Yogi bears no grudge

By Katie Davies FEW people have to wait more than 70 years after qualifying to take part in the Olympics, but one West Hampstead resident has his sights on just that. Oh yes, I want to take part in 2012. I will run the 100m in one hour when I am 100 – I... » MORE

It's 10 out of 10 for Simon Bradley's enduring excellence

BY VICTORIA PREVER We re all guilty of taking things for granted. One minute a place is all the rage then fashions change and then today s hot news is yesterday s chip paper. Few restaurants survive more than one circuit of the merry-go-round. When I was a child, my parent... » MORE

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Superlatives and expletives in the life of Wyndham Lewis

BY ALISON OLDHAM The iconoclastic artist-writer Wyndham Lewis drew superlatives – and undoubtedly expletives – from those who knew him. TS Eliot said he was the greatest prose writer of my generation . Walter Sickert described him as the greatest portra... » MORE

Watch out Edinburgh, here comes the Camden Fringe

Fed up with the high prices north of the border, the two women running the Etcetera Theatre decided they could do just as well in their own manor, writes Katie Masters Edinburgh isn t the only British city to boast a Fringe Festival – London s in on the... » MORE

Katherine Jenkins all set for concert in her Kenwood 'back yard'

Welsh songstress Katherine Jenkins leaves Ed Thomas mesmerised as he manages to track her down before she performs at the Last Night of the Kenwood Proms TWO months of world-class music on Hampstead Heath are coming to an end on Saturday in the shape... » MORE

WHO'S WHO: Dan Spence, award-winning chef

Dan Spence is the chef at the Market restaurant in Camden Town s Parkway. On Monday night he and his business partner Denise Tang celebrated winning the best local restaurant award at the star-studded London Restaurant Awards. He is 36 and lives in Archwa... » MORE

Dark Knight - at last a blockbuster deserving of the hype

BY MICHAEL JOYCE The Dark Knight (12A) Director Christopher Nolan Starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Maggie Gyllenhaal 152 mins Five star rating The history of the summer blockbuster is e... » MORE

Charting China's meteoric rise was rich and rewarding

Although Islington author John Farndon has written many books on contemporary issues, being asked by his publishers to write about China was something special. Here, just a few weeks before the opening of the Beijing Olympics, he explains why his new book... » MORE