Engagement ring shopping 101

If you still think a carat is something you dip in hummus, don't worry. Here's all you need to know about engagement ring shopping.

The Magazine interview | Harold Tivol is a KC gem

Harold Tivol is the face, thanks to a highly popular TV and billboard ad campaign, of his family’s jewelry store stores. Tivol the business turns 100 this year, and Harold Tivol turns 87 this month. He sold the company to his daughter Cathy but he still works for the firm as chairman.

Jewellery Roundup September 2010 31st August 2010

Jessica Biel dazzled in Tiffany platinum jewellery at the Berlin premiere of her new film, A-Team, at the end of July. The actress chose a pair of Victoria diamond bracelets set in platinum, worth £12,250 and £8,800, plus a pair of diamond earrings set in platinum, valued at £2,920.

First Drive: 2010 Aston Martin V12 Vantage

Coming straight out of a two-hour stint in the Ferrari 458 Italia and jumping into just about anything else, you expect to be...underwhelmed. Not so with the Aston Martin V12 Vantage. Though it takes a very different route, the big-engined baby Aston is, in its own way, even better. Take Aston Martin's "entry level" car, stuff a 6.0-liter...

George Orwell’s ‘ghost kingdom’ of the poor is still here

In his great novel, Tono-Bungay (1909), HG Wells celebrates London as “the richest town in the world, the biggest port, the greatest manufacturing town, the imperial city — the centre of civilisation, the heart of the world”.