centred round the doom of Arthur. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this painting, in the centre near the bottom, Brunelleschi made a hole, and the viewer was invited to look through the back of the painting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This evening I find myself settled here in this comfortable guest house in a street not far from the centre of Salisbury. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

When all this had been accomplished, Mr Tibbs stood near the centre of the Ballroom casting his expert butler’s eye over the scene. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the centre someone was holding the stirrup for a man to mount. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The orientation is not north/south; rather, Jerusalem, the centre of the known world, is at the top. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Ruth and I often found ourselves remembering these things a few years ago, when I was caring for her down at the recovery centre in Dover. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the side streets that led to the square we saw the square solid with people, those in the centre all dancing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Over by the hearth in the centre of the common, Percy was grinning at something Annabeth had just told him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the centre of the atrium, a grey-skinned ghoul in a tattered Greek tunic paraded through the crowd, holding a marble bust over his head like a sports trophy. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The equant was a device for speeding up and slowing down the movement of a body in the heavens by measuring its movement not from the centre of a circle but from another point. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The dedicated soma tablets were placed in the centre of the table. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was staring at the china figures in the centre of the table. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later a rope dropped from the centre pit. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was by the large window in the centre that I had stood five minutes before. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It travels from centre to centre, right the way across the country in a matter of days, and suddenly every donor’s talking about it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

These elements naturally arrange themselves in concentric circles around a common centre: earth surrounded by water, water surrounded by air, and air surrounded by fire. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I saw Harry fleetingly a couple of years ago at the recovery centre in Wiltshire. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the centre upon his forehead shone a single white diamond. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

‘Then the advice nurse said I had to call a service centre,’ Piper reported. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Would it stop when it reached the centre, its natural resting place? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It moved from the margins to the centre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was a calm in the centre of a storm: the eye of the hurricane. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waters have been displaced from their original position, and their sphere now has a centre other than the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

‘Actually, I want to go to the shopping centre first, Dad,’ she said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One day the respiratory centre will be paralyzed. No more breathing. Finished. And a good thing too. If we could rejuvenate, of course it would be different. But we can’t.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Digges’s universe has a centre, so it is not really infinite, for an infinite universe could have no centre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At the centre of the cloth is a single Arabic word, intricately woven, four letters: an alif, two lams and a ha. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the tiles had similar blue borders with little designs painted in the centre. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The element earth is potentially at the centre of the universe, and as it falls towards that centre it realizes its potential. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the centre of the crowd stood an empty, makeshift throne of twisted scaffolding and stone blocks apparently yanked at random from the ruins. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

‘It serves them right left and centre!’ he said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Descending the laurel walk, I faced the wreck of the chestnut-tree; it stood up black and riven: the trunk, split down the centre, gasped ghastly. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sun and the Earth are unique, and the universe has a centre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not very well-appointed as recovery centres go, and if it wasn’t for the associations it now has for me, it’s not somewhere I’d look forward to visiting. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are the centre of the universe; they are all that really counts. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earth and water together make up what looks like a single globe, although they are in fact distinct spheres with different centres. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It had a long centre section and two little end sections that could be angled backwards to deflect the wind. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

As stately as a dance, the gargoyle took her to the centre. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I press the thumbnail of my right hand into the centre of the cut and feel it open up, the pain sharp and hot. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she heeled right over and as she went the mast broke in two, split right down the centre. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The universe still had a centre, and the sun and the Earth were still unique objects. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

‘Rules are rules. As a praetor, you should understand that. This distribution centre is one of our most important bases. We have to control access. I can’t make exceptions, especially not for my family.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Piper’s view zoomed to the centre of the temple. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Out in the centre of the ring Romero profiled in front of the bull, drew the sword out from the folds of the muleta, rose on his toes, and sighted along the blade. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The geometrical centre of the globe and its centre of gravity were, he asserted, one and the same. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My skin gleamed like the morning star and I felt as hot as the centre of the sun and I smelled God knows like what. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

First Avenue was where Indians—the cream of Alexandra’s quarantined society—lived, behind their sell-everything stores and produce stalls, which were the ghetto’s main shopping centre. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel pointed to the centre of the structure, where curved stones formed a sort of bull’s-eye. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The figures on the cornice symbolize the mathematical sciences, with Urania, the muse of astronomy, in the centre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Thinking about this now, I’m reminded of something she told me once, when I was caring for her in the recovery centre at Dover. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I followed a throng of spectators to a tent on a patch of green next to centre court. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently he noticed a man, clad in black and white, coming along the narrow street from the centre of the citadel towards him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Each article was set apart as an exhibit; the rucksack in the centre, the riding boots on one side and the ski boots on the other. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Kingsfield, in other words, falls way short of a place like Ruth’s centre in Dover, with its gleaming tiles and double-glazed windows that seal at the twist of a handle. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This habitable earth had a centre, which was generally taken to be Jerusalem. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The room smelt close and stale, the smell of a room seldom if ever used, whose ornaments are herded together in the centre of a bed and left there, covered with a sheet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Water, on the other hand, remains symmetrically arranged about the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then in Chapter 3 he stresses the importance of the discovery of America: earth and water make one globe in which the centre of gravity and the geometrical centre coincide. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

According to the Aristotelian philosophers, epicycles ought not really to exist: all movement in the heavens ought to be circular movement around the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

‘Dad,’ said Kat, ‘d’you mind if we stop by the shopping centre again? I want to get a present for Auntie Glo. Some bath oil to help her relax.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the centre a cairn of broken stones had been piled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the prow of that stone ship in the centre of the strait, and seemingly a part of it, a shaped and geometrical outcrop of the naked rock, stood the pueblo of Malpais. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything—the walls, the floor—has been done in gleaming white tiles, which the centre keeps so clean when you first go in it’s almost like entering a hall of mirrors. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d built his whole life around the irritation of her words, like the grain of sand at the centre of a pearl. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I asked Tommy if he’d been to see the boat already, and he said no, he hadn’t, but a lot of the other donors at the centre had. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two pictures rest behind a small altar: to the side, Ganesha again, and in the centre, in a larger frame, smiling and blue-skinned, Krishna playing the flute. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I set one foot at the centre of the shell, the other clear of the flailing flippers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the whirl of the vortex sucking me slowly, irresistibly, inescapably into itself. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

You are at the centre of one circle, while above you two opposing circles spin about. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was understandable that Wagner might want to speculate about the art world of the future, one that would encompass within it all the arts, centred on human dramas of love, death and destiny. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There is a sense in which it is acceptable to describe the Earth as the centre of the Universe, and to make all measurements relative to the Earth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Had Galileo belonged to a functioning scientific community, to take just one example, he would have been firmly discouraged from placing his theory of the tides at the centre of his defence of Copernicanism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the centre of the complex rose a citadel larger than Grand Central Station, its walls encrusted with pearls, its domed golden roof cracked open like an egg. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I had the impression we were walking towards the town centre, though I couldn’t be sure. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The exception was the Parisian philosophers, for whom the centre of gravity of both the earth and the water remained coincident with the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Once Copernicus had suggested that the earth was not the centre of the universe but a planet orbiting the sun, people were bound to puzzle over what sort of planet it could be. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Paris was at the centre of the revival of Galenism, and as well as being taught the works of the master, Vesalius also learned his skill at dissection during his time there. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

My raft looked like a game of tic-tac-toe with an O in the centre as the first move. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We hear they are going to turn this old market into a shopping centre now. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was a small table centre stage with a chair behind it. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finding nothing, no bait and no new idea, I sat up—only to dis­cover that I was dead centre in the focus of his stare. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Push the grand piano into the centre of the room,’ Mr Tibbs whispered. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the centre all the roads ran between their chains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The Parisian view, that the centre of gravity of the earth corresponded to the centre of the sphere of water, will have seemed at first sight like a viable option. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He stood by the centre mast, his hands extended like he was on a tightrope. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mary Poppins bowed towards the Hamadryad very ceremoniously, and without a backward glance at the children went running towards the huge green square in the centre of the Zoo. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

In the centre of the quadrangle stood the quaint old chrome-steel statue of Our Ford. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each was at the centre of a number of twigs that were tightly curled around it—to protect it, I supposed. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even if they were foolish enough to believe that the earth was the centre of the univose, do we not ourselves believe that man is the fine flower of creation? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big circle centred on the equant point is called a deferent. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The reason is that, as we saw as part of ‘musical gravity’ in the last chapter, these three harmonic centres are the most inherently powerful. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In doing so, he completely abandoned two principles which had been fundamental to Aristotle: that the element earth is a sphere, and that the element earth is at the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Listen to him talk about the Abruzzi. There’s more snow there than here. He doesn’t want to see peasants. Let him go to centres of culture and civilization.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The remedy was, to thrust them forward into the centre of the schoolroom, and oblige them to stand there till the sermon was finished. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

We went round and down the path, and he unlocked the door to the cat house, which was at the centre of a moated island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a great green plateau with a green forest in its centre. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand feet below her, a half-mile-wide caldera yawned at the top of a mountain, white steam pluming from the centre. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I’m about halfway through when the train runs overhead, and it’s glorious: it’s like an earthquake, you can feel it right in the centre of your body, stirring up the blood. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine you are standing at the dead centre of a merry-go-round on which the horses are arranged in three concentric circles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At the centre there is a stationary, round platform around which the circles of horses, each taking the same time to complete a circuit, revolve. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Tycho’s idea was that the Earth is fixed at the centre of the Universe and that the Sun, the Moon and the fixed stars orbit around the Earth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The rain flowed to its centre, where there was a hole. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why, when you were out there yourself—in the towns, shopping centres, transport cafés—you kept an eye out for “possibles”—the people who might have been the models for you and your friends. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the Sun lay at the centre of the Universe, why didn’t everything fall into it? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

For Mozart or Haydn, the hierarchy of chords was so strict that the listener is never far from the ‘home’ key centre. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

What would happen, for example, if you drilled a tunnel down through the centre of the Earth and then dropped an object into the tunnel? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I could see the witches quite clearly sitting at their two long tables in the centre of the room. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He wanted a model in which everything moved around a single centre at an unvarying rate, and he wanted this for aesthetic reasons as much as anything else. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The light that long ago had struck me into syncope, recalled in this vision, seemed glidingly to mount the wall, and tremblingly to pause in the centre of the obscured ceiling. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Unworthy of privilege” and “misuse of opportunity”: these were two regular phrases Ruth and I came up with when we were reminiscing in her room at the centre in Dover. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the largest in the for­est, or in its dead centre, or remarkable in any other way. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Ruth’s room at that centre, it also had these big glass sliding panels, so she could easily see the outside from her bed. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the big square that was the centre of the town there was no change yet. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The boy pointed to a four-sided clock suspended from the ceiling in the centre of the market. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Finally, where was the centre of gravity of the conjoined spheres of earth and water? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Copernicus had described a spherical universe with the sun at its centre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s likely that the cultural centre of Göbekli Tepe was somehow connected to the initial domestication of wheat by humankind and of humankind by wheat. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We parked the car behind the bingo hall, took out from the boot the sports bag containing Tommy’s notebooks, then set off towards the town centre. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And always, Salim’s silhouette is there, hovering in the centre, waving to us just as he did that day. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The home and centre of the art is thus to be found in the old inn of Bree, The Prancing Pony, that has been kept by the family of Butterbur from time beyond record. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the centre top there is a representation of Papin’s piston powered by the pressure of the atmosphere: once the steam has condensed, removal of the pin labelled E causes the piston to descend. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Russian Imperial capital of St Petersburg had, by the end of the nineteenth century, become one of the greatest musical centres in the world. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Piper held out her arms and the makhai made her the centre of their whirlwind. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

With a whoop of delighted excitement the line broke; there was a convergent stampede towards that magnetic centre of attraction. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two dogs, one black and one white, and a grandfather clock, in the centre of the picture. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the centre of the town the bonfire was beginning to smoulder. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Putting the Sun at the centre of the Universe was a big step. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The trees were larger in the centre of the forest and closely set. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The other centre of operatic style in the nineteenth century was Paris, though French opera at that time was essentially a grander version of Italian opera. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For example, some evolutionary psychologists argue that ancient foraging bands were not composed of nuclear families centred on monogamous couples. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, this axis was not the north-south axis of the poles but an axis through Jerusalem and the geometrical centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Not one of them was allowed to be repeated in a melodic phrase, which prevented the listener’s ear from latching on to any note as the centre of gravity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Arthur detached his own footmen, under Merlyn, to deal with the infantry battle which was centred round the camp, and he himself pressed on with his cavalry against the kings themselves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the centre stood the well-preserved shell of a Roman temple. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the centre of the round table, on a circular glass stand, were some little china figures. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

We are not at the centre of the universe: rather, the Earth is just another planet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Down the centre of the dormitory stood the basins where you washed your hands and face and did your teeth, always with cold water which stood in large jugs on the floor. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stream went through the centre of the town and fields of grapes touched the houses. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But what I couldn’t help noticing was how, more and more, Tommy tended to identify himself with the other donors at the centre. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1660s, Cambridge was far from being a centre of academic excellence. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The division in the two tubes that resulted was very plain: the centre tube was white in colour, while the tube that surrounded it was decreasingly green as it approached the inner wall. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight, penetrating a thin space between two trees, caught the stream that ran through its centre, so that, now and then, as the branches stirred, there was a gleam of water. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I saw a girl coming up the road from the centre of the town. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

A marble basin of clear water in the centre was kept continually rippling by the fountain that fell into it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

And if the earth was not homogeneous, where was its centre of gravity? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Lanyon was not much of a holiday centre anyway, it was too far inland. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Where, in that case, was the true centre of the Universe? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Behind him now twenty million silently baying Hounds ricocheted across parlours, three-cushion shooting from right wall to centre wall to left wall, gone, right wall, centre wall, left wall, gone! Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

A huge banner hung between the centre columns of the theatre: The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In Miserere mei he repeatedly causes the flow of the music to come to rest on cadences, affirming its centre of gravity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When he came to the window in the very centre of the Palace, he listened but did not move on. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filled the big earthenware jug with water in the kitchen, and Brett put the roses in it, and placed them in the centre of the dining-room table. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

We had reached the city’s centre, Koil Street lay some six miles away, and we were still not sure of finding it. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost in the same second, he thrust his right arm forward and plunged the point of the scalpel deep into the centre of the enormous boil. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Grand High Witch stood on the very centre of the platform, and those dangerous eyes of hers travelled slowly around the audience of witches who were sitting so meekly before her. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theolo­gians but also of zoologists. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Upon their shields they bore a strange device: a small white hand in the centre of a black field; on the front of their iron helms was set an S-rune, wrought of some white metal. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The river was high and the bridge had been blown up in the centre; the stone arch was fallen into the river and the brown water was going over it. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

As a modification of this view, one could argue that the centre of the universe corresponds to the centre of gravity of the aggregate of the two spheres of earth and water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, it took years to solve the riddle of the orbit of Mars, with Kepler moving in stages away from the idea of a perfectly circular orbit centred on the Sun. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It consists of an inflatable transparent cone set upon a round lifebuoy-like buoyancy chamber that has a surface of black rubberized canvas stretched across its centre. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The small boy in buttons put the package on the table in the centre of the room. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He claims that if the two spheres had the same centre, water would inevitably cover the whole surface of the earth—except perhaps for a few mountain tops. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I watched the sudden round puffs of shrapnel smoke in the sky above a broken farmhouse near where the line was; soft puffs with a yellow white flash in the centre. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

His eye lingered on the centre plaque of looking glass and the seven little china figures. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

But Jason and Piper headed down the centre aisle towards the statue, so Leo figured he’d better follow. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And he looks at me sitting here centre stage, see? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my case, the excitement centred around my new tricycle. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where the Aristotelian universe had one centre, there were now potentially five different ways of defining the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The earth is still a sphere, but it is no longer at the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The darkness receded from it, until it seemed to shine in the centre of a globe of airy crystal, and the hand that held it sparkled with white fire. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A black hole opened up in the centre of the room and swallowed me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was thinning away and the girl was walking in the centre of the sidewalk with her head up and the few drops falling on her face. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first it was right in front of me, a black spot at the centre of everything. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As it commenced to burn, the ants swarmed out and went first toward the centre where the fire was; then turned back and ran toward the end. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Scene three quickly follows, in which men and women occupy centre stage and most large animals, along with many smaller ones, are gone. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as there was a centre of gravity, or a ‘home’ in the sound, the relationship between chords also started to coalesce into hierarchies. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As it turns dark we go to our billets, Tjaden in the centre. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peeping out of the handbag, I could see in the very centre of the room two long tables that were not yet occupied. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I first turned up at Ruth’s recovery centre in Dover—the modern one with the white tiled walls—just a few weeks after that talk with Laura. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too bright for me, a blinding white centre with a pinkish red au­reole. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Victorians, so proud of their newly emerging manufacturing capabilities, put pictures of their factories boldly in the centre of their branding. The Museum of Brands, Notting Hill, London 2012-09-28T21:45:02Z

When he first began discussing the idea of writing something with producer Fiona Neilson, the pair thought of creating a TV series set in Affleck's Palace, a sort of alternative shopping centre in Manchester. Spike Island: 'It's not about the Stone Roses, it's about loving the Stone Roses' 2013-06-04T19:00:01Z

In 2011 a jaguar reintroduction scheme was launched on the secluded island of San Alonso in the centre of the wetlands. Call of the wild: eco adventures in Argentina’s Iberá wetlands 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

So as the music in the studio shifts to bouncy ragtime, dancers leap into the centre of the room, where there's a makeshift bar. Washington Ballet's The Sun Also Rises invokes the spirit of Ernest Hemingway 2013-06-11T12:59:03Z

The high string fugue at the centre of From Bohemia's Woods and Fields was a weird intimation of danger. Prom 8: BBCSO/B?lohl?vek ? review 2011-07-21T10:00:34Z

It also reiterates suggestions made last year by the Mirror that the sequel might centre on a stag do for Blake Harrison's character Neil. Inbetweeners movie sequel in the works 2012-08-22T12:39:11Z

People think politicians like to be the centre of attention, but artists are worse. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z

It was a later friendship that led to Reading University becoming the world centre of Beckett studies. Samuel Beckett's Murphy draft bought by Reading University for £1m 2013-07-10T17:36:35Z

Cover the pan with a lid and leave the chicken breasts to cook for 10-12 minutes until they are just cooked in the centre. Nigel Slater’s chicken with spring carrots and mangetout 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

MWR Run by a small but dedicated group of local volunteers, the centre is a warm and welcoming base in a former mining village, world-famous when it was the centre of Tony Blair's constituency. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z

Melt the butter in a frying pan, add the bread and then break an egg into the centre hole. Family life 2012-05-18T23:05:08Z

At one point, they formed a couple of lines down the centre of the room. A piece of performance art set in darkness made me see the light 2012-06-14T16:16:32Z

The film centres on three friends who get together each year on Christmas Eve for a night of drunken debauchery. Warm Bodies' Jonathan Levine set for Amy Schumer kidnapping comedy 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

He centres all his structures around a living fire, saying that the origin of building lay in the need to shelter a flame. Chiswick House: 2010-06-12T23:04:00Z

Of all the book's questions, those that centre on the parent-child bond are at its core. Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong' 2010-08-13T06:00:00Z

The gold miners put him on a stretcher and carried him up a canyon until they reached a local medical centre. 'People were dropping like flies’: why Monos was the decade's most brutal film shoot 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Some reports say that 50 akharas or wrestling centres have sprung up in the past few years, following their success. Geeta and Babita Phogat: ‘Our father taught us never to be scared' 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

Plans for a £25m visitor centre were axed in the coalition's first round of cultural cuts. Coalition's cuts are final betrayal of Stonehenge 2010-06-18T15:54:00Z

Asked by reporters, the mayor claimed that in 2003, Michael himself had expressed interest in building a performing arts centre in Gary. Michael Jackson museum not authorised by estate 2010-06-04T09:36:00Z

"Content of this calibre shows the potential for this visionary project to strengthen the global reputation of Scotland - and Dundee in particular - as a centre of excellence for the creative industries." Dundee V&A secures £3m backing 2012-10-08T00:06:01Z

It's driven by the UK being at the centre of the burgeoning tech industry. Do Marissa Mayer's maternity plans make her a fit role model for women? 2012-07-21T23:05:56Z

At the centre of it all, Ono cuts a hugely engaging figure. Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band – review 2013-06-14T23:30:22Z

The story of Veneering's childhood in Teesside is the strong centre of this third part of the trilogy. Last Friends by Jane Gardam – review 2013-06-08T08:02:01Z

His revitalisation of what is now known as the "Design District" involved turning abandoned factories into an artists' community and an upmarket shopping centre. At Art Basel Miami Beach, the stars line up to be seen –and be shocked 2012-12-08T15:50:45Z

All these readings pull us away from Nietzsche’s core evaluative concerns, and I think over the last 20 years those concerns have come back to centre stage. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z

We watch as the suspended Lucy, supported by her loving mother and sniped at by her abrasive elder sister, lapses into a state of helpless dependence before winding up in a crisis intervention centre. Review 2011-03-18T00:46:40Z

Lorraine Knowle, from English Heritage, said the "beautifully and sensitively designed" centre "fits into the rolling landscape of Salisbury Plain very well". Stonehenge centre open for Solstice 2013-09-30T11:24:46Z

There is a Hollywood moment at the centre of her story when, after seeing dozens of specialists, each as clueless as the last, a new doctor entered the scene: Dr Souhel Najjar. Susannah Cahalan: 'What I remember most vividly are the fear and anger' 2013-01-13T00:05:41Z

It is said that Nørrebro would be the literary and spiritual centre of the country if it were allowed to count the dead. A local’s guide to Copenhagen: 10 top tips 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

Season one is under way, and topics range from companies using feminism to sell products to crisis pregnancy centres in the US that mislead women trying to get abortions. Anita Sarkeesian: ‘It’s frustrating to be known as the woman who survived #Gamergate’ 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

A new £45m academy is halfway through construction, and will open next September for secondary school children in the town, bringing with it a new leisure centre. What would you cut? Durham council asks residents to find £100m savings 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

It sounds like a band making a calculated attempt to crack the mainstream, with its smooth, shiny finish, its beats processed to metronomic perfection, its hooks sharpened and placed front and centre. ZZ Top: Dalís of the Delta 2012-11-08T19:00:00Z

“Their entire language centred around the emasculation of black men and what freedom for them would mean.” Beverley Ditsie: the South African woman who helped liberate lesbians everywhere 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

Other shows explore Danish design through film and furniture, but the true permanent collection is the handsome city all around the centre. Need a hygge? Try Copenhagen for a happiness fix 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

Over the past two weeks new treatment centres in Liberia have been overwhelmed as soon as they opened by patients who had not previously been identified. Ebola: airlines cancel more flights to affected countries 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

The focus of the campaign is a modest Nottinghamshire visitors' centre that celebrates the work of the novelist and commemorates the community described in powerful novels such as Sons and Lovers. Campaign to save DH Lawrence legacy unites arts elite 2010-10-16T23:08:00Z

There's a pattern emerging here, a whole succession of serial killers occupying the centre stage of drama. Rewind TV: The Fall; The Murder Workers; Skint; Made in Chelsea – review 2013-05-18T17:00:05Z

Just behind the centre is Sandeman House, headquarters of the Scottish Book Trust. 10 of the best literary haunts in Edinburgh 2011-08-01T09:00:00Z

The literature industry's fear of technology is what really sits at the centre of this debate. Apple should be breaking new ground – not the law 2013-07-29T09:00:00Z

At the centre of this whirlwind, of course, was Dudamel, whose talents grew with this orchestra, were honed by the Gothenburg Symphony, and are being tested by the LA Phil. Prom 29: Sim?n Bol?var Symphony Orchestra - review 2011-08-05T23:26:13Z

The rehab centre to which Lohan is headed is one that he himself has previously spent time in. Lindsay Lohan's tears mark the start of another bid to clean up and come back 2013-04-13T13:36:17Z

In pupillage to Hayter she learned not only the diverse techniques of gravure, but a philosophy centred on Hayter's overriding principle, "adequate motive", which means that superb skills are not enough. Doris Seidler obituary 2010-12-12T18:16:00Z

A possible catch is a limit in the number of people who will be able to arrive via the visitor centre, due to open in autumn 2013. Stonehenge's £27m makeover will end its days as a traffic island 2012-07-11T15:24:02Z

It is one of a small number of musical centres of excellence for teenagers at Scottish secondary schools. Scotland's traditional music centre 'could be saved' 2011-02-11T12:09:15Z

Cameron also said the Avatar sequel will be centred on the ocean on the planet Pandora. Cameron reveals Avatar re-release 2010-04-21T09:37:00Z

Among the other lines of investigation outlined w ere inquiries into Medomsley juvenile detention centre in County Durham, in connection with which Goddard said she had already received “many hundreds” of allegations of abuse. Child sex abuse inquiry to focus on churches and politicians 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Event organizers said on Sunday afternoon they were on pace for about 20,000 visitors, the same as last year, for the three-day event at Bozar, a Brussels fine arts centre. Barter system part of appeal for Brussels art show 2012-01-31T16:50:11Z

Even today, the intact walls of its Old City encircle an area of 346 acres, far more than the equivalent ancient centre of any European capital. The civil war's threat to Damascus 2013-01-02T08:00:02Z

He had also launched The Culture Show in 2004 making a go of the split between two production centres, in London and Glasgow. George Entwistle: a quiet, efficient career at the 'sharp end of journalism' 2012-07-04T16:21:24Z

Intrigued, Laufer contacted scientists at the Ragon Institute in Boston, a centre that has conducted the world’s largest study of elite controllers. The 'elite controllers' who can naturally suppress HIV 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z

The visitor centre tells the fascinating story of his superhuman efforts to turn a huge granite outcrop, originally known as Thunderhead Mountain, into a huge statue of one of the great figures of American folklore. Head for the Black Hills: tales of Crazy Horse and Custer in South Dakota 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

Just off the city centre, down cobbled lanes leading to the river, Cinema City poses a historic option in cinema viewing in Norwich. Cine-files: Cinema City, Norwich 2012-06-12T15:44:00Z

Under his patronage, Jaipur started to become a centre for jewellery, attracting artisans and traders from afar. The jewellers of Jaipur's Johari Bazaar – a photo essay 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

Southend Pier, to be precise, for which Scandinavian practice White has designed a new cultural centre, working with London architects Sprunt. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-05-25T14:35:10Z

The gallery is the latest in a series to open in regional centres. Complete Welsh collection goes on display in National Museum of Art 2011-07-08T16:40:01Z

"We will celebrate great music, a great orchestra, and the great work that these cultural centres do in bringing music to the next generation." Rattle returns for London residency 2013-12-05T15:42:44Z

At its centre is Kath, a woman tangled in the wreckage of the past. Lost Dog 2010-05-10T21:35:00Z

Those cute plants in 5.5cm pots that you see in garden centres and florists are already three years old. Looking sharp! How the cactus became the planet’s most-wanted plant 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

The sliced-open, offending piece of meat's rose centre stares up at me like an old wound. "You never go into the upper kitchen" and other survival tips from a waiter in Paris 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Rowling, who began using the pseudonym for her crime writing career after completing the Harry Potter series, said the third Robert Galbraith novel would centre on returning military personnel. JK Rowling plans crime book spree 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Don’t move to a city centre if you can’t hack noise, you may think, quite rightly. Please be quiet: my search for a noise-free life 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z

While you are a patient, they become the hushed, sterile centre of your universe. Four years, 40 negative tests: why being young and infertile sucks 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

She was at a screening of the James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro at London’s Barbican arts centre, and it was the interval. The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

“In extreme cases, we would refer people for sedation, but those referrals required a long waiting time – often when the patient was in increasing pain – and the referral centres are still few and far between.” 'I've had patients take their own teeth out': dental anxiety and the treatments that can help 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

For more than a century though it's been known, at home and abroad, for its jewellery dealers and for being the centre of the British diamond trade. Diamond Street by Rachel Lichtenstein – review 2012-06-15T21:55:12Z

The new centre dedicated to the late artist's work is located in the former Artillery Arsenal building of the historic Daugavpils fortress. In pictures: Rothko in Latvia 2013-04-25T15:12:48Z

In House of Cards it is Underwood’s evil which is the burnished, high gloss perfection at the centre of the piece. How similar to real life politics is House of Cards? 2013-07-04T02:13:44Z

Families may have to travel for days to get to a centre, and they decide they can’t spend the time away, even if Smile Train is going to pay their travel costs. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

Currently, only 101 people are able to access ketamine, at a treatment centre in the UK at Warneford hospital in Oxford. Ketamine could help thousands with severe depression, doctors say 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

While Discworld remained at the centre of Pratchett's output, by 2013 he had published 40 novels in the canon while also writing some horror fiction and a number of children's books. Obituary: Sir Terry Pratchett 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Newly privatised homes and care centres naturally reduced the quality of service to the minimum in order to increase profits and dividends. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

While grappling with battle strategy on one hand, this episode centres on Daenerys’s growing insecurities and her resolve to hang on to her claim. Dracarys! Is madness about to reign in Game of Thrones? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

Alex played one combatant in the confrontation at the story's centre. What I'm thinking about ... men turning 40 2013-03-11T04:46:40Z

That instability – that unknowable subjective centre so crucial to noir – is how Detour still maintains an unbreakable clasp. My streaming gem: why you should watch Detour 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

London is a business centre; there are streets round here like Jermyn Street specialising in men's suits. Big blue cock erected on fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square 2013-07-25T15:13:58Z

Use the blunt side of a small knife to draw circular lines, running from the centre of the pie to the edge; make sure you only score the pastry without cutting through it. Welcome to the feast: exclusive recipes from Yotam Ottolenghi's new book 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

Put in the tin and bake for 1-1½ hours on a centre shelf. Family life 2012-11-24T00:04:01Z

Inspired by the Italian piazza, they were introduced in the 17th century as a way of creating open spaces at the centre of London's new residential neighbourhoods. The London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan - review 2012-05-18T21:55:01Z

Ice the cupcakes, smoothing the tops with the back of a spoon, and stand a cherry in the centre of each. Nigella Lawson: my life in food 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

Building of the theatre and arts centre has yet to be started and questions are already being asked about whether there will be money to fill galleries with art or attract audiences. Spain's extravagant City of Culture opens amid criticism 2011-01-11T19:53:11Z

Too many people, medical staff included, still trivialise anorexia as “the slimmer’s disease”, says Smith, and treatment centres are an NHS Cinderella. ‘I can’t fight anorexia any more. I’ve tried so hard’ 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

What also hit the right note, despite the rain, was the party atmosphere throughout the city centre. Rijeka in Croatia: the culture capital that knows how to party 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

The new international centre for design is to be built close to Discovery Point, on the banks of the River Tay, and is scheduled to open in 2014. V&A unveils designs for new Dundee outpost 2010-09-28T15:00:00Z

They can borrow the money and build the bloody visitor centre. Summer solstice celebrations at Stonehenge hit by funding blow 2010-06-21T11:00:00Z

I was first of all surprised to learn that women were at the centre of this hunt. Kathryn Bigelow: under fire 2013-01-12T00:01:00Z

He sold it to Sun Alliance Insurance in 1939 and after the second world war it became a centre for modern agricultural engineering research. 'Secret garden' Wrest Park reopens after restoration 2011-08-01T23:05:17Z

That is the view of Lee Benson, from Number 9 gallery in Birmingham, on the decision to close The Public arts centre in West Bromwich in November. 'It was just like a big play centre' 2013-08-10T02:16:41Z

Of course there are love interests and heartache, but they are never front and centre. 'It's sunny and safe': why Gilmore Girls is perfect comfort TV 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

But through energy and initiative she established a thriving publishing house in Palermo, well away from the traditional publishing centres in northern Italy. Elvira Sellerio obituary 2010-08-23T17:52:00Z

The new broadcasting centre at Pacific Quays in Glasgow went over budget by £62m and faced a year's delay. BBC 'overspends' on building work 2010-02-25T12:20:00Z

