This is a London food story of the big and the small, the high and the shy, a tale of multi-storey and one-storey. Let’s start at the top…...
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That Cara Delevingne, hey? She sure gets about – for example on the covers of both Vogue and Love as August saw the traditional publication of ...
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In The Times of July 1, 2014, its journalists speculated whether the “barren moonscape” that was the site of the nascent golf course for ...
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There was little doubt, on paper at least, which was the most appetising opening Premier League fixture of the 2016-7 season: Arsenal v Liverpool at t...
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The new novel by John Verdon is called Wolf Lake. It’s the fifth in a series featuring Dave Gurney, “the former New York Police Division s...
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Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling are The Nice Guys of the eponymous film. Crowe plays Jackson Healy, a rough-and-ready bruiser who will administer ph...
Read MoreFILM: A contrasting couple who make for an unusual double act
I have been to many water parks. I can’t say I’ve enjoyed them all – and less so with increasing age – but they have been the ...
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One of the hallmarks of, say, any television series set in the 1970s/’80s – think Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes – is the amount of sm...
Read MoreFASHION: Cool and killing – an unacceptable societal combination
A month ago today the country went to the polls, to vote on whether or not we should leave the European Union. We decided to do so. Since then we̵...
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