From The UK BLADES OF GLORY STARRING: Will Ferell, Jon Heder When rival figure skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Ferell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Heder) go ballistic in a no-holds-barred fight at the World Championships, they are stripped of their gold medals and banned from the sport for life. Now, three-and-a-half years on, they’ve found a loophole that will allow them to compete: if they can put [...]

Aberdeen-Manchester service enhancements offer more choice to customers Recent enhancements to our Aberdeen to Manchester service now offer bmi customers greater choice when travelling on this route. In response to customer demand we have increased the number of weekly flights from 46 in summer 2006 to 69 in summer 2007, with four extra flights each weekday and three extra flights on Sundays. From [...]

Out and about The latest news, views and events from bmi destinations including Venice, Lyon, Zurich and Kristiansand Columnists Adele Parks on the lost art of good manners Bill Knott champions the full English fry-up and Graham Sheffield celebrates 25 years of culture in the Barbican Luxury? I’d rather have simplicity Award-winning British actress Brenda Blethyn gets her priorities straight Azure Dreams In the footsteps of the French [...]

Words: Virginia Blackburn Many art experts agree that much of the output from modern British artists ­ those working between 1950 and 1970 ­ is still seriously undervalued. We tell you where to look for an eye-catching nest egg THE COMMON GOAL when investing in art is to discover the Next Big Thing: anyone lucky enough to have bought a couple of paintings by [...]

Words:  Robira Dam RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN that the business world’s executives are increasingly looking younger. So when time is of the essence, get an essence that works as hard as you do. Serums, which are highly concentrated anti-ageing and skin-feeding formulations, are now the ultimate power tool. These unisex ones are some of the big hitters in the market [...]

FROM LEISURE TIME TO THE BIG TIME: HOW HOBBYISTS CAN TURN PASSIONS INTO PROFITABLE ENDEAVOURS Words: Shuman Ghosemajumder “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises,” said Demosthenes in ancient Greece. The spirit of those words is echoed today throughout California’s Silicon Valley, where many great companies originated from the proverbial small acorns. While it takes a huge amount of talent, hard work and luck [...]

FROM TFT TO LCD, DVD TO HD, MP3 AND GB… WE BRING YOU THE LATEST HIGH-TECH WONDERS Words: Camilla Chafer Sony sat nav For those of us who can’t read traditional paper maps, a personal navigation device ­ or sat nav ­ has fast become a must-have. Sony’s NV-U72T is made for drivers who like to take their [...]

Interview: Boyd Farrow Ermenegildo Zegna may be the fourth generation of the Zegna family to run the eponymous Italian luxury men’s clothing group, but his business ideas are perfectly tailored to the globally minded marketplace of today PRESSING THE FLESH at the movie premiere-like opening of his new flagship store in Buenos Aires ­ a city which gives the impression that people dress up even to [...]

Sir Titus Salt created the utopian “Model Village” of Saltaire just outside Bradford in the 19th century to house his millworkers. Today it’s home to the world’s largest private collection of works by artist and former Bradford boy David Hockney, who turns 70 this month IF YOU WERE TRYING to identify an inspiring Victorian utopia, the western fringes of Bradford just a few [...]

Report: Adrian Phillips IT’S ONLY WHEN Americans and Brits try having a conversation about “football”, that the so-called shared language of English reveals its massive difference. “Soccer”, as our friends across The Pond call it, is a wholly different game from American football, although the passions run equally deep. But this October, for the first time in the game’s history, there will be an official [...]

It might sound like the start of a bad joke, but when a Scotsman, a Dane and a Frenchman meet in the Outer Hebrides in search of king scallops, all three are deadly serious about the task at hand Words: Caroline Deacon Photography: David Gillanders Photography: www.davidgillanders.com PICTURE AN ANCIENT LANDSCAPE , almost completely submerged in a turquoise sea, save for tiny bumps of islands [...]

THE PRINCESS DIARIES Words: Robina Dam Two enchanting new exhibitions capture the timeless allure of the late Princess Grace of Monaco and Diana, Princess of Wales IT WAS A FAIRY TALE for grown ups: a prince who fell in love with the modern young miss, married her in a maelstrom of publicity and whisked his radiant princess off to a castle to live happily [...]