Many were "Twihards", fans of the Twilight vampire saga who camped outside the convention centre for days to see a panel discussion with cast and crew members. Comic-Con 2012: the rise of the female geek? 2012-07-16T19:00:08Z

With the Arts Council cutting left, right and centre, there are some fantastic organisations with fantastic people that will wither and die without support. Lloyd Webber fund announces new grants worth ?1m 2011-07-28T09:45:24Z

Most criticisms of internet writing centre on its tone. Bloggers must be free to call a buzzwordgasm a buzzwordgasm 2011-03-17T12:00:00Z

Throughout it all, they wore the inscrutable expressions that have seen them through decades of opening leisure centres, being shown around factories and, indeed, of the royal variety performance. Queen's diamond jubilee concert a tough gig for rock and royalty 2012-06-05T08:14:18Z

She appears in opposition to Madge, who operates as a sort of chorus and moral centre in the play, the only character who survives her singleness. Brian Friel: trapped in silence 2012-08-10T21:55:09Z

The BBC series Accused takes this approach, with each episode a self-contained story centring on one character in the dock – the flashbacks telling us what led him or her to be there. Louise Doughty: rereading the best courtroom dramas 2013-06-21T18:00:01Z

The composer is no longer at the centre of things, now the connections are made by the listener. Interview: Salvatore Sciarrino - 'My problem is I want to change the world' 2013-07-15T15:17:00Z

Two local actors have re-imagined the zip line scene, with a comic twist, at the clock tower in the Gasworks area of the city centre. Back to the Future day: live! Enjoy 21 October 2015 around the world 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

The conference is a follow-up to a similar event the centre hosted last year dealing with the films of Charlie Kaufman. Psychoanalysts to break down films of Pedro Almod?var 2011-03-29T12:32:51Z

The word "zoo" just doesn't get across the experience of this animal-friendly, ecologically aware visitor centre. Valencia and beyond 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z

Some of my clinical preoccupations centre on how we acquire a physical, corporeal sense of self. Patterns of pain: what Covid-19 can teach us about how to be human 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

But The Big C puts cancer centre screen for the first time. Who's afraid of the big C? 2010-09-18T23:06:00Z

It is a comic masterpiece, which can only be captioned: “When ur girlfriend’s boyfriend plays centre back for Marseille.” The ballad of Pammy and Julian Assange - her poor, mournful sea lion 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Problem: South Africa is at the centre of an epidemic of TB/HIV co-infections. Africa innovations: 15 ideas helping to transform a continent 2012-08-25T23:05:54Z

"The art scene is part of a society that is the centre of the Islamic world – it resonates the values and traditions in Islam." Saudi artists escape from the desert to find outlet in Britain 2012-10-04T10:51:50Z

A column of sound rose in the centre of the space. Vinyl, UFOs and the patter of tiny feet 2013-05-20T15:59:18Z

The centre houses a conference hall, a gallery hall and a museum and was devised to help the redevelopment of Baku. Zaha Hadid wins Design of the Year 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Mater is at the centre of the Saudi contemporary art boom. Saudi artists escape from the desert to find outlet in Britain 2012-10-04T10:51:50Z

Travellers need to understand though, that this is a rehabilitation centre for a species whose future is still seriously threatened, not a tourist attraction. Kuching, Malaysia: what to see plus the best restaurants, hotels and bars 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

“Somehow,” punts the writer, “while nobody was looking, Pamela Anderson found herself at the centre of the geopolitical universe.” The ballad of Pammy and Julian Assange - her poor, mournful sea lion 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

The scene here, half an hour up the mountain from the centre of the capital, is starkly different from that in large areas of Port-au-Prince. Haiti survivors 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

A fairly conventional rite of passage, the story centres on two survivors in the ruins of a man-made island wrecked by the tremor, but also describes rescue operations in considerable detail. Japan's fantasy films act as a buffer against the reality of the natural world 2011-03-29T12:59:01Z

His adventurers never discover the centre of the labyrinth, only more forking paths. A brief survey of the short story part 27: Jorge Luis Borges 2010-07-22T10:59:00Z

No one knows but Galloway once studied fluid intake among workers in a Cardiff call centre and found that, to keep their ratings up, many would restrict their fluid intake to avoid loo breaks. The truth about hydration: should you drink eight glasses of water a day? 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Mongolia is to transform a museum once dedicated to the Soviet dictator into a centre for its wealth of fossils, including a 70m-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar specimen. It's goodbye Lenin, hello dinosaur as fossils head to Mongolia museum 2013-01-27T18:48:07Z

Where to stay Bells Oficis is a charmingly decorated B&B in the centre of Girona, with black-and-white floor tiles, mismatched furniture and frescos. 10 of the best alternative city breaks in Europe 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

It is a familiar language, but one which recalls the slick spaces of business parks, private leisure centres and luxury yachts more than an inviting new public place. Renzo Piano's new Oslo art gallery is a strangely soulless place 2012-10-11T12:30:00Z

For Fairlie, the establishment included not only "the centres of official power – though they are certainly part of it" – but "the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised". The establishment uncovered: how power works in Britain 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

It seeped beneath the door and collected in the centre of the room. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: A new dog. A closed door. A mysterious puddle. Can Sherlock Holmes solve this case? 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

From the centre of the ceiling, 43 feet above the floor, an eight-foot tall 'pendant' lighting fixture is suspended. The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z

We’re on the huge floor of the Olympia exhibition centre, where stalls stretch out in every direction, and the scent of snake oil is rising. You had me at 'vagina rejuvenation': my weird day out at an anti-ageing exhibition 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

While the show will centre around the "confident and compassionate teenager" Elena, it is being targeted at children aged two to seven. Disney reveals first Latina princess 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Louis Theroux, your TV guide to society's colourful fringes, last night took a tour of the West Bank, the white-hot centre of global human irrationality. TV review: Marchlands, Louis Theroux: Ultra Zionists 2011-02-04T10:09:57Z

I gave him a job at my little garden centre because I knew his dad a bit. Experience: I was kidnapped by my lodger 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

And they said: 'Well, we need your spirituality to be a centre for your recovery. Brian May: Me and my animal passions 2012-09-28T23:06:37Z

Most successful sitcoms had a comedian at the centre. Life's better with Retta: How TV's 'treat yo self' queen conquered comedy 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

The table in the centre of the room is carved from English limestone and weighs four thousand pounds. The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z

Put choux paste all around the outside of the dish and fill the centre with the tuna mixture. Family life: Against the odds, True Blue and tuna fish pie 2013-05-25T06:15:01Z

They thought I was rich because I own a garden centre. Experience: I was kidnapped by my lodger 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Much of the documentary centres on the antagonism between the sannyasins and the Wasco County locals. Growing up in the Wild Wild Country cult: ‘You heard people having sex all the time, like baboons’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

It’s Monday night, and I’m sitting in a circle of a dozen men in a chilly community centre. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

Zeta Jones is also interested in plans for a Welsh performance centre there. Zeta Jones 'lost palace' donation 2013-01-03T14:34:55Z

He was ready to go anywhere, which meant that a show premiered in a pub, community hall or youth centre could receive the validation of a visit from the Guardian. Robin Thornber obituary 2010-12-12T18:08:00Z

The series was hailed by some as Britain's answer to Roseanne and broke the sitcom mould by centring on Bill, the lynchpin of the Porter family, whose everyday antics were the mainstay of the series. Six to watch: TV's best parents 2012-05-21T15:35:15Z

At the centre of a hornet's nest of lawsuits, the Harmon Building shows how gambling on property can sink even the best-laid architectural plans. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-08-19T14:34:45Z

If you don’t believe me, just look at who the garden centres market themselves towards. I’m 35 and I love gardening. Deal with it 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

I went to see the circus at the Olympia exhibition centre in London; I was only 17, and it was a real treat. Photographer Basil Hyman's best shot 2011-07-17T21:30:01Z

In the years between they have faced eviction several times, but the centre was always saved – on one occasion by squatters, including Bengali families, who had received support from the women there. A life in writing: Selma James 2012-06-08T21:45:05Z

Across the Tyne in Gateshead, arts organisations the Baltic centre for contemporary art and the Sage, created as part of the town's ambitious cultural regeneration programme, remain protected from deep local authority cuts. Newcastle arts cuts are disastrous, say stars of north-east 2012-12-16T18:02:00Z

For Kurtág, it is the spatial relationships – between the piano, taking centre stage, flanked by a cimbalom and timpani, and the other variously dispersed players – that form the crux of the matter. Orchestra of WNO/Koenigs - review 2011-01-23T18:22:54Z

Cleland, a philosopher based at the university's astrobiology centre, calls this ethereal dimension the shadow biosphere. Life on Earth… but not as we know it 2013-04-13T23:05:01Z

The idea for rear of the year came to Edwards, he says, when he was contracted to promote a denim trade show at the Olympia exhibition centre in London in the 70s. Behind the times? The strange, sad story of rear of the year 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

In the silent film era, movie cameras were generally heavy hand-cranked machines, and the centre of gravity of the US film industry was shifting from the east coast to the west. One perfect shot: the unsung power of cinematography 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

A promotional campaign centring on his reputation for disarmingly droll black comedy, combined with the stunning fact of the film's commercial success, neutralised any outrage from the beginning. The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder by David Thomson | The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower by Robert Graysmith 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

Yet when she printed, she would crop the sides of the square to highlight the human drama in the centre of the frame. Vivian Maier: lost art of an urban photographer 2013-06-25T09:15:33Z

Suffice it to say, though, that however edgy the subject matter, the familiar, slightly seedy, male crapness at the centre remains enjoyably familiar. Missing: Claudia Lawrence 2010-08-13T05:45:00Z

She offers him a job at her rehab centre, he decides to keep working as the rock-covered The Thing from Fantastic Four on the streets. Arrested Development recap: season four, episodes 1-5 2013-05-26T15:37:26Z

A blood sample is analysed in-house or sent off to a regional processing centre, and the results can take up to six weeks. ‘I was not willing to die for my breasts': the young women opting for mastectomies 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

"So for the jury, Steven Spielberg will be the centre and we are finishing it with great people." Cannes 2013: Nicole Kidman, Ang Lee and Christoph Waltz join jury 2013-04-24T09:17:05Z

Like a lot of troubled males, at the very centre of Frank Delsa's world is a hole in the shape of a woman. Tony Parsons' top 10 troubled males in fiction 2010-05-26T12:22:00Z

Then the guys at the youth centre said: 'Why didn't we rap it out instead of fight?' Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z

Modernists were keen to develop a great industrial centre across the lagoon. Travails of a modern city 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

The event is the first directed by Barley, a relative novice in the literature and publishing world who previously ran the troubled Lighthouse architecture centre in Glasgow, until it closed after a financial crisis. Edinburgh international book festival sees dip in ticket sales 2010-08-31T13:04:00Z

Valemont is a strange, cheap-looking drama centred around a posh university, a dead student and the sister of the dead student on a mission of vengeance. Spitfire Women 2010-09-18T05:45:00Z

Port Louis turned out to be a sizable city boasting a new colonial-style shopping centre on the old quay. Billy Connolly: 'I hate going on holiday' 2013-01-26T09:00:00Z

He was later seen being arrested for contravening an Asbo banning him from Birmingham city centre. Benefits Street prompts complaints 2014-01-08T12:55:22Z

Detroit was also a centre of progressive politics and the civil-rights movement. Before the clouds came in 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

The move towards a state of the art broadcast centre in the capital, served by the very latest technology, will undoubtedly raise further the profile of the Welsh media sector across the UK. BBC Wales' Cardiff HQ up for sale 2013-08-01T16:16:19Z

When Japanese researchers mimicked the main population centres surrounding Tokyo using a series of oat clusters, the way slime mould moved from cluster to cluster replicated Tokyo’s railway system. Trails and error 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Sprinkle the dough with more flour, dust your hands with flour, then fold the edges of the dough into the centre. Rise and shine: Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for home-baked bread 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

Phil’s memory continues to decline and, again, on almost any other show, this drama would be front and centre, but here, it’s around the edges where the stories really happen. Better Things gets better: Pamela Adlon triumphs without Louis CK 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

As well as a historical centre for theosophy, spiritualism and alternative medicine, the town is home to a Buddhist monastery and the Dalai Lama’s unofficial home in North America. The best towns and small cities in the US: Ithaca, New York state 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

WAW has five women's refuges throughout the country – and plans to open three more – as well as five family centres where men, who may be a threat to their wives, can receive counselling. Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z

Spoon the yoghurt into the centre of a clean muslin or kitchen cloth, draw up the corners and tie loosely together, then suspend over a bowl and leave somewhere cool overnight, to drain. The weekend cook: new season garlic and fresh herbs – Thomasina Miers’ spring recipes 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

As if that wasn't enough, Sheen also granted an extended conversation to TMZ.com, which the celebrity website streamed as live video from Sheen's "home rehab centre" – apparently the poolside of Sheen's Los Angeles home. Charlie Sheen interview: 'You can't process me with a normal brain' 2011-03-01T00:30:00Z

Focus on applying your weight through the heel and centre of the foot. How to do 'the flamingo' – the secret to strengthening your core 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

Rose Street, just off Sauchiehall Street; in other words, right in Glasgow city centre. Cine-Files: Glasgow Film Theatre 2012-06-20T11:16:33Z

Iron Man 3 - the third instalment in the franchise centred on billionaire crime-fighter Tony Stark - was released in the UK last month. Downey Jr to return in Iron Man role 2013-06-21T08:55:25Z

I love being the centre of attention and here I feel like . Jersey Shore | Cable girl 2010-03-23T06:45:00Z

Hit Swedish crime thriller centred on a high-class drug dealer. Pacific Rim, Monsters University, The Deep: this week's new films 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z

When she married Goldwater and went to live with him in New York, she found herself at the centre of the American art establishment. Louise Bourgeois's greatest work of art 2010-06-06T21:29:00Z

She would suggest that he go to his office and work in familiar and quiet surroundings, and come back when he had centred himself again. How my husband saw blindness as a ‘dark, paradoxical gift’ 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Flagey looks like a huge art-deco ship and looms over a square, by the side of two small lakes, in the suburb of Ixelles, a short tram ride south of the centre. 10 of the best music venues in Brussels 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Musharraf insisted that Pakistan's nuclear weapons were safe from terrorists, though he admitted that what he called the "centre of gravity" of al-Qaida-inspired extremism lay in Pakistan's tribal areas. Pervez Musharraf uses Hay festival to hint at possible return to power 2010-05-30T22:55:00Z

Bobbitt argues that Machiavelli broke off writing the Discourses in order to compose "because he believed he saw an opportunity to create a new principality in the centre of Italy". The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World that He Made by Philip Bobbitt – review 2013-07-11T14:59:00Z

Disillusioned, she started working as a psychiatric nurse in a day centre for people with mental disorders. NoNoNo: Whistling their way to chart success 2013-10-17T00:28:51Z

He doesn't think of himself as a wimp, a geek or a superhero but all the books around just now seem to centre on such characters. Where are the normal boys in fiction? 2013-04-08T15:55:45Z

He was buried with the beret, but a Royal Marines flying suit and a bottle of single malt from the officers' mess at the commando training centre will be offered for sale. Jimmy Savile's treasures put up for auction 2012-06-28T17:27:14Z

This year's first prize went to the image, shown at the centre of this article, of a close-up view of the heart of a mosquito. Life through a high powered lens: the Nikon Small World awards 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z

For instance, photographs of Gateshead's Baltic, a generous and well-designed arts centre, almost invariably crop out the Baltic Quays flats, designed in a vague approximation of the Baltic's colour scheme. A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

There are no reception desks but, in the centre, a living space and a kitchen. Cancer centre 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z

The bourgeoisie consumed by the white-hot evil at the centre of the island it reluctantly inhabits. House Husbands, Paper Giants: Magazine Wars – TV review 2013-06-10T06:21:47Z

The series centres on the serial killer Jigsaw, who tests his victims with an array of appalling tests and games that usually involve them mutilating themselves or others. Original Saw film tipped for remake 2012-08-08T14:57:39Z

Wythenshawe, though, was real public housing – getting people out of inhuman conditions in the centre of Manchester and into a smokeless, verdant new landscape. On the white bus to Wythenshawe – council housing by design 2012-05-22T16:16:13Z

Storylines that put women’s relationships centre stage are everywhere at the moment. Sister act: from Killing Eve to Little Women, female friendships finally get top billing 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z

ACE funding then enabled a partnership with the local arts centre, Derby QUAD, to produce Artswork, a course to help build self-esteem in jobseekers. Arts Council chief: 'what happens next?' 2013-07-24T11:05:55Z

Fifty Shades of Grey centres on a rich businessman, Christian Grey, who recruits a young virgin, Anastasia Steel, to be his well-remunerated sex slave. Fifty Shades of Grey: Sam Taylor-Johnson confirmed to direct 2013-06-20T09:21:16Z

The money paid for a total refurbishment, new collection displays, a learning and research centre and new school resources. Don't patronise urban communities – give them the William Morris Gallery 2013-06-06T08:00:01Z

Ari Aster’s sensational debut Hereditary was at the centre of this discussion, thanks to its intricate, grief-fuelled family dynamics — but it pulled off gut-level jump scares to outdo any multiplex shocker. Mutant bears, flying heads and chainsaw duels: the best movie moments of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Located bang in the centre of Portugal, this sprawling, mountainous natural park is home to frothing rivers and majestic waterfalls, berry-fattened boars and all-seeing eagles. Lockdown escapes: where I’ll visit when this is over 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

Why aren't people who died recently haunting the call centre of Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs? TV OD with David Whitehouse: Great British Ghosts 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z

These days, when my Pilates teacher talks of my centre, while I attempt to keep my pelvis utterly still, I feel less scornful. 'Pilates-changed-my-life’ stories are annoying… but it did 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z

At the moment the museum is fashioning itself a visitors' centre from the parabolic concrete shells that once formed the lobby of the historic Vegas La Concha motel. Top 10 things to do in Las Vegas 2011-02-21T19:24:04Z

The children are appropriately businesslike in their bereavement, and things look set to get nicely complicated once Sarah takes centre stage. TV review: Single Father and Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Lagos 2010-10-11T05:45:00Z

Two and a half years later I was stuck working in a call centre, depressed and lost. Tracks of our tears: the songs that make G2 writers weep 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z

In Hollywood terms, it’s as if someone decided to make a spin-off to Mother’s Day centred on the character played by Julia Roberts. Is Fantastic Four the most mismanaged superhero franchise ever? 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

The reality of the "Cally", told here, is more sedate, but no less intriguing, centred on a close working-class community that's under threat from inevitable gentrification. TV highlights 20/06/2012 2012-06-19T18:59:01Z

Brush the top of the pastry with the remaining butter and place in the centre of the oven for 15 minutes. 20 best Middle Eastern recipes: part 3 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

Alex spent about a year addicted to spice, while he was living in tents in the city centre, before kicking the habit near the start of 2016. 'It's worse than heroin': how spice is ravaging homeless communities 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

The centre, currently the only one of its kind, receives referrals from throughout the UK. The King's Speech means stammerers understood 2011-01-17T16:00:00Z

It was while she was sitting in a succession of health centre waiting rooms with one or other of her parents that Donna Rutherford first got the idea for an artistic collaboration with the NHS. Family life becomes a work of art in NHS waiting room 2011-03-16T07:00:00Z

Arcade Fire already existed in an early incarnation but gradually, says Butler, the couple became the "centre of gravity". Arcade Fire: 'It's a lot easier to get smaller' 2011-02-10T21:36:01Z

Mr Grylls, Chief Scout and TV presenter, will slide down the wire over the River Tyne and into the parade ground of HMS Calliope - the Royal Navy's riverside training centre. Grylls to be zip wire torchbearer 2012-06-13T11:15:39Z

Supported by social workers, these centres are run for and by community members. 'Closing orphanages isn’t enough': the centres supporting children and families in Uganda 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

As with his other two features, Spurlock's moment of existential crisis is never far away and in this case the question centres on artistic integrity. Morgan Spurlock for sale. Buy, buy, buy 2011-01-24T15:02:37Z

Despite stints abroad, his career placed him at the centre of British musical life, through his associations with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and, from 1971 to 1986, the Royal Opera House. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z

We set out with our first play, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, to put political theatre back on the circuit, by performing in village halls, arts centres and theatres. The fringe turns angry as shows plan to deliver a political punch 2013-07-20T11:30:29Z

He said: "Scotland's achievement in design is world-class and centuries old. The development of V&A at Dundee will for the first time provide Scotland with a dedicated centre to celebrate that achievement". V&A museum gets £9.4m lottery boost 2014-01-31T14:27:35Z

It is a rare good news story for arts funding, much of which is currently centred on closures and cutbacks. Hepworth Wakefield boosts Yorkshire's sculpture collection 2011-02-03T18:54:26Z

For this reason, the getaway is limited to private retreat centres, where camping is the most practical accommodation. Cannabis tourism in California – a women’s wellness retreat with puff love 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Soon afterwards, having enrolled at Belgrade's Academy of Fine Arts, Abramovic joined a loose collective of artists who had taken over a local cultural centre. Marina Abramovic 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z

Since the landlocked country's proclamation of independence in 1991, Alexander the Great has been at the centre of the controversy. Alexander the Great or a warrior on a horse? 2011-08-14T13:50:56Z

Roughly speaking it was the sensation of being at the centre of an explosion. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z

Being a lecturer in "music industry innovation", a sometime DJ and a former musician, several of the most intriguing ideas centred around music. Click to download: A sea of C90s 2010-04-15T22:30:00Z

The work is to be called The End of Civilisation, and centres on shots of a grand piano burning in a dip in the fellside. Burning grand pianos on the Scottish border 2012-05-22T13:39:00Z

Anyone who saw what happened is asked to ring Durham police on 101 and ask for the priorities dispatch centre. Boy, 7, killed in steam engine accident at museum in County Durham 2012-07-22T17:50:56Z

There's a popular student story about Martha Nussbaum giving a talk in a small living room of the Episcopal Church's chaplaincy centre on the leafy campus of the University of Chicago. Martha Nussbaum and the new religious intolerance 2012-06-29T21:55:17Z

The prince's architecture charities have helped redesign historic centres in difficult conditions before, including Kabul and Kingston in Jamaica, but Haiti will be his biggest challenge yet. Prince Charles drafted in to help rebuild quake damaged Port-au-Prince 2010-10-10T19:17:00Z

Its great actors like, naturally enough, to be at the centre, for film favours the show-off, the celebrity. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z

Over a solitary electric guitar and subtle drums, her voice takes centre stage to sets out her resigned viewpoint that, as with gambling, you can only love for so long before ending up the loser. A losing game 2011-07-24T18:15:01Z

In 2004 I performed in a children's show called Frog in Love, which centred around a jolly frog who fell in love with a duck, much to a rat's chagrin. Isy Suttie: My Edinburgh 2011-08-15T21:16:00Z

In July, the centre announced plans to promote the Pedway “both as a destination and as a desirable way to move around downtown”. ‘Underground city’ set to become Chicago’s next attraction 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

We're speaking in the labyrinth of office space the National Theatre of Scotland administration team currently occupy, on the outskirts of Glasgow's city centre. Theatre director 'up for challenge' 2013-06-28T13:51:46Z

On issues such as crime, immigration, welfare and Europe, government policies routinely described as “rightwing” are, on a spectrum of public opinion, to the left of centre. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z

They took a taxi into the centre of town, and Fri bought some makeup and browsed in a shoe shop. ‘Intimate terrorism’: how an abusive relationship led a young woman to kill her partner 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Along with the humanitarian work, they also started building up the collection now at the heart of the new centre, storing documents that most people saw as rubbish or fire-starters rather than historical records. From Kabul love affair to Afghanistan's first centre for study of its history 2013-03-26T17:36:42Z

There are, however, side effects for the patients, and Emily is the centre of attention for the mood shifts and loss of perspective that is the downside of the treatment. Side Effects – review 2013-03-10T00:06:26Z

Taking centre stage, he holds the 3,000-strong crowd in the palm of his hand. Turbonegro: 'We thought people would start throwing bottles at us' 2012-07-21T23:05:11Z

Larraín’s film is expected to centre on Kennedy’s courage in the four days following her husband’s assassination in Dallas on 22 November 1963, which won her admiration from Americans and people worldwide. Natalie Portman to play Jackie Kennedy 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The irony was that in the end I abandoned the icy research centre setting because I realised that Jessie needed to be living in a much more ordinary world. Paperback Q&A: Jane Rogers on The Testament of Jessie Lamb 2012-08-21T14:38:26Z

Pace's operations in London will be led by Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, who was previously curator of exhibitions at the Garage centre for contemporary art in Moscow. New York art gallery Pace takes up London residence 2012-07-02T16:00:19Z

"There is an egg hanging at the centre of the Brera Madonna that represents Mary's fecundity as well as the promise of immortality and regeneration," explained TheHistoryOfArt.org, an online website covering art history. Poached or painted: A closer look at how eggs became a complex motif in countless works of art 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

We've had the palliative care people round to see him and even they say they can't do anything more than get him to go to a daycare centre. Tony Nicklinson: 'I have a fear of living like this when I am old and frail' 2012-06-23T21:04:49Z

It centred on a ragtag group of Americans recruited to help defend a Mexican village against raiding bandits. Tom Cruise set for Magnificent Seven remake 2012-05-22T11:00:41Z

Brought to book ... prisoners at the Camp Delta detention centre in Guantánamo Bay have shown a fondness for Harry Potter. Guant?namo Bay library's most wanted books? Anything but Barack Obama 2010-08-25T14:14:00Z

Tender notices will soon be issued, to allow interested companies to begin bidding to construct what is intended to be an international centre of design. Dundee's V&A museum given approval 2013-08-13T18:17:51Z

Green’s previous films were documentaries, often centred on women, often stylistically adventurous. Sleazy bosses, exploited barmaids: US cinema finally discovers the left behinds 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

In the centre is an enormous billboard advertising septic tanks. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z

At the centre of Gale, Mt Sharp rises from the crater floor to a height of 16,000ft. Curiosity rover's descent to Mars – the story so far 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z

The Top Gear presenter told reporters he was "just off to the job centre" as he left his home in London on Wednesday. Clarkson jokes about BBC suspension 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

He also pointed to Derby Theatre , which has been taken over by Derby University and "given a new lease of life as a live venue and a training centre." New chair of Arts Council England warns against cuts to culture budgets 2013-03-19T23:00:02Z

Series two builds on many of the strengths of Friday Night Dinner's first outing, with Adam and Jonny's relationship at the centre of the comedy. Have you been watching … Friday Night Dinner? 2012-11-07T12:22:15Z

I grew up in the centre of Philadelphia in a big family and I remember walking into a room and wanting to be seen. Kevin Bacon: ‘Who would play me in the film of my life? Harry Styles’ 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne One of Smith’s more underrated films saw her take centre stage in the character study of a lonely and vulnerable woman who thinks she might have found love. Maggie Smith: five best moments 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

The centre of our world was the school. The hearing world 2010-05-29T23:02:00Z

The key perhaps to getting the most from the film is to consider Molly as its centre, not her father. The best films of 2020 ... that you haven't seen 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

The worst outcome would be that the centre might close. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z

The song, about her refusal to attend an alcohol rehabilitation centre, generated huge publicity, with Winehouse frequently being photographed drinking on stage and in pubs. Obituary 2011-07-23T17:32:58Z

That afternoon, the pair headed deep into the reservation’s centre to a vigil for 22-year-old Tyler Dubray, a college student who had taken his own life four days earlier. Liquid genocide: alcohol destroyed Pine Ridge reservation – then they fought back 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

A senior Afghan official said earlier this week that the transfer of the Bagram detention centre would be a first step to handing over all U.S.-managed prisons. Afghanistan, U.S. sign prison transfer deal 2012-03-09T12:40:00Z

For eight days each year, Basel becomes the centre of the watch universe. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

The three titles listed to help sufferers cope with depression and anxiety all centre on cognitive behavioural therapy, which may work resolve some of the more straightforward cases but won't help everyone. 'Self-help books come in many guises' 2013-01-31T18:58:21Z

Yet this year's controversy centred more on reported bickering among the contestants. 'Give me a break' 2010-12-17T16:18:42Z

It's hard to say which of the three characters is the "best", although Kim is the one who provides an untidily satisfying moral centre to the show. Getting On is not just funny – it's radical, profound, a masterpiece 2012-11-23T19:00:01Z

At today's celebrations there was a political target – David Cameron and the coalition government – following the announcement that government funding for a visitor centre at the ancient monument was being cut. Summer solstice celebrations at Stonehenge hit by funding blow 2010-06-21T11:00:00Z

The crows and squirrels were often at the centre of this. British Sea Power: Our memories of making Valhalla Dancehall 2011-01-05T15:57:45Z

One resident reported limited damage to the facade of the nearby Palestine Branch Military Intelligence centre, one of the most feared of more than 20 Syrian secret police agencies. Syria suicide bombers kill 55, truce in tatters 2012-05-10T12:14:02Z

Many Home Islanders work on West Island, in the visitors’ centre, the school, medical centre and the cafes. History, harmony, and the only Muslim island in Australia | Ben Stubbs 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

The call for entrants began earlier in the year via the internet, schools, community centres and dance centres. BBC launches dance contest 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

The highlight was Kevin's mosaic with a bull's head at its centre, which drew the response: "It looks like a cow on acid." TV review: A Dangerous Place to Meet My Family, Rome Wasn't Built in a Day 2011-02-25T07:59:00Z

I was 27 years old when through the friendship and help of Chip Somers of the treatment centre Focus 12 I found recovery. Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: 'We have lost a beautiful, talented woman' 2011-07-24T22:14:47Z

The first book centres on the young fashionista's high school years in Connecticut, while the second will reportedly concentrate on her arrival in New York City. Sex and the City 2 disappointment could lead to prequel 2010-06-04T14:05:00Z

As you fumble your way around, eventually you become aware that at the centre of the space is a room within a room, a second structure. National Gallery puts on a peep show with Mark Wallinger's nude Diana 2012-07-09T15:25:00Z

This former tobacco factory opened as a contemporary arts centre in 2015, housing a gallery space, cinema, restaurants, shops and workspaces. Sculpted by time: Eduardo Chillida museum reopens in San Sebastián 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

And, looking back, Sarah acknowledges that "taking care of me became the centre of his life". Sarah Polley: 'Stories are our way of coping, of creating shape out of mess' 2013-06-22T23:05:32Z

The centres are named after their inventor, Maggie Keswick, who, after being told her cancer was terminal, reflected on "the awful interior space" where she received the news. Cancer centre 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z

That table is the centre of Isabella Bywater's handsome design, in which bulky polished furniture – "plain and lasting" is the Rutherford way – glows in the lamplight. Rutherford & Son; Glasgow Girls; Playing Cards 1: Spades – review 2013-02-17T00:06:21Z

Beatlemania hits Belfast as the crowds await the stars A sea of happy smiling faces - a night to remember These were the scenes in Belfast city centre 50 years ago. Beatles in Belfast - 50 years ago 2013-11-08T08:18:46Z

Meanwhile at whatsonstage.com, Pentabus theatre's artistic director Elizabeth Freestone talks about the rural touring circuit, where artists pitch up at village halls and community centres. Noises off: do institutions kill art? And radical theatre lives! 2012-07-13T12:13:09Z

The centre will be moved 1.5 miles away and visitors will get to the stones on a low-key transit system or, as others call it, a Noddy train. Stonehenge enjoys a moment in the sun at summer solstice 2012-06-21T09:04:49Z

Morris said: "The ambitious repositioning of Tate's collection is a response to the emergence of interesting and dynamic art centres across the world and an ever more complex and interconnected international art scene." Tate Modern marks 10th birthday by expanding collection 2010-05-11T15:13:00Z

At Cuddle Up To Me, a cuddle “retail centre” in Portland, Oregon, clients browse a 72-cuddle menu. No hugging: are we living through a crisis of touch? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

He takes the group of offenders, who are doing public service, painting old community centres and cleaning cemeteries, on a tour of a distillery and then to a whisky tasting in Edinburgh. The Angels' Share – review 2012-06-02T23:05:32Z

