Czech It Out: W Hotels To Debut in Prague in 2020

W Hotels Worldwide, part of Marriott International (NASDAQ: MAR), announced it will open W Prague in 2020. Owned by PPH Evropa s.r.o, W Prague marks the brand’s debut into the Czech Republic, and will be located on Wenceslas Square in the heart of the buzzing capital city. The hotel will be a renovation of the former Grand Europa Hotel, a radical art nouveau style property that pushed boundaries when it originally opened in 1905, and will do so again with the W brand’s progressive design and innovative spirit. The historic structure will be combined with a modern new building to create a stunning blend of old world glamour and bold, contemporary design.

“As one of Europe’s most exciting and diverse destinations, Prague is a perfect fit for the iconic W brand and is certain to push new limits for Prague’s vibrant hotel scene when it opens in 2020,” said Sandeep Walia, Area Vice President – Luxury Brands, Western Europe, Marriott International “We are pleased to be partnering with PPH Evropa and Prague Prime Homes Management, and we share their confidence that this hotel will bring a new social scene to an already pulsing global city.”

Restored historical elements of the former Grand Hotel Europa will set the stage for W’s bold and vibrant design, complemented by a stunning new oval-shaped extension. The two buildings will be fully connected to create 154 stylish guestrooms and suites, including the Extreme Wow Suite – the brand’s lavish take on the traditional Presidential Suite. The groundbreaking SPG Keyless entry system will enable guests to use their smartphone or Apple watch to unlock their door and enter their rooms.

W Prague will feature a glamorous rooftop bar and an outdoor terrace, the perfect location for style-savvy locals and guests to enjoy sweeping cityscape views and a fabulous cocktail and culinary experience. The hotel features the W Living Room, the brand’s energetic spin on the hotel lobby, along with several chic restaurants and 350 square meters of ultra-modern event space. In addition, guests are invited to experience the indoor WET pool deck, FIT fitness center and AWAY® Spa. Throughout the hotel, the brand’s unique Whatever/Whenever service is always available, delivering whatever they want, whenever they want it.

“With W Hotels, we are confident we have selected a truly innovative hotel brand that best reflects our vision for this very special and unique development,” said Nadine Gilles, Managing Director of Prague Prime Homes Management. “As we re-imagine this historic building and create a new architectural icon for the city, we are thrilled to join forces with a visionary brand that will elevate Prague’s global status even further.”

Today’s announcement highlights the unstoppable appeal of the W Hotels brand in Europe, following the successful launch of hotels in London, Paris, Barcelona, St. Petersburg, Verbier, Istanbul and most recently, Amsterdam, marking the seventh W Hotel in Europe. The company has also revealed plans to add a new W Hotel in the Spanish capital of Madrid as well as one on Portugal’s stunning sun kissed Algarve coast (both in 2019), and will debut in Scotland in 2021. W Hotels now boasts a worldwide portfolio of 50 properties around the globe, and is on track to reach 75 hotels by 2020

About W Hotels WorldwideBorn from the bold attitude and 24/7 culture of New York City, W Hotels has disrupted and redefined the hospitality scene for nearly two decades. Trailblazing its way around the globe, W is on track to reach 75 hotels by 2020, defying expectations and breaking the norms of traditional luxury wherever the iconic W sign lands. With a mission to fuel guests’ lust for life, W ignites an obsessive desire to soak it in, live it up and hit repeat. The brand’s provocative design, iconic Whatever/Whenever service and buzzing Living Rooms create an experience that is often copied but never matched. Innovative, inspiring and infectious, the brand’s super-charged energy celebrates guests’ endless appetite to discover what’s new/next in each destination, to see more, feel more, go longer, stay later.

W Hotels Worldwide is proud to participate in the industry’s award-winning loyalty program, Starwood Preferred Guest®. Members can now link accounts with Marriott Rewards®, which includes The Ritz-Carlton Rewards® at members.marriott.com for instant elite status matching and unlimited points transfer. For more information on W Hotels, visit whotels.com/theangle or follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Note on Forward-Looking Statements: The statements about the expansion of the W hotel portfolio over the next five years and expected North American hotel openings by the end of 2020 are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of U.S. federal securities laws, not historical facts, and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including supply and demand changes for hotel rooms; competitive conditions in the lodging industry; relationships with clients and property owners; the availability of capital to finance hotel growth; and other risk factors identified in the most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q that Marriott International, Inc. has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; any of which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by those statements. Those statement is made as of the date of this press release, and we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

About Prague Prime Homes Management s.r.oPrague Prime Homes Management (PPH Management) is a rapidly growing investment and development management company in CEE and part of the House of Julius Meinl, an Austrian rooted family that owns a group of companies with a focus on financial services, food and real estate with a historical focus on the Central European markets. Headquartered in Prague PPH Management is focussing on the redevelopment of historical buildings in Prague and other Central European cities, such as the Grandhotel Evropa where its target is to restore the historical building to its original glory, while at the same time bringing state of the art technologies and luxury facilities to the hotel.


