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Sonia Purnell

Ken still casts a long shadow over Boris's City Hall

As this week's Evening Standard poll dramatically showed, the outcome of May's mayoral election is too close to call between Boris Johnson and his Labour rival Ken Livingstone. The two principal mayoral contenders may seem like polar opposites - the charming Etonian chancer and the nasal newt-lover from a south London comp. They may have very different policies on fares, policing or the mayoral precept. But in reality, if Ken does get back, will much really change at City Hall itself?

15 February 2012 12:01 PM

A culinary star hidden in the lakes

L'ENCLUME
Cartmel, Cumbria

24 February 2010 04:37 PM

Natural History Museum's Darwin Centre can rival the dinosaurs

At first glance it looks like something that a Tyrannosaurus rex might hatch from. White, polished, slightly lop-sided and measuring some 60 metres long by 28 metres high, the new Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum is egg-like and faintly menacing. In a terribly stylish, architectural way, of course.

08 September 2009 12:00 AM

Brussels sprouts wings

Brussels used to suffer from a serious inferiority complex.

03 June 2009 11:58 AM

Buy! Buy! Buy!

For buyers, it's finally back to the good old days. After months of famine, houses are trickling onto the market and tales abound of dramatically reduced asking prices. Price cuts of about 25 per cent are seeing a resurgence in London house sales, which sends the strongest signal yet — the buyers' market is back.

10 March 2009 10:15 AM