NEED TO KNOW | AREA INSIGHT March 3, 2011 COMMUTING: Trains to Waterloo take a reasonable thirty-five minutes. EDUCATION: The Royal Grammar for boys, Guildford High School and Tormead for girls are all well-known. George Abbot is the preferred state secondary, judged outstanding by Ofsted. Buy in the north-eastern corner of town to ensure you are in its catchment area. CRIME: Rates are reassuringly [...]
NEED TO KNOW | AREA INSIGHT March 3, 2011 COMMUTING: Trains to Waterloo take a reasonable thirty-five minutes. EDUCATION: The Royal Grammar for boys, Guildford High School and Tormead for girls are all well-known. George Abbot is the preferred state secondary, judged outstanding by Ofsted. Buy in the north-eastern corner of town to ensure you are in its catchment area. CRIME: Rates are reassuringly [...]
RBS GIVES BACK WITH BORIS BUSINESS DEAL May 15, 2011 GOOD to see that RBS, 83 per cent owned by the taxpayer, is giving something back, after the bank donated £275,000 to Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s “Business Bootcamps”. The scheme, launched last Friday, aims to help London’s fledgling entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground through a series of bootcamp-style workshops run by business [...]
NEED TO KNOW | AREA INSIGHT March 17, 2011 Commuting: Based at the southern end of District Line, Wimbledon Station has good access to West and Central London. There are also regular overground trains to Waterloo (taking 19 minutes) and a twice-hourly service to St. Pancras (taking 40 minutes). Education: Ursuline High for girls and Wimbledon College for boys are two above-average comprehensives. Wimbledon [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS April 11, 2011 BISTRO DU VIN OPENS… It’s all happening in Clerkenwell. Hot on the heels of last week’s Zetter Townhouse launch – a hotel which happens to include an apothecary-style cocktail bar from the 69 Colebroke Row crew – comes a slick new eatery on St John Street (surely London’s foodiest thoroughfare) in the space vacated by [...]
JD Wetherspoon sees profit drop by 11pc March 11, 2011 JD Wetherspoon reported an 11 per cent decline in first half pre-tax profit, blaming higher interest charges following the renewal of its bank facilities in March last year. The company, which has 787 pubs across Britain made a pretax profit of £32.2m in the half year to 23 January, down from £36.2m the year before. [...]
Please vote No today – even if you don’t care May 4, 2011 HAVE you done it yet today? How did you feel? I don’t want to get too soppy about this, but putting a cross in a box in a national referendum should be an emotional experience. It is an issue of such importance that the government and parliament feel it is not a decision they can [...]
Please vote No today – even if you don’t care May 4, 2011 HAVE you done it yet today? How did you feel? I don’t want to get too soppy about this, but putting a cross in a box in a national referendum should be an emotional experience. It is an issue of such importance that the government and parliament feel it is not a decision they can [...]
A tapas triumph in Covent Garden March 14, 2011 Opera Tavern 23 Catherine St, WC2B 5JS, Tel: 020 7836 3680 www.operatavern.co.uk FOOD HHHHI SERVICE HHHHI ATMOSPHERE HHHHI Cost per person without wine: £35 OPERA Tavern has been opened by the husband and wife team behind two of London’s best-regarded tapas restaurants, Salt Yard and Dehesa. This one’s in Covent Garden, just off the piazza, [...]
NEED TO KNOW | AREA INSIGHT March 10, 2011 Education: Awash with good schools. St James’s Roman Catholic Primary School is rated “excellent” by Ofsted, as are St Saviour’s Grammar School and St Olave’s Grammar School for boys, and Darrick Wood School – a co-educational comprehensive. Parents of sporty kids may want to consider The Priory School, a specialist sports college. Crime: Rates are [...]