New Science Museum show Cosmos and Culture reveals the 400-year history of astronomy, from Thomas Hariot's 17th century drawings of the moon to vast telescopes surveying modern day space.

The East Wing VIII collective, who have taken over a section of London's Somerset House in an 18-month programme of sporadic weekend art festivities, throw their final bash this weekend.

The famous Hampstead lodgings of John Keats, one of the most read and widely-loved poets in the English language, re-opens this weekend after a major refurbishment.

The Museum of London this week unveiled its latest acquisition - a remarkable collection of buttons recovered from the Thames Foreshore by 'mudlarker' Tony Pilson.

In her own words... Alison Boyle, Space Curator of the Science Museum explains the strange allure and importance of Jocelyn Bell Burnell's radio telescope, a star item in the Science Museum's new exhibition, Cosmos and Culture.

Olympic Games Organising Committee Chairman Sebastian Coe was on hand to start Open Weekend, a programme of events celebrating the arts, culture and sports throughout this weekend.

I certainly do not envy them. ­ I had a hard enough time when I leftuniversity in 1996 and that was not during a full-blown recession. So whatbetter way to join the workforce than by becoming an apprentice?

Simon Jackson, vice president of Northern Europe for NECDisplay Solutions , said the greener features of its products arecomplemented with features such as carbon metering and eco-modes. It ispromoting such things as white LEDs and public displays sold with feet

Businesses are catching on fast to the benefits of cloud hosting as thedownturn bites. Worldwide IT spending on cloud services will grow almostthreefold, reaching $42bn (£25.6bn) by 2012, according to market watcher IDC.

The India-based firm has earmarked education as a push area, claiming itsidentity-based technology is a natural fit for vertical.

Last week the two companies agreed an asset sale agreement covering Nortel'sEMEA Enterprise Solutions business, part of a wider $475m (£290m) global deal.

More SMEs than ever are turning to apprenticeships to strengthen theirworkforce and channel players are among those looking to take advantage of thegovernment-funded schemes.

In addition to its York head office, Trustmarque now has two offices inEdinburgh, one in Reading and one in Belfast. The reseller is also set to cutthe ribbon on a Windsor-based outpost in 10 days' time, as it continues with

Preliminary figures published by the market watcher this month revealed Dell was theUK's top PC vendor last quarter with a 24.4 per cent market share. Acer grew shipments by 37 per cent year on year to grab second spot with

The CPU manufacturer has just started the process of evaluating its channelwith a view to structural change,­ but was unable to go into more detail at thisstage.

Microsoft was among those to have found itself out of favourwith Wall Street as it unveiled a 17 per cent year-on-year decline in revenuesto $13.1bn (£8bn) for its quarter to 30 June.

The recently launched service is an enterprises-class, cloud-baseddata-archiving solution, designed to reduce the costs of storing and managinginactive data.

A divorced mum faces trouble when a military experiment goes wrong.

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