The hoodie has become synonymous with its wearer and, depending on your point of view, the thuggishness or huggishness of young people. This week another connotation has been added to this strange mix: please welcome the dancing hoodie.

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The Nobel prize for physics is being announced today, but will Britain have any chance of winning it in the future at the rate which universities are closing their departments, asks Alexandra Smith.

Last week I posted an item about the Bath Chronicle's campaign to keep rugby at the city's Recreation Ground. After speaking to the paper's editor, Sam Holliday, I discovered that it was a controversial initiative because the city's people were sharply divided over the matter. Holliday had been aware of…

It is impossible not to be struck by the coincidence of the loss-making Independent celebrating its 20th birthday (see below) on the same day as another loss-making title, The Sportsman, went to the wall. For the latter, there was no fairy godmother prepared to fund the paper in the hope…

4pm update: The rise of the "amateur professional" and how "control" is an illusion for Big Media