I enjoy a drink at the waterfront Le Cafe du Village and a seafood dinner at La Tentation, both in the city centre. Vanuatu's Espiritu Santo, where paradise is a leaky canoe without a paddle 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

They function in the narrative but don't occupy centre stage. Paul Bailey's top 10 stories of old age 2011-02-02T11:31:42Z

It landed right in Danno's chest, in the dead centre of his cruel heart and his wolf blood flowed out over the floor. It's All Right I Have a List That Helps to Make Everything Clear and It's Real Easy to Follow by Ian Beck - short story 2012-11-14T12:09:04Z

He will, he says, be concentrating on the "relationship between the politicians canvassing and the voting public with images from battle-buses and village greens to polling stations and shopping centres". Simon Roberts puts political England in the frame 2010-04-12T15:49:00Z

She instead went to a centre in Newport Beach, south of Los Angeles. Lindsay Lohan fails to enter rehab 2013-05-03T11:00:12Z

Following their appearance in Tusk, Yoga Hosers centres the action on them. Johnny Depp and Kevin Smith to work alongside daughters in Yoga Hosers 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Private foundations opened their doors and savings banks formed international art collections, setting up cultural centres as part of their social remit. The drain in Spain: the country's arts crisis 2011-03-27T20:31:00Z

Another cluster appears to be centred around the nervous system. Long Covid: ‘It’s a year since I’ve felt like myself’ 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z

Mifune is the ambitious samurai at the centre of a stark world laced with violence, beauty and irony. Akira Kurosawa: 10 essential films for the director's centenary | Ben Walters 2010-03-23T13:14:00Z

But his most influential political writings centred on his increasing certainty that the European labour movement had ceased to be capable of bearing the transformational role assigned to it by earlier Marxists. Eric Hobsbawm obituary 2012-10-01T09:59:14Z

It plucks tiny proto-women from theme parks and shopping centres, tags them and returns them to the wild. A History of Ancient Britain 2011-02-23T07:59:01Z

By far the best place to swim in town, La Punta is centred on a street of cafes, surf shops, hostels and restaurants. Best beaches in Mexico: readers’ travel tips 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Blake, who is best known for his famous illustrations of Roald Dahl characters like Matilda and The BFG, has rallied fellow artists to help raise funds for a centre dedicated to the art of illustration. Drawing together 2010-12-15T01:53:01Z

Related: Yosemite duo summit world's 'toughest climb' on El Capitan From an early age Yosemite became the centre of my universe. Climber Tommy Caldwell: 'From an early age Yosemite became the centre of my universe' 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

"How do you do?" is also just long enough to prove your credentials, allow the primeval centres of your brain to check your potential enemy for weapons, and essay a smile. Lucy Mangan: how do I do? Much better without canapes and kisses, thanks 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

Mr Johnson told the newspaper the feasibility study "will enable us to understand fully the potential to build that centre and help to cement our position as a world city for culture." New London concert hall proposed 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Yet there is clearly huge demand to see the not-so-jolly green giant placed front and centre in his own film once again. Marvel studio at Comic-Con to map future of comic-book superhero films 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

A co-production between animators in Mumbai and Hollywood, Alpha and Omega is clearly influenced by The Lion King and centres on the rites of passage among wolves in Jasper national park in the Canadian Rockies. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole; Alpha and Omega 3D ? film review 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z

At a time when the future of arts funding is looking perilous, it is a reminder that vital theatre can flourish outside the big city centres. In praise of ? Northampton 2010-05-03T23:05:00Z

It centres on Nixon scholar Harold Silver, his brother George and George's children, who come to rest in Harold's care after a series of catastrophes. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z

The larger the room the less atmosphere you can get: they turn into leisure centres. Rock music under threat as small venues go bust across Britain 2012-05-26T17:37:38Z

The story is nothing new, centring on a romance between the roughly hewn Steamer and posh girl Annie in her one moment of rebellion, and dotted with archetypes. Beanfield 2010-06-03T21:45:00Z

At the play's centre, naturally, is the character of Henry, the man whose indefatigable appetites would lead England to its rupture with the Catholic Church. Henry VIII – review 2012-05-31T11:12:57Z

Ostensibly, this show is part of a long theatrical tradition that allows the minor characters in classic plays to take centre stage and have their say. I, Malvolio ? review 2011-08-24T17:24:35Z

Shame is about a man going through emotional and physical torment but at its centre it has heart. Bafta awards: British women vie for writing prizes 2012-02-10T19:16:05Z

Somewhat to my surprise, I see myself standing front and centre, staring down at Rachel McAdams's beautiful watercolour dress, inspecting it for footprints. A nobody's guide to the Oscars 2010-03-25T21:30:00Z

"We are putting art and culture at the very centre of the whole project," said Tamsin Dillon, curator of Lights Out. Lights going out for WW1 centenary 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

The Wave trauma centres are government- and EU-funded centres that provide counselling and psychotherapy and also run community courses on the impact that trauma can have on the family. Is trauma handed down through generations? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

The composer's most recent musical Stephen Ward, about the man at the centre of the 1960s Profumo scandal, closed in March after a West End run of less than four months. Cats musical to feature rapping cat 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

For a politician who was making the personal political and placing his own story and background at the centre of his candidacy, writing was the ultimate act of self-creation. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

This is highlighted by a giant poster on the Durham call centre wall, reading "Say sorry be empathetic". Have you been watching ... Undercover Boss? 2011-08-03T10:48:22Z

Chances are once you are parents you’ll barely have a moment alone for the next two decades and most of your conversations will centre on your offspring. I dread a baby coming between me and my husband | Mariella Frostrup 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

That is not a subject without its interests, but Halperin's attempts to shift Crawford into the centre of what gay culture means and meant is plain old weird. How to Be Gay by David M Halperin – review 2012-08-29T09:00:00Z

It centres on Baba, the patriarch, and his failure to fit into the new order. Royal Court's New Plays from India: snapshots of the subcontinent 2012-11-09T14:53:47Z

Shanghai, hip and hopping, seemed determined to present itself as a new centre of the art world. Shanghai is racing to become China’s cultural capital 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

The manuscripts were being kept in two different locations – an old warehouse and a new South-Africa-funded research centre, the Ahmed Baba Institute. Mali rebels fleeing Timbuktu burn library full of ancient manuscripts 2013-01-28T11:40:00Z

The assembled members of the Numbers collective are squeezed around a pub table in Glasgow city centre, and pause to contemplate. By weight of Numbers 2010-04-08T21:10:00Z

Drawing inspiration from mobile blood donation centres, Ming’s Piano took its business on the road in late February and it is now operating at 70% of its pre-outbreak levels. Hong Kong music school keeps on trucking through coronavirus shutdown 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

He was barred him from the day centre he attended, for aggressive behaviour. My father’s claim on my heart put an end to my young love affair 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

She’s the sort of person who, when her butler sniffs that one of kitchen arrows has hit the target “left of centre”, smirks: “Three words no one has ever used to describe me”. Is Renee Zellweger's Netflix thriller the best trash TV show of 2019? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

A derelict building in the city centre is now wrapped in a beautiful artwork by local artist David Jacques, illustrating the Great Money Trick, a phrase which still resonates today. Letters: Ragged philanthropy thrives in Liverpool 2011-02-12T00:05:56Z

The devastation centred on Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital and most densely populated area. Haiti earthquake: six months on 2010-07-10T10:00:00Z

Their music centres around love, passion, joy, fascination, imagination and lust. Dilla made very sensual music. J Dilla: the Mozart of hip-hop 2011-01-27T22:15:00Z

And yet, as with all the best fairytales, there is a blackness and brutality at its centre. Lore – review 2013-02-21T21:40:01Z

But it is Mr Metheny, the band’s maestro, who is its centre of gravity. Guitar hero 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

In Degas, he notices "the absence of a centre". La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso, translated by Alastair McEwen - review 2012-12-28T22:55:02Z

Many others in broadcasting and the arts already have – among the first victims was the BFI, which had government funding cancelled for its flagship new South Bank film centre. BBC's big weekend 2010-06-23T12:03:00Z

Today's cartographers reverse that trend, putting us front and centre and helping us to scurry self-absorbed through landscapes we don't deign to explore. Simon Garfield: a life in books 2012-09-28T21:55:09Z

Of course, there's a difference: in the movie, Bill's no-hoper status encourages him to cut loose with a campaign centred on real substance, and thus it is that the no-hoper becomes a hoper. What the Robert Redford film The Candidate teaches us about Nick Clegg 2010-04-21T09:53:00Z

It is also looking for long term tenants for the cavernous press and broadcasting centres on the Hackney side of the Park. Olympics Anish Kapoor tower hopes to attract 1m visitors a year 2011-01-07T00:05:13Z

Scripted by William Ivory and centred on events in 1983, it's a one-off drama blessed with strong performances; one which finds an unfamiliar angle on a story we think we all know. TV highlights 22/07/2013 2013-07-22T06:00:14Z

Which means, we learn, that the call centre is not just the fullest realisation of Marx's theory of alienation, but also a hotbed of love, lust and lols. TV highlights 04/06/2013 2013-06-04T06:00:08Z

"Cultural funding can all too easily be concentrated only in the centre of our cities," it says. Campaign to save DH Lawrence legacy unites arts elite 2010-10-16T23:08:00Z

The film reportedly centres on the period in 1962 when Monaco and France were in dispute, with Grace playing a vital role in helping to avoid a coup. Nicole Kidman's Grace Kelly biopic 'inaccurate' 2013-01-17T11:48:52Z

Sydney's city centre bathed in multicolour lights during its annual festival of light, relics from the ancient Roman city of Pompeii displayed in Los Angeles and more from the world of arts. Light festival and more arts stories 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

The world's greatest museum of art and design joining forces with a unique centre of British industrial heritage. Letters: Crafting a link between London and Stoke 2012-12-11T21:00:03Z

Michod is the man behind the scarily good 2010 crime drama Animal Kingdom, which also centred on brothers, all turning on each other like vipers. The Rover review – an Australian road movie that runs out of road 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

When I got home from the meeting I ordered a chest x-ray, which indeed revealed a mass in the centre of my chest, and a lung mass as well. Heal thyself: meet the doctors living with the conditions they treat 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

And at the centre of it all, somehow playing the straight man amid all the bombast and bluster, is Cage as Cameron Poe, the burdened soldier who just wants to go home. Muscles, mullets and Malkovich: has Con Air got even weirder with age? 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

I used to slag people off left, right and centre," he says, "but if I'm going to say something about someone else now I try to think, 'Is it useful? Boy George: 'Jail's like school but you can't leave' 2010-10-12T20:45:00Z

Owning the land would create a wonderful walk between the trust's visitor centre and the South Foreland lighthouse. National Trust launched appeal to buy white cliffs of Dover's 'missing link' 2012-06-26T23:06:01Z

Hackett organised blockades of Fishponds Road, which ensured no buses could make it past their barrier and into the city centre. Roy Hackett: the civil rights hero who stood in front of a bus – and changed Britain for ever 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Now, there is in effect a new building inserted into its centre, with a light-filled and spectacular atrium linking galleries reimagined as a tour of world cultures, constantly stressing east-west connections and global views. The Ashmolean Museum hasn't sold its soul 2010-06-28T09:54:00Z

The museum acknowledges the past – it’s estimated that 90% of the centre of Cologne was destroyed by allied attacks in the war – but makes something positive from it. Ode to Cologne: A German city full of views and brews 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

In the centre were pickled onions, roll mops and a beet and herring salad. The best food they ate in 2015 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

It comes at a time when the island disputes and China's insistence that Japan owns up to war time atrocities take centre stage. VIDEO: Play on Japan's Singaporean legacy 2014-04-11T10:32:09Z

It centres around a multitude of themes including class, exile, racism and the origins of the 2008 financial crisis. A novel look at class, exile and racism 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Inspired by a friend's memories of the far east, the Suite is a study in Orientalist sensuality, with a knock-out nocturne at its centre, orchestrated in a manner that prefigures Messiaen. Ernest Bloch: Suite for Viola and Orchestra; Suite Hébraïque; Baal Shem – review 2013-06-13T21:00:31Z

It’s nothing fancy, but clean, well-cared for and at the centre of this lovely town. 20 Greek islands … you may not have heard of 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Because the heart is the centre of emotion, and an actor is a man of emotion. Massimo Troisi: the postman who always delivered 2011-03-31T21:45:01Z

At the centre of all of the chat and ideas is the showrunner, the person charged with getting the writers writing and the series made. Secrets of the TV writers’ room: inside Narcos, Transparent and Silicon Valley 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z

At the Newbridge studios, graduate artists Will Marshall and Will Strong met the challenge of city centre studios by colonising empty office spaces with innovative artists to creative and critical acclaim. Treasured north east gospels are on their way home - just don't miss them 2012-07-06T12:30:00Z

When the film's two heroes, Arbor and Swifty, steer a horse and trap through the grand buildings in the city centre, it's almost a shock to see them there. Cannes film festival 2013 diary: day three 2013-05-17T15:37:23Z

There is a now a clear way forward for the centre at this location. How London's Africa Centre could be saved 2011-08-12T16:26:06Z

“La Rambla is the centre of this economic monoculture, and we’re working towards bringing local people back to the city’s most emblematic street.” La Rambla: plans to transform Barcelona's tourist rat run into a cultural hub 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

The festival begins tomorrow and continues until Sunday, with daytime and evening events concentrated in the city centre around the university's campus on Oxford Road. Manchester prepares for its first children's book festival 2010-06-30T13:08:00Z

The comedian died on 4 September, aged 81, a week after she stopped breathing at the Yorkville Endoscopy centre. Errors in Joan Rivers' treatment 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

We do not want to lose our public spaces: our libraries, museums, theatres and arts centres. Arts Council chief: 'what happens next?' 2013-07-24T11:05:55Z

Note how Dani is celebrating her birthday – if it’s her 27th, it would place her in the exact centre of the second season, the “midsummer” of her life. Midsommar: what the hell just happened? Discuss with spoilers 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

Divide the hummus between 6 individual shallow serving bowls, leaving a slight hollow in the centre of each. 20 best Middle Eastern recipes: part 3 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

Their replacements – high-rise apartment blocks and modern shopping centres – boasted nearly identical facades of glass and white ceramic tile. Short story: England and My Clan by Yan Lianke 2010-03-22T12:02:00Z

Bengaluru may be India's fastest-growing city, thanks to the boom in call centres and the IT industries, but the influx of Hindi and Tamil speakers looking for work means the language is under threat. Raghu Dixit: Loud enough for Lord Shiva 2011-04-13T21:00:00Z

A recovering one: she took Derbyshire to a local drop-in centre, the Basement Recovery Project, where a fellow addict played Bach on the piano and people talked about denial, resentment, optimism, gratefulness. Rewind radio: Victoria Derbyshire; Tony Livesey – review 2013-03-09T22:50:01Z

It bursts into the centre of a huge exhibition space to reveal the lurid hues of an oversized bunch of Jeff Koons tulips in front of an array of austere monumental paintings by Christopher Wool. Open doors 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Each snail is daubed with an individual marking and raced from the centre to the perimeter of a 13-inch track. This week's new events 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z

Last year, Beyoncé meticulously recorded her epochal Coachella headline slot for Netflix, creating a electrifying visual and audio archive of a performance which centred black culture and marked her artistic peak. 'It's ghost slavery': the troubling world of pop holograms 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

Bradford was one of the earliest centres of Indian film screenings for the south Asian community in Britain. Bradford: city of Bollywood dreams 2013-05-17T12:04:43Z

For those without sufficient means to enjoy London’s wealthy and rejuvenated centre—most of the men and women Mr Judah meets—the city is frequently as disappointing as it is difficult. Beyond the glitter 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

A Croydon council spokesman defended the sale, saying the proceeds would be invested in Fairfield Halls arts centre, where the facilities were not "up to scratch for modern touring performances". Arts Council criticises local council's Chinese porcelain sell-off 2013-07-18T18:56:14Z

“An iconic music shop in Cheltenham town centre is set to close after 50 years. . . . ” For this piano man, the regular crowd no longer shuffles in 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Go for a curry India is the centre of the veggie universe. How to eat out if you're vegan 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

The centre's curved roofs were partly inspired by the scallop shell traditionally carried by pilgrims to the shrine of St James in the city's cathedral. Spain's extravagant City of Culture opens amid criticism 2011-01-11T19:53:11Z

Plantin was interested in philosophy and religion and his house became a centre for humanist thought, discussion and debate. The sights and sounds of summer 2011-08-08T19:30:02Z

One of the film’s most strikingly soulful moments comes when, amid the mayhem, Nile centres herself by slipping earbuds in and closing her eyes. Gina Prince-Bythewood: 'Films about black women are the hardest to get made' 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

But there's no denying that being based in the centre of Europe does put you in close proximity to many fantastic orchestras and many possibilities of finding great players to work with. Jonathan Nott: conducting the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra 2011-08-12T21:55:18Z

Existing initiatives are being expanded: THEARC, a large centre for arts, recreation and education, opened in 2005 and is now planning to add a third building. A tour of a changing capital 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Besides, she says, The Village appealed to her because the drama centres on "working people" rather than "the decision-makers". Maxine Peake: 'People go to therapy. I've got a hoover' – interview 2013-03-24T00:02:01Z

The trust now owns more than 7km of the coast between the South Foreland lighthouse and the visitor centre on Langdon Cliffs. Carol Ann Duffy poem celebrates Dover's famous white cliffs 2012-11-07T00:00:03Z

Unlike some more recent conspiracy theories, the person at the centre actually rebutted the claim. Why fans think Avril Lavigne died and was replaced by a clone called Melissa 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

In fact the novel was conceived – and its first draft written – before the explosive arguments around the proposals for a Muslim cultural centre near Ground Zero. The Submission by Amy Waldman ? review 2011-08-24T13:30:02Z

Place in the centre of the oven and bake for 45 minutes, until golden-brown and set: a knife inserted into the centre of the cake should come out clean. 20 best vegetarian recipes: part 4 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

It's hip to be square at the moment, as science claims centre of the light-entertainment stage. Festival of the Spoken Nerd – review 2013-01-25T14:52:26Z

To recap, Liverpool Waters is a massive redevelopment of Liverpool's dockland between the city centre and the still active modern port. The breathtaking potential of Liverpool (and Wirral) Waters 2013-03-07T17:00:00Z

At the age of 20, Teena Marie auditioned for Motown Records, which had moved its centre of operations from Detroit to Los Angeles. Obituary: Teena Marie 2010-12-27T17:57:00Z

Outside the visitor’s centre are a minke and a pilot whale skull, from creatures washed up on the shore. On the whale trail: sealife spotting in the Outer Hebrides 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

"Moving around the country, you can't go to an arts centre if it's not there any more," he says. Funding drama 2011-03-30T17:02:13Z

The best way I can describe the otherworldliness of the river by Bird Cloud, with its towering 400ft cliff, is to invoke Uluru in Australia's red centre. Digested read: Bird Cloud by Annie Proulx 2011-02-14T21:30:03Z

Such activities are now standard in dementia homes and day centres, along with dancing and gentle exercise and singing, all of which Mum loves. ‘Eventually I knew she was no longer safe alone’: how do we care for family with dementia? 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

At an extraordinary general meeting held last Friday, it emerged that the problems centred around the "dysfunctional staff relationship" between Palmer and Fiona Sampson, editor of the society's Poetry Review. Poetry Society funding withheld 2011-07-27T08:32:20Z

The clues to the mystery at the centre of Ashes to Ashes and its predecessor Life on Mars were seeded throughout the series. Ashes to Ashes: co-creator Matthew Graham says goodbye to Gene Hunt 2010-05-21T21:00:00Z

As Archie, he is the film's moral centre: irreproachably well-intentioned, verging on the weak. Tim Roth: who's the daddy? 2012-05-20T19:00:12Z

Authors and readers are at the centre of the world of books, and finding new ways to serve them will create further different structures. Penguin Random House merger begins a new chapter for publishing 2013-01-07T15:11:37Z

It places the US centre stage and promotes the American way of life. Letters: Politics and propaganda on the screen 2013-01-18T21:00:13Z

He also owned the cinema chain Landmark Theatres during the 1990s and built a children's day care centre and a behavioural health centre in Los Angeles through one of his family's many charitable foundations. Movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn Jr dies 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

His picture is on a bus stop in the centre of town – not an advert, just a big blow-up of his face: have a bit of Guillaume while you wait. Cannes 2013 round-up, week 2: Gosling for breakfast, skinflicks for lunch 2013-05-25T10:59:01Z

A new visitor centre is to be opened in December. Summer solstice: thousands descend on Stonehenge to greet longest day 2013-06-21T07:20:41Z

But the triangle might open too and metamorphose into an oval divided in two by a centre line, making it look like the leaf of a tree. Mir?'s paintings are expressions of astonishment and joy 2010-08-24T12:59:00Z

The ICE Totally Gaming conference, held at London’s Excel centre, drew a warning earlier this week from the UK gambling regulator. Gambling firms defy calls to stamp out sexist behaviour at event 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

The Vatican condemned Galileo for contradicting church teaching, which held at the time that the Earth, not the sun, was the centre of the universe. Galileo's fingers to be displayed in Florence science museum 2010-06-08T16:21:00Z

Then, earlier this year, news leaked that trustees of the centre were planning to sell the expensive-to-maintain building – not "fit for purpose", they insist – for retail development and find a new home in London. How London's Africa Centre could be saved 2011-08-12T16:26:06Z

The next day, waiting for the Numbers gang to finish their lunchtime pints and turn up to be interviewed, I wander around the town centre. By weight of Numbers 2010-04-08T21:10:00Z

This year's Oscars may not have contained any big surprises, but it is likely to be remembered as the one where politics took centre stage. Oscars 2015: Politics take centre stage 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

The man, reported to be Christian Bale's stunt double, plummeted into the roof of the chalet at an outdoor activity centre in Kingussie after strong and unexpected winds sent him veering off course. Three men, a ladder and a joker on the roof 2011-07-06T19:00:59Z

Pinta, an exhibition of Latin American art, is going on display at London's Earls Court exhibition centre in London. Dogs and dehydrated oranges 2011-06-06T07:33:19Z

Take a map of any major university and you can trace the march of neuroscience from research labs and medical centres into schools of law and business and departments of economics and philosophy. Human behaviour: is it all in the brain – or the mind? 2013-06-29T23:05:40Z

She puts the film’s enduring appeal down to the wealth inequality at its centre: “The murder of the third-class passengers being locked below decks revealed the brutality of class struggles around the globe.” Kathy Bates: 'I told Clint that after 50 years, I feel like I've hit the big time' 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Once Warhol's UK agent, d'Offay's Brillos now took centre stage at a retrospective staged by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh to mark the 20th anniversary of Warhol's death. Warhol's box of tricks 2010-08-20T23:03:00Z

Injuries are a daily occurrence, but the centre offers a two-for-one entrance deal to anyone willing to sign a form waiving the sanctity of their lives. The British summer would be far more tolerable without sunshine 2013-07-13T23:05:42Z

If Downs seems to penetrate to the centre of the modern gay condition with almost preternatural ease, it is because he's writing from confessional as well as professional perspective. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z

The discovery that loss of navigational skills was associated with Alzheimer’s disease was made several years ago by Chan and colleagues based at several centres in the UK. Virtual reality to help detect early risk of Alzheimer’s 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

My guess is that you buy all your music from garden centres, and you don’t own a T-shirt that doesn’t have a wolf on it. Bundles of joy: which baby movie is for you? 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

The refurbished swimming pool at Kentish Town sports centre. Making a splash: newly restored Kentish Town baths reopen 2010-07-26T17:50:00Z

"There is music in shopping centres, churches and museums, comedy at the heart of Queen's University, theatre in offices, public baths and bars, and art in the open air," she said. Queen's festival line-up revealed 2012-09-04T11:00:12Z

The deposition scene is centred on two men, and so two actors, as nuanced and profound in its politics as its emotion. Power and glory: how to tackle Shakespeare's revolutions 2012-06-20T17:59:07Z

We called the Ebola hotline and a health worker came, but they didn’t have space for her at the treatment centre and there was no ambulance to carry her anyway. Ebola: life and death on the frontline 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

The sponges are cooked when you press lightly with your little finger and the centre springs back. The 20 best cake recipes: part 2 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

A musical from 1945, it featured singer and musician Louis Jordan who stands centre stage, his arms open wide as if in welcome. The slow rise of black cinema 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

In addition, proceeds from these special screenings will be donated to a care centre for children with cerebral palsy, which Hawks set up in Chisinau with the royalties from his book. This week's new film events 2012-06-22T23:06:02Z

This is all taking place at The Plaza Super Cinema, a fully restored, art deco cinema in the centre of Stockport, which will be celebrating its 80th anniversary during the week of our festival. Screen Stockport Film Festival brings talent to town 2012-10-10T13:14:00Z

Climb up the shepherd’s path and back along the cliff top to meet up with everyone else back at the visitor’s centre. Scene stealer: how Game of Thrones put a spotlight on Antrim and Derry 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

Place in a roasting dish and bake in the middle of the oven until you can insert a thin sharp knife or skewer through the foil into the centre of the beetroot. Peter Gordon's six delicious salad recipes 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

But by the way it’s also got Rain Man at the centre of it.’ Edward Norton and Thom Yorke: 'The last thing we wanted was for it to get bloody' 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

And at the centre of it all, the rope in the tug of war/love, are the children. Canoe Man and Who Needs Fathers? | TV review 2010-04-01T05:45:00Z

Many of the Instagram memes centre around a specific plant: orchids. 'Imagine using liquid water': why people water their house plants with ice cubes 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z

At the end of last year, Google published photographs of its vast and ever-growing data centres for the first time. Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph 2013-01-19T21:59:00Z

Read or Die centres on an agent for the “special operations division of the British Library”. 'A full English every morning': how UK food and weather inspires Japanese anime directors 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

But, says Lazarus, “the feeling was that it was making it too front and centre. We tended to deal with politics or other issues almost as a side note.” From EastEnders to Outnumbered: how TV found drama in Brexit 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

There was not enough grip at the centre of the organisation. Mark Thompson hits back over BBC row 2013-07-11T15:52:29Z

It's the most wonderful place and it's a disgrace that we're still waiting for a new visitor centre and for improvements to the roads. Summer solstice celebrations at Stonehenge hit by funding blow 2010-06-21T11:00:00Z

He said he was confident in the business outlook for this year even though the company was no longer able to sell and promote products in shopping centres closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Disney+ to make exclusive Middle East debut on OSN 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

It inspired a lot of online debate, particularly centred around how accurate the costumes are – which I found amusing, since Ragnar is a figure about as historical as King Arthur. Is TV's Vikings historically accurate? Who really knows 2013-04-09T13:17:05Z

Like so many – all? – good children's stories, David Almond's play has sadness at its centre. My Dad's a Birdman; Beauty and the Beast; Les parents terribles; Alice in Wonderland 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

But there are other things we do that we decide to do, such as run libraries, children's centres, youth clubs and offer help with employment. Libraries crisis set to get 'much worse' this year 2013-01-15T16:22:15Z

Fill with a spoonful of the mascarpone mixture and press a few raspberries into the centre of each one. Ruby Tandoh: rising star 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Designed by Frank Gehry, the art museum and cultural centre, sponsored by the French luxury goods brand, is a spectacular landmark in Bois de Boulogne park to the west of Paris. Frank Gehry’s Paris museum is the first in a spate of exciting new gallery openings around the world 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

The Department for International Development is funding the building of a healthcare centre in Kerrytown, Sierra Leone, with 12 beds for staff and 50 for patients. Ebola epidemic: experimental drugs to be rushed to Africa 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

We each had a garden in the middle but work and the city centre was a walk away. Manningham gets English Heritage guide 2010-06-25T10:23:00Z

The call centre was a nice detail, situating the poem firmly in the here and now, the world of work and commerce. Poetry workshop: Names 2011-07-12T10:04:43Z

But Beryl herself, sitting calmly at the centre of this sinister confusion, was a picture of the innocent at home. My hero Beryl Bainbridge by Michael Holroyd 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z

“Well, back when we started there weren’t that many jobs for Jews. It was either the garment centre, sports or comedy,” says Brooks. 'Love and free food': Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner share the secrets of their 70-year friendship 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Kerry absorbed his father's passions, and his youthful love of architecture was centred at first on Wren, Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh, before travel led him in the late 1940s to Rome and to Borromini. Borromini: the first architect 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z

It's more an entertainment centre now, it's not a record shop. Endangered species 2011-04-15T07:37:18Z

So what you have is a fairly traditional sitcom, with someone being himself at the centre of it, got it? TV review: Grandma's House, Inn Mates and Gears And Tears 2010-08-10T06:30:00Z

It becomes a full centre, not just something on the ground floor for dances. How London's Africa Centre could be saved 2011-08-12T16:26:06Z

The plot centres on a young hip-hop influenced college student in China who is asked by his professor to research American civil rights and activism. China beats Hollywood to the punch with unauthorised Tupac Shakur biopic 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

Serve by placing the pot in the centre of the table along with a chunk of Parmesan, a fresh green salad and some cold beers. For a unique weeknight meal option, try this special chitarra pasta dish — with or without meat 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

Still, my main excursion will be to a shop in the centre of London commanded by an inspired collector of theatrical memorabilia. We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z

The rare objects will form the centre of the National Media Museum's television collection. BBC gives objects to media museum 2012-11-12T10:49:24Z

Assetou Sy is founder and executive director of the first Malian Culture centre in the US and its Finally Girls Matter campaign. A family at war: saving my granddaughter from FGM 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

The state can no longer be the centre of knowledge and initiative – its function is rather that of empowering society. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z

"But actually the reality is so far from that, and it's the human being that is at the centre of both worlds - and that is forgotten." 9/11 film explores divided loyalties 2013-05-10T05:36:38Z

The US centres for disease control moved Ebola to his highest category of health threat. Barack Obama pushes for 'global effort' to combat spread of Ebola 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Many directors still prefer the texture of professionally trained creatures, even if they’re not centre stage. 'Make sure they don't eat the set!' Movie animal trainers' tips 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

The skyline is a forest of skyscrapers; below them nestle private golf clubs and shopping centres devoted to luxury brands. Shenzhen stock exchange building: inside China's 'miniskirt' 2013-04-16T17:56:13Z

He thinks it’s time to be brave and get rid of the coffee shops, the Nutella pancake stalls and the red light district from the historic centre. Post-lockdown Amsterdam is a crowd-free joy 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in a parallel present-day storyline, said important ring finds itself in the possession of her descendant Alice, who summarily lands herself at the centre of a great whopping conspiracy. Catch-up TV guide: from Labyrinth to Plebs 2013-04-06T05:00:04Z

Like, pubs are great social centres but they've been replaced by wine bars that are cold and expensive. 76 minutes with … John Lydon 2012-05-31T20:30:00Z

Here, he explores geometry and creativity in an exhibition centred around his painting of black circles called The Eye of Go. Edinburgh festival 2013: our critics' picks 2013-07-15T05:59:01Z

Now in a bigger city centre space, any unemployed people can work there – and many go on to get paid jobs. Independent record shops: 10 of the best in Britain 2013-03-24T00:06:02Z

Resisting cliched characterisation, Wang fought to centre her own perspective without justifying or explaining it, even if that risked alienating audiences. The Farewell's Lulu Wang: ‘I would love it if white men were asked the same questions as me’ 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

Her appointment coincides with the 75th anniversary of the poetry centre at the world's largest library. New US poet laureate announced 2012-06-07T15:51:40Z

Manchester DJs these downloading days needn't be based in the centre of the city, ready to run the gauntlet of grumpy record shop staff on Friday afternoon in checking out the latest imports. Clubs picks of the week 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

There are no starched linen tablecloths here; it’s a tiny restaurant tucked away on a side street in the centre. Ode to Cologne: A German city full of views and brews 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

