London Cocktail Week: Everything you need to know about this festival of booze October 11, 2023 With 150 events taking place over 11 days, this year’s London Cocktail Week is bigger than ever, with more than 300 cocktails to try
Frontline LE60 and BEE GT: V8 and electric MGB restomods driven October 11, 2023 Tim Pitt drives two very different MGB restomods from Frontline: the V8-engined LE60 and the fully electric BEE GT.
Beleaguered London film studios could close despite demand spike, fear execs October 11, 2023 Demand for UK film and TV production is set to spike – just as new ‘studio taxes’ cause venues to fear going out of business, industry executives have warned. Studios face a newly-implemented business tax, known within the industry as a ‘studio tax’, which has halted productions and slowed others due to rising costs. The [...]
Holly Willoughby quits This Morning following Phillip Schofield exit earlier in year October 10, 2023 Holly Willoughby has announced she will leave popular ITV morning show This Morning. In a statement she has said she made the move “for me and my family.” Willoughby has not been on This Morning for the past week, following the formal charging of a man who was found to be soliciting to commit murder [...]
Patisserie Valerie: Four in court over bakery chain’s collapse October 10, 2023 The four defendants sat side by side in the dock at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, speaking only to confirm details.
Aston Martin to race for 2025 Le Mans victory with Valkyrie hypercar October 10, 2023 Aston Martin is aiming for victory at Le Mans in 2025 with the Valkyrie hypercar – and it will enter the WEC and IMSA championships, too.
Peter Grimes at ENO Review: A showcase of extraordinary talent October 10, 2023 It has been almost eighty years since Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes was first staged in London. Musically enthralling and dramatically astounding, it is no wonder that Grimes has stood the test of time, nonetheless this English National Opera revival of director David Alden’s 2009 production feels particularly pertinent in an increasingly polarised Britain. Based [...]
Falling price of butter leads the way as grocery inflation drops again October 10, 2023 Grocery price inflation has fallen again with the average price of a pack of butter now 16p less than a year ago, figures show. Prices across grocers were 11 per cent higher than a year ago for the four weeks to October 1, down from the previous month’s 12.2 per cent, analysts Kantar said. It [...]
This Lake District hotel has three incredible UK chefs and one Michelin star October 9, 2023 Three culinary hotshots are building the Lake District’s most exciting gastrotourism destination at the Gilpin Hotel, says Sophie Ibbotson It is often said that “too many cooks spoil the broth” but Gilpin Hotel & Lake House is counting on healthy rivalry to drive innovation in its kitchens. The Cumbrian hotel, which occupies a magnificent 100 [...]
Philip Guston at Tate Modern: A savage dissection of the banality of evil October 9, 2023 The furore surrounding the delay of this major Philip Guston retrospective precedes it. Originally due to tour in 2020 through London, Boston, Houston and Washington, the death of George Floyd, and the Black Lives Matter movement prompted its curators to balk at showing Guston’s highly controversial images of Ku Klux Klan figures, deeming it too [...]