We all know that Thai food can prove hazardous, but if you’re thinking of visiting your favourite seafood restaurant anytime soon, then stop reading now: a Wandsworth woman died after suffering an allergic reaction to a Thai prawn soup – despite never having a prior …
The looming financial crisis and gradual decline in demand for city property may have claimed a victim: the controversial Walkie Talkie tower on Fenchurch street could be delayed until the commercial property market slump has passed. While demolition of the existing 1960s block is due …
The Gordon Brown statue saga has intrigued psephologists and, er, wax-ologists for months now: would our embattled PM be given his own waxwork at Madame Tussauds, or have the curators bargained that, with the odds of his removal ever-shortening, the task of crafting those craggy …
Naughty naughty, Kingston University: an audiotape recording of faculty members at the southwest London institution telling students to lie in their responses to a quality of teaching survey has emerged. The National Student Survey is widely seen as the best measure of student satisfaction, and …
Wembley Stadium is a modern marvel – Conde Nast in particular were mightily impressed by it – and it is surely one of the finest footballing cathedrals in the world today. So how come it hasn’t yet been given the glad-eye from UEFA when they …
The Sex remains the same, but the City was a less familiar one last night as four glamorous ladies and a retinue of A-list stars stepped out on the red carpet, not in New York, but in London’s Leicester Square. Sarah Jessica Parker and pals …
Sexual intercourse may have begun, per Larkin, in 1963, but one London centenarian is defying that clammy logic: Eric Woodward, who dispenses advice on love, ladies, and life to a new generation in the pages of FHM magazine, has just celebrated his 101st birthday. The …
For most, the Cannes Film Festival conjures images of red carpet receptions, lavish parties and the best and brightest in new cinema swanking around the Med shores. Yet one London filmmaker has managed to infiltrate the crust of moneyed exclusivity by bringing to the festival …
With 2008 racing from winter to summer with nary a hint of spring to be scented, mid-May finds us enjoying glorious weather and turning our thoughts to happy days at the local lido. Despite dozens of closures over the years since the lido’s post-war heyday …
It’s considered the most lucrative game in world football. The team that wins the Championship playoff final earns entry into the Premier League and all the trappings of fame and money that come with it. Some estimate that promotion can earn a club upward of …
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