Tonight's headliners, a talked-up rock quartet from London called Palma Violets, will for a few hours become the centre of the Forum's universe before bussing away and blending with the venue's rich history. Powered by pure passion: the music venue that runs on love alone 2012-11-25T00:05:30Z

Pedestrians hurry home, while in cafes and shopping centres conversation stalls and all eyes turn to the nearest TV set. Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef will not let his humour be silenced 2013-06-11T13:05:45Z

Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go duly took centre stage, in an entirely British film festival sort of a way, where literature prevails over the movies. London film festival ? review 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z

"It's hard to believe people did that every day. No wonder they were all getting attacks of the vapours every five minutes and fainting right, left and centre." Downton Abbey: The secrets of series five 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

And I felt in the centre, not quite the old generation, not quite the new generation. Patti Smith: punk poet queen 2013-05-25T08:00:00Z

The only real shift in taste in recent decades, as performance evidence makes clear, is the rise of Richard Strauss's operas to the centre of the repertory. A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker – review 2012-12-13T07:53:01Z

It now serves as one part local theatre, one part art gallery and one part IT training centre. When culture is treated as commodity, no wonder its temples are sold off 2013-05-22T13:18:35Z

Despite his subsequent return to work – "he wore a Paul Smith suit like the rest of us" – his tortured confessions continue, centring on a childhood marked by violence. Black Vodka by Deborah Levy – review 2013-02-18T19:00:02Z

Estimates show there have been more than 500,000 visitors to the boathouse since it was first opened as a heritage centre back in the 1980s. Dylan birthday poem route opens 2012-08-31T06:23:17Z

Community centres and care homes are the ideal place to start having those conversations, he says. Let’s talk about sex for the over 60s 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Parks and promenades, shopping centres and dining quarters fell silent in the weeks following. Sri Lanka bombings: three months on, tourism workers tell their stories 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

The city was a vocal centre of the temperance movement that led to Prohibition between 1920 and 1933, which in turn fuelled the illegal and widespread production of moonshine and rise of Al Capone’s speakeasies. Six of the best artisan distilleries in Chicago 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

This does get added relevance from the rise of the UK call centre, and the fact most us are bombarded by calls about bloody PPI claims. The Call Centre – TV review 2013-06-05T06:00:14Z

In episode six, the action centres around a case of a murdered woman in Pennsylvania but comes to life when we get an insight into the guarded Dr Carr’s life away from police work. The best TV episodes of 2017, from The Deuce to Line of Duty 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

One, that there is a flourishing Northern scene, thanks to great venues and centres of music teaching excellence in Manchester, Leeds and elsewhere. London jazz festival 2012: from Herbie Hancock and Esperanza Spalding to John Paul Jones – what to see 2012-11-07T12:56:00Z

It's a painstaking task but fascinating to witness in a documentary in which the septuagenarian Ackroyd's calm presence lies at the centre of proceedings as much as his extraordinary art. TV highlights 19/03/2013 2013-03-19T07:00:03Z

But the spirit of place in a novel is not just an inert backdrop or a straightforward illustrator of emotions; it is part of the humanity at the centre of the endeavour. Philip Hensher: The importance of place in fiction 2013-05-17T15:00:02Z

This was the newly promoted environment secretary, Brown's old nemesis Ken Livingstone, to whose 10-year occupancy of No 10 we owe, among much else, our pedestrianised city centres. What if John Smith had lived? 2011-04-07T20:00:15Z

What to do The large cave in the centre of the island is awe-inspiring, but be warned, there are lots of steps. 20 Greek islands … you may not have heard of 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

"It's wonderful when the peripheries become the centre," he said. Gillian Clarke 'stunned' at winning Queen's gold medal for poetry 2010-12-24T00:00:01Z

Around about the same time, at the local leisure centre, he discovered the first arcade games, such as Space Invaders and Pac-Man. Charlie Brooker: 'Happy? I have my moments' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

Nick is still a major player and all that, but he's no longer the spider at the centre of the web. Art power list 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Palin's performance was criticised by some health campaigners and, in response, he gave his name to Britain's first specialist centre for children with a stammer in north London. Michael Palin: 'I will die, but not retire' 2013-07-04T17:30:52Z

In the distance is that ethereal glow at the centre of so many of Watteau's paintings: a vignette, as it seems, of the afterlife. Watteau: The Drawings; Esprit et V?rit?: Watteau and His Circle ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:24Z

As a Blairite education and transport minister and a former member of the Social Democratic party, Adonis had spent his adult life believing a "progressive coalition" could unite the centre and left of British politics. 5 Days in May: The Coalition and Beyond by Andrew Adonis – review 2013-05-13T07:00:03Z

So much energy is good, but a still, quiet centre is necessary, too. Return to Silence - review 2011-01-23T18:14:22Z

The show centres around pink, mouse-like creatures who live in craters covered by dustbin lids, whose noisy "clang" gave the show its name. Michael Palin to narrate Clangers 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Because, for all that this book is centred around redemption, the thing that most mattered to me was that it is so funny – and so beautifully written. Reading group: sin and symbolism in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood 2012-12-12T09:11:58Z

It seems to vibrate with intensity even from a distance, a huge, flat swath of shimmering orange at the centre, altering all the other colours around it. Peter Doig: the art of the foreign 2013-07-27T21:00:01Z

Until the French revolution, when it was melted down for cannon, a plaque at the centre of the maze showed Theseus killing the minotaur and Ariadne holding the thread that led back to the light. The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers – review 2013-07-12T15:15:00Z

There is, however, a certain problem at the centre of the project. The Way Back ? review 2010-12-26T00:05:13Z

Nevertheless, a scamming banker is at the centre of Ibsen's 1896 play. Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z

Told in spare, almost terse, prose, it centres on Halland's partner Bess, who discovers, as the days pass, how little she actually knew about the man for whom she left her family 10 years earlier. Crime fiction roundup – reviews 2012-07-13T21:43:00Z

I went to the job centre and said 'I want to be a stunt man' and they looked at me as if I was a bit weird. 'I was Ken Barlow's stunt double' 2013-01-23T08:26:08Z

Now it includes weekly concerts outside coronavirus isolation and treatment centres. Nigeria taps the power of music to try to beat coronavirus 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

When Oughton agreed to the encounter, his only reluctance had centred around my presence. 'I'm Carmen. Nice to meet you again': why I faced my rapist in prison 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

English Heritage will encourage people to arrive, instead, at its new exhibition and visitor centre, being built 1.5 miles west of the stones at Airman's Corner. Stonehenge's £27m makeover will end its days as a traffic island 2012-07-11T15:24:02Z

A sequence at the centre of the show suggests what might have been. Julius Caesar; The Physicists; Wah! Wah! Girls – review 2012-06-09T23:08:07Z

Each is self-contained, with four six-storey apartment blocks, planted walkways, commercial streets, schools, social club, health centre and library – not unlike the Barbican in its vision. A vision in concrete: Oscar Niemeyer’s Brazil 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

Not just on theatre stages but on the streets, in youth clubs, schools and bus stations, in parks and shopping centres and on derelict patches of ground. The Today programme is wrong: great art happens beyond theatres 2012-11-20T17:20:36Z

Devil To Pay, which is to be released in July, is set in London and Afghanistan and centres on a fictional ex-soldier called Nick Kane. 2010-01-22T16:14:00Z

As Leckie, a senior detective coaching a potential witness, he is the moral centre of the film. Guy Pearce: Don't look down 2010-12-04T00:02:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton The programme for this August's Edinburgh International Festival is out and, of all Jonathan Mills's lineups to date, it is the one that shifts our centre of gravity the farthest. Edinburgh international Festival looks to the New World | Mark Fisher 2010-03-17T09:56:00Z

The memorial, set in a former coastal battery, is centred on a statue of a young airman gazing up at the sky over the coast where the fighting was fiercest. Battle of Britain: many salute the Few 70 years after RAF's finest hour 2010-07-11T18:57:00Z

Matvejeff, cool and wonderfully centred throughout, was the perfect foil for her abandoned extravagance. Karita Mattila/Ville Matvejeff – review 2013-04-05T14:46:00Z

The centre is a tight knot of old buildings, mostly Georgian: Bungay had its Great Fire in 1688, 22 years after London. Bungay - the perfect country retreat 2010-12-21T10:57:00Z

The condition spread and hospitals were overwhelmed; the disease control centre was baffled. The Bay – first look review 2012-09-26T09:23:35Z

The previous month, troops loyal to the embattled shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, had opened fire on demonstrators in Jaleh Square in the centre of Tehran. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-25T07:01:00Z

For all its eccentricity, this is a state-of-the-nation play, with a real debate at the centre. No Quarter; The Silence of the Sea; Not Until We Are Lost – review 2013-01-20T00:06:10Z

But at the centre is a love story or perhaps, more accurately, a story of love. Just Send Me Word by Orlando Figes – review 2012-05-30T07:00:02Z

And that, really, should be the end of the discussion. centres on a massive writer's desk. Great House by Nicole Krauss ? review 2011-02-19T00:05:23Z

The new instalment, loosely adapted from the comic book Civil War, centres on a split in the superhero ranks after Earth’s governments decide to impose official oversight on the Avengers. Mark Ruffalo: Hulk has been cut from Captain America: Civil War 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

This combination was an essential part of what made him the centre of a warm and loving circle of friends. David Myerscough-Jones obituary 2010-05-04T18:01:00Z

Paul Chambers, like Simon Walsh, found himself at the centre of a CPS investigation which turned his life upside down. Simon Walsh: the vindictive persecution of an innocent man 2012-08-11T23:11:00Z

Alan Bleasdale's fine two-part doesn't want for spectacle but prefers to imagine the human stories that may have lain at the centre of the event. Tonight's TV highlights: The Sinking Of The?Laconia 2011-01-06T00:05:01Z

Visitors to the Liverpool One shopping centre are being confronted by the sight of a vintage elevator apparently bursting through the pavement. In pictures: Liverpool Biennial 2012-09-16T11:00:57Z

Today, that figure stands in excess of 25,000 – a story echoed in scarcely less dramatic form in urban centres across the country. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-08-12T14:57:47Z

“I think more and more people need to hear about breathing. It grounds you in the present moment. In my dreams, there would be a breathing centre on every street corner.” 'You’ve had what we call a cosmic orgasm': the rise of conscious breathing 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z

Photograph: PA The Northern Ireland prison which once housed some of the western world's most dangerous inmates is to be transformed into both an international peace centre and an agricultural show arena. Maze prison redevelopment plan gets green light 2013-04-18T13:37:46Z

Or being taken off to a detention centre and denied a lawyer or family visit ? Stand up for West Bank's Freedom theatre 2012-06-12T16:53:16Z

The juxtapositions and collisions in its structure, its crazy veering in tone, are at the centre of Spielberg’s aesthetic. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

The American new wave band are putting an Irish setter front and centre on Don't Roof Rack Me, Bro! Devo to unleash song about Mitt Romney's dog 2012-08-15T11:55:25Z

In 2013 she co-founded the Character Lab, a research centre which tries to ensure that policies to encourage grit are based on science. Character-driven 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Christof Koepsel/Getty Images Appalling news from Qatar this week where the most popular shopping centre in Doha caught fire, killing 19 people, most of them children trapped in a nursery. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-01T16:08:11Z

It puts homegrown jihadism front and centre, exploring the terrorists’ alienation, machismo, callousness and occasional stupidity. London Has Fallen: can city siege movies survive the age of terror? 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

She is also worried about going into big shopping centres because of the threat of bombs and was deeply concerned after the Paris attacks. 'My granddaughter loses sleep over terrorism': how children respond to global events 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

"Unbelievably, considering his importance, there is no centre devoted to Tolkien anywhere in the world," Rhys-Davies says in the video. Ian McKellen and more "Lord of the Rings" actors call on fans to help save Tolkien’s home 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

There are echoes here of the Star Wars movies, which also delivered prequel episodes centred on the back story of a major villain. Do we really need a Hunger Games prequel movie? 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

Although it opened seven years ago, Club Mono is celebrating its third birthday, counting year zero as 2008, when the radical transformation from intimate bar in Belfast's city centre to large state-of-the-art club took place. This week's new clubs 2011-04-01T23:06:01Z

"I don't think they require the fabric of an arts centre to exist and operate, but at the same time I don't think they should try to replace the model of an arts centre." Do we need buildings for digital art? 2013-07-19T09:29:51Z

On Wednesday night I joined about a hundred people at the centre for the opening night of the tour. George Monbiot comes out fighting on 'Left Hook' tour 2011-02-17T14:35:04Z

Like that earlier poem, "The Seasons" is surely centred on a rueful love for the ordinary or "wordly". Poem of the week: The Seasons by Derek Mahon 2011-03-07T11:09:38Z

And Pearson is planning to stage Aeschylus's The Persians in a replica German village used by the army as a training centre in the midst of the Brecon military range. National Theatre Wales puts Cymru centre-stage 2010-06-01T14:36:00Z

After all, he was good at drawing up inexpensive and ordinary designs for flats and shopping centres—just what his clients and collaborators sought. A life in shapes 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

At the centre of the S shape is what is known as "the sweet spot" – a resonating, flat section of metal, which when bowed "sings" in an ethereal, almost vocal tone. Hey, what's that sound: Musical saw 2010-06-07T15:12:00Z

The book he would really like to write, of course, is a proper personal memoir, one that puts his life at centre stage. Michael Munn: the celebrity biographer reveals all 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z

I would eat in the hospital or at a residential treatment centre, where I was sent when my condition deteriorated, but then I would return to my old ways upon discharge. Anorexia: you don’t just grow out of it | Carrie Arnold 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

Photograph: David Sillitoe An unmarked grey van drives around Leeds city centre, its occupants surreptitiously casing their target. Street noise: Guerrilla gigging with Rubylux 2010-09-16T21:30:00Z

The mother mole is served with a freshly made mole in the centre. A masterclass in Mexican food culture from the country's leading chef 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

When a child comes along, it displaces you, if you need to be at the centre, and obviously Saul did. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

Polanski sparked an uproar at the Venice film festival last summer by comparing his “hounding” to the antisemitic persecution of Dreyfus, the army officer at the centre of his new film. Outrage as Polanski film nominated for 12 'French Oscars' 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

Back at the Martinselkonen Eräkeskus centre, after our hike, I indulge in a favourite Finnish pastime and close my eyes to relish the enveloping heat of the sauna. Serene summer in Finland’s centenary national park 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

She also spent time in a treatment centre in 2011 for depression and alcohol addiction. Girls Aloud split after final UK show 2013-03-21T09:49:21Z

The story centres on a young woman who moves to the eponymously named sleepy village where she meets a man who is attempting to turn Sanditon into a fashionable resort. Jane Austen's Sanditon 'sexed up' in Andrew Davies adaptation 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

But this idea that we are the centre of creation lingers on – where is the justification to say we are the central piece of evolution? Brian May: Me and my animal passions 2012-09-28T23:06:37Z

The Yorkville Endoscopy centre said it was not appropriate to comment on the legal action. Joan Rivers' daughter sues clinic 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

Within two minutes of walking into the centre we chance upon McConnell’s father, a local shop owner. The dad who gave birth: ‘Being pregnant doesn't change me being a trans man’ 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

He told the centre that the job meant he now had "to act professionally". Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z

In a long string of appeals the debate centred on whether this was the appropriate punishment. Lashes and lashing out 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Many, she noticed, were themselves sexist, involving stereotypes and centring men. ‘Hussy, baggage or filly’: are these really dictionary definitions of a ‘woman’? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

In her performances of the album after its release, Black power and Afrocentric iconography took centre stage. 10 years of Beyoncé: A decade "causing all this conversation" 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

But they have an almost academic streak that makes one think one is in a classroom or study centre. Turner Prize winner Susan Philipsz: an expert view 2010-12-06T19:45:00Z

It’s packed on Friday and Saturday evenings and is a popular hangout for the artists and designers who rent studios in the attached cultural centre, ProGR. A local’s guide to Berne, Switzerland: 10 top tips 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

“The Armenians were an ancient people, whose homeland was centred in what is now eastern Turkey.” Gunning for the G-word 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

“Enough! We’re already in a self-aggrandising world that puts our looks and glamour at the centre. We need breath and distance from that. As much as we can get.” Patricia Clarkson: ‘I’m a free spirit… this is the life I want’ 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

Wreck-It Ralph centres on a video-game villain who decides to abscond from his own arcade machine in the hope of finding a scenario in which he can appear as a hero. Wreck-It Ralph looks set to be a hit at the Oscars after cleaning up at Annies 2013-02-04T13:22:26Z

The cafe at the Baltic arts centre in Gateshead is run by Fresh Element. Are arts venues catering for all your needs? 2013-04-08T10:45:50Z

As a consequence, the man who had been right at the centre of American power and military might during the war spent the rest of his life at its margins. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z

On your marks … Jonathan Jones with 110 metre hurdler Andy Turner at the Lee Valley athletic centre. Art critic Jonathan Jones reviews athletics in the form of Team GB Olympics hurdler Andy Turner 2012-07-15T18:08:49Z

Saffron Screen … 'Not the exclusive hangout of the hip and trendy' Within the premises of Saffron Walden County High School, which is about a 10–15 minute walk from the town centre. Cine-files: Saffron Screen, Saffron Walden 2012-11-06T16:50:00Z

As I’ve grown older, I’ve found that it’s the best, because having the pressure of being the centre, the fame that comes with being Carol Burnett – even she can’t handle it! Richard Kind: 'I’m a team player, but I also want to win' 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

To rent signs are proliferating throughout the city centre. La Rambla: plans to transform Barcelona's tourist rat run into a cultural hub 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

The library is doing its best according to its remit of being a community centre with books. We must protect and reinvent our local libraries 2012-11-23T08:28:01Z

In essence, despite all the hype of a man who burns at the centre of time, Eccleston's Doctor gave us something human. Doctor Who: why did Christopher Eccleston leave show after one series? 2011-07-21T14:27:23Z

The historic home of Des Moines banker and postmaster Major Hoyt Sherman was always a social centre of town. The best towns and small cities in the US: Des Moines, Iowa 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

When he was 22, he was almost paralysed in a parachuting accident and spent 12 months in a rehabilitation centre. How adventurer Bear Grylls took American TV, and Barack Obama, by storm 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z

“A lot of those early years were centred around pain when the kids were born,” she says. How we stay together: 'There is no magic cookbook of relationships' 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z

Ironically, the call centre was grim, dingy and depressing. From propping up the bar to working at the Samaritans – how I learned to listen 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

As a result, the non-white or non-male versions of the character can be treated as afterthoughts or sidekicks, or as mistakes to be quietly pushed from centre stage. The new 007 is a black woman – don't make her a Bond girl 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

At the podcast’s centre is a US still reeling from the 1992 LA riots, and in the grip of moral hysteria over gangsta rap. Slow Burn: The podcast exploring the murders of Biggie and Tupac 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

The bench is in the grounds of Liberty City’s African Heritage arts centre, a prominent neighbourhood landmark, built with all the civil rights optimism of 1975. Moonlight’s writer Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'the story needed to be out there' 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

Even the economically mighty Saudi Arabia, considered by the west to be the religious and historical centre of gravity of the region, never succeeded in forming a core or Arab culture. Egypt has returned from the cultural backwaters 2011-02-24T16:19:39Z

It centres on his affair with a young man. Liberace, the Daily Mirror and a libel trial fiasco... 2013-06-12T09:29:00Z

I was 34 and fundraising for a cultural centre; he was 46 and the manager of the city’s central park. Love across the divide: couples on Brexit, politics and religion 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

Perhaps that's why Mama, like other recent genre entries Case 39 and Orphan, centres around an adoption. Mama: why cinema loves a creepy kid 2013-02-23T06:00:01Z

So the decision was made to create a rundown community centre whose philanthropic aims - to better the lives of Pagford's council estate residents - are anathema to its wealthier, snobbish denizens. Casual Vacancy: from page to screen 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Pooling their experience of, respectively, new writing for theatre and theatre for young people, SOS and TL fill nooks and crannies around the centre with 18 five-minute monologues performed by six actors. Events picks of the week 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

Instead of soft play centres and playgrounds, take them to art galleries or castles, if those are your thing, even if they complain – and don’t they complain about everything anyway? Avoid playgrounds and eat the last biscuit: how to keep your sense of self as a parent 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

Place 1 teaspoon of filling in the centre of each pastry. 20 best Chinese recipes: part 3 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

The play centres on Queen Victoria and her growing attachment to one of her Indian manservants in the royal household. Boyd unveils his final RSC season 2012-07-10T17:04:41Z

Alex Marchant, a manager at the sports centre, ran outside when he heard the first bang, thinking it was a car backfiring. ‘We didn’t recognise that he was dangerous’: our father killed our mother and sister 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

Morpurgo's tale centres on a young Devon farmhand who braves the trenches of the first world war in an effort to find his beloved colt, Joey. Steven Spielberg takes the reins on War Horse 2010-05-04T10:36:00Z

Now she is one of 30 or so swamis – she translates the word as monk – running a worldwide network of Sivananda Yoga Vedanta centres. My first adventure in yoga: less cobra, more corpse 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

When his sports career was ended by a knee injury, he took a job in a call centre - first selling kitchens and then mortgages, before becoming an energy adviser. Olly Murs: 'Look who's winning now' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

Again, when The Thing finally happens, it happens in a bathroom, at the community centre the Veep is visiting when she finds out she’s going to become president. Girls, Insecure and Stranger Things: how bathrooms became TV’s safe space 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

Liverpool is too big for its population, really – we need to get people back into the city centre, so the city can shrink to fit the people who live there. Home truths: architects tackle the housing crisis 2012-07-11T17:15:59Z

In many African countries, those at risk often have to spend huge amounts of money and travel hundreds of miles to reach heart specialists concentrated in main urban centres. Africa innovations: 15 ideas helping to transform a continent 2012-08-25T23:05:54Z

Although there are several reasonably priced hotels in the centre of Cognac, this is in a sprawling park along the Charente river. 10 of the best cognac distillers, tours and tastings, France 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

They explode a few myths, such as the one about Verdi's music being at the centre of the Risorgimento – this one comes from Mussolini's propaganda, apparently. A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker – review 2012-12-13T07:53:01Z

He is the heart of the enchanted forest, the centre of the ecosystem, and Studio Ghibli, the company he cofounded, is overwhelmingly dependent on his output. From Genocidal Organ to Your Name: Japanese anime‘s new golden age 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

The control centre of that unprecedented storage centre could hardly be more open access, however. Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph 2013-01-19T21:59:00Z

The Lacuna centres on writer Harrison Shepherd, and his social-climbing mother Salome, who ends up mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Riviera. Kingsolver is Orange winner 2010-06-09T18:30:00Z

Luca* had not been working long as an online food courier when we met him on a cold winter's day in a square in the city centre. How undocumented migrants find work as substitute couriers in the UK 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

Its most famous ad, from 2005, was for a chocolate pudding with an extravagant melting centre. From Instagram to TV ads, what’s the science behind food porn? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

The adolescent alpha male at the story's centre is Richard, played by Jack Reynor with an open, handsome face that registers his character's sense of good-natured entitlement. What Richard Did – review 2013-01-10T21:10:01Z

To do what has been socialised out of us and take up space; put our own needs front and centre. How to stop being a people pleaser 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

And the chaps at Covey’s Irish Pub – less than 150 metres from the village centre - will make you feel welcome. Top 10 mountain bike rides in the Alps 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Just don't think you're at the centre of the universe when you pose. People of Earth, say cheese! Nasa to take everyone's picture from space 2013-06-19T15:27:19Z

This restaurant, at the Nalaga'at theatre centre, serves all its meals in complete darkness. Nalaga'at theatre: Blind man's loaf 2010-06-21T21:00:00Z

As the name of the attraction suggests, the main draw is the view, and it is rightly given centre stage. The Shard: a visitor's guide 2013-01-08T14:37:22Z

She visited the Hope House addiction treatment centre in south London. Royal bodies 2013-02-19T11:34:00Z

In the mid-afternoon 30 of us gathered at the festival centre to be led through the streets towards a small scout hut which had been painted entirely white, and topped with an American flag. My rural escape from election panic and hype 2010-05-03T08:00:00Z

"It's time for The Sun to confidently return to the centre of popular culture and engage daily with the great British public," he says. The Sun gets vocal for The X Factor 2012-08-17T17:41:50Z

Six centres have been built, five in Scottish cities and one in London. Cancer centre 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z

Danny was taken in a hearse from the centre to the small local cemetery, with just family and close friends in attendance. ‘It was an incredibly enriching day’: the families taking control of death 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

Top Goon is showing in Culture in Defiance at the Rich Mix arts centre in Shoreditch, east London, from 4-13 July. Syrian satirists take puppet show into war-torn towns to mock Assad regime 2013-06-22T14:47:32Z

At its centre stood a 30-storey hotel surrounded by a compact indoor retail and business district, air-conditioned against the Florida humidity. Tomorrowland: how Walt Disney’s strange utopia shaped the world of tomorrow 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The only bit of land left in this city is there, in the centre, where government officials are sitting in houses surrounded by three or four acres. Land famine threatens Delhi's colonial heritage of Lutyens architecture 2013-04-21T23:00:03Z

Fry said the RA was "one of the most exciting places to visit in London" and they wanted to create a club-like atmosphere in the centre of the capital. Royal Academy unveils £5.7m refurbishment plan to pamper friends 2012-06-07T21:59:03Z

The first time this reviewer met the author, she was living in a hotel in the centre of Juba. From hope to horror 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

When he paraphrases Merleau-Ponty, the French philosopher who viewed the body as the centre of perception, he voices lyrically one of the poem's principle conundrums: "the toucher touching touched". Poem of the week: Relational Epistemology by Heather Phillipson 2013-05-07T10:35:31Z

As the former chief operating officer, Cook helped set up Apple's sprawling supply chain centred on Asia. Apple CEO in China mission to clear up problems 2012-03-27T10:38:02Z

We snuck in the back way, through the stage-door, after which we hopped the lift to the ballet studio which doubles as the press centre. Baftas 2012: Live blog 2012-02-12T18:09:00Z

"The evidence was profoundly conflicted on the one issue at the centre of the case: Who was holding the firearm when it discharged," the appeal states. Phil Spector 'denied fair trial' 2010-03-12T09:48:00Z

You feel him at its centre, working those around him like a baker playing with dough. Fences; Trelawny of the Wells; Richard III – review 2013-03-03T00:05:30Z

The bakery, on the ground floor of the Mosan centre for special needs students, began operating in 2003 after a German charity - Bread Against Misery - donated second-hand baking equipment from Germany. Lebanese bakers with special needs master German rye and Stollen 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

There is also a nine-hole golf course, equestrian competition facilities and a performing arts centre. Top 10 national and state parks in New England, USA 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

City centres becoming increasingly re-populated has been an issue in Cardiff, which has just seen the Barfly close, the third venue is the past few months. Rock music under threat as small venues go bust across Britain 2012-05-26T17:37:38Z

It’s a tale that’s almost as twisted as the man at its centre, bulging with ideas and pitching towards anarchy. Joker review – Joaquin Phoenix’s villain has last laugh in twisted tale 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

This means it strikes a different note from most of the rest of the letters, which are characteristically very easygoing, but it nevertheless takes us close to the centre of everything MacNeice wrote. Letters of Louis MacNeice edited by Jonathan Allison 2010-06-05T08:05:00Z

Graham was deeply critical of the negative impact of mid-20th-century planning, which devastated urban communities with the construction of freeways, the expansion of the suburbs and the emptying of city centres. Bruce Graham obituary 2010-03-25T19:06:00Z

I am, however, firmly against crisps served on the side of a sandwich, generally with some tokenistic frisée salad in a garden centre cafe. How to eat: crisps 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

The Forum is just opposite, the town centre that was lacking for 30 years of the place's existence. On the white bus to Wythenshawe – council housing by design 2012-05-22T16:16:13Z

The findings could shed light on an issue that comes up with some insomniacs who are studied in sleep research centres. Struggle to sleep in a strange bed? Scientists have uncovered why 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

A number of dive shops in the area rent binoculars and telescopes, and star maps are available from the visitor centre. Top 10 national and state parks in Hawaii 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

Very relaxed The centre's focus on privacy meant BBC News was unable to interview any of its current clients, although we spotted a major TV star in the dining room. Celebrity rehab 2010-04-30T11:54:00Z

However, this time Alice finds herself at the centre of a prophecy to save Underland from the Red Queen's reign of terror by slaying the Jabberwocky. Tim's torment 2010-03-05T08:51:00Z

While she is the centre of the Veep universe, those around her make for compelling viewing, too. Hail to the Veep: the best and most brutal comedy of the century 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

At the centre of the room Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden sit, staring at a table groaning with food and drink. MGMT: 'We got a glimpse of fame and shrunk back' 2010-04-08T21:00:00Z

Sadly, this is an item not available to today's troubled mums, even at Sure Start centres. Nanny McPhee speaks softly but carries a big stick | David Cox 2010-03-29T09:44:00Z

The prison which once housed some of the western world's most dangerous inmates is to be transformed into an international peace centre and an agricultural show arena. Maze prison redevelopment gets green light 2013-04-18T13:37:46Z

Frears's The Burning centres on a violent insurrection in southern Africa as observed by a young white boy; unlike the other films, it's based on an existing work of some distinction. Britain's best film directors show some early promise 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

Events are held in London, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland, with each show centred around a live concert before a live big-screen link-up to the main event for the traditional singalong. Last Night of Proms in 3D cinemas 2012-08-22T11:37:28Z

But culture is not leisure – though you need leisure to pursue culture – and libraries are not leisure in the way that a sports centre is leisure. We must protect and reinvent our local libraries 2012-11-23T08:28:01Z

This meant propping up the centre of the crypt with heavy-duty steel columns. National Museum of Scotland: suspend your disbelief 2011-07-26T20:31:01Z

But when policies are more about means than ends – and mainstream ideology is basically convergent on the managerial centre – it's bound to happen. Have the leaders' debates changed British politics for good? Maybe 2010-04-23T09:13:00Z

The high street has been pedestrianised, but instead of creating a relaxed, free-flowing space for visitors, all this seems to have achieved is to have cleared the town centre of energy and life. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

Paul Chambers, centre, with comedians Al Murray, left, and Stephen Fry at the high court in London. 'Twitter joke' case only went ahead at insistence of DPP 2012-07-28T10:09:08Z

My heart was thumping, and before I knew it, we were driving into the town centre. Experience: I was kidnapped by my lodger 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Aurora is 10 miles south-east of the centre of Denver, Colorado. Batman shooting: 14 people killed at Colorado cinema 2012-07-20T10:57:20Z

Anne Murcott, a professorial research associate at the food studies centre of Soas, suggests the avocado’s success owes quite a lot to clever marketing. Ripe and ready: how ‘evil geniuses’ got us hooked on avocados 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Holler If Ya Hear Me reportedly centres on the story of two childhood friends, "struggling to reconcile the challenges and realities of their daily lives with their hopes, dreams and ambitions". Tupac Shakur musical bound for Broadway 2013-06-25T15:55:38Z

This year, the two-day free music event is set to draw more than 300,000 people to watch live bands perform on five stages across the city centre. Music festival success 'amazing' 2012-08-25T08:34:31Z

DiCaprio reportedly likes elements of the script which centre on Rasputin's life as a twin whose brother died early, leaving him missing the better part of himself. Leonardo DiCaprio set to play Rasputin 2013-06-10T11:59:49Z

In addition to chairing the group and providing its secretariat, it also recently paid for a number of senior health managers to visit its care centres in the US on a five-day fact-finding mission. NHS bosses held regular summits with firms competing for contracts worth £1bn 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

I thought most actors wanted to be the centre of attention, I say. Ruth Negga: 'There are films that really mark you. Loving is one of those for me' 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

And Frankie Boyle has shown his serious side, with an impassioned contribution to a campaign against plans to build flats on a green space site in the centre of his home town of Glasgow. RIP Richard Briers, Hynes's new sitcom and Gervais and Cleese – oops 2013-02-19T16:02:37Z

