Extra, Extra

By Rob Last edited 217 months ago

Last Updated 23 March 2006

Extra, Extra
Through a glass darkly
  • Twelve survivors of the 7 July attacks are due to give evidence to the London Assembly's 7 July Review Committee today.
  • An inquest has heard how American lawyer Katherine Ward ignored police attempts to help her before jumping from a window ledge at the Jury's hotel in Kensington in January.
  • The Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead is to cut 500 jobs due to debts, bringing the total number of NHS job cuts to more than 2,000 in less than a week.
  • One of Picasso's last efforts, Dora Maar With Cat, is to go on display at Sotheby's ahead of an aucion in New York in May.
  • Pete Burns and his boyfriend have been 'evicted' from a luxury London hotel after refusing to pay the whole of their bill. Burns had to be escorted from the building by police.

Photograph courtesy of Johanna via the Londonist Flickr group.