A new mobile music service aims to give listeners access to their entire music collection. Photograph: John Howard/Getty Images A groundbreaking mobile music service that will allow music-lovers to access their entire music collection on the move, at work or on their mobile phone, will launch... 

The Middle, Sky One’s latest import. Photograph: c.ABC Inc/Everett / Rex Features As a sitcom centring round the domestic misadventures of loving but put-upon middle-class, Midwest couple, Mike and Frankie Heck, parents of more children than they can easily handle and titled The Middle... 

Sophie Ellis-Bextor at the Jacques Townhouse pop-up hotel. Photographed for the Observer by Katherine Rose If any fantasy realm ever needed an ice queen, it’s Jacques Townhouse, a pop-up hotel-cum-beauty parlour “soirée” venue in central London that looks like Alice’s... 

Home-clubber. Illustration: Jon & Mick/moderntoss.com That Amazing Camping Trip, Appleby It’s heartwarming to have seen this annual summer camping trip grow in popularity due solely to word-of-mouth recommendation, much like the sporadic and nomadic Mancunian club night That Amazing...