Beethoven's Coriolan Overture was a good introduction to an orchestral sound somehow befitting an ensemble that still plays in white tie and tails: patrician, plushly woven and with a low centre of gravity. Prom 44: RNO/Boreyko 2010-08-19T11:14:00Z

This stretched the hose, which showed the plastic tubing through the centre, which then started to leak. ‘I bought 16kg of flour by mistake’: online shopping mishaps in lockdown 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

It centres on the mundane aspects of life, with topics including harem pants, football, dental work, Carr's DIY experiences – as well as the show's tendency to follow listener input with some unfortunate song choices. Going Out with Alan Carr 2010-06-23T07:00:00Z

The English Heritage virtual tour includes a 360-degree interactive image from the centre of the site, with pop-out videos on its excavation, conservation and design, including as a site for celestial observation. 10 virtual tours of the world’s most famous landmarks 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

“I’m always left of centre and that’s right where I belong,” Monáe sings on I Like That, a single on her latest album, Dirty Computer. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

The hospital, the Queen Victoria, was hastily expanded and established as a specialist burns centre, as it remains. Sculptor pays tribute to plastic surgery pioneer 2013-01-01T20:05:28Z

But growing up, I knew that I was supposed to be the audience rather than a participant, or the centre of attention. Rebecca Solnit: if I were a man 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

The decision to tell the story from the perspectives of several characters opens up startling new views on Auggie and shifts him from centre stage to where he much more interestingly belongs – among his peers. Wonder by RJ Palacio - review 2012-06-22T21:55:08Z

I hadn’t planned to be at Westfield shopping centre, east London, on that day. Experience: I was crushed by a falling man 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

"It started life as commercial centre and we are bringing it back to that function, not to mention bringing 400 jobs to the city," said Sartor. Benetton in Venice row over palazzo shopping conversion 2012-02-13T17:18:00Z

At one point, I was photographing a woman carrying her son into a feeding centre. 'I was gutted that I'd been such a coward': photographers who didn't step in to help 2012-07-28T00:48:00Z

We saw on the map we were to pass Colorado City, infamously the centre of the fundamentalist branch of the Mormon church, the one that does the polygamy. Ski safari in Utah 2010-12-18T00:07:45Z

Like Shakespeare's antihero, the misfit at the centre of Little Shop of Horrors gets his first break through his own skill and resourcefulness. Little Shop of Horrors – review 2012-06-07T17:15:01Z

The film centres on two strangers who are involved in a devastating plane crash. Idris Elba and Taraji P Henson casting news suggests #OscarsSoWhite effect 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

A spokesman for Belgium's crisis response centre also said there was no indication that it was a terrorist attack. Rampage in Belgium kills 3, wounds 123 2011-12-13T18:44:02Z

Bush, working with US architect Harvey W Corbett, wanted a grand international business centre to match the one he'd opened in Manhattan in 1918. Bush House opens doors on future 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

The architects, inspired by Soviet models, planned collective facilities – bars, daycare centres, hobby rooms – to stimulate communal life and serve the new society of almost limitless leisure time that modern technology would soon create. The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z

Television Centre was vacated and sold off in 2013 as BBC News was on the move again, this time to Broadcasting House in the centre of London. BBC News reaches 60th milestone 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

The Kent and Canterbury Hospital is a busy infirmary in the centre of one of the UK's most famous cathedral cities. Southcliffe: the most harrowing drama on TV 2013-07-26T13:00:00Z

I talk about this in the show: all the hopes and dreams are centred on the first child. Shappi Khorsandi: the last laugh 2011-08-10T20:30:02Z

A proposed performing arts centre by Frank Gehry remains a distant prospect. Memories at Ground Zero 2011-07-30T23:03:01Z

A series of photographs of homeless spice users in Manchester city centre, some covered in vomit and being helped by emergency services, were published by local and national newspapers. 'It's worse than heroin': how spice is ravaging homeless communities 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

There’s the stinky plant, rolling office blocks and the Hormel Institute, a biomedical research centre. ‘It's flavourful as hell’: welcome to Hawaii’s annual Spam festival 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

The Interview, the film at the centre of the recent Sony hacking controversy, will be made available on Netflix in North America this weekend. The Interview to be shown on Netflix 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

In 1957 they made the move to New York, the centre of the music business, where they accepted A&R roles with the Atlantic label while laying the groundwork for their own company. Jerry Leiber obituary 2011-08-23T17:58:52Z

At the centre of The Oath of Tobruk - which is not included in the official competition in Cannes - is Bernard-Henri Levy, a prominent French left-wing intellectual, who is co-director, narrator and central subject. Cannes' Middle East films show Arab Spring unfurl 2012-05-26T12:25:46Z

The charming medieval centre radiates out from bar-lined Praça da República and the narrow winding streets and wide, leafy boulevards are dotted with churches and impressive buildings, with architectural styles from baroque to art deco. 12 of the best beach towns in southern Europe 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z

The studio demurred – “They didn’t really want a fear-based character at the centre of their movie,” he says wryly – and Hartnett walked away. Josh Hartnett: 'People genuinely thought I'd been thrust on them' 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

A move towards sprucing up town centres is one of the movie’s more surprisingly accurate predictions. Back to the Future Day: what Part II got right and wrong about 2015 – an A-Z 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

And the ExCel centre - I haven't been there since the arms fair. The Armchair Olympics: day six 2012-08-02T16:03:33Z

Rooted centre stage, the cast and crew of the real winner, Moonlight, filing by, he wore the horrified blank stare of the veteran actor suddenly unable to remember his line. Bored of blockbusters? Why Hollywood needs another Bonnie and Clyde moment 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

At the centre of the film, you suggest that Germany has come to terms with its history in a way the US hasn’t. Michael Moore: ‘Trump inspires his side. It’s like Munich in 1932’ 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

But despite Paris's decline during the 1950s and New York's ascendance as the centre of the art world, Picasso never much cared that he couldn't go there. Picasso: War, peace and a life of extremes 2010-05-19T20:29:00Z

In the footage, action cameras are strapped to the chests of both Waruu and Harry and their objective is obviously to obtain evidence of the existence of the secret detention centres. Cleverman season one, episode three recap – upping the sci-fi elements 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

She was just incredibly tenacious and like those Dagenham girls, she wasn't the centre of her own world. The rise of Andrea Riseborough 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

If you have been exposed to a potentially harmful substance, call your local poison information centre or seek medical attention. A new TikTok trend has people drinking toxic borax. An expert explains the risks 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

Having spent years watching her son, Wimbledon champion Andy Murray, on Centre Court, Judy Murray is looking forward to being centre stage on the 12th series of Strictly Come Dancing. From tennis balls to glitter balls 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

The second story then centres around the creation of a human creature "from the dust of the ground", given life as God breathes into it. The Book of Genesis, part 3: Creation ? and afterwards 2010-12-27T10:00:05Z

She and a fellow student were put into "what looked like the nerve centre of the university" – a cupboard-size room humming with giant computers. Susan Philipsz: Sonic boom 2010-12-07T21:30:00Z

The market is long gone now, first becoming an indoor laser centre and then university accommodation. My favourite film when I was 12: Jurassic Park 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Best of all on a lazy Sunday afternoon is Yaam, the African cultural centre that migrated to the riverside site of the old Magdalena club last year. 10 of the best ways to enjoy Berlin … on a budget 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

The first season was a rollercoaster of a ride, all centred around a stunning performance from Tatiana Maslany, who played four leading roles and a number of supporting ones, and made it look effortless. Have you been watching … Orphan Black, season two? 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Earlier that morning the jolly park ranger at the visitor centre had reassured us that, yes, you have plenty of time to do all three activities in one day. Ski safari in Utah 2010-12-18T00:07:45Z

He shows a plan of an ideal city, with runways at its dead centre and "aerolanes" connecting such things as "E-fulfilment facilities" and a "medical and wellness cluster". Aerotropolis:the city of the future? 2013-03-03T00:05:17Z

Manchester became a centre of the universe, always feeding on cheap labour, mostly women, who, unlike slaves, were paid a wage, albeit a poor one. Spinning tales 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

In Figaro, it's a helpful collective that even includes the young bride Susanna; but at its centre stands the melancholy figure of the Countess, ignored by a husband she still loves. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z

But someone other than ourselves is about to become the centre of our world. ‘They take over your life and then, one day, they walk off with it’: life before and after children 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

So they started emailing their favourite bands, using the computer at an arts centre. Pop music's mavericks: 'I might install speakers in my jacket' 2011-07-28T20:59:01Z

Citizen Koch is about the US Republican party's ongoing state of flux, while Gabriela Cowperthwaite's Blackfish centres on a notorious killer whale responsible for three human deaths. Sundance film festival 2013 lineup revealed 2012-11-29T11:01:14Z

The picture of a young man in his Royal Air Force uniform had always stood in the centre of the mantelpiece of my childhood home. The pleasant-looking killers who took my father’s life 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

The musical centres around the last week's of Jesus' life, beginning with his entry into Jerusalem. Sex Pistol Lydon to play King Herod 2014-04-07T09:41:00Z

The garden city model was centred on a quietly radical programme of economic reform, in which cooperatives would own land and lease it to tenants, reinvesting the proceeds in public improvements. Grand plans: how the simple planning diagram has shaped our cities 2012-11-22T15:24:06Z

Jaar's live shows, with his vocals centre stage, are particularly recommended. First sight: Nicolas Jaar 2011-01-27T22:58:01Z

The centre says it is working on "a conservation management plan" for its buildings but it's hard to see how their essential qualities will withstand smothering in retail. Why the Southbank Centre redevelopment plan is sheer folly 2012-08-04T23:05:31Z

Hope says there has been a rise in crime associated with the drug since it was banned in May last year, with fights breaking out among people who visit the drop-in centre. 'It's worse than heroin': how spice is ravaging homeless communities 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

Galileo is obliged to recant his belief that the sun is at the centre of the universe and the Earth moves around it. Galileo reaches for the stars 2012-09-26T15:02:28Z

And this isn’t the only sexualised artwork in the city centre. 10 of Europe’s oddest attractions and events 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Lanzmann, then 87, was very much still at the centre stage of life and intellectual discourse, and an extremely busy man. Claude Lanzmann: the man who told the story of Shoah 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

Take the Orbit – the great winding red tower at the centre of the 2012 London Olympics site. RIBA v Bieber and Barbie: the battle for architecture's future 2011-03-04T17:41:16Z

For a while, it was the absolute centre of things. Gilberto Gil: from 60s activism to Womad 2013 2013-07-17T18:00:00Z

Away from the cultural centre, science fiction authors were free to explore and experiment. The Hero’s Journey: The idea you never knew had shaped “Star Wars” 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

Women’s lives are pushed from centre stage into a corner. Other stories: why now is the time for a new movie canon – chosen by women 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

In the early 1980s, the Iberian peninsula felt far from the centre of the arts world, and both Spain and Portugal put a great deal of effort into building new artistic institutions. The drain in Spain: the country's arts crisis 2011-03-27T20:31:00Z

There have been a slew of “provocative” awareness campaigns centred on messages such as “Save Second Base” and “Save the Ta Tas”, for example. 'Go smoke free. Stay pretty’ – the health campaigns that haven’t heard of feminism 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Public places – from buses to trains to shopping centres – allow infections to be passed on easily. Snap, crackle and filth – let kids eat dirt 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

The film is currently at the centre of a bidding war in Cannes, where it is being touted to investors. Natalie Portman to star in Lynne Ramsay western Jane Got a Gun 2012-05-24T15:42:46Z

The first world war lies at the centre of the book, although it remains offstage as the narrative sweeps through the last century. Stranger fiction 2011-08-01T11:53:49Z

The organisation had never however gained access to the "Cargo Building", the most notorious detention centre, in Srinagar. WikiLeaks cables: India accused of systematic use of torture in Kashmir 2010-12-16T21:30:41Z

I hung up on people calling from call centres to sell me things; I said no to a weekend trip with toddlers; I stopped watching season two of True Detective after only one episode. Drowning in commitments? It's time to stop giving a damn 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

They drove me to the on-site Ivy Mead medical centre, which meant going through dozens of gates. Experience: I gave birth at Glastonbury festival 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

She was the fourth of four children, and found, early on, that her need "to be the centre of attention, no matter what" was answered most quickly by "being bad". Harley Loco by Rayya Elias – review 2013-06-14T09:00:11Z

It was built in the late 1830s and is one of the few important residential buildings near the centre of town to have survived – the Gaskells' two previous Manchester houses have both been demolished. Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester home to get £2.5m restoration 2013-02-13T08:17:36Z

The seed merchant is now a huge garden centre on the bypass with leisure clothing and fudge outlets but no home-grown tomatoes. Family life 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z

Armed with cameras and recording equipment, they've documented street life in the commercial centre of Regent Street and the less glitzy Rye Lane. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-01T23:06:18Z

Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Twenty-two community workers have been running family support sessions in Sure Start centres in Oldham, one of England's neediest boroughs. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z

This is one of the most culturally rich city centres in the world. Hitting a different note in Vienna 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

At its height the city was the centre of an empire that covered, among other territories, all of modern Syria and Israel and parts of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Stones that speak 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Oliver then detailed the “physically draining” conditions of their fulfilment centres and used a clip of a worker in his early 20s who was having to walk over 15 miles per shift. John Oliver on Amazon: 'A system that squeezes people lowest on the ladder' 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

The following morning we drive across town to the International Committee of the Red Cross limb-fitting centre. Giles Duley: 'I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go back … ' 2013-02-10T00:13:44Z

Some of his art is now taking centre stage at the British Academy's free literature week celebrations in London. Unloved books turned into artwork 2013-05-20T14:03:00Z

The centre runs three drop-in sessions for the public each week. The secret life of a suburban garden 2010-05-18T19:59:00Z

It now expects 100,000 people to be on the system by May and for 100 centres to be involved in its delivery by the end of this year. Leaked universal credit memo shows jobcentre staff struggling with rollout 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

And if, at the top of a city centre escalator, you come across an apparently useless and confounding rotating white Perspex something-or-other, that'll be by these two, too. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

It's not that, centre stage, he seemed small-time; rather that his edginess made everyone else appear flat by comparison. Rewind TV: Boardwalk Empire; The Big C; Louis Theroux ? Ultra Zionists; Welcome to Romford 2011-02-06T00:05:43Z

But the discovery has placed Filipović at the centre of a social media whirl – because the medieval manuscript was stained with inky cat paw prints. Cats leave their mark on centuries of books 2013-04-05T10:33:24Z

Cars and businesses were damaged by rioters in Enfield as well as the distribution centre "But the distributors did an amazing job getting things back on track really quickly." Indie music rises from the ashes 2012-08-07T23:37:35Z

Richards Road Santa Dash , Glasgow, Sun Support Santa – thousands of them – as they run through the city centre in one of the nationwide charity fundraisers. This week's new events 2010-12-11T00:07:00Z

This archive museum, open to the public, is also the centre of international Bach studies. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z

You wish you were instead one of the lithe Latin crowd with shiny white teeth, but you're from Swindon and due back at the call centre in 36 hours. Clubs picks of the week 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z

Moreover, their friendship, which Nunn sees as a love story between two friends, puts mutual respect and vulnerability between boys front and centre in a way that is equally rare. 'Take care of your actors': the intimacy director keeping Netflix’s sex scenes safe 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

And behind the centre is the memorial building erected over the site where his body lay in an unmarked grave until unearthed in a search in the 90s. Revolutionary road: on the trail of Che Guevara’s last days in Bolivia 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

There's still a big hole at the centre of it, but I'm prepared to be charitable and assume it's the character of Shazza. TV review: Candy Cabs and Campus 2011-04-05T22:15:01Z

Singleton has made his home in the centre of African-American culture in LA. John Singleton: 'The crack epidemic gave me something to write about – but I had to survive it first' 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

A warning had been received, meaning no-one died, but 200 people were injured and it devastated the city centre. TV drama revisits 'optimism' of 1996 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

On the first flight, the centre is wiring up 10 passengers with medical-grade, Fit-Bit style monitors to measure sleep and physical activity. First non-stop flight between Australia and UK set for take-off 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

There is a layer of fat in the centre that runs the length of the muscle. The 20 best Italian recipes: part 3 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Blind Date would transfer nicely to the stage, and Pat Sharp's Fun House would transfer nicely to any number of soft play centres around the country. Bullseye: which other gameshows deserve a live comeback? 2011-08-03T13:34:28Z

Eroticism takes centre stage, as it often does in Mr Kundera’s work. Unbearable lightness 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The campaign is about raising money from donor governments for all the Global Fund's work, but it centres on a single populist goal - preventing mothers passing HIV to their babies during childbirth. Tweet the world - Carla Bruni helps the Global Fund go viral 2010-05-19T11:00:00Z

Ideally hire a village hall or community centre. Teenage parties – a parents’ guide 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

But the annual report of the EU's monitoring centre for drugs and drug addiction says there are now worrying localised instances of people injecting the substances, including at gay chem-sex parties in Britain. Drug experts issue warning over 'chem-sex' parties 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

If there is one truth that Brotton's survey repeatedly emphasises, it is that cartographers cannot help but betray their own centre of gravity. A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton – review 2012-08-24T07:00:02Z

A 1980s Sheffield "industrial funk" band whose ex-members went on to bigger things and whose FON studios set-up was the centre of the city's scene and sired the 1990s "Sheffield sound". 'Catalyst bands': What do you mean, you've never heard of them? 2011-07-21T21:01:01Z

In the cover image, the beast/muse sits at the centre, fierce and fearless, connected to the band members by serpents emanating from its belly. The greatest ever album covers 2012-07-06T16:00:14Z

It can be tough sidestepping the city centre's gutter-bunkered bodies and the carpet of vomit. Clubs picks of the week 2011-02-26T00:07:49Z

If someone had said to us back then that the short would develop into a full-length feature with our double-act nonsense at its centre, we would have run a mile. Andrew Buckley and Ed Gaughan: How we made our Brit hit Skeletons 2010-10-21T22:00:00Z

“It’s a spectrum of malnutrition,” he says over coffee in the pleasant cafe that is an integral part of the health centre. The chicken shop mile and how Britain got fat 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

By the 17th century, whale oil powered western civilization, and the North American whaling industry, centred in Massachusetts, was its epicentre. How one man died so a whale might live 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Locked away in cages with other apes in the hateful primate centre, Caesar achieves a kind of new Spartacist consciousness. Rise of the Planet of the Apes ? review 2011-08-11T13:01:01Z

“The plans have lost their link to the political side of the centre of government,” said Justine Stephen, editor of Whitehall Monitor. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z

The world’s most northerly culinary festival, Taste Svalbard, is held in Longyearbyen, the administrative centre, with concerts, pop-up dinners and film screenings. 10 of the best autumn food festivals in Europe and the UK 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Well, he would be, at this centre of British puppetry, which has plenty of wooden limbs and features lying around. The House Where Winter Lives; Hansel and Gretel; Pinocchio – review 2012-12-30T00:06:25Z

Reading this book for plot – as if it were a novel – positions the reader alongside not just this editor, but the detectives at its centre. Hawthorn & Child by Keith Ridgway – review 2012-07-11T07:00:03Z

It was being closed to make way for a centre devoted to mechatronics, a discipline combining engineering, robotics and animatronics. Da Vinci v dreamthinkspeak at Somerset House 2013-01-29T07:00:03Z

The toys in Toy Story 3 are sent away to a daycare centre where they are victimised and mistreated – just like   the infantilised inmates of an old people's home. Film review: Toy Story 3 2010-07-15T21:57:00Z

Mater finds himself at the centre of this new movie, out of his depth and emotionally vulnerable. Cars 2 ? review 2011-07-21T21:00:01Z

She was living in a rehabilitation centre and her husband had given up work to help give her the 24-hour care she will need for the rest of her life. TV review: Between Life and Death and The Fairy Jobmother 2010-07-14T06:59:00Z

A tirade against the decision to use purple decor to allay tensions in job centres? This week's new tracks 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z

There is to be some imaginative landscaping close to the farm, and the buildings, including threshing barn, stables and cowhouse, are to become a centre for modern art. Country diary: Bruton, Somerset: Historic dairy farm finds its place on the international art scene 2013-02-18T20:59:01Z

Last year's How to Train Your Dragon, for example, bravely centred on a wimpy geek – a feminised hero who relied on brain rather than brawn, thus winning the affections of a physically superior female. Studio Ghibli: Leave the boys behind 2011-07-14T21:00:03Z

From Here to There is a family saga that begins on the day when the IRA bomb exploded in the Arndale shopping centre in Manchester in 1996. Poldark to return to BBC screens 2013-05-09T11:53:52Z

The next morning, in Dublin city centre, we held hands. ‘We’d been denied a personal life’: Northern Ireland’s long road to equal marriage 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

TV pubs six-pack: the best telly boozers 14 Sep 2010 Daniel Bettridge: Soap, drama, comedy, no matter the show there's often a pub at the centre of events. Rewind TV: Panda Makers; Operation Mincemeat; The House That Made Me; The Day John Lennon Died; The Nation's Favourite Abba Song 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

But this is the HQ/command centre for the aliens. Cowboys & Aliens ? review 2011-08-18T14:00:01Z

Yet vegetables are sprouting a couple of blocks away on spare land between buildings in the centre of Anacostia, in 80 raised beds, thanks to volunteers from Union Temple Baptist Church. A tour of a changing capital 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

While this is a great venue to see a show, be aware that it's a half an hour drive outside the city centre. Top 10 live music venues in Portland, Oregon 2013-05-24T23:10:00Z

At its centre was the Holocaust, the industrialised slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis: an attempt at the annihilation of an entire people. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

The action comedy is already mired in controversy – it centres on a Miami kidnapping gang based on the real-life Sun Gym gang, whose exploits also included torture, extortion and murder. Oblivion runs on Cruise control to top of US box-office chart 2013-04-22T16:48:44Z

It has a shiny new mall, “a shopping centre as prosaic as they come.” Hate on the Hudson (Yards): How bad can it be? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Built in 1938, the centre was conceived as the antithesis of the cramped slums, stale air and ill-health surrounding it in what was one of 's poorest boroughs. Campaigners fight plan to sell world-renowned Finsbury Health Centre 2010-04-12T14:49:00Z

Much of surrounding the band centres on the sheer noise that comes off a stage shared by just two musicians. Deap Vally plan 'assault' on rock 2012-09-24T09:57:28Z

We spent the day exploring the huge Woodpecker over-the-horizon radar and some sites around Pripyat – the abandoned school camp and the buildings in the centre of town – Geiger counters in hand. From Chernobyl to concentration camps: why the morbid fascination with places of death and disaster? 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

This staid representation might be slowly changing, though, with the launch of primetime drama Pitch, centred on the first woman to play in Major League baseball. She got game: a brief history of the fiercest women in sports on screen 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

A prominent theatre, a cultural centre must not be destroyed. Turkey's historic Emek theatre facing final curtain 2013-04-15T20:00:39Z

He played a pivotal role in establishing the centre as a benchmark of excellence in the field of bioarchaeology and in bringing to fruition the Wellcome-funded project. Bill White obituary 2010-12-06T18:08:00Z

The swimming pool in this sports' centre was inaugurated by a relay race – I say "race" but there was only one team participating in this symbolic relay. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z

The centre also features wide-ranging exhibits, concerts and the annual ¡Globalquerque! world music festival in September. Top 10 art and cultural venues in Albuquerque, New Mexico 2013-06-21T23:10:00Z

But it seems that priests and vicars have begun to take centre stage on the small screen. Six to watch: TV priests and vicars 2013-01-24T15:00:00Z

A crisp, purposeful day in Walsall town centre, and the market is doing brisk business. Why politicians fight shy of campaigning on the arts 2010-04-28T05:00:00Z

He is also soon to set up his own British special effects centre, to be called The Imaginarium. Britain's oldest cinema prepares for a glorious sequel 2010-06-15T16:15:00Z

Fascinatingly, as this show documents, the Epstein controversies were often centred around Blackpool, where his nude carvings were exhibited in Louis Tussaud's. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

In ploughing ahead with the film centre the BFI does face a huge and now much longer struggle to raise the total cost. Government withdraws ?45m pledge to BFI Film Centre 2010-06-17T17:21:00Z

It reduces brain activity in information transfer centres such as the thalamus, which sits just above the brainstem. Is it safe to take magic mushrooms? 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

Fergusson adds that while traditional retailers might be struggling to pay their rent, more and more “destination” shops such as garden centres and spas are stocking cards as an extra. Enduring love: how gen Z saved the greetings card 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Certainly putting him on the backbenches would have created a centre of opposition around which Old Labour forces could coalesce with the aim of ousting Tony. The enemy within: how Machiavelli would have dealt with Gordon Brown 2010-10-09T05:59:00Z

This perverse favouritism has produced some disasters – such as Jean Nouvel's One New Change shopping centre. The Cheesegrater: Richard Rogers sprinkles the Square Mile 2013-06-16T17:00:01Z

The future of another new project, the Canòdrom contemporary arts centre, still being built on a neighbourhood dog track in Barcelona, is stalled. The drain in Spain: the country's arts crisis 2011-03-27T20:31:00Z

Up to 1,000 artists, musicians and writers are to be offered government-funded residencies on remote Scottish islands, at art centres and Highland retreats in a new programme to fund new work. Scottish artists offered funds to get away from it all in Highland retreats 2011-01-14T20:35:53Z

At Lexington correctional centre in Oklahoma he struggled to find a metaphor for the condition of America that would speak to his audience of prisoners and guards. Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

Bake in the centre of the oven for 20-25 minutes, then turn the cake around to ensure that it bakes evenly and bake for a further 10-15 minutes. The 20 best cake recipes: part 2 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The centre of the puntarelle is a much lighter green, with clusters of shorter stalks attached to a hollow stem. Sharp practice: Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for radicchio, chicory and puntarelle 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

“We want this to set an example for the region and the world,” said one of the founders of the centre, Paulo Brasil. Bees in Amazon 'are greatest ally to halt rainforest destruction' 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Kids at the nearby shopping centre sometimes heckle, Moore says, calling him God, or Jesus, "which I'll take, because Jesus died at 33 and they've obviously mistaken me for a much younger man". Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z

The sisters recently stayed with him at the Watermill, the arts centre he founded on Long Island 20 years ago, and which he considers home. Robert Wilson takes a walk with angels in Norfolk 2012-08-22T17:00:01Z

Bowie was presented at the centre of German youth culture, while the city of Berlin was re-envisioned by the use of a soundtrack that included the ambient instrumentals from Low and Heroes. When Bowie met Burroughs 2013-03-09T09:01:00Z

Consultations over the future of Sure Start children’s services in Consett are continuing, and two of the town’s centres are set to close. What would you cut? Durham council asks residents to find £100m savings 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

This time, one of her oldest friends is bludgeoned immediately after he posts a mysterious list of names to her; then unfolds a tale of darkest sorcery centred around the sinister Pale Horse Inn. I Am Slave 2010-08-30T05:45:00Z

Her best-known British building was the Olympic aquatics centre, while other projects include the Guangzhou opera house in China and the BMW Central building in Leipzig. Design Museum sells Thames-side home to architect Zaha Hadid 2013-07-08T23:02:00Z

I met my miniature dachshund, Mia, at a rescue centre five years ago. Experience: my dog found my cancer 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Inside a nondescript community centre, a dog in a doctor's white coat is holding afternoon surgery. The Doctor's Tale: Barking up the right tree 2011-03-31T20:45:01Z

There is no intention from the side of the artist or the centre to insult Jewish memory. Controversy over Adolf Hitler statue in Warsaw ghetto 2012-12-28T22:18:32Z

There is, even so, a certain edgy propulsion to the story, and the reveal of what is really going on in the bowels of Sansom's research centre is deliciously horrible and deftly understated. A Box of Birds by Charles Fernyhough – review 2013-05-10T14:00:02Z

Since leaving the Times, my life has been almost as busy as it was when I was at the centre of world events. Digested read: Memoirs by William Rees-Mogg 2011-07-11T20:30:02Z

Based on the novel by Patrick Neate, it centres on a private eye who takes on the case of a missing woman. Maggie Smith for Alan Bennett film 2014-05-09T13:02:41Z

There are a few events where television was at the centre of history-making: man walking on the moon, JFK’s assassination, the Challenger explosion. 'Ahead of her time': the woman who recorded the news for 30 years 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

The crest in the centre – "three beasts with horns waiting to be turned into handbags", as Stephenson described it – is that of the Leather Seller's Company. The mystery of the 17th-century bowls dumped in south London 2010-07-12T12:53:00Z

The saga centres on a planetary defence force which fights back against alien invasion by setting up bases on the extra-terrestrials' home world, using a wormhole over Antarctica. Tom Cruise to star in Japanese sci-fi saga Yukikaze 2013-04-16T09:51:29Z

It's set in 1971 and centres around a geeky lad who makes a computer discovery that will change the world, but also has to contend with the usual romantic entanglements and traumas of youth. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-10-12T23:05:58Z

One, by Jack Thought, sounds as if it came from a garden centre’s ambient CD collection. Leap year day: how you could (and should) celebrate 29 February 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z

Otherwise one of the Côte d’Azur’s most popular art centres may not be around much longer. Sunshine and colour 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

I drove along winding Sussex country roads I only half remembered, until I found myself headed towards the town centre, so I turned, randomly, down another road, and took a left, and a right. Neil Gaiman: The Ocean at the End of the Lane 2013-06-10T10:21:27Z

Can digital artists meet these same standards and responsibilities if the arts centre building, and its committed personnel, are taken out of the equation? Do we need buildings for digital art? 2013-07-19T09:29:51Z

Tony Hancock, left, with Alan Simpson, centre, and Ray Galton, the creators of Hancock’s Half-Hour, in 1964: believed to be the last photograph ever taken of the three of them together. Revealed: Tony Hancock screenplay that the troubled star turned down 2011-08-27T22:38:26Z

Its real selling point, however, is its rural skills centre. 10 of the best cooking classes with stays in the UK 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

The time the 13-year-old at the centre of the new film Eighth Grade – played by Elsie Fisher – spends outside lessons is wholesomely productive. Coming of age: the Gen Z losers saving cinema – and the world 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

But given that it was published by the website of the newspaper at the centre of the alleged scandal, it carried particular weight. Wall Street Journal blames Beijing troublemaking for US bribery probe 2013-03-17T23:24:00Z

There were deer tiptoeing across the lawns of clapboard houses and a very friendly visitor centre. In search of the funkiest little town in America 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

Happily, the wretched tyranny of chrome and pine that must define, it seems, all modern "heritage" centres is absent here. Scottish town that changed the world fights for its rights 2013-03-31T00:06:09Z

How do you put the sex in the centre, without making it the point? – are in fact the same question. Sex has as much meaning as words: how Normal People handles intimacy 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

He was at the very centre of that magical period of the MGM musical, a part of cinema history which rests so materially on his special creative relationship with Kelly. Stanley Donen: a Hollywood blueblood treasured for Singin' in the Rain 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

Australian-born director Hillcoat last teamed with Nick Cave on the Outback western The Proposition, which also dripped with violence and centred on outlaw brothers. Lawless ? review 2012-05-19T22:17:53Z

We met online, stayed in contact, and when I came back 15 months later, we moved into a flat in Crossmaglen town centre. ‘We’d been denied a personal life’: Northern Ireland’s long road to equal marriage 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

Picking up his prize, Loach praised distributor eOne for arranging for the film to be screened at community centres and other venues where those who might not usually go to the cinema would see it. La La Land continues winning run at London critics awards, alongside Beckinsale and Huppert 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

It's very funny and satirical but with a dark centre. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

There used to be, but like in every town they're completely expelling everything that reeks of rock'n'roll or nightlife out of the centre. dEUS's Tom Barman: 'I was fed up with singing about myself' 2012-07-04T11:41:37Z

Geoff must feel like ol' Doc Frankenstein when he sees how that simple recipe has blossomed a hole-in-the-wall shop into a nerve centre, Energy Transmission HQ. Geoff Travis of Rough Trade: 'We integrate everything with everything' – a classic feature 2013-06-19T07:00:00Z

