Previewed on here a week ago, London’s India Now season launched yesterday with a party at the London Eye and an intricate replica of the Taj Mahal floating down the Thames. As we predicted, Shilpa Shetty did indeed haul herself to the event. We hear …
From next week London will be hosting India Now, a three-month season of events exploring London’s relationship with India and India’s culture. It all kicks off with a hefty PR stunt on the morning of 17 July, when a replica of the Taj Mahal will …
We are the people who live in London. Some of us are born here and some of us will die here. Some of us have been here forever and some came here yesterday. Some of us will stay forever, like it or not. We have …
1. The Highgate Vampire Note: This article has been amended after complaints from the ‘Friends of Bishop Seán Manchester’. We apologise for any misrepresentation. Dusty vaults, ivy-strewn pathways, desecrated coffins and shadowy goings-on. Sounds like something from a Hammer film doesn’t it? However, the hi-jinx …
The whole country is still mid-way through the respectable mourning period after our annual Eurovision trouncing. Scooch’s camp ditty about aviation unfortunately crashed and burned (boo!), and with no survivors (phew!). Perhaps the ultimate in cheesy music requires more planning time? Five years out, BBC …
Ah, the glamorous life of the street entertainer. These fine fellows were photographed yesterday in Jubilee Gardens, near the London Eye. Feel the giddy abandon and joie de vivre of South Bank performers at the very top of their game. Whoever can think of the …
Once it was a name that evoked magic, dreams and destiny. In recent years it’s taken on connotations of folly, nightmare and derision, but now it looks finally as if Wembley might be ready to resume its place at the very top of the pantheon …
Here’s an alert from the Westminster Police Security Desk: This message is to give you and your business, colleagues and friends advanced warning of Intermittent but significant additional Helicopter activity from 0800- 1600hrs (weather permitting) between Tuesday 5/02/07 and Wednesday 6/02/07. This is due to …
The wheel of misfortune. Another grim, bleak image from Kurt Roberts, who shows us why the London Eye is normally operated at only two revolutions per hour. Come on London, let’s have something more upbeat next time. Keep sending your photoshopped images of London in …
Well, this one completely passed us by. Man dresses up as James Bond, swims across Thames, scales the London Eye, then throws himself off. Superb. It’s been done before, of course, but still, superb. Plummeting tomfool Gary Connery from Maidenhead shares many characteristics with 007. …
It’s New Years Eve and if like us you’re very bad at making plans more than 12 hours in advance, you might be looking for something to do tonight. Equally if you were planning to go to The Truman Show in Shoreditch then you should …
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