Gossip columns are getting mileage today out of a leaked list of diva demands from Park Lane. Britters is enjoying a revitalised career with a world tour and a new album. And she’s on her way here. From the 3rd-14th June she’s gigging at the …
Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been dancing round the maypole: Gang warfare broke out at Ealing Hospital following the stab death of a young man on Friday. Anna Friel is NOT NOT NOT Holly Golightly. Nope. Not having it. Britney wants to …
Bit of an upstairs-downstairs hoo-ha on Park Lane this evening. All is not well at our second most revered hostelry: mutterings have reached Londonist Towers that the stable lads and chamber maids are contemplating revolt. The source of t’trouble? Tips, and distribution thereof. Amongst the …
Maybe it’s the heat, but May in London has become a veritable political gay-fest. Last week, a gay man took the helm of Richmond Borough Council for the first time, and announced ‘diversity’ as a key theme for his year in office. This happens just …
The ‘tea scene’ in London just got a whole lot bitchier. Claridge’s Hotel in Mayfair lost its coveted 2006 ‘Best Afternoon Tea in the Capital’ award to the Dorchester this year. Since then, their PR agency’s strenuous efforts to place tea-related stories have floundered. Until …
This day in London’s History 1818 The first human to human blood transfusion is thought to have taken place, at Guy’s Hospital. Dr James Blundell successfully transferred four ounces of blood into a mother who was haemorrhaging after giving birth. The sanguineous lifesaver was taken …
Yes, we’re slightly obsessed with Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra, but when it allows us to write headlines like that, who can blame us? As you would imagine the Bangkok Post are also pretty interested in Thaksin’s whereabouts, and recently published this article saying that while …
Claridge’s hotel has, rather predictably, been awarded the Top London Afternoon Tea 2006 award (yes, it really exists). The hotel beat the Dorchester, the Four Seasons and the Wolseley to the prize which was awarded by the Tea Guild, “a prestigious and unique organisation that …
There’s the rest of today, all of tomorrow and all of Saturday. That’s a little over two days to brace yourself and exercise your mental defences. When the clock strikes midnight and it officially becomes Sunday 26th March… that’s it. It’s going to be Mother’s …
Exactly a week ago today we reported on the news that Oyster cards may soon be used for making small purchases at newsagents and coffee shops etc. We mentioned the concerns some people had over the ‘tracking devices’ that Oyster cards carry and also the …