"Your father can't help being the emotionally repressed deputy head teacher who is a bit liberal and wants to get on the parish council so that the proles can keep their addiction centre." The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – digested read 2012-09-30T18:30:01Z

Find the medical centres and arrange for someone to look after you if you need it. Dr Luisa Dillner's guide to . . . how to survive a music festival 2011-07-11T20:00:06Z

You need a child aged three to six for the latest immersive show from Punchdrunk: The House Where Winter Lives is at the brilliant children's story centre, Discover, in Stratford from Thursday. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-11-23T16:10:31Z

Near the city centre, the yellow tiled floor of a demolished church has become a football pitch for the local boys. Haiti earthquake: six months on 2010-07-10T10:00:00Z

“Sensitive” is not the impression Wu, 37, gave people earlier this year when she found herself at the centre of a social media storm. ‘I don’t regret being messy and imperfect’ – Constance Wu on Crazy Rich Asians, Twitter storms and acting with J-Lo 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

The four-month festival will see all 21 acres of the centre, including the Royal Festival Hall and Hayward gallery, taken over in celebration of what was a defining moment in 20th-century Britain. Skylon's the limit 2011-01-19T17:27:31Z

The Diagnosis Murder star had been expected to receive the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award for Bettering Humanity Through Comedy from New York cultural centre 92nd Street Y next week. Dick Van Dyke cancels NY appearance 2013-04-19T09:02:13Z

Imagine is the only festival that's run by young people - and where young people are truly centre stage rather than an adjunct or an afterthought. Children take centre stage at London's Imagine festival 2012-12-12T08:11:00Z

Adi is the still centre of The Look of Silence, a quiet, determined, emotionally burdened man who works as an optician. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

The centre will now try to identify alternative funding. Southbank revamp plans put on hold 2014-02-05T14:10:55Z

The past two decades have seen an extraordinary revival of urban centres, after years of post-industrial decline. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-08-12T14:57:47Z

We're talking men's behaviour at urinals, the mutual hell of call centres, driving etiquette, the things "your dad" does and all the rest. Comedy gold: Jason Manford's Live at the Manchester Apollo 2013-02-14T14:03:04Z

OJ’s defence team, led by civil rights lawyer Johnnie Cochran, brought front and centre the widespread belief among the black community that LA’s prejudiced police force were persecuting a rich, successful black man. Cuba Gooding Jr on OJ Simpson: 'It could have been me in that Bronco' 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

At her local health centre, she has found herself explaining aspects of living with HIV to doctors. 'Health workers are too scared to enter': the fight to treat HIV in a São Paulo favela 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

At the centre of it all is Falstaff and no one would deny that Maestri fits the bill. Royal Opera's "Falstaff": Big knight on a big horse 2012-05-22T11:15:47Z

Despite the handicap of a thin and rather desultory plot, centring on the shady dealings of the femme fatale's boss, it's an enjoyable read, particularly for those familiar with the territory. Crime novels roundup | Book reviews 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

A network of 50 hospitals was ready to deliver the first jabs, he said, and specialist vaccination centres were being built. UK approves Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine for rollout next week 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Dubai is setting up testing and certification centres to profit from the halal business. Competing halal standards leave food industry with indigestion 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

The Open youth centre in Norwich is the first of what is hoped will be a new generation of 21st-century youth venues. Myplace: Putting the youth back in youth centre 2010-04-11T21:05:00Z

The youth theatre will be within the Beacon arts centre, currently being built at a cost of £9.5m as part of a wider regeneration of the area. Andrew Lloyd Webber funds theatre for deprived youngsters 2011-08-14T17:57:44Z

In the documentary, screened in two parts on BBC Four this summer, Jacobson places the foursome at the centre of an enduring moment of change for Britain. The Australians who set 60s Britain swinging 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

But that would have spoiled the scene, of course, and added too much nuance to the relationship at the centre of the film. Beautiful boys acting ugly: why cinema can't kick its drug habit 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

While Nya is sharing intimate details, the conversation nevertheless centres on Miranda's well-worn storyline of trying to have it all — a career while being a good mother. Racial tokenism: what happened to Miranda in the "Sex and the City" reboot? 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

For Franzen's UK editor, Nicholas Pearson at Fourth Estate, the family at the centre of Freedom is "every bit as absorbing as the Lamberts of The Corrections". Bookshops pin hopes on Jonathan Franzen's return with Freedom 2010-07-06T10:03:00Z

Steve Reich's piece Six Pianos – Piano Circus's raison d'être 21 years ago and still the work that defines them – was the centre point of this Cardiff University concert. Piano Circus 2010-04-14T20:35:00Z

After a huge success, Stravinsky cut his links with his former teacher's family and pupils, and was placed at the centre of Diaghilev's world. The Rite of Spring – a rude awakening 2013-04-12T15:01:01Z

Besides trying to save the local cinema, the musician once "rescued the local garden centre by buying all the plants", Lambert recalled. George Harrison statue campaign halted in favour of community project 2013-01-14T10:52:42Z

Far from being an impediment to growth, heritage often provides a successful centre piece for redevelopment. Can heritage survive another hammering? 2013-06-26T09:40:58Z

Planning permission was granted last week for a gallery and arts centre on what was originally built as a "model farm" dating back to 1760. Hauser & Wirth to open new art gallery in Somerset 2012-12-16T15:30:53Z

The logical answer would be for Fox to take the gritty vibe of its R-rated movies and create a mini-cinematic universe set in the present day, with Deadpool and Wolverine at its centre. Why X-Men is right to ditch Magneto and Professor X's tired double act 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

This is the new Siemens Urban Sustainability Centre, a green technology centre sponsored by the engineering giants, and designed by Wilkinson Eyre architects. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-29T14:58:23Z

After 20 minutes we reach the Emergency hospital in the city centre. Giles Duley: 'I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go back … ' 2013-02-10T00:13:44Z

At the centre of it all is McCarron's spare and compelling performance. Conor McCarron: 'I'd gladly audition for a comedy role' 2010-12-26T00:05:08Z

Photograph: The Guardian/AFP/Getty Images Hollywood is planning to bring movies centring on the story of data-snooping whistleblower and the equally controversial US programme to the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Edward Snowden story on way to the big screen 2013-06-14T15:46:00Z

The old man's memory suddenly returns, he smacks the abusive wife with a shovel, steals her truck and makes it back to the shopping centre from which he was abducted. Waiting for the Evening News: Stories of the Deep South by Tim Gautreaux | Book review 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z

Raymond Scott took the 17th-century First Folio to one of the world's leading Shakespeare research centres, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, where staff called the police, the British embassy and the FBI. Antiques dealer jailed for handling stolen Shakespeare First Folio 2010-08-02T12:06:00Z

In 1995, the centre lodged a protest against a Japanese weekly magazine over an article that described the Holocaust as propaganda and claimed the gas chambers never existed. Japanese pop group Kishidan's 'Nazi' outfits force Sony to apologise 2011-03-02T09:49:30Z

The exhibition, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Connected Life, shows how Gaskell was a prolific correspondent who was at the centre of a wide and varied social network. Elizabeth Gaskell bicentenary marked with exhibition 2010-07-20T14:49:00Z

She has certainly set a high bar for Katie Leung, who takes centre stage in the second episode as Ying, an illegal Chinese immigrant fencing stolen mobile phones to pay off her debts. Run; My £9.50 Holiday; Broken by Battle – TV review 2013-07-15T22:15:00Z

But everything changed when I was referred to Mencap through my local job centre in 2014, which turned my life around. Christmas used to be a tough time for me, but this year I've broken free of loneliness 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

He said that one consequence was a decision to establish an African centre for disease control. Barack Obama pushes for 'global effort' to combat spread of Ebola 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

The pretty girl with the red vest and the brunette bob in the very centre is acting out the lyrics, using only her facial muscles. The Gaslight Anthem: 'Fans look up to us. That's creepy' 2012-08-09T19:00:00Z

"As the leading centre for Beckett studies worldwide, it was a great opportunity for us to bring back one of the most important literary works, hidden for ages, back to the public." Why did Samuel Beckett draw doodles? 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

Pianist James Rhodes did play Chopin's E minor Prelude off of his iPad at the Parabola arts centre, a concert that was part of the Cheltenham festival. That iPad iRecital: do you buy it? 2010-07-16T13:34:00Z

Michael was airlifted to a specialist trauma centre in London following the accident and spent nearly two weeks in hospital before being discharged. No action over George Michael fall 2013-06-05T20:40:01Z

It is part of their ethos that a hospital should be an oasis of calm as much as a centre for medical treatment. Giles Duley: 'I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go back … ' 2013-02-10T00:13:44Z

One of the plays, The Countess, was at the centre of a just-resolved copyright dispute between its author, Gregory Murphy, and the actor Emma Thompson. John Ruskin's marriage: what really happened 2013-03-29T16:00:01Z

Race and racism are shot through the drama, which has been praised for a cast centring black actors. Michaela Coel: 'Like Arabella, I realised my life was about to change for ever' 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

Accompanied by two guards, Jones walked to the prison's processing centre. Marion Jones: 'I'm a sucker for a challenge' 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

Placing a first-person narrative at the centre of the 18th century gives these questions new life. The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf – review 2013-01-11T20:00:04Z

"The centre met people's basic care needs," says Andrew Redfern, Framework's chief executive. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z

Generally, or at least in the recipes I try, that creativity centres on the rotund figure of the coconut. How to make the perfect rice and peas 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

I think it's great to see the BBC are still putting classical music at the centre of their thinking. BBC's Ten Pieces for schools: The verdict 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

In the UK and Ireland, Tesco distribution centre staff, wear smart armbands “as a working aid”. Five ways work will change in the future 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

The visitor centre, called Maropeng – meaning “return to the place of origin” in the local Setswana language – also houses a permanent exhibition taking visitors on a journey through human evolution. Fossils of previously unknown early human relative go on display in South Africa 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

BBC News visited the newly named centre to meet some of the people studying there. VIDEO: What's it like to study circus? 2014-03-11T00:35:20Z

But the Twitter naysayers may have to get used to it: there’s been a gradual shift towards complex female characters at the centre of animated movies – and very successful ones. How Incredibles 2 goes to work for the feminist superhero 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Its strength and weakness is that he puts himself at the centre of the story – that’s what holds it together in this diffuse, confusing, chaotic, violent, amoral world of organised crime. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z

Urban music took centre stage on Saturday with a surprisingly versatile performance from Plan B, while hip-hop veterans Kelis and Roots Manuva put on solid, if uninspiring, shows. The Big Chill 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

There is still enormous interest in creative writing centres and courses. İnci Aral: The future of the novel 2013-02-28T14:00:02Z

At the centre of The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola’s dreamy yet devastating adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’ acclaimed 1993 novel, is an unsolved mystery of the most troubling kind, a puzzle that will never be completed. The Virgin Suicides at 20: Sofia Coppola's debut continues to haunt 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

Cox’s performance as the inscrutable then suddenly, terrifyingly, raging centre of the family already feels definitive. Succession’s Brian Cox: ‘I was touched up by Princess Margaret’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

Spielberg’s 2013 comments, made at the opening of a media centre at the University of Southern California, did predict an “implosion” in the industry. Steven Spielberg denies predicting 'Hollywood implosion' 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Bollywood romantic thriller centring on a shifty fashion photographer. This week's new films 2013-02-16T06:00:16Z

As that story is usually told, for the first half of the 20th century the innovative centre was Europe, before the old world was overtaken in the aftermath of the second world war by America. The other modernism 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

And the reclusive Houellebecq, who might have hoped that his return from a decade in Ireland would have gone largely unremarked, has found himself at the centre of the storm. Gérard Depardieu's tax move to Belgium divides France 2012-12-22T12:05:39Z

“He was always the centre of the party,” she says. How we stay together: 'The secret is just not leaving' 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z

Located in the centre of Warsaw in the imposing 200m-high Palace of Culture. Polish music now: from punk-folk to hip-hop 2012-06-07T11:02:00Z

Frank Turner: 'I got 100 death threats a day'Last year, folk-punk singer Frank Turner found himself at the centre of a storm over his politics. Sleeve notes: Justin Bieber and Frank Turner 2013-04-26T10:42:54Z

The new festival venue, which is about eight miles from the city centre, is being used for productions which would not fit in a conventional theatre. International festival goes large 2012-08-10T01:06:28Z

“It’s a good question. The thing is as a chef you can’t just cut from the centre cut.” Marcus Samuelsson: the restaurant king of Harlem 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

Set alongside other infrastructure investments – airport upgrading, electrification of the railway, an international convention centre and a Valleys metro – the project would signal our transition from manual past to creative future. Why a Welsh Guggenheim makes sense 2013-06-10T11:25:52Z

But, as part of a relatively low-powered team placed at the centre of a scenario cut through with intrigue, Captain America thrived. Marvel studio at Comic-Con to map future of comic-book superhero films 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Construction work on the arts centre came to a halt in 2006 after the company running the project went into administration. College plan for £67m art gallery 2013-05-09T14:55:04Z

It's the sort of thing that makes you want to take a fist full of narcotics and go raging through a European city centre. Icona Pop put some punk spirit into dance music 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z

One of their best electronic effects is a gurgling reverb that sounds like a sinkhole at the centre of the earth. The xx: Night + Day – review 2013-05-22T08:00:02Z

The sections describing her own past are dominated by the energetic narrative impetus and lose track of any feelings of abandonment, terror and hurt at the story's centre. Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende – review 2013-05-30T07:01:01Z

Standing in the control tower monitoring weather systems in Africa and backed-up planes in San Francisco felt like being "plugged into the centre of the universe," he said. Tony Parsons seeks out Heathrow's human drama as writer in residence 2011-08-02T23:05:05Z

Fellini’s cinema put Italy at the centre of the world in the way that the Beatles would put Britain there a few years later. All Federico Fellini's films – ranked! 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Darwish's answer, perhaps, was to absent himself from the centre of the crisis. Ahdaf Soueif: In times of crisis, fiction has to take a back seat 2012-08-17T15:00:01Z

“Now it is centre stage. Once you open that box there’s no going back.” 'Diversity is now centre stage': Berlin film festival sets industry precedent 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

I wasn't nervous or excited before we left; I felt focused, my brain fast-tracking resources towards its organising and scheduling centres. The gift of a lifetime: how trans 'top surgery' changed my life 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Bell Shakespeare/State Theatre Company of South Australia We meet on the street at the centre of Ephesus' dingy nightlife. The Comedy of Errors – review 2013-07-03T02:49:02Z

Artemis Fowl centres on 12-year-old Artemis who is a millionaire, a genius and a criminal mastermind. Disney to make Artemis Fowl film 2013-08-01T09:38:56Z

The latter is one of the largest and most developed resorts on the Magic Pass, with the most thrilling skiing and an attractive centre of ancient dark wooden chalets. The ‘magic’ lift pass to 30 Swiss ski resorts 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Matter was set on an artificial planet, shaped like a series of concentric spheres, at the centre of which was a "god". The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks - review 2012-10-10T07:00:02Z

Well, here is everything you need to know to catch up on the saga of the Lyon family, which runs Empire Records, the company at the centre of the show. How to catch up with … Empire 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

While his subject matter was often deeply traditional, centred on an immemorial sense of the land and of rural life, Reddick brought a contemporary approach to his medium. Peter Reddick obituary 2010-11-24T19:16:00Z

The simple monochrome palette, of dark, ebonised oak and bright white slabs of marble-like acrylic, also recedes into the background, putting the wealth of materials centre stage. Pull up a chair: inside the V&A's brilliant new furniture gallery 2012-11-27T19:15:01Z

Why not place us at the centre of the Kursk disaster, as Sound and Fury have done? Immersive theatre: take us to the edge, but don't throw us in 2010-04-07T15:28:00Z

In little Kenny's case he carried it through months of refugee detention centres and a relocation to an impoverished new life in an all-white Welsh village. Stephen Fry opens a window on to male depression – we must let boys cry 2013-06-11T09:20:03Z

Their last session was held in a previously unutilised area beneath a shopping centre, but tonight they move to Holbeck Underground Ballroom, a warehouse on the city's outskirts. Clubs picks of the week 2012-12-15T00:05:29Z

His heartfelt attempts to “be socially perfect” centred on not standing out. ‘My brain feels like it’s been punched’: the intolerable rise of perfectionism 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

As their jewellery clearly shows, the Tillya Tepe nomads sat at the centre of a web of cultural connections and influences stretching across thousands of miles, from the Mediterranean to the Ganges. The hill of gold 2011-02-19T00:05:32Z

Hours later, in the leisure centre, he will be ringed by squealing youngsters, many of them pre-teens, all of them white. Tinchy Stryder 2010-07-31T23:02:00Z

The farmer ends up being at the centre of a media circus as journalists wait for him to kill himself. Bollywood dances to another tune at the first Indian film festival of London 2010-08-26T15:00:00Z

They will eventually be joined by a 2,000-seat theatre, a museum of Galician history and an international arts centre. Spain's extravagant City of Culture opens amid criticism 2011-01-11T19:53:11Z

The typewriter's talents also extend into classical music, as demonstrated by this frankly amazing clip, below, of Leroy Anderson's The Typewriter, in which an old home portable takes centre stage. Typewriters: an illustrated guide and a debt of thanks 2012-11-22T09:08:55Z

He is now setting about making the region a centre of excellence for classical Spanish art. Spanish art gems head for UK town 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The new Bridget film is said to centre on Ms Jones's efforts to get pregnant. Groovy baby! It's the pitter patter of Bridget Jones 3 and Austin Powers 4 2011-08-15T11:15:39Z

But Haiti is working on a solution: the country is training a new generation of midwives, working in dedicated birth centres. 'We have a shower for pain relief': can Haiti's young midwives save a new generation? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z

The Duchess of Cambridge today at Hope House residential centre, run by Action on Addiction, in Clapham, London. 'Plastic' Kate: Hilary Mantel exposes the image not the person 2013-02-19T18:40:08Z

When the band first attracted A&R attention Mayberry was appalled by how many wanted to bring her front and centre. Chvrches: Music for the masses? 2013-06-13T16:25:18Z

However, council leader Alan Rhodes said it was "not legitimate to keep giving to a city centre theatre". Theatre's funding cut by council 2014-02-20T19:31:46Z

Funds for such projects have dried up, leaving city centres prey to corporate developers, while the government and its quangos blather on about how New Jerusalem is just around the corner. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z

However, those who enjoy a popcorn movie from time to time do not fret, mainstream films are shown at the centre on a regular basis, though usually a few weeks after their release. Cine-files: The Lighthouse, Wolverhampton 2012-08-08T10:16:00Z

In this light of this, stories about the discovery of "brain centres" fall flat and efforts to base public policy on brain scans become nothing short of ridiculous. Vaughan Bell: the trouble with brain scans 2012-05-26T23:07:02Z

She’s no longer front and centre, so it’s not a great test of her talent, but she’s one of a clutch of the main cast who bring a welcome lightness to the sci-fi soap opera. The Force Awakens: is the acting strong in this one? 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

Indeed, those films and television dramas that centre on violence against women usually foreground a straightforward moral framework in which murderers and rapists are seen as evil and perverted and must be punished. Why is there so much movie violence against women? 2010-06-03T21:45:00Z

Now it’s a Jewish education centre, guarded around the clock. Weimar memories: walking Berlin … in a flâneur's footsteps 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

And for all its flaws, Rio centred on a neurotic male parrot who couldn't fly, shackled to a more competent female. Studio Ghibli: Leave the boys behind 2011-07-14T21:00:03Z

And yet, puddles of the abominable liquid continued to appear in the centre of the room, day after day! Perspective | Gene Weingarten: A new dog. A closed door. A mysterious puddle. Can Sherlock Holmes solve this case? 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

Four sheets, all of which manage to fail miserably for anyone doing a walk centred on where they meet, roughly Grasmere Common. Off the chart: the big comeback of paper maps 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

"What makes it a very prescient story to both Liverpool and Northampton is that they are both industrial centres exploring extraordinary levels of immigration and social change." Miller drama set for world premiere 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

To become more widely available, more trials and specialist centres would need to be set up to explore the long-term effects, but funding treatment centres is expensive. Ketamine could help thousands with severe depression, doctors say 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

God's Country is one of three new productions about life in Northern Ireland being staged by the Tinderbox Theatre Company in the Crescent arts centre in Belfast. Iris Robinson's homophobia 'inspires' play 2010-09-20T06:30:00Z

They are among the marvels of Volcano at Compton Verney, a show of paintings, prints, films and more from Turner to Warhol and beyond, all centring on these towering infernos. Volcanic splash 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

Closer still is the magnificent basilica of St Simeon Stylites, the ascetic who lived for years on top of a 12m column, the remains of which lie in the centre of the site. Letters: Syria – destination for tourism and torture 2012-07-08T20:00:11Z

On Wednesday this week, Adalah, the legal centre for Arab minority rights in Israel, submitted a petition on his behalf to the supreme court. Writer petitions the Israeli supreme court over travel ban 2010-03-26T15:04:00Z

Nominations will inevitably come, although interestingly he is not always at the centre of things. Daniel Craig's Bond is a US hit, and Day-Lewis looks Oscar-friendly 2012-11-12T16:31:35Z

The publicly traded Tenet employs more than 130,000 people and operates more than 470 outpatient centres, 84 acute care hospitals and 20 short stay hospitals in the US. US firms look to capitalise as NHS becomes increasingly privatised 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

The case centres on AEG's oversight of and responsibility for Dr Conrad Murray, Jackson's physician, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter last November for prescribing and administering the drug that killed Jackson. Michael Jackson's family sue concert promoter over singer's death 2013-03-05T12:33:32Z

A quirky, fast-paced show, Too Loud centres on the lives of two siblings who are volunteering at their school’s library. 'It takes away the stigma': five of the best cartoons with transgender characters 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

She had also been at the centre of a police brutality case, in which a Metropolitan police constable grabbed her hair and beat her around the head with his fist. Sarah Reed wrote to family 'she had been sexually assaulted' in hospital 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

This being Austria, Bacchanalian après ski is very much centre stage. Skiing and partying in Austria’s Obertauern 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

Two years on, he remains chronically disabled in a neurological rehabilitation centre in Wiltshire. Cardiacs tribute album to raise money for paralysed singer Tim Smith 2011-02-03T21:59:01Z

DEPO2015 is a cultural centre with interesting food, fashion and other events – a current exhibition focuses on Czech football. 10 smaller European Capitals of Culture you may not have heard of 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

She even does the that thing from the old Head & Shoulders ads, where they give someone a centre parting, and wash one side in this and the other side in something else. TV review: Wonderstuff; How Murdoch Ran Britain: Dispatches 2011-07-25T20:10:00Z

The episode, called Christmas Guy, saw talking baby Stewie Griffin travel back in time to save his friend, after asking the Father Christmas at a local shopping centre to bring him back. Family Guy character returns to show 2013-12-16T10:44:14Z

He pitched his idea to Oxford Contemporary Music whose Audible Forces project centred around musical installations powered by the wind. Pigeons make music with whistles 2013-06-26T05:22:59Z

From the 39th floor of the Mandarin Oriental in New York, Central Park’s spring blossom takes centre stage in a sweeping Manhattan panorama. When They See Us: behind the harrowing Netflix drama about the Central Park Five 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Kelman is a true original, who writes with genius about those at the margins of society, but at the very centre of the human heart. Profile: James Kelman 2011-03-30T11:53:23Z

With the art centre stage, the programme allowed for the emergence of some challenging issues that are not frequently voiced or dealt with honestly. Access All Areas: putting disability centre stage 2011-03-07T18:34:31Z

The calm centre is Henry's long soliloquy during the battle of Towton, delivered not on a molehill but an upturned pail. Henry VI – review 2013-07-11T18:24:00Z

A pretty blonde is at the centre, framed by a London bus ticket and a peppermint wrapper – the backdrop is a kitschy panorama from the label of a can of Golden Morn peaches. Kurt Schwitters: the pop art pioneer who brought order to chaos 2013-01-19T09:01:37Z

During the dictatorship he also designed the centre of the Mondadori publishing house in Italy, Constantine University in Algeria and other projects in Israel, Lebanon, Germany and Portugal. Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brazil's capital, dies aged 104 2012-12-06T01:23:38Z

The trampoline at the centre of the action, on to which the characters climb in turn, rather bluntly embodies the fickleness of fortune. Timon of Athens – review 2012-06-06T13:07:03Z

But in his latest band, Lightships, Gerry is taking centre stage and adding singer -songwriter to his list of duties. Music Weekly podcast: Teenage Fanclub's Gerry Love and Soundway Records 2012-06-08T15:03:00Z

In humans, that same gene ensures the heart ends up left of centre. Shell company 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

It centres on the origins of the man who, according to legend, did his good deeds dressed in Lincoln green – although, ever the revisionist, Scott has mischievously dropped that particular hue from his movie. Ridley Scott: Creator of worlds 2010-05-10T20:30:00Z

Much of the interest centred on the income writers felt they needed. Will Waterstone's have a significant future selling books in Britain? 2012-12-21T22:54:01Z

Now, the only thing standing between the skaters and reconstruction is a bill for £790,000 to pay for the restoration of the original site, as well as an education centre adjacent to it. How skaters make cities safer – and the fight to save the Southbank skatepark 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

She moved to Cairo in the 1970s, when the capital was the heart of the Arab world's cultural scene, and it is now at the centre of its political aspirations. Warda gave us a soundtrack for the Arab spring 2012-05-21T12:40:01Z

Like "Secret Sunshine," "Poetry" centres around the tragic aftermath of a child's death and both films are carried by outstanding performances from their female leads. Korean star Yun Jung-hee back on screen at Cannes 2010-05-19T13:56:00Z

Buddhism is practised by more than 90 percent of Thailand’s population, and temples were education centres for centuries before the introduction of state-run schools. Monks in masks: Thai Buddhist novices study with social distancing 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

This is the second in the Percy Jackson series to be turned into a movie and centres around a demigod called, you guessed it, Percy Jackson and his many Greek-myth-style quests. My top 5 movie adaptations of 2013 2013-04-01T08:00:00Z

He is sheriff for a year, and loving every moment: Nottingham had one of those urban beaches in the city centre last summer, and he made a point of going round kicking children's sandcastles over. Looking for Robin 2010-04-14T07:00:00Z

Again, Jones is the centre of Breathe In: a Home Counties cuckoo in Pearce's fragile family nest. Drake Doremus on Breathe In: 'I feel a mid-life crisis coming' 2013-07-18T14:20:20Z

In the late 1980s, Street began to teach poetry in schools and day centres; in the early 90s, he became a writer-in-residence at the BBC in Manchester, which led to a series of assignments. 'All my life suddenly made sense': how it feels to be diagnosed with autism late in life 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

Martin was in conversation at New York's 92nd Street Y cultural centre, discussing his new novel An Object of Beauty with scholar and journalist Deborah Solomon. Does Steve Martin have to be funny 24/7? 2010-12-09T13:22:00Z

Frequently the beloved is portrayed as the solar centre of the lover's life, and this is not always a happy conjunction. Poster poems: the sun 2013-06-07T13:28:26Z

The blurred speck on their screen was apparently a black hole at the centre of our galaxy that measures 44 million km across. TV review: Horizon: Seeing Stars; Safebreakers and Only Connect 2011-08-15T21:00:02Z

She said there was a big security operation in the city centre. Beatles in Belfast - 50 years ago 2013-11-08T08:18:46Z

"I was a young author from the end of the world, and she was a great proof-reader from the centre of the world — from Germany." Herta M?ller dodged Romanian secret police by proofreading in forest 2010-03-22T15:55:00Z

Bake in the centre of the oven for 45 minutes, until golden-brown and set: a knife inserted into the centre of the cake should come out clean. Welcome to the feast: exclusive recipes from Yotam Ottolenghi's new book 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

A plan to build a national army museum in the centre of the zone is also opposed by conservationists. Land famine threatens Delhi's colonial heritage of Lutyens architecture 2013-04-21T23:00:03Z

Even if he wasn't centre stage as much as he wanted, though, Tsiskaridze built up a whole new fanbase for himself on television, acquiring a celebrity status among Russians who knew little about itself. Bolshoi shows Nikolai Tsiskaridze the stage door 2013-06-10T16:40:29Z

Each cascade drops 30ft, before dropping another 30ft down a smaller square hole in the centre, down to the level of the bedrock under the site. Memories at Ground Zero 2011-07-30T23:03:01Z

This manipulation included the spectacle of reporters standing in deserted city centres insisting that life was going on as normal. Spanish government accused of purging critics from national radio and TV 2012-08-05T14:09:28Z

Franz Liszt invented the whole concept of the pianist as star: a virtuoso who takes centre stage for an entire evening, playing in profile to a concentrated, adoring, enraptured audience. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z

The condition spreads, hospitals are overwhelmed, and the disease-control centre is baffled. The Bay – review 2013-02-28T22:19:01Z

It tells of the mind-numbingly boring jobs of employees at an Internal Revenue Service tax centre, and stars a certain "David Wallace". The best books of 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:05Z

He was fertile and original in putting previously neglected mental phenomena such as shame, pride and fear at the centre of how to understand self-awareness. Freedom fighter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

A small knife inserted into the centre of each cake should emerge with no more than a crumb or two stuck to it. Ruby Tandoh’s nostalgic chocolate-bar bake recipes | Ruby Bakes 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

Partly because of Kwali's worldwide recognition, the centre was regarded by the Nigerian government as a cultural asset. Danlami Aliyu obituary 2012-05-25T16:25:45Z

The results of the press centre's vote has also been announced so we'll see later how accurate we all were. Eurovision 2014: Reporter's diary 2014-05-11T11:21:17Z

She said: "As a rich country, we should be able to afford a rehabilitation centre for young people, and we don't think charities should pay for it totally." Plea over drug rehabilitation services 2011-08-01T17:58:30Z

Nic Durston, the trust's assistant director of operations in London and the south-east said the section at the centre of the appeal was the most visible. National Trust launched appeal to buy white cliffs of Dover's 'missing link' 2012-06-26T23:06:01Z

At the show's centre is a real sperm whale skeleton on display for the first time. The Natural History Museum's wonders of The Deep 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z

Her second was perfect: dead centre with the right amount of elevation to allow Berntsen to unleash a cracking spike on his opponents. With professional sport on lockdown, athletic animals seize the spotlight 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

The surrealists understood the labyrinth as an image of the human mind at whose centre resides the Minotaur, symbol of irrational impulses. Comfort zones 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

Norvill is the actor whose complaint about Rush’s behaviour is at the centre of the Oscar-winning actor’s defamation case against Sydney newspaper the Daily Telegraph. Geoffrey Rush touched Eryn Jean Norvill's breast on stage, fellow actor tells court 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

His vision for the centre was of a scientific Shangri-La where biology and humanism melded, and ideas roamed free of worries about money for salaries. The lifesaver 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Rivers suffered a cardiac arrest while undergoing a procedure to examine her throat at the Yorkville Endoscopy centre in August 2014. Joan Rivers' daughter sues clinic 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

Right in the centre of Clapham, a few steps away from the tube. Cine-files: Clapham Picturehouse 2013-01-22T10:12:58Z

Above is a radio rip of Ego, a six-and-a-half minute track that builds from a fairly standard, intricately programmed opening before Yorke's plaintive croon emerges from the fog to create a surprisingly melodic centre. New Music: Thom Yorke, Burial and Four Tet ? Ego 2011-03-16T15:44:38Z

The buildings for such centres should always be special and singular, but they no longer need to look like items from an exhibition of architecture. Cancer centre 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z

It's easy enough to dodge the question when steered by Stan's Cafe theatre company in front of a screen and made the centre of a mini-movie. La B?te; One-on-One festival; You Me Bum Bum Train 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

You admire the view of the stadium, the orbit and the aquatics centre while the store is open during its extended opening hours. How to enjoy the London Olympics for free 2012-07-25T14:27:13Z

Philly soul may have been sweet, but it had a hard centre. 'Philadelphia was the party with a tormented soul' 2011-03-03T22:41:00Z

