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“The offices will be for large corporations and the retail spaces will be for large brands. The more dominant these large corporate buildings become in the area, the less it caters for the local community and the less affordable it is.”  The trust launched its Battle for Brick Lane campaign with a public exhibition in nearby Princelet Street, featuring photographs of the street from the past 30 years taken by Phil Maxwell.  The Truman Brewery in its current guise. The Spitalfields site i...

Patrick Frawley, who owns and operates five pubs and bars in central London as well as five restaurants and bars in Ireland via the East London Pub Company, believes hospitality has been thrown to the wolves in 2020. Ive been self-employed for 21 years and weve had tricky years before, but weve never had something more challenging than this year.  Weve been quite fortunate as a company because half the company is based in London, half the company is in Ireland. When...

Most of the Atcha menus vegetarian, and more than halfs vegan, and they deliver across London. While you can order one-off dishes from their range of south Asian-influenced rice bowls, soups and salads, their fill-your-fridge package aims to keep you going for a week — any five dishes (each of them three portions) from the heat at home range, for £40. Brighten your lunchbreaks with sesame-dotted beetroot thoran, a gobhi sabzi glowing with turmeric, and the smoky aubergine curry. Order from ...

Formula 1’s former boss Bernie Ecclestone, who is worth £2.5 billion, once warned his daughter, Tamara, against the perils of reality television before she starred in a series about her life called Billion $ Girl. But it fell on deaf ears then, and his future son-in-law, Sam Palmer, who is engaged to Ecclestone’s younger daughter, Petra, obviously has no reservations about the concept either because he is taking the plunge so he can lift the lid on the ‘demanding’ lives of the rich and...

“The hospitality sector has shut down again, but our traders are very versatile" As London and most of the South East of the UK went back into lockdown on Sunday, London’s fruit and veg traders had to cope with the loss of the food service trade again. The lock down was sudden but not unexpected. “It was no more sudden that the last one but the news of this new strain of Covid has only been in the news for a few days,” says Christopher Hutchinson, Tenants Association at New Spitalfields...

Jack the Ripper and the Yorkshire Ripper are different people, folks Sun Dec 20, 2020 at 11:18am ET The Yorkshire Ripper turned out to be Peter Sutcliffe who ultimately confessed. Pic credit: Netflix The Ripper dropped on Netflix this past Wednesday, leaving some U.S. audiences confused concerning who the movie is actually about. Some American viewers thought this four-part documentary’s title belonged to Jack the Ripper when actually the gruesome series was named for the Yorkshire Ripper. Du...

Published: 7:00 AM December 18, 2020    Richard Ince, of Ince Umbrellas, has signed his shop up to the scheme - Credit: East End Trades Guild Umbrella makers, jewellers and other independent stores in Tower Hamlets have joined forces to provide Christmas shoppers with an alternative to Amazon this week.  As London moved into Tier 3 coronavirus restrictions, the East End Trades Guild announced it had set up a one-stop online shop, bringing together more than 20 businesses.  It is estimated ...

Friday 18 December 2020 Nick Dolding Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore - more often known as art duo Gilbert & George - have been creating their highly distinctive artwork together for over 50 years. They refer to it all as ‘sculpture’, but theirs is by no means a one-size-fits-all approach: from performance art to drawing, painting and large-scale photography, their oeuvre is enormously rich and varied. The pair, who met in 1967 during their studies at St Martin’s School of Art, have a...

The multi-hyphenate soprano is returning to the stage for her virtual A Christmas Symphony show this Sunday — and it features a special guest: her ex-husband and renowned composer Andrew Lloyd Webber! Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following Youll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. "Its been a delight to work on this show," Brightman, 60, tells PEOPLE. "...

Ben Howard — Collections from the Whiteout Some of Ben Howards subsequent music has had a problem with murkiness, lacking the ability to hold attention as it smears ambient passages all over. On this fourth album, his stepping to one side really works. He has accepted the involvement of producer Aaron Dessner’s impeccable address book, found a balance that could please everyone. For Those I Love — For Those I Love The dance music that David Balfe creates on this extraordinary debut album ...