Jade Rodriguez felt her anxiety rise with every step. Her heart pounded, and her stomach constricted. The masses of people around her didn't help ease the claustrophobia she suddenly felt. She was having an anxiety attack - and she had to get away.

At just 15 years old, Rodriguez had experienced these attacks before, and sometimes - as with this one - they came without any provocation. It was late 2015, and the cricket community in Peru was throwing an end-of-season party at the Lima Cricket and Football Club. She stepped outside and wandered around aimlessly until she found some cricket nets. She picked up a cork ball, started running in and bowling as fast as she could, her bushy brown hair flying out behind her as she ran. She did this over and over, and within minutes, she found herself relaxing. Years of bottled-up emotions flooded out. Her breath was steadying. She felt in control of her life as she held the maroon ball around its seam.

Rodriguez's mother, Juliet Solomon, came looking for her daughter as soon as she realised she was missing from the party. When she found her in the nets, she knew Rodriguez wasn't going to talk just yet. She is known to bear the burden of her intense feelings by herself. So Solomon picked up a bat, and without uttering a word, started defending her daughter's deliveries.

That was the first time Rodriguez had touched a ball in a year. She had been the lead bowler for the Peruvian women's national cricket team since she was 11 years old. But dealing with depression between 2014 and 2015, she could barely find the motivation to live, let alone play cricket.

"Cricket saved my life," says Rodriguez, now 17, thinking back to that day. "Every day I would wake up and would think to myself, 'One less day to Sunday, when I can train' - and that would keep me going."

Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in London, Rodriguez was ten when she and her mother first moved to Peru in 2010 for her mother's job with the United Nations. Her father, Hector Rodriguez, stayed in London. The move was rough for a child who was used to making friends easily in London. In Peru, she suddenly had to deal with cliquish classmates who looked at her like an outsider.

She was bullied, picked on and beaten up for looking different. She would get anxiety attacks during classes, and her teachers would give her permission to go to the gym and take a few swings at the punching bag. She didn't have a pair of gloves, so every swing hurt, but it made her feel better. She sometimes even punched the nearest wall, finding a way to calm down. She changed schools after her first year in Peru, when the bullying got out of control.

Through this rough transition, she had one thing that "kept her sane", Solomon says: playing cricket in the Lima Cricket and Football Club. The CanAm and West Haven Club cricket teams ESPN

Rodriguez grew up in a household where daily conversations included the names of Vivian Richards and Garry Sobers. Her mother, a Trinidadian, was room-mates with the daughter of former West Indies cricketer Clive Lloyd when she was a student in London. She also waitressed in a hotel there where the West Indies team stayed during tournaments.

At nine years old, Rodriguez watched her first match: West Indies v Australia at The Oval. She was clad in the team's maroon and a West Indies hat and jersey, screaming in joy. She had no idea what was going on, but she knew she loved it.

Her first hands-on experience arrived when she was ten, when her mother started volunteering as a scorer in Lima. At first, Solomon tried making Rodriguez sit on the sidelines with her stepbrother while she scored, but Rodriguez wanted to be on the field. That was where she knew she belonged.

Most children want to be batsmen, but ever since Rodriguez saw Curtly Ambrose in Fire in Babylon, the documentary on the transformation of the West Indies cricket team in the 1980s, she found herself dreaming of being a fast bowler. There was a sense of pride in being called such.

She played in the first Peruvian women's national team - a team that her mother organised - that participated in the South American Championship in Brazil in 2011. At 11 years old, Rodriguez, the youngest player in the tournament, picked up her first wicket, a difficult lbw against the reigning champions, Argentina. Wanting to train at a higher level, she stood on the sidelines during the boys' practice sessions, and soon the coach, Julian Walter, called her in to bowl a few deliveries. In 2013, she earned a spot on the team in the South American Championship, the only female player in the entire tournament.

Though she was getting good results in South America, she wasn't competing at the highest level. "When she first played for the Peru team against Argentina and Brazil, she was the best among the worst in a sense," says Solomon.