"Keep Portland Weird" is painted in metre-high yellow letters on a brick wall in the centre of the city in Oregon. TV streaming: six of the best shows 2013-02-16T16:00:00Z

It centres on a room decorated with red neon lights, where a Jean-Luc Godard film loops endlessly. ECM: In search of free jazz and free expression 2013-03-26T14:00:31Z

I have chosen to dally on this graveyard pathway by St Stephen’s Church on my way to the Chapelfield shopping centre, where I have business at the Apple Store. Richard Dawkins’ moralizing atheism: Science, self-righteousness and militant belief — and disbelief 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

At the DHL call centre he finds that strict company rules and guidelines – along with time pressure and less than imaginative staff – leave customers feeling dissastisfied. Undercover Boss; Rick Stein's India – TV review 2013-07-02T06:00:22Z

This year will see The Piano shown on the beach, Dawn of the Dead in a bland shopping centre and Whisky Galore at St Mary's Lighthouse. A film festival in a town with no cinema? 2012-08-14T13:07:29Z

Affordable housing has been at the centre of legacy promises and indeed we are told that half the homes in the Olympic village will be affordable. Will the Olympics be a winner for east London? 2012-07-07T17:00:01Z

Make a well in the centre and add the eggs. Summer vegetarian recipes 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

To me, it seems religion is at the centre of things on Home Island and on West Island the community is the driving force. History, harmony, and the only Muslim island in Australia | Ben Stubbs 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

I am not sure that this is not deliberate – that she is, in fact, a kind of archetypal mother figure, at once the centre of the family and its victim. This Is Paradise by Will Eaves - review 2012-02-10T22:05:01Z

Even a decade or so ago, Neukölln, in south-east Berlin, was something of a backwater – a no-man’s-land beyond the trendy centre. 10 of the coolest neighbourhoods in Europe 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

They are never themselves, never “you and me”, never “us”, never the centre of a story. 'Tough but profoundly cathartic': can Disclosure change trans representation on screen? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Until I read these diaries, I had forgotten how many difficulties there were that a better-led Conservative party – one led from the centre, not the right – could have exploited. Diaries, Volume 3 by Alastair Campbell ? review 2011-07-07T09:55:00Z

The clinical coders, the claims processors, staff from the audit team, and even from the contact centre, whisper in the lunchroom and by the downstairs vending machines, wondering if they’re next. Teaching a robot to do my job (and grimly cheering my obsolescence) | Ellen Wengert 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Front and centre is Donald Trump’s assertion that “in the old days, deserters were shot”. Serial recap – season two episode one: DUSTWUN 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Spoon the salted yoghurt into the centre of the cloth, then gather up the sides. How to make the most of the season’s ripe plums | Cook residency 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Yesterday, 60 years on from the Festival of Britain, the Southbank centre announced plans to mark the anniversary with a similar summer of celebrations – with a fraction of the budget. Skylon's the limit 2011-01-19T17:27:31Z

The film centres on the courage of Katharine Gun in telling the truth. Keira Knightley: ‘Iraq was the first time I’d been politically engaged’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

They both centre on a campaign aide, Henry Burton in Primary Colors and Cal Regan in O. But there the similarities end. O, A Presidential Novel sparks search for anonymous author 2011-01-19T21:25:12Z

It will also be a centre for ourselves. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-08-12T14:57:47Z

The same thin red and black stripes on an ivory ground, with the Nrf sign in the centre. Rouge et noir 2011-03-26T00:05:23Z

Frankenstein starts in the Arctic, centres on Mont Blanc and ends again in the far north. Frankenstein or Dracula? A mix-up that may have done pupils a favour 2013-06-01T10:30:01Z

Scrape the barrel long enough and you will find this under the barrel, somewhere near the centre of the Earth. Every Judi Dench film – ranked! 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Yet, as in all town centres nowadays, there are charity shops where there used to be grocers and greengrocers, and most places need a lick of paint. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

Most of the new trailer centres on Luke, his continuing concerns over Rey’s burgeoning powers and his clear reticence to re-enter the fray after years of exile on Ahch-To. Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer – five things we learned, from Rey's dark side to annoying Porgs 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Pooley, who registered as a nurse in February last year after completing his training, spent five weeks working at the Ebola centre before falling ill. Infected nurse airlifted from Ebola zone speaks of joy at seeing patients recover 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

"We are glad to confirm that all of the 17 individuals have been accounted for and have now been transferred to JFK Ebola specialist treatment centre," said Lewis Brown. Missing Ebola patients found, says Liberian government 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Often it has come down to who had the more demanding job: “Sometimes our roles are centred around who’s earned the most,” Suzanne says. How we stay together: 'There is no magic cookbook of relationships' 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z

By a staggering coincidence, many day passes remained unsold, and ticket touts were spotted for the first time hawking their wares outside the convention centre. Comic-Con 2010: My favourite bits 2010-07-26T14:23:00Z

Mosley's episode on intermittent fasting, and his earlier one about high-intensity exercise, were programmes that brought scientific thinking to its rightful place in the centre of our thinking as a society. Is this a golden age for science on TV? 2013-07-25T12:50:51Z

Last year, Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings also centred on these characters and despite negative reviews and casting controversy, it was still a global hit, making $268m worldwide. Thou shalt honour the original: Ten Commandments remake in the pipeline 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Asking people at the centre of the Kenyan running world, in the town of Iten, about ultrarunning brings mostly puzzled looks. Why don’t Kenyans run ultramarathons? 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

Lord Rees-Mogg, right, stood with editor Rupert Murdoch, centre, in the unions dispute While he was chairman at the Arts Council, there was a dispute in 1983 over the appointment of a secretary-general. Journalist William Rees-Mogg dies 2012-12-29T16:14:09Z

There is a 10-minute drive into the city centre, round windy streets. Spies, Chopin and a Libya rescue 2013-01-14T07:00:03Z

It's not so different – once you get beyond tourist Newcastle, the regenerated quayside and the vibrant city centre, to places such as Byker or Walker; you might as well be in Africa. TV review: Geordie Finishing School for Girls 2011-07-26T21:05:05Z

More than 50 musicians are involved in the project, though the album centres around the gently thrilling vocal work of four female singers from Bulgaria. Eva Quartet & Hector Zazou: The Arch – review 2013-02-28T23:30:01Z

"We jealously guard the privacy of our clients," says Dr David Sack, the centre's chief operating officer. Celebrity rehab 2010-04-30T11:54:00Z

His whole life has become a kind of absence, and he is the void at its centre. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ? review 2011-08-21T17:32:01Z

Singers ceased to be the stars around whom performances were centred. Wagner bicentenary: the music is still what matters most 2013-05-21T23:59:01Z

What the Shard does do is change the sense of scale in the whole centre of the City. The Shard: A symbol of towering ambition 2011-01-30T00:05:57Z

He described the experience of being shot as "very interesting... roughly speaking it was the sensation of being at the centre of an explosion". Bloodstained Orwell scarves for sale 2013-09-24T09:04:32Z

After at least 100 women in France were killed this year by current or former partners, Macron made a quiet visit to a domestic violence hotline centre in Paris on Tuesday. Macron hears police officer refuse to help woman in danger 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

He submerges us in the centre of the story; like the crowd in the forum listening to Mark Antony, we are swayed by each competing argument. Power and glory: how to tackle Shakespeare's revolutions 2012-06-20T17:59:07Z

It doesn't seem odd to me to be going to a sports centre. South Africa township happy to take its turn waiting for Godot 2010-08-01T16:50:00Z

Rodham was at the centre of controversy last month when it emerged that the film was being primed to tie in with its subject's mooted presidential run in three years' time. Carey Mulligan to play Hillary Clinton? 2013-06-06T10:47:52Z

The large chandeliered dome at the centre of it was coated with gold. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z

As today's city centres prove, department stores caught on. TV highlights 27/03/2013 2013-03-27T07:00:11Z

What had been remote is now closer to the new centre. Siddhartha Deb welcomes a study of Burma's relations with its powerful neighbours 2011-08-19T21:55:02Z

Turn the oven down to 190C/gas mark 5 and bake the tart for about 30-35 minutes until it is puffed and golden but slightly wobbly in the centre. 20 best seafood recipes: part 2 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Proceeds from the tax are going to pay for much needed daycare centres for children. First US sugar tax sees soft drink sales fall by almost 10%, study shows 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

Bucklow showed me one of his latest works – a photo of a huge painting, widescreen like an epic American abstraction, at the centre of which is a man wrestling a woman. Clement Greenberg: the art critic who refuses to flatline 2011-03-11T15:12:34Z

Azul Serra This work centres on the largest iron ore mine in the world, the Carajas Complex, which is located in the west Amazon region of Brazil. It is What it Was: LCC MA Photojournalism on show 2012-12-13T10:18:36Z

They are, respectively: Paradise by Coldplay performed by a depressed game show host, and something you'd hear on a garden centre CD called Nondescript Moods. Eurovision 2012: who shone brightest in the second semi-final? 2012-05-25T10:37:13Z

Four years ago, I was celebrating a friend’s birthday at an activity centre in Toronto. Experience: I regularly smash things in a rage room 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

In July 1966 Danlami presented himself at the centre, only to learn that, at 14 years old, he was too young to be taken on. Danlami Aliyu obituary 2012-05-25T16:25:45Z

On the paved area in front of the centre, satellite vans have parked and technicians are setting up microphones and lights. We love the NHS too much to make it better 2013-03-09T06:31:01Z

Her pragmatic brilliance built a coalition that contested the centre ground and bolted in parts of the working class. Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity – review 2012-09-27T07:00:03Z

Link to video: Lincoln: watch the exclusive international trailer This incendiary issue – involving the abolition of slavery and all this might entail for equality in all its forms – is at the centre of this drama. Lincoln – review 2013-01-27T00:06:12Z

It should be set at the edges and soft, almost runny, in the centre. 20 best seafood recipes: part 2 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Dean Chalkley is now the favourite to win the Mercury prize after bookmakers William Hill said the singer was at the centre of the "biggest turnaround in music betting for the last 40 years". Mercury prize: Paul Weller at centre of 'biggest turnaround in music betting for 40 years' 2010-09-06T12:08:00Z

For all its high art and ballgowns, the city that was once the nerve centre of a global empire remains varied and cosmopolitan. Hitting a different note in Vienna 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

So here, now, where our bodies are locked behind masks and gloves and screens and filters, where will the centre of our revolution lie? Skin hunger: touch saved me from unbearable loneliness. What will we become without it? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

But, still, the sheer bizarreness of this celebrated shopping centre is accessible to all – one of the joys of any piece of architecture. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z

But the biggest danger for the Cultural Olympiad's director, Ruth McKenzieRuth Mackenzie, on the basis of the repertoire sketched out today, is that she will be accused of turning Britain into a vast Barbican centre. Cultural Olympiad's London 2012 festival lines up arts world A-list 2010-12-07T21:08:00Z

Ms Jarrold told the Today programme Sarah Montague that she was pleased that the world premier happening in Anglia Square in the town centre and added that "it is all taken in good sprit". AUDIO: Is Norwich proud of Partridge? 2013-07-24T09:59:58Z

In his screenplay, Robert Towne develops two dominant metaphors; the first centres on water. Chinatown: No 1 2010-10-17T10:55:00Z

A return to the centre ground would appear to be some way off. Seriously big break: how a call from the Coens changed Michael Stuhlbarg's life 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Jerusalem's totemic status, then, derives from its position as an early and pre-eminent centre for sacrifice. Jerusalem, Jerusalem by James Carroll ? review 2011-08-05T21:54:01Z

As Lucy takes me on a tour through the manicured gardens where patients relax in the sun, it is hard to believe I am in the centre of Kabul. Giles Duley: 'I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go back … ' 2013-02-10T00:13:44Z

The bathroom is the private centre of the home, which makes it the perfect location for dramas about people who have stopped pretending to be perfect. Girls, Insecure and Stranger Things: how bathrooms became TV’s safe space 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

Apart from brief hiatuses at Islington and Lisson Grove, it's perfectly possible to walk twenty miles or more through the centre of the city without ever crossing a road. Favourite pictures from London, You're Beautiful by David Gentleman 2012-07-26T10:52:27Z

The British Museum's last big redevelopment: the Great Court, with the old reading room in the centre, designed by Richard Rogers. British Museum's £135m extension is on time and on budget, say curators 2013-04-29T17:11:41Z

There's a pub, a cafe, a small heritage centre and no shop. Next stop the Turner Prize … the holiday that makes you an artist-in-residence 2012-11-13T22:45:02Z

Fold one third of the rectangle over towards the centre and fold the remaining third over that. 20 best autumn recipes: part 1 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

It was bought by Victor Hwang, then owner of Battersea power station, as a visitor centre for his proposed development there. Serpentine's star pavilions 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z

I would hope to shake things up – not in a negative, destructive way but in a truly Shakespearean way, restoring the authority of poetry in one of the great centres of culture ... Oxford poetry 2010-04-29T14:09:00Z

You can't tell whether, in an episode centred round "the ambassador of Bamwezi", the name was designed to offend no one or as many countries as possible. The Professionals 2010-08-24T06:59:00Z

Another time, there was a family sitting under a tree just outside the feeding centre, about 10 feet away. 'I was gutted that I'd been such a coward': photographers who didn't step in to help 2012-07-28T00:48:00Z

At the time, it was unusual for people to be putting people like that in the centre of dramas. My TV hero: Phil Davis on Mike Leigh 2011-07-11T20:00:01Z

The media controversy at the time centred on the the film teens' drug-taking and bed-hopping, but ignored the most radical aspect of the film – it was a hit with the kidults themselves. The lighter side of youth crime: urban film spoofs 2011-03-10T22:29:00Z

The “firestorm”, as Keys called it, centred on claims that the two men had said and done heinously sexist things off-air. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Calderdale council and the Piece Hall's many local enthusiasts have been pondering this and have now come up with a second go at providing workspaces, shops, restaurants, conference and education space and a visitor centre. Huge fillip for Halifax as its noblest building gets £7 million 2012-07-20T07:30:00Z

Cold and tired, they return to the resettlement centre in the morning, only to be told: "There are no rooms free." The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-02-27T10:00:01Z

In my 20s, I just had to be the centre of attention all the time. Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z

Since then, Lee's been unwittingly set up as Tim's mum's gigolo and found himself at the centre of a paternity row. Have You Been Watching? Not Going Out? 2011-02-03T12:46:13Z

It was stunning: juicy, crisp … It sounds quite English, but the centre of Spain is like this, it’s very traditional – all roasts. The best food they ate in 2015 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

Despite initial reports that both men had drunk ayahuasca, one of the centre’s founders told me Stevens had not done so, and one subsequent media report claimed the toxicology results confirmed that. Peru’s ayahuasca industry booms as westerners search for alternative healing 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Over that sausage and mash in Camden, most of the judges' heated debate centred on who should take the best show award. Chortle awards: did we strike comedy gold? 2010-03-24T12:06:00Z

Now on its sixth season, the show centres on an upper-middle-class African American family, living in a largely white LA neighbourhood, and stars Ross as the matriarch, anaesthetist Rainbow “Bow” Johnson. Tracee Ellis Ross: 'As a kid, singing was too scary a dream' 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z

OK, so the newspaper office at the centre of the drama isn't the Guardian but the "Glasgow Daily News"; maybe change came a bit later there. TV review: The Field of Blood; Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets 2011-08-29T22:15:01Z

Optical Express is the market leader in laser eye surgery, but has been at the centre of a series of controversies. Leaked manual shows 'hard sell' used by laser eye surgery firm 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

"We are now at the centre of the universe," he says. Simon Garfield: a life in books 2012-09-28T21:55:09Z

It is tempting to link Brian's own striving with the Faustian figure at the centre of the Gothic. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z

Where we are in the Pentlands feels fairly remote on a windy day, but it is only a bus ride from Edinburgh town centre. Faster, higher, longer: how female ultra-athletes started to beat men 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

He met five of them at a restaurant and, after reviving the club, they recruited more at a garden centre. US flower growers fear bloom is off the hobby 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

I see myself at the centre of the screen, peering into the camera's lens. Brain On Fire: 'Blood and foam began to spurt out of my mouth' 2013-01-13T00:05:24Z

Tom Tykwer’s movie centres on a desperate US businessman who arrives in Saudi Arabia hoping to sell a holographic teleconferencing system to the titular monarch. The Huntsman: Winter's War beaten by still-swinging Jungle Book at US box office 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

With it, Walt Disney intended to right the wrongs he perceived in Los Angeles: too many cars, no pedestrian access, no civic centre, characterless modern architecture. Tomorrowland: how Walt Disney’s strange utopia shaped the world of tomorrow 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

It is there at the centre in every encounter, making him angry, frightened, resentful, choking him into silence or turning him into a machine gun operated by an inexperienced soldier. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z

Despite its sour centre, Cake’s conceits quickly crumble, leaving just a half-baked pity. Cake review – an anti-vanity vehicle for Jennifer Aniston 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

The five-piece were a school band who, bizarrely, suddenly found themselves at the centre of a record company bidding war, and signed to a major label. Yuck: A taste of things to come 2011-02-03T22:50:01Z

Jones followed that up with the more ambitious techno-thriller Source Code, a genuinely dark take on existential sci-fi themes with a giant beating human heart placed firmly front and centre. World of Warcraft: can Duncan Jones turn the video game into movie magic? 2013-01-31T17:10:22Z

Ji Ji was started by Choong’s grandfather from a pushcart before it moved into Hong Lim Market in the 1970s when the government first built hawker centres to clean up the island. Singapore hawker won't let virus write 'tragic' end to family business 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

Indeed, this moral ambiguity on the Doctor’s part was still front and centre, and that’s where the episode started to fall down a bit. Review: 'Doctor Who', Episode 802, 'Inside The Dalek' -- Peter Capaldi (Almost) Takes Charge 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

Box office appears to have been heavily driven by controversy over the film, which has been at the centre of speculation that it might be banned. Malaysia's first gay film is a controversial hit 2011-03-30T09:18:21Z

Suddenly on the screen there appears a clock set in the centre of the kind of sumptuous salon that epoch, and Feuillade, alone had a taste for; it shows 4:40pm. Christian Marclay's The Clock: a masterpiece of our times 2011-04-07T12:05:43Z

The arts generate growth: for a minuscule budget of £1bn, Britain gains its international reputation as a great cultural centre, drawing people to music, theatre, galleries and museums. Arts for everyone is cheap considering its rich returns 2010-07-27T19:36:00Z

It's obvious that Vi is going to be the centre of a publicity circus in the run-up to the date of the prediction. Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld – review 2013-06-02T07:30:01Z

The birth centre told me that I needed a caesarean section as soon as possible. Pushed to the limit: six birth stories from around the world 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

We arrive at the centre, which is in effect one room in an unmarked residential block in an inconspicuous suburb. How homophobia feeds Russia’s HIV epidemic 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

That professional strategy vindicates the deeper lesson – that we are all supporting players in the lives of great hams who insist on being the centre of attention. David Thomson: the importance of supporting actors 2010-07-01T21:45:00Z

Back in the 60s and 70s, to a young, unworldly provincial boy, a trip to the centre of town used to be a thing of wonder. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

Bake for 1.5hrs to 1hr 40 mins, until the cake is lightly firm around the edge, but the centre is still wobbly. Nigel Slater's five mellow recipes for autumn 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

For many working class queer men in urban centres such as New York around the turn of the 20th century, camp was a tactic for the communication and affirmation of non-normative sexualities and genders. LGBT+ history: The story of camp, from Little Richard to Lil Nas X 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

Tell her to take her child to the feeding centre. 'I was gutted that I'd been such a coward': photographers who didn't step in to help 2012-07-28T00:48:00Z

At Live From Jodrell Bank, where Elbow are headlining, punters will be able to gawp through the space centre's telescopes. Festivals guide 2012 - Guy Garvey shoots for the stars 2012-05-25T23:25:00Z

The centre opened in 2005 and hosts exhibitions and learning programmes. Seven Stories changes its name 2012-11-09T12:37:44Z

Market forces, and perhaps personal temperament, placed Puccini and the verismo school at the centre of this recital of tenor favourites. Joseph Calleja – review 2013-01-13T18:45:01Z

Parsifal's journey from swan-killing holy fool in the first act to king of the holy grail at the end of the third act centres on the overtly Christian imagery of the knights of the grail. Parsifal: Wagner's 'Buddhist piece' 2011-02-10T22:00:00Z

We seriously investigated filming an item called "are all scousers thieves?" where we would put a car in the centre of Liverpool and secretly film it. How The Word changed TV 2010-08-10T07:00:00Z

The police closed down the city centre for a number of hours, with helicopters circling overhead and ambulances arrived from as far away as neighboring the Netherlands. Rampage in Belgium kills 3, wounds 123 2011-12-13T18:44:02Z

She was initiated at a Transcendental Meditation centre and given a mantra, as is the custom, to be repeated silently and never shared. Goldie Hawn: ‘I was born with a high set point for happiness’ 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

His friends and associates from the 60s attest to his friendliness and his aloofness, the sense that, even when he was the charismatic centre of things, he was always somehow apart, inside himself. Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman 2010-04-24T23:09:00Z

To be fair, studios are beginning to place female superheroes front and centre. Doctor Strange epitomizes the girlfriend problem in Hollywood superhero films 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

Touching down at venues all over Glasgow, plus London and Barcelona, Highlife's second birthday celebrations are centred around Sub Club. Clubs picks of the week 2012-05-25T23:05:21Z

He left the hospice to help people with Ebola in Kenema, the centre of the outbreak, having become concerned that other healthcare workers were abandoning them. Infected nurse airlifted from Ebola zone speaks of joy at seeing patients recover 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a delusion, of course, but the fatter and more complicated and expensive the watch, the more the wearer may assume control of the universe, the still centre of a spinning wheel. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

A detective novel has an emotionally insecure life insurance risk at its centre: the challenge is what can be achieved, linguistically and psychologically, around these fixed points. A Death in Summer by Benjamin Black ? review 2011-07-07T08:16:57Z

Leicester House was built to the north of the land and around the edges the Earl began developing houses, leaving the centre free. The London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan - review 2012-05-18T21:55:01Z

Relationships and characters from outside the canon of heterosexual romance have centred in his lens for decades. Gus Van Sant: 'We are living in a wilder time than anything we could imagine' 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

The cops think it's an accident, because they don't notice that everything metal in the room is pointing to the centre of the floor. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #10 – Adrian Monk 2012-05-29T10:35:38Z

Bartók lay at the centre of this BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom under David Robertson. BBCSO/Robertson 2010-08-23T11:10:00Z

Further north you'll find the setting for Castle Black - the abandoned Magheramorne quarry which is currently under proposal to be turned into a centre for adventure sports. Five 'Game of Thrones' Destinations Fans Should Visit 2014-04-04T11:27:45Z

It's also a big year for the National Theatre of Scotland: we're going to open a new creativity centre that will allow us to develop new Scottish talent. Laurie Sansom: incoming artistic director, National Theatre of Scotland – profile 2013-02-19T10:31:29Z

Calling for Camden "to reconsider its action", she adds: "The alternative will diminish the borough's effectiveness as a centre for the arts, and narrow the scope for its young people to participate in the theatre." Judi Dench defends drama school in row over advertising boards 2013-05-18T23:06:15Z

In between, there are marching bands, the wail of police sirens, shouts and silences, like that stillness at the centre of the tornado. Francis Al?s treads the thin green line 2010-06-14T20:30:00Z

That's the world we now inhabit; this is one endeavour where the centre would always struggle to hold, but you get the feeling the Wachowskis knew that going in. Cloud Atlas: how Hollywood failed to put it on the map 2013-02-20T17:16:47Z

In the centre of the room stand three sculptures: big, thin, wonky, metal wheels, coated in resin and painted in bright colours, which look like they might topple over at any moment. Gary Hume: 'I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist' 2013-05-18T21:00:01Z

All I wanted to do was get to the centre, to the shops. Your stories: Never Had Time by Ellathebookworm 2013-02-22T08:00:00Z

This is a story of vengeance, of an old curse from an embittered woman, all centred on the brooding Eel Marsh House, gloomy and isolated and cut off from the mainland at high tide. Kate Mosse's top 10 ghost stories 2010-10-27T10:24:00Z

Ten Pakistani gunmen killed commuters, foreigners and some of India's wealthy business elite in the three-day rampage in the city, which included attacks on two luxury hotels, a Jewish centre and a train station. U.S. puts $10 million bounty on Pakistan militant; India pleased 2012-04-03T11:51:06Z

That might partially explain the recent slew of comic book adaptations with male superheroes front and centre. Geena Davis: ‘After Thelma & Louise, people said things would improve for women in film. They didn’t’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

It is a right and centre of research in many sciences. 139 Years Ago: American Museum of Natural History Opens Its Permanent Home 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Lerwick’s historic town centre is a thriving hub of eclectic small shops and local entrepreneurs. 10 cool shopping districts around the world: readers’ tips 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

A restaurant, small education centre and museum are part of its long-term plan. Isla Holbox: could this be Mexico’s new Tulum? 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

The shopping centre manager says it, as does the waiter serving horse steak. Astana, Kazakhstan: the space station in the steppes 2010-08-08T00:59:00Z

The independent and forward-thinking centre hosts loads of live music, including many alternative and traditional Latin acts, as well as international musicians, independent theatre performances and more. Top 10 live music venues in Florida 2013-04-29T10:06:41Z

For Crenshaw, this rewriting of history that centres the violence black women experience is crucial for taking the black freedom struggle forward. Kimberlé Crenshaw: the woman who revolutionised feminism – and landed at the heart of the culture wars 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Swaths of the historic centre, once considered unsafe, have been repaved and pedestrianised, and shoppers and evening revellers now abound in the revitalised area. Mexico City: what to see plus the best bars, restaurants and hotels 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

We are probably the only rural arts centre in the country to receive precisely nothing from our district council, county council and the Arts Council. Letters: Gift aid allows funding to follow the wishes of the people 2010-05-18T23:05:00Z

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z

Men Against Fire centres on a squad of American troops tasked with exterminating several hundred outlaws hiding in what seems to be the Dutch countryside. Reflections on Black Mirror – by those for whom science fiction became reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

According to Van der Aa: "It's a cult mystery opera, which centres around the disappearance of three people." This week's arts diary 2011-03-15T22:31:01Z

Black holes are now known to lie at the centre of most galaxies and profoundly influence their growth. Black and light 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

It has a wonderful, wild feel with herds of horses and flocks of birds, yet is so near the city centre. A Perfect Day... in Oxford 2012-03-05T03:35:00Z

It centres on a young war hero who must defend a mother accused of aiding her son in the killing of the US president as an angry nation demands vengeance. Brits loom large in Toronto film festival lineup 2010-07-28T11:56:00Z

The Wheel Set in 1880s Spain, against a backdrop of war, The Wheel centres on two sisters who find their peaceful morning interrupted by the arrival of soldiers. Zinnie Harris: Next stop Nam 2011-08-09T20:59:01Z

Comedy in Scotland tends to be overly concentrated around the two major centres of Glasgow and Edinburgh. This week's new live comedy 2013-05-18T05:00:13Z

Last year a retired businessman, Roger Penny, found himself at the centre of a storm after paying a contractor to "tidy up" a 5,000-year-old prehistoric earthwork ring in Somerset known as Priddy Circles. Bulldozed Belize Mayan site: the latest in a litany of heritage disasters 2013-05-15T14:47:35Z

Dedicated to Wakefield born and bred Barbara Hepworth, the gallery will complement the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds making Yorkshire a world centre for sculpture. Details of ?35m Hepworth gallery revealed - why it's money well spent 2011-02-03T18:18:01Z

In 1997 work on a new arts centre began with the aim of raising the cultural profile of the city and bringing new business and tourism into the area. A blitzkrieg on the arts 2010-10-04T20:59:00Z

The main centre for administering the ECT-ketamine study is based at Manchester University, whose website claims it is the largest research study of ECT in the UK for more than 30 years. Health experts attack ketamine plan to tackle depression 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

Liberia has found all 17 suspected Ebola patients who fled a quarantine centre in Monrovia at the weekend and transferred them to another clinic, the country's information minister said on Tuesday. Missing Ebola patients found, says Liberian government 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Story: The story centres on an ethnic minority virtually unknown to the outside world. Oscars 2015: The foreign language contenders 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

The Let's Buy the Axiom group wants to see the building turned into an arts and music centre once more. Mystery benefactor in arts venue bid 2013-12-23T15:02:49Z

The company also finds itself regularly engaged in a battle against pigeons which, minced in a burger with venison, bacon and sweet chilli, were proving a particularly hot draw at the city centre stall. Grub's up: maggots and crickets on menu at Britain's first 'pestaurant' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Fontane’s stories centred on the everyday: the details of the landscape and the lives of villagers, the intrigues of local counts and crown princes, the beauty of their castles. Nature's son: on the trail of Theodor Fontane, the German Charles Dickens 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

The “Daijosai” rite, centred on the goddess Amaterasu Omikami, began soon after sunset on Thursday and is the most overtly religious of all the rituals around Naruhito’s succession after his father, Akihito, abdicated in April. Japan monarch spends symbolic night with goddess to end throne rituals 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

But the tensions are compounded in government by the constant demands from the centre on those running individual departments for instantaneous answers to sometimes near-intractable problems. Diaries, Volume 3 by Alastair Campbell ? review 2011-07-07T09:55:00Z

The force attended 58 spice-related incidents in the city centre on Friday, Saturday and Sunday last week. 'It's worse than heroin': how spice is ravaging homeless communities 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

On Mother's Day 1987, Lacy invited 430 women over 60 to gather in a Minnesota shopping centre and air their views about getting older. Tate Modern's women's liberation army 2013-01-29T18:23:46Z

Indeed, the Otter Trust has now closed its Bungay captive breeding centre to the public, its once apparently impossible aim of repopulating the rivers with capering otters brilliantly realised. Never mind endangered animals – it's the thinkers that we need to save 2013-03-10T00:05:44Z

If there's some reason she can't be at the centre and there's a danger of her being sidelined, I ensure that I don't lose her for more than five or six lines. Top tips for writing a strong female hero: Moira Young 2012-08-15T10:15:25Z

It transpires that everybody there has made the same journey: by ship, through the camp and the relocation centre. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-02-27T10:00:01Z

We talk for over an hour, in an arts centre cafe on Nottingham's university campus and at no point do we stop discussing the Roses. Shane Meadows: 'This is the closest thing to a love letter I've ever made' 2013-05-26T07:00:00Z

At this initial stage, the centre is only selling at local markets and relies largely on word of mouth. Bees in Amazon 'are greatest ally to halt rainforest destruction' 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

In a Middlesbrough shopping centre, two brothers fence goods to buy medicine for their ailing mother. 10by10: Britain like you've never seen it on screen 2012-08-29T09:14:00Z

If The Long Good Friday had a spiritual centre, this was it. First the gangsters, then the bankers: how The Long Good Friday foretold the future 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The same centring on ordinary human experience as central to our experience of the wider universe. Readers' reviews: The Tree of Life and reductionism 2011-07-14T22:01:00Z

I’m based in the Mt Scott-Arleta district, as typical a Portland neighbourhood as you can find, centred on Mt Scott Park, with its tall evergreen douglas firs. A local’s guide to Portland, Oregon: 10 top tips 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

“Nature in its myriad forms takes centre stage in the latest Prada experience, encompassing various landscapes and the changing of the seasons,” the website reads. What’s up with Prada’s $995 volleyball? 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

Wolverine’s invincibility might come in useful when battling the “muties” of the Cursed Earth, and the movie’s climactic scene could centre on a battle to decide which actor does the best Eastwood-esque lip curl. Which comic book titans should suit up for superhero buddy movies? 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

The issue at the centre of the fuss – an unconsummated man-crush five years ago – certainly doesn't feel central to the album. Frank Ocean: Channel Orange – review 2012-07-11T16:58:28Z

An engraving shows the Namur, centre, fighting in the Battle of Lagos, a key incident in the Seven Years' War. Discover me timbers: experts identify remains of 18th century warship 2012-08-16T16:28:53Z

