The Pink Paper, Britain’s only national weekly newspaper for the gay community, had closed. Conversely, Saga, the group providing various services for the over-50s and publishers of an eponymous, thriving, monthly magazine, has been sold for £1.35bn.The demise of the 17-year-old weeklywas, according to its publishers, due to the emergence of gay internet sites [...]

Sarah Fisher, IPC Connect’s publishing director, says: “There is no question that the teen market is tough and it has become even tougher due to an increasingly expensive cover-mount war which Mizz has chosen to move away from.”Philip Cutts, director of marketing for the Periodical Publishers Association, believes teen magazines will pull through. “Teen [...]

They’re the old school, reactionary, establishment types who don’t approve of hippity-hop and foreigners and banned 24-hour raves which, to be honest, was a great relief to me at 19 Now, they’re not even that anti-drugs. There’s a wing in the party that is pretty keen on solving the drug problem by legalising everything. [...]

The season before last, the Paul Nicholls-trained Le Roi Miguel was one of the best of the two-mile novices, but the French-bred’s second campaign over fences was compromised by an inability to breathe properly. Close-season surgery, however, has demonstrably restored Le Roi Miguel’s engine to perfect working order.Under Ruby Walsh, the six-year-old tracked the [...]

It is worth remembering, however, that on Thursday Mr Blair’s backbenchers were prepared to play along with him to the extent of giving him the shorter of the two periods of delay for which he was asking. In particular, the charge that it had been carried out by email was the cause of special [...]

Earlier I’d attended lunch at Private Eye where I begged Ian Hislop to let Craig Brown immortalise my jungle stint in the magazine; unattractive though my tropical uniform might be, I still look a lot better in it than Boris Johnson in his frightful jogging shorts and bandanna. It seems she plans to make [...]

The anti-hunters have been reluctant to acknowledge the depth of attachment felt by their opponents. The pro-hunters have fought a disastrous campaign, and have been counter-productively obdurate to the end Both sides have played up class divisions The Prime Minister has dithered in between But finally, by imperfect means, democracy has worked Cheer Move [...]

More importantly, they will do Clarke no harm at all with the hidden fourth section of the electoral college – public opinion as mediated by opinion polls – which will have a decisive influence on the way the first three sections vote. His comments about the Prince will have gone down well with all [...]

“Any sex with under-18s is against the UN rule and this is just something that needs to be punished.”Yet, for all Mr Guehenno’s strong words and insistence on firm action, the signs are that the OIOS report barely scratches the surface of the levels of abuse within the DRC. The UN has a problem [...]

The security forces feared that Adair’s reappearance in Belfast would have led to further gunfights.The Adair family are thought unlikely to lead a quiet life in Bolton, given their previously disruptive record. He is to live with his wife Gina in Bolton, where she, their four children, and associates fled following a feud in [...]