Insight 300 Seconds Film Festival Launch City

hit About 800 of the city's coolest and edgiest partygoers packed out a smoochily lit space while the short film festival's entries flashed up on screens. Insight 300 Seconds, which is two years old, launches in other cities and the UK and US over the next few weeks. At this first night at Space in Liverpool Street, guests munched on pizza and knocked back beers while some truly extravagant hairstyles prowled the room.

When The Pom Poodle Turns Rottweiler, Even The Chattering Classes Can Raise Their Voices

For we squeamish, judgmental types who had observed the occasionally crass, occasionally brutal and spectacularly successful Australian cricket team from the safety of the members' pavilion, looking up from the cryptic crossword only to cast a disparaging frown at their uncouth antics and distinctly non-Grammarian hairstyles, this Ashes series has brought both relief and enlightenment.