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Will and Testament (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Pope Benedict has signaled that the path is clear for John Henry Newman to be beatified. Beatification is the final stage prior to full canonisation within the Catholic Church. Cardinal Newman, a former Oxford professor and Anglican priest who became England's most famous convert to Catholicism, already bears the honorific title "venerable", and with beatification will be called "blessed"....
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Sky News (Free subscription) | 34 minutes ago
America's Serena Williams has lifted the women's singles title at Wimbledon after beating her older sister Venus in straight sets.
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 21 minutes ago
Clockwise from top left: Greenwich + Docklands Festival , Barbican pavilion , Peckham rooftop sculpture , "> Smoke gets in your eyes Our most popular posts from the past seven days, and a round-up of what made the news in the city this week. Michael Jackson death aftermath: moonwalk memorials and rumours both probable and improbable Lambeth Council announced plans to control public drinking...
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 50 minutes ago
Taking a staycation? No holiday at all? Locked in London for the rest of the sweltering summer? Hooray! You can come to the Camden Fringe . Bigger, better and more pigeony than ever before, the sparky young pretender to the deranged and sprawling Ed Fest throne bursts out all over Camden from 3 to 30 August with 399 performances of 118 different shows across 4 venues. Michelle and Zena are the plucky...
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The huge fire which raged through seven floors of a block of flats in Camberwell yesterday afternoon may have been started deliberately. It is now known that three adults and three children, one only three weeks old, died in the blaze at Lakanal House. Eighteen fire engines and a hundred firefighters attended the scene. The fire seems to have begun in a flat on the fourth floor: fire investigators...
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Last night the Architectural Association school officially launched their summer pavilion in Bedford Square. Designed by level 2 students at the school, "Driftwood" is built from a plywood spruce structure provided by a Finnish timber merchant, with the cladding consisting of 28 layers of 4mm thick plywood. The flowing, heavily computer-aided design, which the designers say is inspired by...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Case causes fresh embarrassment for Equality and Human Rights Commission boss Trevor Phillips The government's equality watchdog, set up to combat all forms of prejudice at work, faces a sex discrimination lawsuit this week from a female member of its own staff. The case is a fresh embarrassment for Trevor Phillips, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, who is widely expected to be...
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Of course, I could be wrong... (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
This is the general chit chat post for the Of Course I Could Be Wrong... crowd. A new thread will be started everyday. You may use this post to talk to each other about whatever you like. Today is a day of great shame for the people of England. If only we had tried just a little bit harder and had beaten the colonists in the so called War of Independence, (and if only they and their French saviours...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Plans for a £5.5m centre for homeless people in Northampton are going before councillors next week.
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look great with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. I’m Mike . I’m a Photoholic. I’ve taken lots of pictures and I can’t stop. I’m 46. It’s my job, and it’s a constant struggle to make a living from...
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icWales (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Overseas aid is to be rebranded in a bid to raise public awareness at home and abroad and help maintain support for spending during the downturn, the Government said.
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Many of us over here are looking forward with great anticipation to Be Faithful! – Confessing Anglicans in Global and Local Mission taking place in Central Hall Westminster on Monday. As of Thursday night, over 1000 people were registered. We expect more to come. We are encouraged by the number of Church of England Bishops [...]
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Splintered Sunrise (Free subscription) | 34 minutes ago
And so the long shadow of the Spanish Civil War is still very much in evidence, at least as far as Catholic politics is concerned. One of the peculiarities of the Franco regime was that, while in general institutional Catholicism became a prop of the regime, sometimes by default and ...
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tailte | 22/04/2009
Generations of African rural communities have used locally grown plant extracts and oils for nutritional, medicinal and cosmetic purposes. One such plant product is marula oil, which is extracted from the fruit kernels of the marula tree, native to southern Africa. Previously unheard of outside of Africa, the oil is becoming increasingly popular because of its superb antioxidant, nourishing and moisturising
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kellya | 25/03/2009
The rate of tuberculosis in San Francisco has been dropping over the last decade, but health officials say they are seeing a new type of TB patient, someone who isn't poor or homeless or a newly arrived immigrant.
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ilikecats | 26/09/2008
Betsy, as she has been named, became a minor celebrity when London's only cat vet posted videos of her on the Internet in an attempt to find her owners. However, it was an article in a local newspaper describing her as "old, homeless and [with] a tendency to lash out unexpectedly" that ultimately led to her re-homing. Since being rescued by Kitten to Cat in June, Betsy became a star attraction with...
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