JOHNSON FIRST TO RIDE NEW RAIL LINE April 27, 2010 LONDON Mayor Boris Johnson was the first passenger to ride the new £1bn East London Line, which opened yesterday with a “preview” service of eight trains an hour between New Cross Gate and Dalston Junction. The new line will connect Highbury & Islington to South Croydon by 2011 and Clapham Junction by 2012.
SOLVED: MYSTERY OF VANISHING FORMER PM July 5, 2010 IT WAS a rip-roaring ride for those who turned up at the swanky Renaissance Chancery Court Hotel in Holborn yesterday to hear Mayor Boris Johnson exercise his notoriously sharp tongue. Boris, the guest of honour at the Cities of London and Westminster Conservative Association’s annual lunch, certainly knows how to play to an audience including [...]
Master of the antiques world July 1, 2010 ECCENTRIC springs to mind when I meet Thomas Woodham-Smith. He bounds into the Mallett showroom on Bond Street where he is managing director, second to chief executive Giles Hutchinson Smith, and shows me a picture he had taken on his way to the interview: “It’s a happy piece of string, I just saw it lying [...]
Master of the antiques world July 1, 2010 ECCENTRIC springs to mind when I meet Thomas Woodham-Smith. He bounds into the Mallett showroom on Bond Street where he is managing director, second to chief executive Giles Hutchinson Smith, and shows me a picture he had taken on his way to the interview: “It’s a happy piece of string, I just saw it lying [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS May 3, 2010 TRINITY GOES LITERARY Recipe books are ten-a-penny, but not many leave us as watered-of-mouth as How to Eat In by Adam Byatt, chef patron of Clapham’s rather fabulous Trinity restaurant. It’s a tome of serious beauty – the full-page pictures of boiled goose eggs with asparagus soldiers and a sensational fish pie topped with cockles [...]
Conservatives take Battersea seat in landmark victory May 6, 2010 CONSERVATIVE GAIN Swing 6.5% CONSERVATIVE candidate Jane Ellison last night took London’s most marginal seat, Battersea, with a swing of 6.5 per cent – putting the party close to the 7 per cent it would need to gain an overall majority across the country. Ellison garnered 47.3 per cent of the vote – up from [...]
Tootsies folds after Clapham House hires administrators October 12, 2009 TOOTSIES, the restaurant chain, yesterday fell casualty to the credit crunch after its parent Clapham House called the administrators in. Clapham House said it had put Tootsies into administration because “there was little prospect of the Tootsies business as a whole generating a profit in the near future”. The group said it was acting to [...]
Clapham House expects trading to remain tough September 29, 2009 RESTAURANT group Clapham House yesterday said revenues grew two per cent in the first half to the end of March compared with a year earlier, but it expects the trading environment in the UK to remain tough, especially at its Tootsies business. The owner and operator of Gourmet Burger Kitchen, The Real Greek and Tootsies [...]
South London set to soar in 2012 April 29, 2010 WITH the opening of a segment of the East London Line extension this week, Hackney, Wapping and Shoreditch just became a lot more desirable. Yet the best property moves are made well in advance of such obvious bonuses, so if you’re looking to buy now, consider the areas of south-east and south-west London that will [...]
FOCUS ON: BATTERSEA March 4, 2010 FOXMORE STREET, SW11 4pu Price: £1.995m It might look small from the outside but this end-of-terrace property near Battersea Park has almost 3,000 sq ft of space. Set over four floors, it has five bedrooms, an open-plan double reception room with a fireplace and high quality solid oak flooring. There is also a modern kitchen [...]