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Tuesday March 9, 2010
By DAN CARRIER
MOTHER'S day may be seen as an excuse to demand breakfast in bed, or for the more cynical, a chance for greetings card companies to find a reason to...
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March 9, 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
THREE quarters of West End theatres are infested with with rats, mice and fleas, a new survey reveals.
Performers warned that the “appalling” working...
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Published: 5 March 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
JOANNE Cash, the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Westminster North, dropped in on a parenting skills class she set up in Westbourne Park this week,...
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Published: 5 March 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
A CHANCE encounter that led Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde to write two of their greatest works is to be commemorated at the place it happened more than a...
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Published: 5 March 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
ONE in three children in Westminster have been refused a place at their preferred secondary school.
Parents discovered which school their 10 or 11-year-old...
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Published: 5 March 2010
BY JAMIE WELHAM
TORY housing policy that pushes homeless families into the private sector could mark a return to “slum landlordism” of the 1950s, Labour MP Karen...
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Published: 5 March 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
PLANS to stage daily screenings of World Cup football matches in Regent’s Park have been abandoned.
The Greater London Authority, which came up with the...
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FIRST again!
The West End Extra and its sister newspaper, the New Journal, exclusively revealed the GLA’s U-turn on our website on Tuesday.
We are now filling our website with news...
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Published: 5 March 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
THE former headmistress of St George’s School in Maida Vale has claimed around £200,000 for appearing as an expert witness for another school...
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Published: 5 March 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
CHILDREN from St John’s Wood adventure playground look forward to enjoying new leafy surroundings. A tree was planted in memory of Mavis Davis last...
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Published: 5 March 2010
By JAMIE WELHAM
A LEAKED report from London Underground reveals cuts could leave just two front-line staff manning Victoria Tube station, union bosses claim.
The National RMT...
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Published: 5 March 2010
by AZZURRA BERTONCINI
THE promise of free money was too good to resist.
But the excited crowd gathered on the steps of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square on Wednesday...
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Published: 5 March 2010
by AZZURRA BERTONCINI
LONDON might be a metropolis of opportunity for some but elsewhere in our great city of eight million stories, the smell of money is replaced by the...
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Tuesday March 2, 2010
EXCLUSIVE By JAMIE WELHAM
Plans to stage daily screenings of World Cup football matches in Regent's Park have been abandoned.
As revealed first in a New Journal and...
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Pictured: Students at Marylebone School celebrate top marks in their A-level exams last year
March 2, 2010
By JAMIE WELHAM
ONE in three children in Westminster have been refused a place at their...
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Published: 26 February 2010
Ronald Searle's secret art of war
AN invitation has been sent to Diary to celebrate the 90th birthday of that inimitable illustrator and war artist Ronald Searle at...
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Published: 26 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM and CHARLOTTE SUNDBERG
DOCTORS in Pimlico are becoming familiar with the symptoms: bloodshot eyes, reports of tinnitus, wailing babies in the waiting room...
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Published: 26 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
THE director general of London Zoo has raised serious concerns over the effect a proposed “fan zone” in Regent’s Park will have on...
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Published: 26 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
A PENSIONER from Marylebone who was convicted for having sex with another man more than 50 years ago has vowed to overturn “outdated” law in...
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Published: 26 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
DOCTORS from St Mary’s Hospital have spoken of the horrors they witnessed helping the relief effort in Haiti.
Theatre sister Taka Dzuda, oral...
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Published: 26 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
OPPOSITION councillors have called for the scrapping of the £1-a-day bike parking charge, after figures revealed City Hall was due to make a loss of...
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Published: 26 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
COUNCIL tax will be frozen across the borough for the next three years, it has been announced.
City Hall said its benchmark band D charge would remain at...
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Published: 26 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
CHINATOWN celebrated the Year of the Tiger in style on Sunday, as thousands of revellers descended on the West End to join the party.
Among the...
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Published: 26 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
SURELY the cuts haven’t got that bad? Not just yet: the four suited gentlemen, among them Lord Mayor Duncan Sandys, had the shovels out to plant a...
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Published: 26 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
CROSSRAIL bosses have been heavily criticised for the way businesses and residents in Soho and Paddington have been evicted to make way for the train route...
