London tops “dirty dining destinations”
London has topped a list of dirty dining destinations according to ratings from the Food Standards Agency (FSA). Six out of the ten least hygienic areas were London boroughs, with a high percentage of zero rated restaurants recorded in Ealing, Enfield and Brent. Newham has the highest percentage of restaurants and cafes rated between 0 and 2 at 29.2 per cent. Barking and Dagenham has the lowest percentage of eateries given top marks with just 27.1 per cent out of 177...
Children of Aleppo send messages of hope to those affected by one-day tube strike
A group of children who have been living and, mainly, dying in the besieged city of Aleppo have sent messages of hope to London’s commuters, who have been forced to get the bus to work, or indeed stayed at home and are now pretending to work from the pub. Amena, 10, who has seen her sister, mother and father killed in a Russian air strike said she thought she knew suffering until she heard about the one day walk-out. With...
Comical Ali tells reporters “even I couldn’t spin this NHS humanitarian crisis.”
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf better know as “Comical Ali” has told the British Government he can’t take the job as NHS spin doctor, as even he couldn’t try and convince the public the NHS hasn’t gone to shit. He said: “Even when there were US tanks behind me as I told TV cameras that Iraq was defeating the American invaders, I still thought I could win the PR war, but this NHS crisis is well beyond my delusional mind. In desperation...
London lawyers’ salaries highlight massive pay gaps in the UK
London might still be the best place in the UK to practice as a lawyer, with exceptionally high salaries and impressive annual pay rises that overshadow the rest of the country. BCL Legal Recruitment has recently released their internal data, which highlights the vast differences between London and other regions, as well as the salaries most lawyers can expect to earn during different stages of their career. The data shows that newly qualified commercial lawyers practising in London receive an...
Roast Restaurant Launch The ‘Ultimate Roast Burger’
Forget the detox, Christmas-level indulgence is the only tried and tested means of beating the January blues. Embracing consumers’ love of over the top hybrids, the traditional Sunday roast and the more recent gourmet burger trend, Borough Market’s Roast Restaurant will launch the ‘Ultimate Roast Burger’ this month. Developed by Head Chef Stuart Cauldwell, the burger will encapsulate the restaurant’s well-loved decadent roast dinners served. The roast potato, rosemary and garlic bun is stuffed with layers of Welsh Black roast...
Happy New Year! Pound slumps after May’s recent hard-Brexit comments
PM May’s first major interview of 2017 sent the pound into free fall after she made comments hinting at a “hard-Brexit.” She told Sky News that the UK will not try and keep “bits of EU membership.” During the interview she said: “Often people talk in terms as if somehow we are leaving the EU but we still want to kind of keep bits of membership of the EU. We are leaving. We are coming out. We are not going...
Manchester By The Sea: Review
By Linda Marric @linda_marric Written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By The Sea is a beautifully crafted powerful story which centres around themes of loss, frayed human relations, and more importantly the persistence of grief and how people deal with loss in different ways. Lonergan is well versed on things of this nature, given his critically acclaimed debut featureYou Can Count On Me which dealt with similar subjects. Casey Affleck is Lee, a withdrawn hard-working Boston handyman whose world...
Forget dieting – Exploring the World is now the main focus for Brits
New Year's resolutions tend to come and go, but there are a certain few that make the distance. This year more people than ever will be eschewing age-old (and ultimately futile) resolutions such as spending less time on social media, getting better sleep and eating more healthily and exchanging them for a more adventurous outlook. Exploring the world is now the main focus for millions of Brits, new research has found, with Italy emerging as the number-one dream destination this year....
Audio that shapes to the road
Michael Mauser, Executive Vice President, HARMAN Drawing from its 60-plus years of experience in acoustic design and signal processing, tech firm HARMAN is demonstrating ground-breaking updates at this week’s CES Show in Las Vegas where over 150,000 visitors are expected to cast an eye on the future technologies on show. According to industry leaders HARMAN, who already supply audio systems to a host of vehicle manufacturers, consumers are expecting more technology in the car but they also want it to...