Speed Dating

F1 aces accessorise with pop stars (F1-Live.com via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Sport)
Music and speed can prove harmonious : Getting a pop-star girlfriend seems to be a growing trend among Formula One's top race drivers.

European GP: Preview - Ferrari (Pitpass)
European GP: Preview - Ferrari

A sense of peace and quiet on deserted Stroma (John O'Groat Journal)
FOR 50 years little has changed on Stroma – a state of affairs which, I suspect, will not last much longer.

Crib sheet: August 19 2008 (Guardian Unlimited)
Hotlines feel the heat | Lessons of the week

Get set for the biggest festival yet (EveningTimes Online)
PARKOUR free-runners and fashion fans will flock to Glasgow's cultural quarter for this year's Merchant City Festival. The seventh annual festival, launched today, is set to scale new heights in making the buzzing area Glasgow's artistic hub.

Celebrity: A good year for the paparazzi? Just ask Amy and Peaches (Guardian Unlimited)
Peaches Geldof is the latest target in a readership war that is spilling over on to London's streets

IT company signs up a web whizz-kid (The Business EDP 24)
An entrepreneur and inventor who became one of the country's first dotcom millionaires at the age of 16 has joined a Norfolk IT and web company as a its new shareholding director.

Four wheels good? (Nature)
With the world's love of cars showing little sign of abating, manufacturers are under increasing pressure to make vehicles less polluting and oil dependent. Duncan Graham-Rowe explores some of the technologies that could keep us on the road.