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Well, London Fashion Week begins today and the first story of the week isn’t the usual Is London still fashionable nonsense, but something slightly less shallow: thin models. On one side you’ve got Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, who wants the LFW organisers to ban what …

Bomb plot latest: police have found “a suitcase containing items which could be used to construct a bomb,” in a piece of land in High Wycombe. An elderly passenger who travelled from Lincoln to London on a National Express coach (a four hour journey) has …

After a busy but musically uneventful week it was a choice between writing at length about playing at yet another wedding with my covers band at the weekend or looking at the outside world for inspiration. After a quick Google search for interesting music-related news …

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The BBC has a leaked government report which says large areas of the Thames Gateway could be allowed to flood as part of an ‘estuary park’. Arsenal unveiled their new 60,000-capacity Emeriates Stadium in front of a 20,000 crowd yesterday, with an open traning session. …

London Architecture Biennale and Architecture Week got off to a fine if sweaty start this weekend. We’d particularly recommend ‘Transit’, an Iain Sinclair-narrated short film by Emily Richardson, in catacombs beneath Smithfield Market – spooky, thought provoking and surprisingly deserted when we visited. Here’s our …

And you thought the God Squad was a mere turn of phrase. If the previews for God’s Next Army (Mon 8pm C4) are right, then the Grand Old Party should be on its guard as a Trojan horse of bright young things – bright, utterly …

All those skyscrapers they’ve been promising us are finally going up…at least in Google Earth. 3D models of London buildings are springing up on the web faster than you could make a crude joke about who, exactly, Richard Rogers (is it the same person that …

Hewitt Heckled Over Health Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt was heckled today at Workers’ Union Unison’s Health Conference. Hewitt revealed at the conference that reforms were needed to save the NHS, including more job cuts, and a reduction in the number of hospital beds. Hewitt repeated …

There’s a famous and overused line about the past being a foreign country, and people doing things differently there; in some cases this seems a bit of a shame (what’s wrong with being embalmed and put in a pyramid after you die, eh?) but in …