BRITISH SANDWICH WEEK May 20- 26 may have caught many of you unawares, what with the constant influx of National Days, Weeks and Months celebrating everything from the capital’s cocktails to fast food chicken wings, but there are still a few days left to honour the humble British sarnie. The sandwich was named after the […]
WHAT’S HOT LONDON? is bucking the fashion trend and seeking the less represented in the fashion and modelling industry. So if you’re male, aged 40-65 and see yourself as the Hot Male of 2018 why not enter our competition? Life doesn’t end at middle-age and we aim to prove this by providing you with the […]
May is Local and Community History Month so get googling or pop down the library to research the history of your local area, you may find a few surprises. I bet your local pub has a hidden history beyond the tudor architecture and listed building status. Take a look at these historic London pubs associated […]
Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery will be opening late for Museums at Night May 16-19. Galleries and museums all over the UK will be extending their opening hours for talks, workshops and special events. Rachel Howard conducts a tour of her Repetition is Truth exhibition at the Newport Street Gallery and enlightens about how her large-scale […]
Those in the know amongst the capital’s wine connoisseurs would have marked London Wine Week 2018 in their summer diaries and headed for this seven-day festival’s hub at Flat Iron Square, Bankside. This Borough foodie yard will be hosting pop up bars from the likes of Muscadet from the Loire Valley and Spanish rose wine […]
IN 2015 The Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs introduced a 5p charge for plastic bags at shops that employed more than 250 people. This was Britain’s first step towards tackling a global plastic crisis that has seen oceans and waterways littered with waste, which will take 500 years to decompose. Like many environmental […]
KEW GARDENS was originally the private woodlands and riding grounds surrounding Kew Palace, King George III’s convalescence home, and the red-bricked state residence is still on the land despite being sold off by Queen Victoria. Today Kew is in the news because of the £18 million restoration of Temperate House which was recently reopened by […]
The National Portrait Gallery is celebrating the golden career of the first and only England captain to lift the World Cup. Former West Ham captain, Robert Frederick Chelsea Moore was born in Barking and signed professional for West Ham, his local club, in 1956 and went on to make 647 appearances for them in the […]
It may not seem the weather for it but canalside dining is the perfect antidote for a British winter. Add Venezuelan cuisine into the mix and that’s sunshine South America by way of Haggerston, East London. Certainly, as soon as you enter, the huge welcome message of ‘Bienvenidos’ above the rainbow-coloured counter will lighten up […]
LITTLE VENICE is a pretty suitable description for this tranquil canal area which is on everyone’s list of the capital’s most romantic and picturesque places to visit. We can thank 19th-century poet Robert Browning for naming it after Italy’s more famous city of waterways. But there are no gondolas here, although, swans and ducks are […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
