We hope you’re standing up for this: A KCL study finds that sitting on your arse all day contributes to the ageing process. Whereas regular exercise apparently makes you look like Elle MacPherson. In a wholly uncorroborated and unscientific study undertaken in the last 5 …
Tonight’s big sporting event will see Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather knock ten bells out of each other in their much hyped “Undefeated” welterweight title fight. If you’re not Skyed up at home, some brave London pubs are showing the fight live from Las Vegas …
It’s a different, puzzling and frankly bizarre world in the bingo hall; the little slips of paper, the special pens, the stream of what sounds like nonsense coming from the chap at the front which only the initiated are able to translate into numbers… still, …
The Prologue of the Tour de France was quite a show. The view from the QEII centre front lawn was perfect, and a big screen broadcasting from the BBC helped dispel everyone’s confusion at what the hell was actually going on. An early glass of …
Dame Kelly Holmes was on the radio a little while ago exhorting girls to get involved in sport. We’re not entirely sure that roller derby was what she was thinking of at the time, but a group of daring Londoners are keen to welcome new …
Council staff in Harrow, north London, must feel like maniacal puppeteers in the Theatre of Irony that is the Benefits Claim Office. And if they are the puppeteers, those claiming benefits fraudulently are soon to be their Pinocchios. “Lie detectors will be used to help …
We are not having a super casino: Manchester has been chosen as the surprise location of Britain’s first Las Vegas-style super-casino. The decision is a blow for Blackpool and London’s former Millennium Dome which were the bookmakers’ favourites. The licence will allow Manchester to build …
Ok. Pay attention (ignore the crappy music, but tune back in around the 2 minute 20 second mark): Talking water. Cool. That was clue number one for Vanishing Point in Las Vegas. Normally Nevada is a little further outside the M25 than we prefer, but …
The London Eye is still undoubtedly the most famous observation wheel in the world, but for how much longer? Plans have just been announced for a wheel in Berlin that would trump ours by a whopping 40 m. Since London got its Eye, a rash …
With Download, The Isle Of White Festival and Bon Jovi’s Milton Keynes shows all coming this weekend, festival season is well and truly upon us. For agrophobics everywhere else, may we suggest the following for consideration. Tonight: Upbeat, uncynical quirky Brit punky pure pop from …
Now that the embers of the domestic season are dying away fans who’ve lived every kick of the ball these last nine months are left with a whole… fortnight… of footballing emptiness to endure between now and the start of the World Cup on Friday …
