Few contemporary British authors have had as much success writing in two genres as David Storey in fiction and drama. His first novel, This Sporting Life (1960), brought him the Macmillan Fiction Award, and his sixth novel, Saville (1976), elicited Brita...

Few contemporary British authors have had as much success writing in two genres as David Storey in fiction and drama. His first novel, This Sporting Life (1960), brought him the Macmillan Fiction Award, and his sixth novel, Saville (1976), elicited Brita...

For a number of years before he wrote plays, David Storey was known as a novelist, one of the voices of the working class in the English Midlands and the North, like Alan Sillitoe and Stan Barstow, who came into prominence in the late 1950s and early 196...

Upmarket estate agency and property services group Savills said profits for 2006 will be "nicely ahead of expectations" with its trading update this month - and, at present, there certainly appear to be very few clouds on the horizon. The group's transactional...

The priorities of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government are out of whack. She cannot seriously believe that it is worth putting Savile Row's bespoke tailors out of business to accommodate a financial boom. It would be an internal matter if only England's Beau...

Gasoline prices extended their advance at the pump Friday, while gas futures fell again on a growing sense that supplies are catching up to demand.Oil futures, meanwhile, jumped more than $1 to new 11-month highs on concerns about supply disruptions in the North Sea and...

Oil prices retreated Monday from a new 11-month high, following gasoline futures lower on word that refineries in New Jersey and England were restarting.Gas prices, meanwhile, extended their decline at the pump. Retail prices often fall in the middle of the summer before ticking higher...