Latest London News
RSS-
A coronation for OUR Times
There are some things you just don’t talk about, and the crowning of the next king is one of them. It would be "impolite" to start planning a coronation while the existing monarch is still alive, I was told last week by one of those who may be involved when the time comes. Quite right, too. As the Queen prepares to celebrate the 60th anniversary of her Coronation on June 2 ...
-
Prince Charles puts heat on ministers over climate change
The Prince of Wales, who has warned about irreversible damage caused by global warming, holds private meeting with the Energy Secretary and climate change ...
-
Award for man who saved stables
Livery staff Helen Buckman and Ria Ward (17) with Philip Buckman, who has been nominated for an English Heritage award A man has been nominated for an English Heritage award after the restoration of a 19th century livery and grade II star listed indoor riding school in Epsom. Businessman Philip Buckman and his family acquired the Durdans stables in 2010, a livery yard set on 55 acres of ...
More London News
RSS-
Henry Winkler announced for Richmond Theatre panto
Villain: Captain Hook is thankfully a far cry from OBE Winkler Happy Days legend Henry Winkler will star in this year's Peter Pan Christmas pantomime. The pantomime will run at Richmond Theatre from December 6 to January 12, with Winkler, aka the Fonz, taking on the role of villain Captain Hook. "Captain Hook, with his sword-fighting, singing off-key, and a crew that ...
-
Comedy duo get shared blue plaque
Dual recognition: Morecambe and Wise One of Britain's foremost comedy duos, whose career and friendship lasted more than 40 years, will be commemorated by a blue plaque. Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, also known as Morecambe and Wise or Eric and Ernie, worked together in variety, radio, film and television from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. The Heritage Foundation ...
-
Donkeys talk to be given to Outwood Womens Institute
News "My Life With Donkeys" is the intriguing title of a talk to be given to members of Outwood Women's Institute in Lloyd Hall, Brickfield Road, Outwood, on Tuesday, July 2, at 2.30pm. Website: ...
-
Hinchley Wood School student brushes up nicely for art prize
Cool work: Rowena Fry, 15, got the top prize, while fellow students Lucy Ashworth and Rhiannon Pritchard-Wood were runners up A student from Hinchley Wood School has been named as the winner of the SHL Art Prize 2013. The competition, sponsored by Thames Ditton-based SHL, gave year 10 students a chance to create a piece of artwork suitable for display on the walls of the company's ...
-
Brooklands College named Surreys best
By Laura Proto Brooklands College has been named the best further education college in Surrey. The national success rates tables for 2011/12 revealed the college, which has a campus in Weybridge, has overall success rates for all its students of 84.1 per cent. In comparison with other Surrey colleges, Brooklands is achieving a 16 per cent higher success rates than the lowest ...
-
Teenager lands coveted spot at top drama school
Mitcham teenager lands coveted spot at top drama school An aspiring actress had said her dreams have come true after landing a place at an exclusive drama school which has produced some of the country's finest actors. Sadie Pepperell, 19, of Commonside East in Mitcham, will be following in the footsteps of Judi Dench, Lawrence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave when she takes up a coveted ...
-
Pensioner banned from running company after helping rogue builders
By Khaleda Rahman A 72-year-old man has been banned from running a company for 12 years after laundering money from rogue builders who targeted elderly homeowners. Michael Anthony Joyce, of Wimbledon, director of a cheque converting business, cashed cheques totalling at least 224,631 for the builders. The group of builders targeted vulnerable homeowners, by coldcalling them and ...
-
MLS New England 2 Houston 0
Diego Fagundez scored in the 51st minute Saturday and the New England Revolution handed Houston a second straight home loss, 2-0. After getting a pass ...
-
Mums the Word with Angellica Bell Looking for the perfect double buggy
Angellica Bell: Looking for the perfect double buggy When I started researching all the products I needed for my first child, I seriously thought I needed a degree, but now another is on the way, a PhD is definitely a prerequisite. The problem with having two close together is that you have to look for new bits that cater for two. For instance, which double buggy is the best? This ...
-
Unsung Hero Working with people makes my day happy’
Cheery: Felix Duyilemi was studying to become an engineer when he decided he needed a job helping others A ticket office worker at Kingston train station has been nominated as an unsung hero by his colleagues. Supervisor Felix Duyilemi, 46, from Strood, in Kent, was training to be an engineer at Lewisham College when he decided to find a job where he could work with the public. He ...
