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Grenadiers: proud to be one of the Army's oldest regiments

04.11.09
The Grenadier Guards is one of the oldest and most historic regiments in the British Army. Thirteen of its members have won the Victoria Cross and one the George Cross.... more

The 20p coin that is worth £50

29.06.09
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Play croquet on The Mall and learn street secrets

11.06.09
The Mall is to be turned into a grass court for a 17th-century version of croquet-cum-lacrosse... more

Old Bailey splendour revealed

16.03.09
This is an unprecedented look inside a building normally closed to the eyes of the outside world... more

Hobbes lacks heat

19.11.08
Those knowing next to nothing about Hobbes or Boyle will leave none the wiser about them after Adriano Shaplin's The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes.... more

2012 board holds its horses on Greenwich

31.10.08
The London Olympic Board has failed to endorse a plan to hold the Games's equestrian events in Greenwich Park, despite widespread expectations that they would do so... more

Equestrian event will carve up Greenwich Park flower garden

08.10.08
Greenwich Park could be damaged by plans to stage Olympic events in it, Games organisers have admitted for the first time... more

Olympics minister orders rethink over 2012 plans for Greenwich park

28.08.08
As concern grows over the plan to stage equestrian events in London’s world heritage park, Tessa Jowell calls in accountants in a move that could lead to Greenwich being scrapped as a venue.... more

Thames reveals forgotten wrecks

26.08.08
17th century warship and 'Dad's Navy' gunboat among the vessels rediscovered in huge salvage operation filmed by BBC.... more

Greenwich Park and a lesson from China

18.08.08
The scale of the Hong Kong equestrian facilities is breath-taking, with competition sites, buildings and villages spread over 350 acres. So how will we fit all this into just 180 acres?... more

This isn't the first threat to Greenwich's glorious park

31.07.08
With growing fears that Olympic equestrian events may damage the ancient beauty of Greenwich Park, residents are campaigning to get Olympic chiefs to amend their plans... more

This isn't the first threat to Greenwich's glorious park

30.07.08
With growing fears that Olympic equestrian events may damage the ancient beauty of Greenwich Park, residents are campaigning to get Olympic chiefs to amend their plans... more

2012 and the threat to an iconic London landscape

28.07.08
A keystone of our Olympic bid was the offer to hold the equestrian events in Greenwich Park. Now the Evening Standard can reveal just how devastating this could be... more

Pictured: WAG Carly Zucker dolls herself up... to collect shopping bags from her car

06.07.08
Getting caught looking dowdy is something WAG Carly Zucker strives hard to avoid. So when she spotted a photographer lurking she abandoned her shopping and quickly dashed inside.... more

Maritime museum to show seascapes

19.06.08
The National Maritime Museum is putting its collection of Dutch and Flemish sea scenes on display... more

Stamps celebrate St Paul's with Wren epitaph

13.05.08
The 300th anniversary of the completion of St Paul's Cathedral has been celebrated on a set of stamps... more

Cavalry comes to rescue at Chelsea hospital pageant

09.05.08
The Royal Hospital Chelsea's first pageant for 100 years will feature Judi Dench, Rory Bremner, Timothy Spall and Michael Portillo... more

Dotrice, 84, revives record-breaking one-man show

27.02.08
Roy Dotrice is reviving a one-man play that won him a place in the Guinness Book of Records 40 years ago.... more

Porn from the provinces

07.12.07
Discoveries at the National Gallery is a worthy project that aims to catalogue every publicly owned painting in Britain but it is populated by some surprisingly low-rent works.... more

Lusty laughs prove comedy is still in rude health

10.10.07
Jonathan Kent's production of The Country Wife is boisterous enough, but needs more comic invention to work.... more

The Wright Stuff

30.08.07
Joe Wright, the toast of Venice with the premiere of his film Atonement, talks about how he became Britain's hottest director.... more

Little Masters and Misses

03.08.07
In attempting to trace the evolution of children's portraiture from the 17th to the 19th century the German curated exhibtion at the Dulwich Picture Gallery falls short.... more

The £2m nude hidden in the king's bedroom

01.06.07
A masterpiece thought to depict a favourite mistress of King Charles II is expected to make up to £2 million at auction when it goes on sale at Christie's from Monday.... more

Royal art of seduction

20.04.07
In the second of a two-part review, Brian Sewell returns to the masterpieces of Italian art on show at the Queen's Gallery.... more

Nell Gwynne's local threatened with closure

05.04.07
One of London's most historic pubs, said to have been frequented by Nell Gwynne and, more recently, by Jude Law and Sienna Miller, is threatened with closure.... more

Girls on stage

31.08.06
April de Angelis's superbly acted Playhouse Creatures conjures up the backstage world of the first generation of professional actresses in the time of Charles II.... more

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