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From the outside, you wouldn’t guess anything was going on behind the peeling, Georgian facade at all but inside, what was once called “the handsomest room in town” was graced by equally handsome Hugh Grant and the luscious Helen Mirren as part of a fundraiser …

The Olympic Park has received a lot of attention lately, unveiling its flagship stadium, promising to start work on it early and suffering fiery blazes which fortuitously destroyed a warehouse due for demolition. This Saturday though, an audaciously different kind of attention will be focused …

That’s Tony Cowards‘s wish as he brings his one man stand-up show to The Offside Bar in Islington tonight. Tony, originally from Suffolk but now living in our very own East End, performed his hour long “Festival of Football” at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer …

Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come back and manage the Bronx Bombers. At least the city’s attempt to …

Kick off the week tomorrow with Stephen Fretwell at Cadogen Hall (£15). The singer songwriter is touring his 3rd album “Man On The Roof” and by all accounts it’s pretty good. Or if you like your things with a bit more soul (or rubbish pop …

Who wants to be in the office today? Who wants to be told to take alternative routes because there aren’t enough drivers on the Circle Line? Who wants to choose the outcomes of something you have a direct investment in? If you do, head down …

A new exhibition opens this week in Trafalgar Square. For one week only the Journey installation will be wowing visitors to the square. But there’s good wow and bad wow, and this is definitely in the latter category. For the exhibition is portraying the misery …

18. The Cheetah Of Shooter’s Hill Over the years many ‘flaps’ of ‘big cat’ sightings have hit the headlines, from the so-called ‘beasts’ of Exmoor and Bodmin, to the more recent Bluewater leopard Bexley ‘big cat’. However in south-east London during the early 1960s, the …

Most of our male readers won’t really comprehend this, but the launch event for new posh shoes can be a big deal. A really big deal. So when Harrods yesterday hosted a launch event for some ruby-sapphire-and-diamond-encrusted Rene Caovilla sandals (value – £62,000), they took …

With headlines that bluntly state “Two shot at Notting Hill Carnival”, you could be easily led to think this past weekend was more lawless London and that one’s life is best spent staying at home if one wants to keep it. Thankfully reality stretches beyond …