Latest Entries

Friday, September 3, 2010

Tax Free Shopping

VAT refunds for Tourists, Tax Refunds, Shop Tax Free

Via del.icio.us london (RSS)

Selecting The Right New Years Eve Party Bar in London

Remarkable Article on New Years Eve Party Restaurants in London

Via del.icio.us london (RSS)

Hugh Muir's diary

The Journey is fine, Tony. A bigger problem is the destination• So the Journey is well under way and what a Journey it is: the fastest selling political memoir in British political history, it is said. But many of the passengers are disgruntled. Saddening, says Andy Burnham. The "memoirs of a…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

William Hague: Private life, public judgments | Editorial

The very possibility of bisexuality can sometimes run into the same disbelief that Queen Victoria is said to have shown towards lesbianismIt has to be said that something is awry when rumours about a politician's sexuality leave him feeling forced to publicise the miscarriages his wife has…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

Social class affects white pupils' exam results more than those of ethnic minorities – study

Poverty affects grades less among non-white children with social divide noticeable from primary schoolA child's social class is more likely to determine how well they perform in school if they are white than if they come from an ethnic minority, researchers have discovered.The gap between the…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

Letters: Tomlinson inquest needs a senior judge

How convenient for the Crown Prosecution Service that the General Medical Council's damning indictment of Dr Freddy Patel's conduct of postmortems didn't come out before it took its predictable decision not to proceed with any prosecution over the death of Ian Tomlinson (Report, 31 August). Now…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

School lotteries fail to help poorer pupils

Middle-class families still dominate best schools despite attempts to close class gapMiddle-class families monopolise the best schools even when a lottery is used to allocate places, according to a study published today.Lotteries have been seen by some educationists as a way of reducing…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

Thursday, September 2, 2010

London Fieldworks

Spontaneous City - birdhouses

Via del.icio.us london (RSS)

Andy Coulson's government job under renewed attack

PM under pressure to sack director of communications following new allegations in New York Times over unlawful phone hackingDavid Cameron was tonight facing renewed pressure to sack Andy Coulson as the Downing Street director of communications in the face of new allegations in the New York Times…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

Police and dirty politics | Chris Bryant

The latest phone hacking revelations make the story even more shocking. David Cameron must sack Andy CoulsonWith the allegations in the New York Times linking Andy Coulson to phone hacking while he was editor of the News of the World, it is becoming clearer day by day that the sticky carpet of…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

Northern Ireland police query £12m cost of work on 'past atrocities'

Deputy Chief Constable says force wants to spend money on 'here and now', but with unsolved murders and families who feel cases have been overlooked, justice issue is difficult to resolveInvestigating past atrocities is costing police in Northern Ireland £12m a year, driven by the need to supply…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

Met asked to reveal what it knew about NoW hacking of officers' phones

Labour wants assurances that the inquiry into the scandal was not weakenedScotland Yard was tonight under fresh pressure to reveal what it knew about attempts by the News of the World to hack the phones of senior police officers.Concern over the extent of the News of the World's hacking of the…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

Maths prodigy, now 15, heads for Cambridge

Arran Fernandez, who hit headlines in 2001 for his mathematical prowess, set to become university's youngest student since 1773At 15, most teenagers are struggling to get their heads around the algebra and equations of maths GCSE. Not Arran Fernandez.Next month, he will become the youngest student…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

Fertility study on mice eggs raise hope for older mothers

UK research identifying loss of key protein in mice eggs is seen as a breakthrough that may help prevent birth defectsScientists have made a breakthrough in understanding why older women become less fertile, suffer a miscarriage or have a baby with Down's syndrome.The discovery could ultimately…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

News of the World faces fresh phone hacking charge

• Calls for judicial inquiry after reporter is suspended• Latest phone hacking allegation dates from earlier this year• Four targets poised to sue police over failure to warn themThe government tonight came under pressure to set up a judicial inquiry into the phone hacking scandal at the…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

From bully Brown to St Gordon: former PM sets out his plans for the future

Gordon Brown ignores the controversy over Tony Blair's memoir and attempts to reshape his image, with announcement of several charitable projectsHe has been accused of blackmail, and described as "cursed" and having "zero" emotional intelligence in print by Tony Blair in a week in which his…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

Hospitals warned over doses of drugs given to babies

The National Patient Safety Agency issues alert following death of baby girl given too high amount of dextroseHospitals have been told to take care when giving infants intravenous doses of fluids or drugs, after a baby girl died after a glucose overdose at Great Ormond Street children's hospital…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

Child grooming case mother warns it could happen to any family

Speaking after nine men are convicted of exploiting daughter, 14, parents praise police, CPS and charity for supportThe mother of a teenage girl who was groomed by a group of predatory men, plied with drugs and alcohol and forced to have sex with several men against her will, has warned that the…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

Michael White's political briefing | Sex, lies and Fleet Street headlines

Gay Tory MPs are adamant that the foreign secretary is not, as Lady Thatcher used to say, 'one of us', but it doesn't end thereReporters who remember William Hague's byelection win in Richmond in 1989 affectionately recall one odd aspect of the campaign. Whatever they asked a Conservative press…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

Chief rabbi challenges Stephen Hawking in row over origins of universe

Lord Sacks accuses astrophysicist of logical fallacy in book excluding possibility of supernatural creationThe chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, hit back at Stephen Hawking after the astrophysicist said God did not create the universe.In his new book, The Grand Design, published next week, Hawking…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

William Hague furore raises questions over special advisers

Senior Whitehall figures concerned that Tory party employees have been given civil service rolesThe coalition has quietly appointed a string of party employees to civil service roles – including one aide to the foreign secretary, William Hague – in a move that has raised concerns among senior…

Via Guardian UK News (RSS)

Suggest a Feed!