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BY JAMIE WELHAM
JOANNE Cash has resigned as the Tory Party candidate for Westminster North less than four months before the expected General Election date.
Ms Cash, a media barrister,...
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I TOOK the Tube from Swiss Cottage to the Chilcot inquiry at 7am. I queued up and I was fourth in line for Lord Goldsmith.
There were a few regulars in the queue, a solicitor, a student and a...
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Published" 5 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
TAXpayers are expected to foot a £23,000 bill for a magnificent dinner of pheasant being held by Westminster Council.
Invitations for the...
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Published: 5 February 2010
by JOSH LOEB
A 77-YEAR-OLD grandmother was barred from one of the West End’s oldest pubs for “security reasons” after she refused to take off her purple...
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Published: 5 February 2010
by JOSH LOEB
GILLIAN Gore, who has died aged 55, was born for the stage but turned her back on the world of acting to pursue a career in journalism.
She grew up in...
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Published: 5 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
BINMEN won’t need a change of uniform after City Hall announced Veolia will retain the £518million contract to keep Westminster’s streets...
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Published: 5 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
It sounds like a recipe for a big insurance claim.
Take a collection of priceless artefacts from one of the capital’s most esteemed museums,...
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Published: 5 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
THE government will risk “sanitising” death if it bows to growing pressure to legalise assisted suicide, MP Mark Field has warned in his blog....
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Published: 5 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
FOR those still scarred by playground taunts of “speccy four eyes”, the humble contact lens marks the zenith of 20th century medical achievement...
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Published: 5 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
STUDENTS from Millbank Primary School brought their bikes to class as part of an initiative to encourage safe cycling this week.
The 60 students enjoyed a...
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Published: 4 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
A BATTLEPLAN to mobilise thousands of residents against proposals to turn Regent’s Park into a “Fan Zone” during this summer’s...
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Published: 29 January 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
WILL Ed Balls be declaring the Pimlico Academy school tie he was given during his visit yesterday (Wednesday) morning?
The Secretary of State for Children,...
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Published: 29 January 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
MEMBERS of Westminster’s most notorious postcode gang will be sent to the Lake District or Scotland in a bid to relinquish their stranglehold on...
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Published: 29 January 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
DETECTIVES have issued CCTV footage which they hope will lead them to the man suspected of raping a teenager near the British Museum.
They said the victim,...
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Published: 29 January 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
FORGET Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and the bloated ranks of the celebrity chef club: this year’s “must have” cookbook owes nothing to...
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Published: 29 January 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
CITY Hall has been accused of using parking enforcement to raise revenue after it announced plans to increase charges.
Westminster motorists could face a...
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Published: 29 January 2010
by JOSIE HINTON
PROPOSALS to cut fatal road accidents by introducing a blanket 20mph scheme on Westminster’s residential roads have been rejected by the council.
The...
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Published: 29 January 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
THREE surgeons from St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington have flown to Haiti to provide urgent medical care to people injured in the earthquake, writes...
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Published: 29 January 2010
by TOM BROOKES-POLLOCK
TRAFFIC jams brought misery to Fitzrovia residents after Crossrail work began in Oxford Street – with 800 buses a day diverted past ...
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Published: 29 January 2010
A tigerish Boris!
WHILE most of us have already broken our resolutions and the self-improving mantras have been banished to the unconscious, Chinatown is still waiting for...
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DIARY wouldn’t want to go in for an operation to hear that the doctor was on a job-swap with the church organ player.
That said, we wouldn’t have a problem with a radiologist...
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A WOMAN who conned auctioneers and fashion houses into thinking she was a wealthy heiress before they handed over thousands of pounds has been ordered to pay back £400,000.
Shahra Marsh, 53,...
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FOR many Londoners there can be no better hangover cure than trudging down to the park on a Sunday morning, laying down some jumpers in the mud and having a kickabout.
One park where you don’t...
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The headteacher of a Pimlico secondary school is calling for police to increase security patrols in the area after a 15-year-old pupil was stabbed in the back during his lunch-break.
The pupil...
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IT’S the stuff of nightmares. A life-threatening infection plunges your newborn baby boy into a critical condition. Experts at Great Ormond Street Hospital warn he will be left with...
