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Keane: Safe, maybe, but also spectacular

THEIR debut album was the best-selling release of 2004, and saw them lavished with praise, while their two follow-ups were also huge hits.Read

Fashion Victim: Is it time to say goodbye to Teen TV?

I HAVE a confession to make. Lying on my couch last week, absent-mindedly flicking through the channels, I gave in to temptation.Read

Candi Staton

Candi Stanton's got the love for Liverpool

Candi Staton tells Emma Johnson you have to have lived the life to truly sing soulRead

Fashion Victim: Is it time to give my wardrobe a jump start?

WITH neon, crop tops, harem pants, stone-washed jeans and paisley all hovering over the fashion horizon, there is so much to be scared of this spring/summer season, I am quaking in my Ugg boots.Read

First Lady becomes a fashionista

WHEN the eyes of billions of people are upon you – what on earth is a girl to wear?Read

Zak’s secret sister

Polly Weeks talks to the newest member of the Hollyoaks cast, Kelly-Marie StewartRead

Host restaurant, Hope Street

Restaurant Review: Host, Hope Street, Liverpool

Emma Johnson spices up a cold and wet January night with some Asian flavoursRead

Lady GaGa

Going GaGa for Lady GaGa

SHE has been described as one part Blondie and one part Madonna, swirled in a Scissor Sisters’ cocktail, and, while the jury’s out on whether she really is the saviour of pop music as we know it, there is no avoiding Lady GaGa. Read

Winners and losers on the red carpet

AFTER the writers’ strike reduced last year’s to a reading of the winners without so much as warm pop to celebrate, it was perhaps inevitable that this year’s Golden Globes would be a lavish affair. But, wow, the stars shone brightly on the red carpet on Sunday.Read

Boot camp fitness

Can you survive Boot Camp Fitness?

WE ALL know that having a good diet and exercise regime can make us look and feel better but could a healthy lifestyle really help you beat the credit crunch?Read

Liverpool Rock 'n' Roll music archivist Spencer Leigh

Buddy Holly: The man who put the beat in Beatles

As a new book about the songwriting genius is released, Spencer Leigh explores Buddy Holly’s influence on our own most famous bandRead

We must stop school plans

AS A Liverpool College “old boy”, I was aware of the plans to relocate the school to the west side of North Mossley Hill Road and release the area on the east side for residential development.Read

All that glisters is not Cole

I TRIED so hard this week not to write about Cheryl Cole. You see (whisper it now), I am struggling with the whole concept of Cheryl Cole as our new national treasure.Read

Fashion Victim: I’m in the mood for next year’s fashions

SO, HERE we are. January 1, 2009. How on earth did we get here? And so fast. I am sure it was just summer a minute ago. Well, it was just June a minute ago – there was no summer.Read

Fashion Victim: Wintour sun now seems to be setting

HOLA! Or, to put it more formally, buenos dias. How’s the snow? I ask because, as I write, I am sitting in a Mexican hotel room with the sun streaming through the window and the Caribbean Sea swishing against the white sands to my right. Hence the Spanish greeting.Read

Phil Renton from Total Fitness

Festive survival guide

Christmas dinner can really take its toll on your body. Emma Johnson gets advice on easing the damageRead

Fashion Victim: Maybe we simply want to be a cut above the rest

COULD women who cut their hair short be signalling that they don’t want to be attractive to men? That is the question doing the rounds this week, after agony aunt columnist and psychologist Dr Pamela Stephenson Connolly was asked by a reader whether there might be a connection between his wife’s drastic haircut just before their wedding and their sex life thereafter.Read

Fashion Victim: Sorry, Carrie - I’ve got three NBFs

CONFESSION time – I am harbouring a great big crush. Actually three of them, and their names are Wendy, Nico and Victory, below.Read

Obituary: Joern Utzon

HE WAS the man behind one of the world’s most imaginative and creative feats of architecture, yet when its doors opened for the first time his name was not to be heard.Read

Kirsty Doyle lingerie collection 2008

Fashion: The pop-up boutique - Now you see it . . .

EMMA Johnson is eagerly awaiting Liverpool’s first pop-up designer boutiqueRead