Leisure: Two of West London’s most established hotels have been saved after a management buyout of Folio Hotels has secured 18 properties and 1200 jobs... more
Around 800 jobs have been saved after the administrators of perennially-struggling MK One sold on a large part of the discount womenswear retailer.... more
A suspected murderer on the run from a psychiatric hospital would not have broken free if he had been remanded to a jail, his alleged victim's mother claimed... more
The main 2012 Olympics host authority has become the latest London borough to face losing millions of taxpayers' money in the Icelandic bank collapse... more
A friend of Lily Allen was kidnapped, bundled into a car boot and held hostage in London for seven days. The 23-year-old singer revealed the extraordinary ordeal last night.... more
Kelly Brook and Billy Zane appear to have rekindled their romance just weeks after she called off their engagement. The pair reunited last night for an intimate dinner at a Thai restaurant after the Titanic star flew to London in a desperate bid to win back his former fiancee. Both spent the night at an exclusive West London hotel. However Kelly, who cut short a holiday in Cornwall to meet up with the actor, was not wearing her £35,000 diamond engagement ring... more
Roman Abramovich made sure his daughter had a 16th birthday to remember when he spent more than £200,000 on lavish celebrations last week. The billionaire hired out West End club Paper for his daughter Anna, who is a pupil at West London school Godolphin & Latymer
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Size 16 teenage beauty queen Chloe Marshall met her contenders for the annual Miss England competition. The semi-finalists were joined by the current title holder Georgia Horsley for a photo shoot in West London... more
The Mercer - opened in December on the site of a former champagne bar called The Ballroom by manager Jason Bedford and chef Warren Lee - is a truly proficient exercise in good taste.... more
Sienna Miller may have dazzled at the Baftas but less than 24 hours later, the actress has failed to make the same impression. Headed for LA, Sienna turned up at Heathrow airport on Monday looking dishevelled, but it was her broken suitcase that stole the show
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With his Ma Cuisine and La Brasserie, John McClements's colonisation of West London's leafy 'burbs continues apace. Latest to join them is little tapas outfit, El Vino.... more
Aaron Craze, born into a family of London criminals and who dropped out of school at 15, is to be named by Jamie Oliver as his natural successor.... more
If The Gate has the best vegetarian food in London, Toby Young would hate to sample the worst. Stay at home and eat a banana instead, he suggests.... more
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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