Times Online (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Remember the fable of Chicken Licken? Not quite, perhaps. For the benefit of all the other readers who, like me, could never quite sustain interest to the punch line, I’ve had a look on Google, and here is a quick recap.
MixTogether & Friends (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
18 year old Sher Singh of Wren Avenue, Southall, will appear at Ealing Magistrates Court today, charged with the murder of Geeta Aulakh. Before Sher Singh was charged, the Guardian reported: Senior sources believe the 28-year-old was held down by more than one assailant and struck repeatedly with either a sabre or ...
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 Ealing Studios black comedy starring Alec Guinness as each one of the family members who must be bumped off before our protagonist can inherit the Dukedom. I bought it for The Husband as part of this set . It's on Time's list of 100 best films. It's 6th on the BFI list of top 100 British films. trailer: Roger Ebert has it on his list of great movies. FilmReference.com...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
A teenager has been charged with the murder of a mother-of-two who was found dying in a west London street with one of her hands cut off. Geeta Aulakh, 28, was found fatally injured by a passerby in Greenford on Monday evening, a week ago. A postmortem examination gave the cause of her death as severe head injury. Sher Singh, 18, of Southall, was charged with her murder yesterday and will appear at...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bawdy farce involving Tom Jones's penis becomes a multiplex sensation The Hollywood blockbusters 2012 and A Christmas Carol are playing to respectable audiences Merthyr Tydfil's Vue multiplex, entertaining fans with their multimillion pound effects. But in screen eight, the staff are having to drag in extra beanbags in an attempt to accommodate everyone who wants to see a comedy made for just £100,000...
Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
Let me take you on a tour of Britain, the Britain of sixty years ago, austerity Britain. The first thing you will notice is that is that the physical fabric of the country has barely recovered from the war. All of the larger cities, London especially, were still showing serious signs of damage, with bomb sites and many damaged houses. Investment in new housing was still quite low, with the result that...
Shield Wall (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sikh Teenager charged with murder of woman whose hand was severed A teenager was today charged with the murder of a mother-of-two who was left dying and mutilated in the street. Geeta Aulakh, 28, was found fatally injured by a passer-by in Greenford, north-west London. Police believe Aulakh was attacked shortly after leaving work at Sunrise Radio to pick up her two young children on Monday evening....
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | yesterday
It was released within minutes of Jedward being voted off X-factor. The following London poster sites have been chosen: M4/A4 Great West Rd, W4 5QL (the prestigious Torch site) 400 Edgware Road, Victory Park, NW2 6JP 79B Tottenham Court Road, W1T 4DU Finchley Road, Swiss Cottage, NW3 3HY Hanger Lane, Ealing Common, W5 3HJ 608 Western Avenue, W3 0TE 214 New Kings Road, Fulham, SW6 4XD North End Road,...
jonnybaker (Free subscription) | yesterday
void, originally uploaded by jonnybaker. some of us from the ealing lip photo group went to visit the how it is installation at the tate modern on saturday and the strolled along the southbank and to the national portrait gallery...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
In August, journalist Toby Young announced in this newspaper that he wanted to found a new type of 'free' school where access to a good education is not based on income. Three months on, his biggest problem is battling bureaucracy and accusations of middle-class snobbery I emerged from a meeting with the DCSF (Department for Children, Schools and Families) on Thursday with my head spinning. So much...
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Richard Hughes first came to public attention in 1917, at the age of 17, when his schoolmaster sent one of his essays to The Spectator. He wrote the world's first radio play, called Danger, broadcast in 1924. He became a journalist, travelled extensively, married the painter Frances Bazley, and spent a decade as a scriptwriter at Ealing Studios – but he only managed to write four adult novels,...
auntie joanna writes (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
...at a screening of a new DVD on just this theme. Aimed specially at the young, but everyone is welcome. "Arise once more" sets out the steps for an authentic revival of Catholicism in Britain. Beginning with the early arrival of Christianity in Britain, this film takes you on a tour of Catholic history, through the Medieval period and the Reformation, the Second Spring, the Modern Crisis,...
Beauty junkie London (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Anyone who follows me on Twitter (@beautyjunkieldn) will know that this week I have been tweeting on about getting my eyebrows threaded. I started off by asking for recommendations for where I should get them done, the general feedback was to try a blinc eyebrow bar, or bliss, or malika. So I was all set to try one of these but then ended up talking to a colleague about it (who has lovely eyebrows...
The hermeneutic of continuity (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Mgr Reilly is the founder of the Helpers of God's Precious Infants whose apostolate is to pray quietly and peacefully outside abortion clinics and to offer compassionate support to help women avoid abortion. (See the UK website .) He will be in London on Friday 4 December Monsignor to give a talk entitled "Reasons for Hope in this Epic Struggle for Life". The talk will be at 7.30pm at St...
Pig Pig's Corner (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Reviewed by The Wild Boar Alright, so I did proclaim Sushi-Say to be my favourite all time best ever Japanese restaurant and had no interest in finding a new regular place to eat Japanese food, but it didn’t mean I couldn’t try new places; I wouldn’t be much of a food blogger if I did that. The PigPig has been hearing good stuff about Sushi Hiro, mainly that it serves good sushi...
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