That was when she heard about the CanAm United Women's Cricket Association - a nonprofit organisation that develops women's cricket in the Americas - during one of her practice sessions in Peru. She talked to the CanAm general manager about playing for the team. In 2015, after her one-year break from cricket, she participated in her first tournament in North America: a T20 series in Atlanta.

In the last match of the tournament, she took a wicket with her first ball. That boosted her confidence. She realised she could be competitive at a higher level outside of Peru. Rodriguez went on to participate in tournaments in Argentina and London for CanAm between 2015 and 2017.

In 2016 she visited Lord's for the first time since watching her first match as a nine-year-old in London with her mother. It was special to go back as a player, she says. That was also the first time she had seen her father in six years. With the distance between them, they didn't have a strong relationship.

Jade Rodriguez bats Juliana Anwar

In early May this year, Rodriguez was part of the 14-member CanAm squad, that played against 17 men's teams at the 25th Annual Philadelphia International Cricket Festival. It was the first time an all-women's squad played in the tournament. CanAm pushed to take part in the festival, knowing it would expose their players to higher competition. The team won three of five matches, Rodriguez picking up key wickets throughout.

While she may be quiet before games and around her team-mates, Rodriguez lights up when she marks the start of her run-up, her eyes focused. With intensity, she runs down to deliver the ball, releasing it seam up. "She is shy in the sense she doesn't want the attention on her, but she is paying attention to every tiny detail and learning from everybody the entire time," says CanAm batsman Roberta Moretti Avery.

At the end of May, Rodriguez was in Barbados, training at the Franklyn Stephenson Academy to qualify for the West Indies national team - a decision she made after graduating from high school in Panama, where she moved with her mother in 2015. (Rodriguez's Trinidadian heritage makes her eligible to play for West Indies.) First, she hopes to be scouted to play for Barbados, and eventually, to move up to West Indies.

"When we have tournaments at the academy," Rodriguez said, "I have coaches from the Barbados team and a bunch of West Indies board members. So if I perform well in all the tournaments I play in, I will climb up the rankings until I make it to the West Indies team. My coaches and scouts will also keep tabs of my performance in tournaments for CanAm."

To reach that goal, she is training under a private coach, Amahl Nathaniel, who she first met during a cricket camp in Barbados in 2016, where again she was the only female player. She was relentless in her training, and she had a "lovely bowling action, and I knew right then I wanted to train her," Nathaniel said.

Rodriguez trains for eight hours every day - three with Nathaniel and five at the academy. She has been focusing on her batting, looking to become an allrounder. "She reminds me of Hayley Matthews," says Nathaniel. "[Matthews] used to play with boys, with the willingness to learn and improve, and I see a lot of her in Jade."

Cricket isn't Rodriguez's sole focus. She is also taking online film studies courses through the Toronto Film School. The school requires her to be physically present for the second year, so that means training with CanAm in Toronto next year. She will also be touring South Africa and Canada with CanAm in 2017.

Rodriguez has also given back to the sport that saved her. For her, the memories of the bullying, the struggles and that night in late 2015 outside of the Lima Cricket and Football Club aren't too far in her past. She has coached children in Peru and Panama, and still mentors Caitlin Yarna, a female cricketer in Peru. Although they are about the same age, Yarna found a role model in Rodriguez and credits her as the reason she is still playing cricket. Rodriguez also wants to open her own boarding school for foster children and refugees.

"I am glad I went through what I went through in Peru because it opened my eyes to life outside of my bubble. No matter what I do with my life - be it in cricket, in film-making - if it leads to me opening a home for kids, it's all worth it," she said.


When I told my husband I was interviewing a writer who thinks men should give their wives a ‘cheat pass’ this Christmas, he understandably had some questions. “How would the wife find someone suitable for the occasion?” he wondered. (We were talking in the abstract, of course, and I deemed it safer to treat this as rhetorical.) I assured him that yes, it was all very unfeasible, and concluded he’ll more likely gift me jewellery.

But Wednesday Martin, whose latest book Untrue explores “why nearly everything we believe about women and lust and infidelity” is wrong, is not being flippant. “We now know long-term relationships are harder on female desire than they are on male desire,” she says. “Many experts now believe monogamy is a tighter fit for women than for men. This Christmas give your wife something she really wants. Something truly exciting. A hall pass.”

This, for the uninitiated, is an agreement between partners in a romantic relationship that one or both may sleep with other people. You’d have one if, say, you were into polyamory, which involves having “intimate relationships with more than one partner, with the consent of all partners involved.”

