London Calling – Splashes of scarlet
Back to the future In a recent report, ‘futurologist’ Dr Ian Pearson has predicted an exciting future for London with spaceports and 18-mile-high skyscrapers, all to be delivered by 2045
Move on up
The booming London property market is full of good stories – usually about ridiculous prices paid for tiny plots or garages – so bargain basement tales are hard to come
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
One of my favourite films of all time drew me to the superb Audrey Hepburn exhibition Portraits of an Icon at the National Portrait Gallery last month. This photographic journey
Magical mystery tour
A couple of great Beatles’ stories from the UK capital this month … A letter to Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, apparently penned in 1967 by Ernest O’Follipar, Chief Executive at
Waterloo!
There’s a great place to visit right in the middle of the traffic at Hyde Park Corner in London. A fine Georgian Mansion – Apsley House or, more colloquially, Number
London Calling – It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to
London is always a key battleground at general election time in the UK and never more so than this time around with a close result forecast. Accounting for around 12%
Times, they are a changing
London is home to the most famous clock in the world. Probably the most iconic picture of the UK capital features Big Ben or, as we should more correctly call
Churchill and London
Last month London saw a series of events commemorating the funeral of Britain’s great wartime leader, Sir Winston Churchill. Astonishingly 50 years had passed since that bitterly cold day in
Calling Elvis!
A trip to the O2 at North Greenwich in London is a day out in itself. The huge tent-like structure which was originally the Millennium Dome is now a world