An old fire station which was left untouched for more than 60 years has been discovered in the cellar of an old Co Op factory. The secret fire station is complete with 1920s firefighting equipment, pumps, uniforms and coiled hoses. A half-drunk bottle of lemonade and exercise programmes were also found in ...
With the popularity of Mexican food having soared in recent years, it’s disappointing yet unsurprising that we’ve been subjected to so many culinary atrocities that pretend to be Mexican. In fact, thanks to a plague of simply foul Tex-Mex chain restaurants operating across the capital, many city dwellers have been ...
The first thing about the Rosendale pub, in West Dulwich, is it should have been my local. I, violin out time, tried to buy a flat on the same road, but got outbid. So I joined the ever-increasing ranks of 30-odd-year-old Londoners who failed to become homeowners. Anyway there is ...
A new road rage survey from the car leasing company, Lease Car, has revealed that 45% of drivers in London think cyclists are the most irritating road users, followed closely by school run mums! The top 5 most irritating road users in London Cyclists 45.00% School Run Mums 30.70% White ...
Like most people, I find it’s a huge effort shoe-horning exercise into my life between a job, social life and a relationship. So when Massimo Stocchi got in touch to tell me about electro muscle stimulation, I was game. He promised that, in one 20-minute workout at the Emx Squared ...
A dad from South East London are investing heavily into their eight-year-old sun hoping he will make it into international stardom. The boy, Theodore Liang, attends drama, acting and dance classes which clobbers him with a £1,300 a month. In total, taking everything into account he splurges £15k on their ...
A young woman, only 18, was told she was not thin enough for help to cure her eating disorder. On hearing the news she couldn’t be helped her weight plummeted to a potentially lethal 5st 10lb, before she was able to get help. Lorna Beattie, was studying at St Andrew’s ...
A paper written by James Hanson, an ex-Nasa climate scientist, and a number of other leading experts in the field have reported that the earth is now as hot as it has been for 115,00 years. The worrying news is further compounded by their claims that climate change has contributed ...
I am without doubt one of this massive percentage of people who suffer with stress related problems etc due to their work. I only nominally have a boss these days, but it doesn’t make it any easier, for others with a strict hierarchy it appears they are at breaking point. ...