WE’RE halfway through The London Restaurant Festival – a fixture on the eating-out scene for the past 15 years. This glossy ...

A SILLY week in which Manchester City and the Premier League have been battling it out over some complicated financial issues – only for journalists, fans and football people in general to conclude ...

POISONOUS flea powder is killing wildlife on Hampstead Heath – and new research shows levels of pollutants in ponds used by pets to bathe have dangerous levels of chemicals in them. A study conducted ...

OBITUARY writing has been in decline for some time. When somebody famous dies these days, shift reporters will be sent to quickly find tributes to the departed, which will essentially mean a trawl of ...

OUTSPOKEN historian Sir David Starkey said the UK should be looking for solutions to cost-cutting from the Victorian age as he appeared at a conference fringe meeting on Monday. As members discussed ...

WE are all busy people. I know I try to plan my diary to do what I need to do. But things happen… and there are two things that are definite. Death and taxes. Since being asked to write this article a ...

IN 1925 British astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne (Maureen Beattie) claimed that the stars are made of hydrogen and helium. Her PhD adviser, Henry Norris Russell (Julian Wadham), head of ...

THE first of more than 100 murals has been completed in Camden as a part of a month-long festival spanning 15 boroughs in London. The London Mural festival which is running throughout September is ...

SIR Keir Starmer told the Labour Party conference this week he knew plans to take away the winter fuel allowance from all but the very poorest pensioners was an unpopular move – as unions demanded the ...

PINS and Needles is presented as verbatim drama. A writer, Rob Drummond (Gavi Singh Chera), walks on stage to tell us about his research into the politics surrounding vaccinations. He introduces three ...

WOULD you allow a hole to be drilled into your garden fence to promote Hampstead Heath’s hedgehog population? Organisations Growing Green and Heath Hands are on a mission to create a “hedgehog highway ...

THE young woman gazes steadily out of the picture, with a look that is wary and combative all at once. Who is she? What is she thinking? How does she feel? Fortunately, the person who painted her, ...