Wyndham Hacket Pain @WyndhamHP A Ghost Story follows Casey Affleck, an independent musician, and his wife Rooney Mara who live together in a small suburban house. They have an ordinary life and are a very normal couple until one day Affleck is killed in a car crash outside their home. ...
It was Frank Zappa who described politics as 'the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.' I mention that wonderfully cynical observation by the late musician as if there was ever a time for cynicism, we're living in it. Cynics aren't the same as pessimists or satirists. A pessimist looks at ...
Canals surrounding the Olympic Park have been invaded by a green carpet of duck weed - near the World Championship which has been marred with outbreaks of gastroenteritis. Teams are collecting up to 120 tonnes of green sludge every week on two canals in the capital as it multiplies in ...
A woman was attacked by a jogger on a morning run who pushed her into the path of a bus. At about 7.40am the 33-year-old victim was walking across a bridge when a man appeared to veer towards her - and shove her to one side. The woman was sent ...
A grieving mum who put up road safety placards on the roundabouts near where her teenage daughter was killed by joyriders was dismayed to be charged nearly £2,000 for doing so. Amy Hofmeister was only 13 years old when she was knocked off her bike on a pavement and killed ...
Joining the likes of Claude Bosi and Lee Westcott of The Typing Room, Chef Chris Denney of 108 Garage recently hosted a banquet on the roof of Harvey Nichols. Part of S.Pellegrino’s ‘Itineraries of Taste’ series, which continues with another event in London tonight (Tuesday 8th August) followed by one ...
On 9th August 2007 the banking sector observed the first shudder of what was to become a debilitating earthquake of seismic proportions. The markets woke up to find French bank BNP Paribas had halted redemptions on three investment funds because it was unable to measure the value of the (then) obscure (but ...
Brexit may not have happened if Britons were brighter because not enough people grew up with access to higher education, according to new research. With education the predominant factor dividing those who voted Remain or Leave, researchers from the University of Leicester reckon greater access to higher education may have ...
Devastatingly, most of London’s Japanese restaurants have become poseur pilgrimages, instead of dining institutions. Terminuses for those who’ll choose a place for dinner based on the “vibe”, dress like stars from terrible films and push their raw fish around a slate, pretending to have fun before settling the four-figure bill ...