Imagine Muse, Take That and Paul McCartney all on one small stage in London. It doesn’t often happen does it? Thanks then to Gary Barlow, Lord of Pop, who has just announced details of the very first BBC Children In Need Rocks held at the …
All Met officers are to be trained to deal with ‘honour crimes’. A man has been shot dead in his car in New Cross. A suspected rapist looks set to escape punishment as some idiot has lost the case file. Bleriot’s original monoplane is on …
When it comes to watching gigs in the warm balmy evenings of summer, you can’t get much better than a night of live music at Somerset House. Opening their doors for the annual Summer Series next month, this year’s line up won’t fail to provide …
Image / neil365 The singer’s last wrangle with high culture ended somewhat unfortunately, with a widely derided position on the Orange prize judging panel that she ended up quitting due to ill health. She should fare better in her new, less demanding gig as the …
Why this is very Midwinter Madness! The 600 hundred year old Mortlake Brewery (currently owned by Stag) is to close. Thus the whirligig of time brings in…diversions. All’s changing at Tottenham Court Road tube station. Lady, you are the cruellest she alive: Shoesmith appeals against …
It’s been a less than stellar year for London as far as knife crime is concerned and yesterday was particularly upsetting as four fatal stabbings took place in different parts of the city. A 19-year-old was stabbed in Edmonton, becoming the 20th teenager to die …
Tell us something we didn’t know: London is the most expensive city to live in worldwide, according to UBS research. Pro-Tibet protesters target British Museum’s First Emperor exhibit. Heathrow to charge drivers £20 to drop off passengers if sixth terminal proposal is approved. In other …
The London Zoological Society have managed some more ground breaking footage with a film of these pygmy hippos in the wild. Londonist wants one of these. At least someone’s happy about the rain: the freesheet house will apparently be all the stronger for it. Football’s …
Talia has already covered the more common places to go dancing tomorrow night, but for a more alternative music New Years Eve, then wander over to Kings Cross’ Monto Water Rats to catch Brighton rockers Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster play a special New Years gig …
The fashion world has been in a glitzy hooha this week as Karl Lagerfeld, AKA The Count (cue: one, one supermodel; AH HA HA HA HA!”) jetted in to much celebrity fawning for a posh nosh ding dong at Nobu and the first ever Chanel …
Lily Allen’s bouncy song “Smile” has obviously had no effect on the meanest people on the planet: US Immigration Officials. The pop star, aged 22, was detained at Los Angeles International Airport for five hours while questioned about the caution she received in June for …
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