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With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
London,
11.09.09
Exclusive: The council at the centre of the Baby P scandal sent a foster child to live with the ringleader of the airline bomb plotters
09.09.09
The wife-killer allowed to take the Knowledge exam to become a black cabbie is already driving passengers on the streets of the capital
04.09.09
A wife-killer who has been allowed to train as a London taxi driver was cautioned for assault less than three months ago, the Standard can reveal
02.09.09
Convicted killer and paranoid schizophrenic allowed to study 'the knowledge' to become black cab driver despite public safety fears
28.08.09
Here are four words you don't much see, so make the most of them: God bless Greenwich Council
17.08.09
Next year, the French capital’s equivalent of the Central line will be fully automated with no disruption to passengers
12.08.09
Fines for not having the right ticket to travel are on the rise — but they are often not even legal. Andrew Gilligan reads you your rights
27.07.09
London's local newspapers are being squeezed out by a new breed of council freesheets. And it comes at a huge cost, says Andrew Gilligan
16.07.09
Boris Johnson could be forgiven any annoyance at being attacked as a "do-little mayor" by Stephan Shakespeare, the man behind the pollster YouGov and...
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14.07.09
Police question Boris Johnson's chief of staff, Sir Simon Milton, and his chief spin-doctor, Guto Harri, as part of their investigation into the...
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10.07.09
Serving GLA officials and Ken Livingstone’s former race adviser, Lee Jasper, are condemned in an official report by the district auditor...
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25.06.09
The Mayor should not hope to diminish the Ian Clement scandal by announcing improvements to the Tube
19.06.09
The number of Transport for London managers earning more than £100,000 rose by a third in Boris Johnson's first year as Mayor, new figures out next...
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18.06.09
Its effectiveness in Iran is overrated but it is the belief in change that matters, and which is being spread online
16.06.09
As a reporter for Channel 4's Dispatches, I make the kind of programmes which stand to gain from the "top-slicing" of the BBC licence fee proposed...
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29.05.09
London MP caught in a new expenses row after Evening Standard investigation finds she has been using taxpayers' cash to fund her constituency party
28.05.09
The charity which owns most of central Greenwich is seeking planning permission to demolish the town’s historic market and replace it with a...
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21.05.09
How would Arthur Daley have shifted this lot? A set of London’s bendy buses are up for sale — the first step of Boris Johnson’s pledge to eradicate...
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18.05.09
The backlash against the big parties is undeniable but it doesn't seem to be benefiting the BNP as much as you might think
15.05.09
Great Ormond Street Hospital has been accused of mounting a spin campaign to cover up its failings over Baby P
