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Published: 30 July 2010
by TOM FOOT
THE Education Secretary has been asked to “intervene” after details of a “worryingly high” pupil exclusion rate emerged at Westminster...
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Published: 30 July 2010
by TOM FOOT
THE secret life of billionaire Soho porn baron Paul Raymond is to be revealed in a new biography.
Paul Willetts – acclaimed biographer of Soho raconteur...
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Published: 30 July 2010
by TOM FOOT
FREE play schemes for children are being scrapped by Westminster Council.
Schools chief Councillor Nickie Aiken said the worsening financial climate meant...
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Published: 30 July 2010
by TOM FOOT
A MULTI-million pound revamp of a secondary school in St John’s Wood will be dramatically hacked back after a special grant was slashed by the coalition...
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Published: 30 July 2010
by JOSH LOEB
SMALL, comical and associated with the light-hearted folk music of George Formby, the banjo might seem innocent enough.
But it appears it is proving too much for...
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Published: 30 July 2010
by TOM FOOT
A SINGLE mother in Soho has warned she will be made homeless and forced to leave Westminster under government reforms to the housing benefit system.
Vic Plaistowe...
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Published: 30 July 2010
by TOM FOOT
HE was a Battle of Britain squadron leader and risked his life flying Spitfires during the Second World War.
But the heroics of Charles Alexander Ogilvy have never...
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Published: 30 July, 2010
THE shocking death of Ronnie Scott’s drummer Chris Dagley in a motorcycle crash has robbed British jazz of one of its most respected and best-liked performers....
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Published: 30 July 2010
by TOM FOOT
MORE than 500 people attended “Irish Day” in Maida Hill on Sunday.
The summer event was opened by writer and artist Patrick Maguire, one of the “...
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Published: 30 July 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
PLANS to install a 10 metre-high mobile phone mast at a Maida Vale beauty spot have been blasted as “disgusting” by traders.
The proposed...
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Published: 30 July 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
WITH Indian and Latin American dancers, French parkour workshops and some classic British pop tunes, this year’s Churchill Gardens summer festival...
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Published: 30 July 2010
by DAVID ST GEORGE
A LEADING member of the Saudi royal family who has denied a murder charge over the death of an aide will face a jury on October 4, the Old Bailey was told...
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Published: 29 July, 2010
by TOM FOOT
A 96-YEAR-OLD great-grandmother is demanding the return of her wheelchair after it was “stolen” at a summer picnic party in Regent’s Park...
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Published: 23 July 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
THE deputy headteacher of a St John’s Wood secondary school has quit after a probe into claims he submitted bogus paperwork to get his children into a...
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Published: 23 July 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
SCHOOLS could be forced to seek permission to use parks for playtime under new proposals being considered by Westminster Council.
Parks bosses are carrying out...
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Published: 23 July 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
LONDON mayor Boris Johnson has spoken out against cuts to housing benefit, saying they threatened to widen the gap between rich and poor in central London.
Mr...
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Published: 23 July 2010
by EMILY STUBBINGS
IT'S the stuff of ‘bee’ movies: a swarm heading through the streets of the West End, scattering shoppers and office workers heading out to get...
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Published: 23 July 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
IT is known around the world as the mother of all parliaments and many an observer has likened the MPs on the green leather of the Commons to squabbling...
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Published: 23 July 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
THE football industry is in danger of repeating the same mistakes that led to the banking crisis because it is founded on an “economics of the madhouse...
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Published: 23 July 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
MOTORCYCLE protesters have vowed to fight on after a High Court judge ruled against them in the battle to charge for parking in the borough.
Lord Justice...
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Published: 23 July, 2010
SO, that was that. Democracy Village – the tented hamlet of peace protesters, green activists and, latterly, the homeless in Parliament Square was disbanded on...
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Published: 23 July 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
CHINATOWN is famous for many things but literature isn’t one of them.
But last week that changed, when the area’s hitherto little-known connection...
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Published: 23 July 2010
by JOSIE HINTON
AN American businesswoman drowned in the bath of a Covent Garden hotel while visiting London to attend a conference, an inquest heard.
Elizbieta Andros, 49,...
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Published: 23 July 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
PETTY crime in coffee shops has dramatically fallen thanks to an innovative scheme.
Café Watch was introduced across the major chains by Westminster...
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Published: 16 July 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
THE BBC has been given the final go-ahead to build a fortress-style parapet around Broadcasting House to defend it from terrorist attack.
Under the £...