Confused yet? Or just wondering how all the logistics would work, never mind how on earth to broach the topic with your significant other? Martin, when we meet at a boutique hotel in South Kensington during her visit to London from the US, has plenty of answers. Starting from the premise that we’re only now beginning to understand women’s sexuality properly, she explains that contrary to popular opinion, women tire of their sexual partners faster than men, and need just as much sexual adventure and novelty as their male counterparts – if not more. To support this theory, she draws on a range of relatively recent scientific and social scientific studies, as well as interviews with experts on female infidelity in a range of fields and plenty of “untrue” women themselves.


About This Listing

With Airbnb, you can find unique accommodations in people's homes—from houses and apartments, to tree houses and igloos. The listing details below explain what you'll find in this space. If you have any questions, you can contact the host directly.

Flat Description
•Central Fulham Broadway location in SW6
•Classic London period Victorian property built in 1890
•Newly renovated, modernised and design-orientated
•Fully furnished and all bills and wi-fi internet included
•Open plan layout with large combined kitchen & living area

Sightseeing
•Science, Natural History and Victoria & Albert Museums in South Kensington
•Kensington and Fulham Palaces

Entertainment
•Royal Albert Hall for world class concerts and events
•West End Theatre, Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square, Chelsea, and Apollo in Victoria
•Olympia and Earls Court for exhibitions, conferences, trade shows and concerts
•VUE cinema at Fulham Broadway
Health & Fitness
•David Lloyd gym at tube station complex and Fulham Pools
•Eel Brook Common with large outdoor park, several tennis courts, a children’s playground and sports pitch for 5-a-side football and basketball
•Several local area parks, Parsons Green, Hurlingham and South Park, plus the River Thames provide a pleasant jogging route
Professional Sports
•Chelsea FC & Fulham FC for Premiership football
•Queens Club for the annual pre-Wimbledon grass court tennis tournament

Transport links
•One minute walk to Fulham Broadway tube station, part of the Wimbledon branch of the District line
•Bus lines to most key central places in London incl (phone number hidden) and 424
•London Heathrow (25 mins by car, 45 mins by tube)
•London Gatwick via tube to Victoria station (15 mins) then Gatwick Express train (30 mins)
•City financial district takes 30-40 mins by direct tube

Guest Access

In addition to the room, guests will have access to their own private bathroom (next to the room), and also share the kitchen area which has a dining table. The washer/dryer is available for an extra fee of £5 per cycle with prior permission from us. Guests can also access the wi-fi network and Sky tv in their room. We also live in the flat upstairs.

Guests are not permitted to bring strangers into the flat and no-one outside of the original booking. If they want to have guests, they need to ask our permission beforehand but this is normally limited to their immediate family members and loved ones.

43 Reviews

I enjoyed staying in Simon's apartment. It's easily reachable and located centrally, while still quiet enough so that you can open the window without too much noise (I like some fresh air while sleeping).

Lesser points were that the bed might be too short when you're over 6 feet and sleeping there with two persons. By myself it was fine but with two persons it might be a bit cramped.
Also I found the toilet-seat not clean. Perhaps the serviceman used it during the day while fixing some stuff in the apartment. I expect this was an incident as other than that, the apartment looked clean and tidy.

Miel, as we discussed after you left, my builders had made numerous repairs to the room before you arrived to address general maintenance and to keep my high standards intact. This included a shower light that was changed after I had cleaned the bathroom. I can only guess they used the toilet right before you came as they left only 5 minutes before you arrived. Yes, the room is also not as large as I would like as London homes are never so spacious as we want unless you are very wealthy!

Great location, close to tube station. Good facilities and comfy bed. Simon, our host was out of the UK for the weekend we arrived. In the property description it stated there was work being done to the roof and Simon told us there had been a leak in the kitchen the day prior to our arrival.
Our first morning we were wakened by builders at 7.30am and didn't realise they had access inside the flat.Simon apologised and said he had arranged for a 9am start. Sunday we were wakened at 6am by water leaking from the bedroom ceiling. I emailed Simon who apologised and told us to move the bed to avoid it getting wet, he also contacted the builder. We got up to find no hot water available so contacted again, Simons arranged for a boiler repair so that was fixed by our return that evening. We met Simon on Tuesday and he apologised again and noted other minor issues we had. On Wednesday as we prepared for a special occasion the builders switched the power off to sockets, this again was resolved by Simon contacting the builders. We did communicate our disappointment and in fairness Simon did apologise and try to resolve matters to the best of his ability. This would be a great property but I would not recommend renting while current building work is ongoing

Stephanie and her husband unfortunately had several things go wrong in the flat at the same time. They were all connected with some work I was having done upstairs which has now finished. When these things happened, I did my very best to solve them as quickly as possible. This included getting the boiler fixed on a Sunday while I was away in the Czech Republic planning my 2015 wedding. On the positive side, Stephanie and her husband mostly had the flat to themselves as I was staying at my fiancés flat after our Prague trip.

