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Paid for promotionThis summer, enjoy a one-off exclusive deal at Mathura in Westminster. Enjoy their six dish sharing menu, served feast style with dishes including Lucknow Ki Chaat, Butter Chicken Or Paneer Makhani, lamb or vegetable biryani and mango shrikhand for dessert.If you haven't been before, Mathura showcases and unites the essence and…

  The 17th century  painter Frans Hals was well known for his impressive portraits, painted in his  own unique style. He used expressionist ways to paint clothing and accessories with abstract and uncontrolled brushstrokes. These seemingly random strokes however come together as a whole and realistic and lively portrait as the viewer…

A small cafe on the fringes of Hyde Park in London is keeping the memory of Princess Diana alive 25 years after her death, with photos of the venue's most famous customer adorning the walls.The cafe was opened in 1989 by Iraqi-born entrepreneur Abdul Basit and serves a combination of Middle Eastern and British cuisines, including the “Diana…

The last few weeks have seen heat, sweat and dryness across London, with the Met Office placing another warning for extreme heat in the region, seeing hot temperatures continue.  And as much as we might all like a break from the continued heat that the UK isn't built for, it seems that isn't the news.  As hot weather is predicted to…

Super off-peak tickets will be withdrawn and an evening peak will be introduced between 4pm and 7pm on services leaving or going via a London station (Zones 1-6). Single tickets will be priced at half the equivalent return, c2c added. An anytime single from Upminster to Southend Central in Essex, for example, will decrease from…

Dame Cressida Dick “felt intimidated” into quitting as the head of the Metropolitan Police and was effectively “constructively dismissed” from her role by the Mayor of London, a report has found.The then commissioner of the UK’s biggest police force faced “political pressure” from Sadiq Khan, according to a review of the circumstances…

Staying true to its mantra of being a truly democratic design event, the 2022 edition of London Design Festival will once again shine a bold new light on the city through its programme of installations; museum exhibits; the Design Districts that highlight clusters of creative activity across the capital; and the Global Design Forum, the…

You can find many peculiar items for sale on a range of websites and eBay is one of them.   Many people are now using online websites to sell the usual items, such as furniture, games or gardening equipment.    But delve a little deeper and you can easily find yourself to be confronted with the most unique and bizarre listings.   …

London may have a lot to offer – if you’re tired of London, you’re tired of life, after all – but the sea isn’t one of them. It’s unsurprising, then, that the pandemic triggered a wave of London leavers swapping the city for the coast in pursuit of more space, fresher air and a better work/life balance.Demand for UK seaside homes more than…

The Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission’s second report, published on Tuesday, calls on the Government to honour a commitment to fund the building and long-term maintenance of the future memorial. The commission, made up of representatives of the bereaved, survivors and residents of the Lancaster West Estate on which the remains of the tower…