Details are sketchy – it will centre on a valedictory trip made by the gang to Malia after their A-levels are over, and will most likely be the show's final chapter. Simon Bird spreads his wings 2011-02-20T00:05:18Z

So I decide I have the symptoms of life-threatening diseases that I research for hours on the internet, then head to the GP or urgent care centre only to be told I am fine. ​'​Sick​ and​ asphyxiating​'​​ – why we live in an age of anxiety 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

A brain-imaging scan showed that when people received the opportunity to communicate their opinions to others, their brain’s reward centre was strongly activated. How our desires shape our beliefs | Tali Sharot 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

The desire to be centre stage coupled with the lack of social ease. Big mouth strikes (once) again 2010-09-03T20:30:00Z

The health ministry and state press centre did not respond to questions for this article. Some Egyptians pack streets for Ramadan shopping despite coronavirus threat 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

It also works in conjunction with the motor centres in the brain to stimulate the adrenal glands via the activation of different pathways in the nervous system. The elite athlete paradox: how running a marathon can make you ill 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

The carapace is glittering, but despite an air of satirical skittishness this is a play with a soft centre and a reverent stance. The Audience – review 2013-03-10T00:06:29Z

Ever since the passing of swinging London in early 1966, various American cities had vied to become the centre of pop, the location in the nation. Scott McKenzie's San Francisco was a hippy anthem with a life of its own 2012-08-20T14:39:00Z

Reza's play is a comedy that centres on two sets of parents who meet after their sons are involved in a fight at school. Roman Polanski to return to work with God of Carnage 2010-09-27T14:23:00Z

Flatten each ball in your hand, put half a teaspoon of filling in the centre, then firmly pinch together the sides of the circle, shaping it back into a ball. Festive recipes from around the world 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

Like the stage play, it will centre on her encounters with the 12 prime ministers who have served during her reign, and the political and social upheavals that have unfolded over that time. Netflix to adapt Elizabeth II play 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The movie, the first film of an ambitious 10-movie slate centred on the DC Comics universe from studio Warner Bros, will hit US and UK cinemas on 25 March. Zack Snyder: new Batman v Superman trailer is not a super-sized spoiler 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

It centres on a single dancer, Salah El Brogy, who must pass through a large Perspex screen in order to enter the main stage, as if arriving from a distant epoch. Akram Khan Company 2010-09-17T20:31:00Z

“The centres are working,” explains Charles, a manager from Child’s I Foundation. 'Closing orphanages isn’t enough': the centres supporting children and families in Uganda 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Nick Helm with his high-energy and self-aggrandizing show, James Acaster whose sketch centres on wanting to marry Yoko Ono, and feminist comic Bridget Christie's rampage against men's magazines and misogynists. On the brink of making it big in comedy at Edinburgh Fringe 2013-08-23T13:30:17Z

"A lovely building - mad colours" according to the director of Birmingham's Number 9 gallery "The problem is that it was just like a big play centre - it hasn't been handled well from the start." 'It was just like a big play centre' 2013-08-10T02:16:41Z

The Bombay I grew up in – though it had long been India's financial centre – was genteel and tame in comparison. Amit Chaudhuri: my new perspective on Calcutta 2013-02-02T07:01:14Z

A charity, the Seven Stories children's book centre in Newcastle, paid around £40,000 at the time for the haul, which included Malory Towers and Secret Seven books. Enid Blyton manuscript found 2011-02-23T01:25:24Z

They're unhappy that the mystery of Clara's true identity hasn't been as front and centre to the run as was teased. Has Doctor Who really lost its way? 2013-05-17T11:02:27Z

Thankfully, she was allowed to be centre stage on the West End. Character actress Dora Bryan dies 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

In the centre is a kids' area full of cushions and fun activities, and an interactive wall dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson. 10 of the best literary haunts in Edinburgh 2011-08-01T09:00:00Z

The creative risk – such as it is – within the new series centres on the retelling of real events as they would have been covered by this idealistic newsroom. The Newsroom: are news anchors really this important? 2012-06-23T23:04:22Z

If Carpaccio's scenes transport us to 15th-century Venice, the definitive image of Florence in the same period is a scene of three men being burned in the city centre. What can we learn from Italy's urban utopias? 2011-08-22T11:08:13Z

Industry: Historically centred on mining, steel, ship-building and banking; today, the city is more focused on tourism. Could Dundee be the new Bilbao? 2010-10-03T19:00:00Z

A lot of superlatives have been slung in the direction of Lena Dunham's debut series, a dramedy that centres on four young women vaguely trying, but generally failing, to be successful human beings. Have you been watching … Girls? 2012-11-21T12:18:58Z

At 27, Ridley finds herself at the centre of the universe. Daisy Ridley: ‘JJ Abrams warned me that Star Wars is a religion’ 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

Barceloneta beach is right in the centre but often packed with city dwellers, tourists and blokes selling tat. The 50 best beaches in the world 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

The palace of Versailles was the first museum in Europe to ban the use of selfie sticks and it is expected that The Louvre and the Pompidou centre are likely to follow suit. National Gallery bans selfie sticks 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

The visitors' centre at the Giant's Causeway is among the forerunners for the award. RIBA Stirling prize shortlist announced 2013-07-17T23:02:00Z

While one paraded round the city naked, the other toured the centre on an open-topped bus bearing the 1987 FA Cup. We Love You City 2010-10-10T21:31:00Z

"What is being lost is irreplaceable," he said, speaking in the home he designed in the centre of Chandigarh and surrounded by prints and paintings given to him by Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier's Indian masterpiece Chandigarh is stripped for parts 2011-03-07T19:28:49Z

My mother was at the centre of every conversation. Your stories: The Last Goodbye by Lydia 2013-04-05T11:00:00Z

“I am very grateful for what the community is providing,” he said in his flat where he receives food deliveries during the lockdown instead of daily lunches at a community centre. Without tourist revenue, Prague's Jewish community fears for future of welfare services 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

No Sure Start centres will be closed in the next two years, promises Forbes, although early years resources will be concentrated in the deprived west end of the city. Newcastle council leader: arts cuts are inevitable result of coalition policy 2013-01-08T12:30:01Z

In the days after her story broke, Selene Nelson, the freelancer at the centre of the Waitrose magazine row, was called “humourless”, “combative” and “militant”. Why do people hate vegans? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Fireworks boomed and crackled above city centres and harbours, and partygoers sang, hugged, danced and kissed. Fireworks, food and prayers: new year celebrated around the world 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z

At midsummer last year, the stones were used for the Sighthill Solstice – an event bringing together arts groups with the local Sighthill youth centre. Musicians and artists rally to save Glasgow's modern stone circle 2013-01-18T08:00:00Z

“The final straw came when I heard about his alleged involvement with two youngsters at a mental health centre. “They are about 17 now and one is in fear of his life. Police investigating claims of child sex abuse against a senior Labour MP 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

Many city centres were still largely bomb sites. Whisky Galore ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:46Z

“So any victim would probably be taken to the nearest UK major trauma centre, possibly by air ambulance.” 'How do wookiees breed?': the big Star Wars questions answered 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

Would he be working in a call centre rather than going down a mine? What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z

“I spent a lot of time walking around Oldham town centre, pushing the pram, going into shops and cafes,” she says. A month of meaningful conversation: my quest to befriend a new person every day 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

The ranch was at the centre of a dawn police raid on 9 December 2005. Nicolas Sarkozy triggers row with Mexico over French kidnapper 2011-02-17T18:32:55Z

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to be the centre of paralysis. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z

Untouchable centres on the parallels between an able-bodied but socially disadvantaged carer and his disabled charge. Disability in film: is cinema finally moving with the times? 2012-11-12T12:25:57Z

April was awful in New York; it was the centre of the pandemic and the wailing of ambulance sirens was nonstop. How was lockdown living with my partner? So good I missed her when she went to the balcony 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

I must also mention a matinee reissue of North by Northwest 20 years ago at the Lumiere in St Martin’s Lane, an underground cinema in the centre of London that is now a gym. 'I barely breathed': Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Steve McQueen and more on their most memorable moments at the movies 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

Full steam ahead ... the Titanic visitor centre in Belfast. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-08-19T14:34:45Z

And at the centre of it all, the big scary spider? TV review: Wonderstuff; How Murdoch Ran Britain: Dispatches 2011-07-25T20:10:00Z

There are only three such centres in the world. Photographer Murray Ballard's best shot 2011-08-14T21:15:01Z

Black women took centre stage again in the 1990s with movies such as Set It Off, How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale, all precursors to Girls Trip. Have Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time got black feminism all wrong? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

He lost a job at a community centre. The Angels' Share's Paul Brannigan: 'I've been slashed, stabbed and shot at' 2012-05-31T15:30:41Z

Early on, during the bad years in California, he had a seizure on the floor just as he was about to leave a treatment centre, smashing his forehead open. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z

It was bought by Roman Trotsenko to turn into offices but again his wife, Sofia, saw the potential for a cultural centre. Moscow's architectural heritage is crumbling under capitalism 2010-08-10T13:50:00Z

That's not the case in the US, where the first book arts centre opened in New York 38 years ago, with others following in cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, Los Angeles and San Francisco. New chapter with opening of Britain's first centre for book arts 2013-01-01T15:52:43Z

The two murder victims, meanwhile, are front and centre of the documentary. OJ: Made In America – the Oscar winner that's the most in-depth look at race in America yet 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

Though the community centre has a central role in Portlandia – as a fictional feminist bookshop run by two humourless ideologues – it has a real mission in the community. Portland, the US capital of alternative cool, takes TV parody in good humour 2012-02-11T16:28:31Z

Description here is purely subjective and takes centre stage, whereas in Balzac, for instance, it simply sets the scene by lending the plot an air of authenticity. In theory: Towards a New Novel 2010-05-13T15:17:00Z

Eventually, he says, he wants to open a meditation centre. Peter Jackson's West of Memphis: the tale of three wronged men 2012-12-21T08:30:03Z

It centres around a man who finds his former primary school headmistress lying on a park bench near St Paul's Cathedral. Poliakoff will return to theatre 2011-03-14T13:52:46Z

He is at the story's centre, and yet his motives are inaccessible, because they are a mystery to him as well. How to Survive the Titanic, or The Sinking of J Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:03Z

Next, divide the mixture between the two prepared tins, level off using the back of a tablespoon and bake near the centre of the oven for about 25 minutes. The 20 best cake recipes: part 2 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The main treatment centre was so choked that one healthcare worker said he feared people coming in without the virus might end up infected. Ebola: life and death on the frontline 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

The Three Choirs festival, centred in Gloucester this season, has always been fearful of adventure, and loyal to its local stars, Elgar and Vaughan Williams. The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

You become the centre of other people's universes as well as your own, which isn't healthy. Simon Pegg and Crispian Mills: 'Musicians throw TVs. Actors just disappear' 2012-06-07T20:00:01Z

But we make the mistake of thinking humans are at the centre of everything, when we're only part of the whole. Sylvie Guillem: 'I need to scare myself' 2013-02-10T18:00:01Z

Durham city centre, Dickensian Festival , Rochester, Saturday, Sunday Parades, market treats, theatre, magic, music, the Hoi Polloi Ball and a Cabinet of Curiosities wheeled around town, all with a witty Charles Dickens theme. This week's new events 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z

The plot centres on the personal experiences of two sets of very different siblings. Last days of the British Raj 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

Large parts of elite opinion have simply lost sight of where the centre ground actually is. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z

Hundreds of rallies, marches and pickets took place at schools, council offices and town and city centres across the country. Biggest strike in three years sparks furore over Tory plan for ballot law 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Second, there is the constant drive to close down hospital services and transfer them either into the community or else into more specialised centres of excellence. We love the NHS too much to make it better 2013-03-09T06:31:01Z

If no one enquires after your origins, it means you hold, unquestioned, the centre ground in life. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z

There are aisles in garden centres promising ever-greener sward, with no moss and weeds. Why you should turn your lawn into a meadow 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

She was, however, the centre of my life, around whom I travelled. Why Mum packed Dad away inside a suitcase 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

For a short time – the duration of the film – the shirt becomes the centre of his universe, his point of reference and the only reason to fight. 11 Flowers - review 2012-05-22T13:01:46Z

"Although we have modernised all the cobbles and terraced houses, the spirit and the characters of the street live in every corner of Manchester," maintains Manchester councillor Pat Karney, lead member for the city centre. Coronation Street: 50 years on and still the pride of the north-west 2010-12-09T15:34:00Z

JK is on a skateboard in the middle of Manhattan and his centre of gravity is dictated by the angle of the camera and . Garth Jennings: Kanye killed my video 2010-12-12T21:30:00Z

A £27m project, to be completed by 2019, will include a new interpretation centre and new routes around the site to distribute tourists more evenly. Do Machu Picchu from your sofa, thanks to Google Street View 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The campaign aims to build 20 centres across the continent offering healthcare services, education and soccer training for disadvantaged communities. Thousands rock Soweto at World Cup concert 2010-06-10T19:52:00Z

In direct contradiction of Christian and classical teaching, astronomy was proving man and Earth were not at the centre of the universe after all. The fantastic Dr Dee: angels, magic and the birth of modern science 2012-06-25T16:52:34Z

The steep town gets a chunk of its electricity from a huge waterfall that pours violently through the centre, occasionally flooding the bridge that connects the two halves. Hot jazz on a cold mountain: a festival on Austria's ski slopes 2013-01-17T11:11:00Z

One of the great memoirs of modern times, Oblivion is a richly detailed and utterly compelling family portrait centred on the dominant event of the author's life – the assassination of his father by paramilitaries. Michael Jacobs's top 10 Colombian stories 2012-12-05T13:01:06Z

Even after investigations, which in NHS centres tend to look for structural problems with the womb and for blood-clotting disorders, around half of people will never be given a reason for their losses. My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Libraries were not community centres with books in the way. We must protect and reinvent our local libraries 2012-11-23T08:28:01Z

The new visitor centre, which features an exhibition of 250 prehistoric objects, opened in December. Patience plea over Stonehenge centre 2014-01-14T08:32:46Z

Meyer’s role as a woman in government was brought to the centre of the show. Veep: Julia Louis-Dreyfus leads the sitcom's third season to glory 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

At the festival's centre was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Cloisters museum and gardens, a site that always stops native New Yorker Moore and his family short. New Yorkers take ye olde trip uptown for annual Medieval festival 2012-10-01T14:24:54Z

Instead, he has a retrospective about to open at the Arter centre in Istanbul, a show that foregrounds his political conscience in powerful works such as Last Meal On Death Row. Mat Collishaw: still sensational 2013-04-26T15:30:00Z

The building – which contains some of Britain's earliest natural history specimens including the first scientifically described remains of dinosaurs – is at the centre of celebrations that started this week to mark its 150th anniversary. Oxford museum of natural history: remains of the dodo 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

In other years, the prize has focused on the real villain of British architecture, the kind of mindless planner-friendly filler that marches up and down the country along railway lines, canalsides and out-of-town centres. Carbuncle Cup: what's the ugliest building of the year? 2013-05-21T10:36:49Z

"The idea of playing an arts centre does." Move over McIntyre: Kafka comics lead a standup revolution 2010-11-22T16:38:00Z

"But if you were once the centre of a pop world that moved on without you, it's not that easy to come back to the real world." The return of Ant music 2011-02-23T08:29:32Z

That 10 yards from the wings to the centre of the stage is a terrifying journey. Janet Baker: A life in music 2012-07-13T21:54:02Z

Innovation has so far centred on non-fiction and mass market ebooks, but Pack thinks the online era has broken down old boundaries between genres of writing. Top novelists look to ebooks to challenge the rules of fiction 2013-03-10T00:06:11Z

But those arguments are a tough sell when nurses and police officers are losing their jobs and care homes and children's centres are being closed. Are regional theatres at risk? 2012-10-29T09:28:12Z

In May 1504, a colossal statue carved by the young Michelangelo was moved through the streets of Florence towards its chosen site in the political centre of the city. How much bearing should private grief have on public art? 2011-03-10T13:00:04Z

"We showed it on the site of the Wigan Casino, which is now a rather nice shopping centre," says Palmer. Tony Palmer's Wigan Casino film comes to DVD 2010-04-15T21:35:00Z

Making connections: inside one of Google’s data centres, the Dalles, Oregon. Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph 2013-01-19T21:59:00Z

Summerscale's Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, centred on a Victorian divorce case, is "every bit as nimble, and every bit as thoughtful" as her murder mystery, wrote the Mail on Sunday's Craig Brown. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-05-18T21:45:08Z

It now has 180 centres across the country and performs around 46,000 procedures each year – easily more than half of the country’s total cleft repairs. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

We also put another flag right in the centre of the front garden – such a lovely flag!” Toby Litt: My grandmother was a war reporter at 14 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

The writer and producer was found dead on Monday outside a medical centre in Ho Chi Minh City. British writer and producer Joseph Lang dies in Vietnam 2013-06-28T10:41:13Z

They might be able to go swimming or play sport at their leisure centre, find a football pitch. We must protect and reinvent our local libraries 2012-11-23T08:28:01Z

All these arresting images have one thing in common: they belong to stories – Don’t Look Now, The Child in Time and The Missing – with a missing or dead child at their centre. From Don't Look Now to The Child in Time: why do we crave stories of lost children? 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Pain & Gain, Bay's long gestating "pet project", also stars Dwayne Johnson and centres on three personal trainers caught up in a criminal enterprise. Mark Wahlberg set for Transformers 4 2012-11-09T11:30:54Z

It's like the centre of Colchester – or almost anywhere else in Britain, for that matter – on a Friday night. The Great Bear Stakeout – TV review 2013-04-25T06:00:00Z

Personal preference plays a part too: lots of people like to sit dead centre in the middle of a row; I'd always sacrifice being central for not being hemmed in. Good seat, bad seats – in theatre, surely the play's the thing? 2013-02-04T13:59:45Z

She was 23 years old, a young woman making her way in the world, working nights in an IBM call centre to put herself through medical college to achieve her dream of becoming a physiotherapist. Five years after the gang-rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, what has changed for women in India? 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

That he still has the air of someone who is the life of the party is testament to the work he undertook at behavioural treatment centres after the attacks. 'I'm surrounded by ghosts': Bataclan survivor Ismaël El Iraki on his film Zanka Contact 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z

Other plans include a building alongside Waterloo Bridge that would include education space and the centre's poetry library in a new national literature centre. Southbank centre unveils ambitious £100m redevelopment 2013-03-06T17:30:05Z

Sinatra's alleged mob links would presumably be at the centre of a fuller take on the singer's life. Al Pacino is Martin Scorsese's first choice to play Frank Sinatra 2010-05-25T13:07:00Z

The Casual Vacancy is set in the fictional and seemingly idyllic English village of Pagford, where tensions surface over plans to turn a community centre into a luxury spa. Casual Vacancy tops TV drama ratings 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

There is a row of stone holiday cottages just minutes from the historic centre of Le Pont-de-Montvert. The sweet air of the Cévennes: a British writer on life in the rural heart of France 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

I've just moved to Liverpool, where a lot of property in the centre is boarded up – yet you've got new executive houses going up in the suburbs all the time. Home truths: architects tackle the housing crisis 2012-07-11T17:15:59Z

"And why shouldn't Malmesbury be a centre for that?" he said. Malmesbury bids to become UK's first 'philosophy town' 2010-10-17T23:01:00Z

While Shakespeare referred to addiction in”Henry V,” nobody at the time advocated treatment centres for debauched nobility. Addiction is not a disease: How AA and 12-step programs erect barriers while attempting to relieve suffering 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

The centre will feature artefacts on loan from local museums, as well as 21st-century multimedia and the ubiquitous gift shop. Stonehenge: a new dawn 2012-08-19T19:00:04Z

Wedged uncomfortably into a narrow witness box beneath a row of multi-coloured box files crammed with contradictory statements, Johnny Depp did not occupy centre stage in court 13. Johnny Depp libel trial: one-word answers pepper eerily desolate proceedings 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

The pioneering radiation centre was solely for women, organised and staffed by women. A stage of her own: Elisabeth Scott and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2011-01-29T00:06:16Z

It's just that the centre shifts from time to time. James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature 2013-05-11T13:30:01Z

“The deeper you go, the more difficult it is to breathe,” said Italy Miliama, a shopkeeper at the centre of the village, scooping coffee into enamel cups. Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

The story is set in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp and centres upon the experiences of surgeon Dorrigo Evans, who is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Flanagan wins Man Booker Prize 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

"Guys, guys!" honk the people of Boots Summer Montage World as they step out of their call centres, excitedly blinking into the unexpected sun. The new Boots ad, plumbing the depths 2013-05-11T05:00:00Z

The centre, The House of Illustration, is planned for a Victorian building in King's Cross near the Guardian office which will also be the new home of Central St Martins art college. Quentin Blake drawings auctioned to raise money for illustration museum 2010-12-13T16:57:00Z

Over the phone from LA, Barris admits that putting race at the centre of a mainstream comedy was a risk. Trump called it racist, Obama loves it: why Black-ish is TV's most divisive show 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

But it's the Roxy club gig which is the centre of the film. Julien Temple on The Clash and punk 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

The spin-off centres on the penguin characters from Dreamworks' Madagascar franchise. Hunger Games holds firm at box office 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian A major retrospective of LS Lowry's work is about to open in the gallery and arts centre that was named after him, 125 years after the artist's birth. Lowry at the Lowry: 200 paintings and drawings brought together in Salford 2012-07-06T11:58:49Z

He went on: "As before, Jennifer Lawrence is the superb centre of it all and the massive success of this Lionsgate release is as certain as the turning of the Earth." Catching Fire 'had minor cuts' 2013-11-12T16:41:16Z

This is the key, then, to mitigating the sacred violence of which Jerusalem is the centre. Jerusalem, Jerusalem by James Carroll ? review 2011-08-05T21:54:01Z

In one such historic pub, the Haunch of Venison – a supposedly haunted pub in the city centre – there is a sense that Salisbury well deserves Lonely Planet’s accolade. Lonely Planet selects Salisbury among top 10 cities to visit 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Nice and peaceful, but near enough to the centre of things. 20 Greek islands … you may not have heard of 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

But it may also have been the year when the nerd came of age, when the ridiculed outsider took centre stage. When the alpha nerds kicked ass 2010-12-16T22:01:00Z

Benjamin Lebwohl, from the coeliac disease centre at Columbia University, who was not involved in the research, said that the study backs up previous evidence that gluten-free foods are nutritionally suboptimal. Gluten-free diet carries increased obesity risk, warn experts 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Like Baltimore, New Orleans is an urban centre with enormous economic disparity, violent crime, municipal corruption, infrastructural decay and racial polarisation. Katrina and all that jazz 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z

In Belfast, the fans were in good spirits as they waited at Castle Place ahead of a city centre ticket outlet opening on Thursday. Brooks concerts sell out in hour 2014-01-30T10:46:27Z

"I thought I was going to be in a call centre for the rest of my life," admits Hung. Fuck Buttons, the kings of noise 2013-07-19T13:00:00Z

A pseudo-documentary in the Blair Witch Project manner, centres with something less than total conviction on a quintet of dislikable upper-middle-class blood sports enthusiasts. Blooded ? review 2011-04-02T23:09:32Z

Each centre stands in the grounds of a hospital with a major cancer hospital, while asserting an independent identity. Cancer centre 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z

On a grey Saturday morning in low season, at St Thomas’ church, north of the city centre, the Blackpool Vegan and Green festival is humming with people. The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

The photographer at the centre of the play, said to have taken pictures of Tiananmen Square but not based on an actual snapper, is a corny amalgam: idealistic but personally absent, charismatic but negligent. Chimerica; Race – review 2013-06-01T23:06:18Z

Lewisham council decided not to renew the contract it awarded to Babcock International, a support services company, to run the Connexions centre. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z

We both felt that these shouldn't be full-blown gigs but stripped right back, with minor musical arrangements and with Gil's voice centre stage. Gil Scott-Heron: poet, campaigner and America's rough healer 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z

Her daughters share an L-shaped room with beds at opposite ends, but often drag their mattresses into the centre to sleep side by side. Little house, big home: the Parisian pad that’s both solo retreat and family space 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

For 10 years, he slipped himself into a textbook middle-class existence: house in Surrey, job in computing, numbing visits to cinema and garden centre. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z

I'd like to see her try that at my local refuse centre, where the staff are so fiercely efficient they would sweep you up if you paused for a conversation. TV review: The Secret Life of Rubbish; Falcón; Great Continental Railway Journeys 2012-11-29T23:00:03Z

Immediately the brain hormones of adrenaline and cortisol bathe the cortex, the very centre of our thinking; the amygdala, dictator of feelings, dispatches the triumvirate actions of freezing, fleeing, fighting. Let me finish: how to stop interrupting… and change the world 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

The locomotion and centre of gravity that the costume gives. Geoffrey Rush: 'Art doesn’t do well in the dark. But that’s where we’ve put it' 2013-07-15T05:13:00Z

Which is why a shopping centre was deemed an appropriate location – the hope is that the Departure Lounge will attract people who might not be regular visitors to science museums. Welcome to the Departure Lounge. Destination: death 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

Maybe he actually is the centre: the last action hero, rock-solid nucleus of popular culture, whose flexing biceps are all that’s holding civilisation – or at least Hollywood – together. Let’s rock! Why Dwayne Johnson is the new Schwarzenegger 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

It is so much fun to be the centre of attention. The dreams of children – a photo essay 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

She's there at the centre of the climactic baptism scene, a nipper still in nappies, oblivious to the innovative cross-cutting going on all around her. Sofia Coppola on The Bling Ring: 'What these kids did really took ingenuity' 2013-07-04T19:00:00Z

Her research focused on the Côte d’Azur, the centre of the superyacht scene, where hundreds of luxury vessels line the docks in Saint-Tropez, Nice, Antibes, Cannes and Monaco, the most prestigious port in the Mediterranean. Superyachts and bragging rights: why the super-rich love their ‘floating homes’ 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

The Latitude organiser added: "This is a friendly and supportive festival, probably safer than an awful lot of city centres on a Friday or Saturday night." Latitude distress 2010-07-19T10:22:00Z

Bake in the centre of the oven for 20 minutes. Family life: Our special 'monstrous' cushions, Right Said Fred, and Mother's dirt cakes 2013-03-30T07:15:01Z

In the centre of the room was a plywood cube, inside that a full-size replica of a dingy Brooklyn apartment. Director Sally Potter: 'I've seen the grief Covid-19 causes' 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

One aspect of the current furore centres, somewhat simplistically, on what happens when journalists and politicians mingle. Memoirs by William Rees-Mogg - review 2011-07-13T15:00:02Z

The other film that kept returning to me was Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, centred as it is on the absurd rituals of a group of middle-class people. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z

He was constantly at the centre of controversy, debate and even scandal, ever ready with a quote for the press or a quotable line in a film. 50 years of Breathless 2010-06-05T23:04:00Z

Set in 19th-century China, it centres on an Englishwoman who returns to her Hong Kong home for her father's funeral, only to discover that her stepmother is plotting against her. Julia Roberts to play evil queen in Snow White 2011-02-09T14:40:40Z

Nottingham is planning a new £5m centre, but the old one – with its unpretentious cafe and little shop selling bows, arrows, swords and crusader gear – will have to cope for now. Looking for Robin 2010-04-14T07:00:00Z

Family Ties, which he created in the 80s, centred around a liberal hippy couple, whose offspring were more in tune with the materialism of the Reagan era. Family Ties creator dies aged 68 2013-06-24T10:07:21Z

I said, Bob, don't fish around for a tone centre. Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z

In her red dress, with a flower in her blonde hair, Bryan is the softer centre of their marauding riffs and pounding tom-toms, though she is hardly a shrinking violet. The Joy Formidable – review 2013-02-26T18:16:32Z

The blood clot was in the language centre of her brain, and caused her to experience a two-day bout of expressive aphasia, where she essentially forgot how to talk. Aubrey Plaza: from 'sarcastic, eye-rolling weirdo’ to lustful zombie 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Nowhere were the moral questions surrounding this more sharply highlighted that in the US in the late 19th century, where the Czech composer Dvorák found himself at the centre of a highly divisive debate. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z

So thank goodness that this is just a virtual reality bike race and I am really on an exercise bike on the third floor of an arts centre in Barnsley. Tour de France sparks creative energy 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

The follow-up treatment was recommended to the court by the rehab centre where she was staying. Lindsay Lohan leaves rehab in US 2013-08-01T09:31:33Z

Striking because No Quarter has at its centre a character who could easily hoover up all the energy of the play. No Quarter; The Silence of the Sea; Not Until We Are Lost – review 2013-01-20T00:06:10Z

The first film, The Incredible Shrinking Man, centred on a businessman who begins to diminish in size after a radioactive cloud infects him with a mysterious ailment. The Shrinking Man set for big-screen comeback in modern reboot 2013-02-14T15:41:31Z

I have no one now, so I’ve decided to stay on at the treatment centre and work here as a security guard. Ebola: life and death on the frontline 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

Charles Small, chief executive of The Drum arts centre in Birmingham, the national centre for black British arts and culture, said the closure was a "great disappointment". 'It was just like a big play centre' 2013-08-10T02:16:41Z

The centre, run by Framework Housing Association, was the first of its kind in the UK when it opened in 1991. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z

“We all felt that it was time for a teenage girl to be front and centre.” Riot grrrls, beta males and fluid fashion: how My So-Called Life changed TV forever 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

The Adelaide branch is currently situated near the official festival site in an old shopping centre with a handsome stone facade. Combing the Adelaide festival Fringe 2013-03-13T05:35:10Z

Beijing-based Seven Stars Entertainment, a production company owned by Bruno Wu, in April announced a partnership with the Chinese government to open a new filmmaking centre outside the city of Tianjin, China. Hollywood hunting for China pot of gold 2012-07-11T03:11:17Z

The fashion credentials of the British high street have flourished in recent years as more household clothing brands inch onto the catwalks of major fashion centres. Rihanna brings high street to catwalks at London show 2013-02-17T03:25:14Z

Despite the culture articulated by Snoop, despite the breezy, bigoted catchphrases like "no homo", gay rappers are coming out and taking centre stage. Gay rap, the unthinkable becomes reality 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z

The centre, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, is still as much as £20m short of its fundraising target, but FitzGerald said he was confident it would be fully funded by the time it opens. British Museum has best spring ever 2013-06-25T17:11:15Z

The storyline centres on a near future where domestic robots are commonplace and artificial intelligence is about to become a reality. Anne Hathaway takes on Robopocalypse 2012-11-13T11:29:30Z

The artist's son, Christopher Rothko, said: "This centre, I think, is going to become an important archive, an important resource for Rothko scholars to draw on." In pictures: Rothko in Latvia 2013-04-25T15:12:48Z

The film centres on the lives of the workers at a massage parlour in Nanjing. Blind Massage in Golden Horse sweep 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

The Word put its readers – "The Massive", as we were referred to – at the centre of its content. Why I'm going to miss the Word 2012-06-29T14:52:00Z

The Queen visited my school to open a new sports' centre. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z

Like an applicant for a parking permit or membership of a leisure centre, she waves a utility bill. John Mullan on NW – Guardian book club 2013-07-27T07:00:03Z

Standing in the centre of the memorial the power of Stevenson’s unfolding vision is almost overwhelming. Just Mercy: new film that captures the start of a brilliant civil rights career 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

At the centre of all these jokes is the comic himself: bemused, cowardly and adept at involving us in each situation's absurdity. Kumail Nanjiani – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-20T17:12:07Z

It is a triptych, at centre of which is Barack Obama, "the first dark-skinned leader of the Great Society", with the stars and stripes "in a state of cancerous decay" tattooed on his back. A life in writing: Tariq Ali 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z

Rodham was at the centre of controversy last month when it was reported that the film would be released to coincide with its subject's mooted presidential run in three years' time. Carey Mulligan turns down lead role in Hillary Clinton biopic Rodham 2013-06-12T09:37:49Z