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El Hierro Heineken Hub Networking 2012

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Discover the majesty of El Hierro

So this is how Europe ends: with raw, magnificent beauty. By Simon Calder

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How Cisco is nurturing British innovation

Cisco is doing all it can to support and accelerate high-tech innovation across the UK.

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Watch the best in the business world give their insights into the world of business.

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The 2012 Independent Quiz Of The Year

The 2012 Independent Quiz Of The Year

Test your knowledge, courtesy of the compilers of Whitaker’s Almanack

Football quotes of the year

Football quotes of the year

Our football folk spluttered out a whole range of memorable morsels during 2012

Ready to eat: the first GM fish for the dinner table

Ready to eat: the first GM fish for the dinner table

US decision after 17-year battle over fast-growing salmon could pave way for same step in Britain

O little town with big ideas: Welcome to Bethlehem

O little town with big ideas

Bethlehem turns to tourism

IoS Christmas Appeal: All they want for Christmas? Freedom from fear

IoS Christmas Appeal

All they want for Christmas? Freedom from fear

Jerome Flynn: 'Being a pop star? It was a Disney ride...'

Jerome Flynn: 'Being a pop star? It was a Disney ride...'

Actor, singer, recluse: he has walked a long and less-travelled road since 'Soldier Soldier' – and now he's back in a new prime-time thriller

The IoS's Great Britons 2012

Great Britons 2012

The IoS presents its top 101 stars of the past year; inspirational characters who moved and uplifted us all. Plus the year's Plonkers − better luck in 2013, chaps

Long live the spirit of our family Christmas

David Randall: Long live the spirit of our family Christmas

Reports of festive ill will and tedium are exaggerated. Like our Victorian forebears, most of us will be making our own fun at home together

Big Yellow Taxi? Not in Washington DC

Rupert Cornwell: Big Yellow Taxi? Not in Washington DC

The city's notoriously laissez-faire taxi industry faces regulation of fares and routes at last. But how should they be painted?

Fallen angel: How Lily James is bringing scandal to Downton Abbey this Christmas

Fallen angel: Lily James is bringing scandal to Downton Abbey

She might have been banished from the Abbey, but that won’t stop Lily James from wreaking havoc on Downton’s Christmas.

A year in The Thick of It: Political life had a way of imitating art again and again during 2012

A year in The Thick of It...

Political life had a way of imitating art again and again during 2012

Hot Stuff! The trends of 2012

Hot Stuff! The trends of 2012

Dancing to a South Korean pop song while pretending to be a horse was one of the more unusual, or rather, inexplicable hits of the past 12 months

Away from the manger: Meet the people who spend Christmas in extraordinary circumstances

Away from the manger

Meet the people who spend Christmas in extraordinary circumstances

Famous relationships: Romance? Showmance? Fauxmance?

Romance? Showmance? Fauxmance?

Henry VIII and Anne, Kylie and Jason, Simon and Carmen – The IoS weighs up the evidence about the true nature of these famous relationships

Yule rules: Your guide to having a middle-class Noël

Yule rules: A middle-class Noël

The authors of ‘The Art of Being Middle Class’ present their essential guide to surviving yuletide