Jason Bruges and Stefan Dzisiewski-Smith are the designers behind a playful digital fountain at Westfield Stratford - next they plan a device for shoppers to measure their speed against Usain Bolt's... more
There is, said Rupert Brooke, "some corner of a foreign field that is forever England". Nowadays there is a corner of England - or more specifically of London - that may be forever a foreign field... more
Well done to HMV, which was voted Best Bricks & Mortar Retailer and Best Blu-ray Retailer by the UK film industry at its annual British Video Association awards, held at Old Billingsgate Market in the City... more
One of London's biggest basement excavations is set to be approved next month despite residents' fears that it will create a major flooding risk
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The property market began the New Year with a "whimper rather than a bang" as house prices showed their first annual decline since August 2009, building society Nationwide says... more
Hundreds of London’s most expensive homes will escape the new five per cent stamp duty band on properties over £1 million announced in the Budget yesterday by Alistair Darling... more
Formula One motor racing boss Bernie Ecclestone pocketed a pay rise of nearly 15 per cent last year, despite the fact the sports series is haemorrhaging over £300 million a year... more
In launching his putsch on the Financial Services Authority and overhaul of City regulation, George Osborne paid tribute to Sir James Sassoon as the Shadow Chancellor’s adviser. This is most odd... ... more
The founder of Foxtons estate agency is spending millions creating a five-storey extension beneath his home with room for a tennis court and vintage car museum... more
Recession - what recession? Last week I went to two of the most lavish parties I've been to for many a moon (and believe me, I go to a lot of parties)... more
Roman Abramovich has been granted planning permission to build Britain's most expensive private residence - with a swimming pool and private cinema.... more
Lakshmi Mittal, Britain's richest man and a prominent Labour Party donor, has bought his third property in London's most expensive street for £70 million... more
The slapstick comedy of Oxford Shakespeare Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream makes it seem at times more schoolyard scrap than sexually charged romp.... more
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