Letters to the Editor – 14/02 – East London, Scots uncertainty, Best of Twitter February 13, 2014 East London [Re: The Docklands legacy can help fix London’s chronic housing crisis, Wednesday] Andrew Adonis’s proposal for a new Ebbsfleet town seems muddled. The area needs a Thames Estuary airport, bringing jobs and all the knock-on economic benefits. Yet Adonis’s Go East report favours Heathrow expansion – hardly designed to move the economic centre [...]
Creating the height of luxury at The Shard February 13, 2014 Laura Ivill speaks to André Fu about his design plans for the world’s top hotels AS I join André Fu at The Berkeley hotel in Knightsbridge, the sunlight is pouring in and he is surrounded by flowers. It is three weeks before his new suite is launched and he is working on the final details [...]
Marriage of the old and the new in St John’s Wood February 13, 2014 Meet the modern townhouse with six floors, a home cinema, a gym, and a spare studio apartment LONDON TOWNHOUSES are the last traditonal homes in this thoroughly modern city. But increasing demand has inspired a developer to see if it could build one that would take the contemporary market by storm. Park View, in St [...]
Focus on Kennington: Undiscovered gem in south London February 13, 2014 IT’S HARD to find an area in this city that hasn’t been re-discovered, re-packaged, and re-sold to the highest bidder in recent years. But one pocket of central London still remains an underrated gem, ripe for development, and increasingly attractive to investors. Kennington, located just south of the river from Westminster, has housed a heady [...]
Internet dating – literally… February 13, 2014 FILM HER Cert 15 | By Alex Dymoke Five Stars HER is set in a hazily utopian Los Angeles of the not too distant future. At night the city is lit up like the milky way. During the day it looks like a Google advert, with streets full of serene, handsome people gliding along in [...]
Yarnold ready to deliver Britain’s first Winter gold February 13, 2014 OVERWHELMING skeleton favourite Lizzy Yarnold is on the cusp of winning Britain’s first gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Sochi today – and only the team’s third in 30 years. The 25-year-old set a track record in yesterday’s opening heat and extended her overall lead to 0.44 seconds after recording the fastest time of [...]
Stadium green light is boost to Man City coffers February 13, 2014 MEGA-RICH Manchester City stand to strengthen their position further after being formally granted permission to make the Etihad Stadium the second biggest ground in English football. The Premier League title favourites plan to add a total of 14,500 extra seats, taking capacity to more than 62,000, in time for the 2015-16 season. Only Old Trafford, [...]
Froch-Groves rematch set for May February 13, 2014 AN 80,000-strong crowd is expected at the highly-anticipated rematch between British super-middleweights Carl Froch and George Groves on 31 May, says promoter Eddie Hearn. The pair produced a thrilling fight at the Manchester Arena last November, before Groves was prematurely stopped in the ninth round by referee Howard Foster, leading to immediate calls for Froch [...]
Bell among England stars unsold February 13, 2014 CRICKET: Batsman Ian Bell heads a list of 10 English players, including Ravi Bopara and Alex Hales, left unsold at the end of the Indian Premier League auction.
Advantage Australia in first Test February 13, 2014 CRICKET: South Africa trail Australia by 257 runs after day two of the first Test in Centurion. The hosts are 140-6 in reply to Australia’s 397 all out.
