Image by historicist Further evidence that our elected representatives are effectively children dressed in grown-up clothing came when the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, accused Prime Minister Gordon Brown of sending him to the naughty step. Johnson was speaking to a home affairs select committee …
81. A Christmas Ghost Story: The Enfield Poltergeist Throughout London’s dark history and ghost lore, the case of the Enfield poltergeist remains one of the most bizarre and astonishing. Between 1977 and 1979 this haunting was investigated by one Maurice Grosse who, two years previous …
Harrow PCT were way ahead of today’s news about compulsory sex and relationship classes for 5 year olds up, sending information on the dangers of STD Chlamydia and offering a free screening to kids as young as 9. Clearly someone’s finger slipped on the database …
A tedious survey from a government department we’d barely heard of has concluded that kids in the UK know little to nothing about the 2012 Olympic Games coming their way. The Olympic bad news yawnarama continues. Considering it’s 4 years off, the whole Beijing thing’s …
Just a normal, stressful morning, getting your wee ones ready for the day ahead. Has Taynor remembered his lute? Does Duchy have her ballet shoes? Everything in order? Great, just enough time to drive them to the nursery, pass through the fingerprint scanner, and kiss …
Earth shattering revelation of the day: Met Commissioner says parents key to bringing up children who don’t carry weapons. Yep, apparently so. Unlikely news of the day: Hayward Gallery goes psycho. We’ll be there later this week. Motoring news of the day: Lorries park up …
The government today accepted recommendations from a report about improving public-military relations which included the appointment of a “cadet ambassador” for London to do “everything possible” to urge schools to start Combined Cadet Forces and get their pupils to join them and enjoy “a taste …
You can’t blame the Queen for not visiting East London very often. You can’t get the tube there from Buck House for starters, and since the Number 38 went ‘bendy’ the Corgis won’t get on it. But this week she went to the remarkable length …
In the fall, Hackney had a measles problem. Now, the spots have spread to Lewisham, with 19 cases in January — a third of the 67 cases reported in south-east London. The Health Protection Agency are warning that we’ll be seeing even more sick spotty …
The BBC programme Whistleblower will tonight reveal some fairly extensive and shocking inadequacies in Ofsted inspected nursery and childcare provision. Following a tip off from an Ofsted insider, 21 year old undercover reporter, Imogen Wilkes, decided to test out the claims herself by infiltrating a …
The Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland are about to see their collections bolstered. London art dealer Anthony D’Offay announced that he would be giving a collection of 725 works of modern art to the galleries at their original ticket price. Estimated at a …
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