-
Secret Curmudgeon Yes I’m going to Hell but at least it’s warm down there
Secret Curmudgeon: 'Yes, I'm going to Hell; but at least it's warm down there' Wouldn't it be great to be able to take bikes on trains during rush hour? I mean full-sized bikes - not the folding variety that can transform into a lump of metal the size of a postage stamp. No, I mean the bigger beasts that don't make a grown Englishman look ridiculous ...
-
Late New Zealand rally rocks England
England suffered a late batting collapse against New Zealand on day three of the first Test at Lord's on Saturday.The hosts appeared to be in complete control as Joe Root and Jonathan Trott forged a fruitful partnership to move England to 2-159.But they lost four wickets for just 12 runs to leave the match evenly poised with two days still remaining, the home side leading by 205 runs with ...
-
Soccer star David Beckham earns assist in likely final game
David Beckham assisted on a goal Saturday in what was likely the final game of his career, a 3-1 win by Paris Saint-Germain over Brest. Beckham, who was given the captain's arm band prior to the contest, set up a Paris Saint-Germain score in the 31st minute with an accurate pass to Blaise Matuidi, who fired it into the back of the net. The former England captain helped PSG claim the Ligue ...
-
When off the record becomes on the agenda as swivel-eyed loons furore grows
A couple of hours earlier, 114 Tory MPs had voted against the Queen's Speech in protest over an EU referendum. The discussion reportedly ended with an extraordinary attack on the "mad, swivel-eyed loons" in the grassroots of the party who had forced the backbenchers to rebel against the Government.Lord Feldman denies it is he who said those words, and the newspapers, who ...
-
The top ten political myths
John Rentoul is chief political commentator for The Independent on Sunday, and visiting professor at Queen Mary, University of London, where he teaches contemporary history. Previously he was chief leader writer for The Independent. He has written a biography of Tony Blair, whom he admired more at the end of his time in office than he did at the ...
-
New poll puts Ukip in third place above the Lib Dems
Support for the UK Independence Party across Britain has risen to its highest level, consolidating its position as the third most popular party in the country, according to a new poll ...
-
Hundreds sign up to new social work scheme
More than 200 graduates have signed up to a new scheme to attract the brightest candidates into social work within just 24 hours of its launch, it emerged last ...
-
Barack Obama must act like a true leader | Observer editorial
It is always hard for an American president in the second term, but both his country and the world need Obama to show strength and courage and put scandal behind ...
-
Status Quo tribute band rock into Sutton
Carl who is the owner of Croydon music shop Rock Bottom and is in Statin' Quo, gives the band the thumbs up You are going to be rockin' all over Sutton when a Status Quo tribute band come to town. Statin' Quo will play the best of the English boogie rock band on bank holiday Sunday. The Purley based tribute band formed in 2006 in honour of one of Purley's ...
-
Video Tabloid Talk Is it a boy for Kate Middleton and Prince William
This week's tabloids speculate that Prince William and Kate Middleton are expecting a boy, while heartthrob Channing Tatum is primed to be the perfect father. Celebrity commentator Diana Mehta covers the latest gossip ...
-
One tax law for us and another for Amazon | Nick Cohen
On the edge of Rugeley stands Amazon's largest distribution centre in Britain. Life for the workers who trudge around the 800,000 sq ft warehouse is not as bad as it was for the men who once worked in the pits of the Staffordshire coalfield, but that is not saying much. They must carry satnavs, which direct their movements round the stacks and flash warnings from managers to stop dawdling ...
-
Aristocrats make bid for equality Thats a new one | Catherine Bennett
, more than 200 signatories last week called on Parliament to end the system of male primogeniture and "grant equality to both sexes". Either of two forthcoming bills, these agitators say, would apply the adjustment to the royal family's succession laws to all hereditary titles and should be supported: "It is only logical and just that it be granted to all ...
London Featured
-
London bike sharing a success
London in July of 2010 became one of over 44 cities in the world to introduce an aspect of communal consumerism into its public transport system with the implementation of a bike-sharing network and just ten weeks later had recorded over 1 million trips taken, proving the initiative to be feasible and sustainable.
Bike-sharing has been around since as early as the 1960s when the first community bike-sharing scheme was introduced in the Netherlands, but it lacked formal sharing systems and was overly-reliant on the good nature of the public, leading to mass theft, which ultimately destroyed the system. Read more
News from around our Network
