Diary News

Tom Peck is a reporter on The Independent's news desk with an interest in just about everything.

I wrote a Diary a short while ago where I told a small, if somewhat dramatic, part of my story.

Fred Stoller's neurotic Brooklynite whine makes Woody Allen seem like an amateur, and Mr.

The new Holmes is played by Benedict Cumberbatch, an actor who dispenses the role with a single facial expression - a blank stare - and a wild impression of St Vitus's Dance .

More than 150 years ago, after an Omaha company strung the first transcontinental telegraph line across Nebraska, the trials and triumphs of the technological feat are emerging from the dots and dashes of history.