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First they headed west. For London’s debut mega-mall, which opened in 2008, White City, on the doorstep of the affluent Notting Hill and Holland Park, was an obvious choice of location for retail giant Westfield’s property developers. It was a shrewd second move to look east. Next door to the Olympics Park, the regenerated Stratford […]
Many professional musicians have been asked to perform unpaid at the London 2012 Olympics. Is this fair? asks Ivan Hewett. Music is the food of sport, it seems. The organisers of the London 2012 Olympics just can’t get enough of it. There are five “official songs” for the Games. The opening ceremony will be full […]
Jobless offenders will be made to work four days a week after ministers announced today that London will be the first part of the country to use a private company to supervise criminals on community sentences. Under a pioneering deal, 15,000 criminals a year in the capital will be required to perform tasks such as […]
The billionaire husband of heiress Eva Rausing is being represented by a top 7/7 lawyer after he was arrested on suspicion of her murder, it emerged today. Mrs Rausing’s body was discovered by officers searching the couple’s £50 million Belgravia home on Monday after her husband Hans Kristian was stopped by police driving erratically in […]
IOC chief insists that everything will be fine by the time the opening ceremony begins Despite a welter of negative headlines in recent days, Jacques Rogge, president of the IOC, has insisted that the London Games have not become an ‘Olympishambles’. According to The Daily Telegraph the closure of the M4 (now reopened), the security crisis, problems at Heathrow […]
The RAF will use “lethal force” if the Olympics are threatened, the Games air security commander has said. Speaking at RAF Northolt in north-west London, Air Vice-Marshal Stuart Atha said a plane could be shot down as a last resort in a “worst-case scenario”. Asked who would give the order, he said: “The highest level […]
There’s so much at stake in the restaurant industry these days – from money, to reputation, to loyal customers, and then there’s ego. Heading to a restaurant that headlines with three prominent names one might expect these to be the chef, owners, artistic directors or culinary visionaries. But no, I later (and thankfully) find out. […]
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