Kitchen chaos regularly greets Joseph Sopher's wife Jackie when she comes downstairs in the morning. Says her husband, a 53-year-old popcorn-making pioneer: "I wake up at three or four and think 'I know: toffee apple and cinnamon!' If I've got the ingredients, I make it immediately. I'm not exactly the tidiest chef though" ... more
Shoreditch is set to be home to a "mini Bond Street" as luxury fashion houses Christian Louboutin, Ralph Lauren and Vivienne Westwood home in on London's east end, setting the stage for a possible doubling of rents over five years... more
We decide to go for hair appointments. Dorothy is booked into Harrods Pet Spa and indeed, we arrive late after she pees on someone's handbag and causes a little argument... more
Harrods has scrapped its 'old fashioned' rug department and brought in 'rock 'n' roll' ranges by designers such as Sir Paul Smith, Allegra Hicks and Matthew Williamson... more
What's the best way to guarantee the quality of a particular place's wines? In most of the New World, growers can plant whatever grapes they want, where they want... more
Desperate foodies seeking tables at the Harrods pop-up version of The French Laundry restaurant will have to call a booking line in California within a three-hour window exactly four weeks before the day they want to eat... more
A London couple are launching Britain's first store selling 'mini-me' dolls, with designer outfits and even skin tones to match the little girls who own them... more
He is a passionate advocate of smoking and freedom of choice. Now artist David Hockney has linked his two obsessions in a remarkable new artwork based on cigarette packets... more
Wednesday's U-turn on interest rates from the Bank of England's Martin Weale and Spencer Dale, brings back uncomfortable echoes of the last time members of the MPC backed down from calls to raise rates... more
With the Olympics coming, Londoners are keener than ever to exercise but can't find the time. Bella Blissett tests some new equipment that may make it
easier to stay fit... more
City Spy hopes jolly Scot David Orr makes a few bob from the sale of his Mint Hotel group. Sadly the annual accounts for the year to March, just filed at Companies House, reveal that most of the £550 million Blackstone is reportedly offering will be pocketed by the banks... more
High-performance cars worth hundreds of thousands of pounds are seized and drivers fined during a police crackdown on boy racers in Knightsbridge... more
If you are working out in any of London's lidos or planning to water ski on holiday this summer, your make-up will suddenly have to pass the splash test... more
London's 20 most "unmissable" shops have been named. They have been selected by people who should know - Britain's most powerful high street bosses... more
Davina McCall should be turfed out of any stylish store for this unusual and grass-like coat. The TV presenter was spotted leaving London's upmarket Harrod's store wearing a rather huge, furry green number which resembled the bright green fake grass AstroTurf. It made the former Big Brother host look rather like The Grinch - the odious green Dr Seuss character who stole Christmas
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Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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