harrods

Riding with the vintage vehicles of Harrods.

Live ‘Ceremonials’ at Door 5

Liverpudlian X-Factor soul diva, Rebecca Ferguson, muses on her new status as a Londoner.

After the 11th September terrorist attacks in 2001 a rumour of the ‘Helpful Terrorist’ spread quickly across the world, including amongst frightened Londoners who feared their city would be next. Warnings of the possibility of another attack started popping into people’s email inboxes. This example …

Estate Agent Overload by blech It’s enough to get first-time buyers legging it down SW7 way, chequebook in hand: a two-bedroom period terrace house on Crescent Place (a “quiet no-through road”, according to the estate agent), within walking distance of Harrods and the Kensington museums, …

Photo by cloudy image Man arrested for attacking a cycle hire bike. That didn’t take long A pair of unions might be brewing up a Tube strike TfL have banned a busker from beating his banjolele Gullible Americans are being conned into believing that their …

A cab driver had a lucky escape earlier this week when a rather clumsy celebrity decided to open her door in the path of his vehicle. The hapless cabbie was trundling along Knightsbridge past Harrods, when the door was carelessly flung open by one Beyoncé …

Harrods’ door policy scuppered two runners on the scout for rehydration and a snack last Friday on the grounds that they were excessively sweaty after a 20 mile run. Whilst ‘sweat’ isn’t detailed on the dress code, it forbids “athletic singlets, cycling shorts and dirty …

School of Harrods by daveograve@ Perhaps in a bid to restore a serious retail reputation to Knightsbridge’s most famous “cornershop” and eclipse the dominant personality of its Chairman and former proprietor, Harrods starts 10 of its employees on a prototype 2 year undergraduate degree course …

Muso alert: London Underground are auditioning buskers once again. No Streets of London though, promise? Parents are told to be extra-vigilant after two attempted abductions in South London. Much of East London is to become a Green Enterprise District. Which is probably a good thing. …