Simon is a nice guy who made me feel very welcome. The apartment is ideally placed 1 min walk from a tube station, supermarkets, shops and restaurants. The room is clean, well furnished and comfortable

First and most important, Simon is very nice and a great host. It was very easy to communicate with him using WhatsApp before and during our stay. The apartment is beautiful, the bed is super comfortable, the shower is awesome, the location is superb (one min walk from the tube and some great restaurants in the area), and although Simon also lives in the house we only saw him in check- in. To summarize: we had a great time and we will definitely recommend this apartment.

Simon's apartment is modern, clean and perfectly located. The room is cozy, private and just next door to the ultra-modern private bathroom. Simon is a great person and a kind host, who lives in a different floor and is hardly seen at all, but is quick to help whenever any need arise. Great stay!

Simon offers a comfortable and clean room. The bathroom is outside of the room. It's a new and modern bathroom. You can also use the kitchen and parts of the living room. The place is exactly as described. It's modern, neat and nice.

About the Host, Simon

Our spare room is available for a great London experience and our flat has been recently renovated to a high boutique hotel standard. You would have your own private bathroom with large shower and share the kitchen with us. Fulham is a great area close to all major attractions.

We enjoy hosting people from all over the world via AirBnB and try hard to make our guests feel as comfortable as possible in their home away from home :) We can provide lots of personal recommendations for things to experience in Fulham and beyond so you maximise your time in the best way possible.

Travel is my passion having seen 109 nations on all 7 continents so I know the demands of international travellers. My favourite places to visit were Santorini in the Greek Islands, Rajastan in India, Cape Town in South Africa, Rio de Janiero in Brasil, St Tropez in the South of France and Japan. We hope you enjoy London, a city we love, and Carpe Diem in life!


Bumping into Tom Cruise in Clearwater, Florida may prove to be a Mission Not-So-Impossible.

People Magazine is reporting that Cruise, 56, one of Hollywood's biggest names, is renovating a penthouse condo, near the Scientology International headquarters in Clearwater as "a new home base."

The magazine reports that he sold his $39 million dollar Beverly Hills compound in 2016 and since then, he's been living in a London hotel while filming The Mummy and Mission: Impossible — Fallout.

Cruise's new multimillion-dollar penthouse is located at the SkyView, a 10-story condominium, and his penthouse takes up the top two floors, according to the Daily Mail. He's finishing up renovations on the condo but he has already spent some time there as he's been spotted walking around Clearwater by locals.

Cruise has been a member of the Church of Scientology since the late '80s. He's very close to the church's leader, David Miscavige.

Kelly Bazzle is the Digital Executive Producer at ABC Action News in Tampa. Follow Kelly on Twitter.


I INFORMALLY SOUNDED PAUL OUT, AND HE EXPRESSED AN INTEREST IF THE DATES WORK.
Possible letter to Paul Joskow from Ken Lay
Dear Paul:
As you may have heard, Enron has an advisory committee consisting of
leaders in the academic and business communities (list attached). This
committee meets twice each year, along with invited speakers on subjects of
interest to Enron. Top executives of our company do their best to attend.
Starting on the afternoon of October 30, and concluding late in the day
on October 31, we will be meeting in London. I was most impressed with your
presentation at the Aspen Institute energy forum, and am hoping that you
might consider joining our meeting to discuss "Where do we go from here: how
to preserve the momentum of deregulation after California."
We would be delighted to cover business class travel costs and all other
expenses incident to your trip to London, including hotel costs should you
choose to extend your stay for several days. In addition, there would be an
honorarium of $XXXXXX.
Do try to join us: you will find the other speakers interesting, and
London a delightful place in which to spend a bit of time. And we would
benefit enormously from your participation.
Sincerely,


What a difference four months makes.

Up till mid-August, Gemma Chan was an oft-working British actress, not yet an A-list celeb or boldface name. Crazy beautiful, she’d done a modeling stint; crazy brainy, she graduated from Oxford with a law degree in 2004. Then the overachiever skipped off to study performance at London’s renowned Drama Centre and very briskly started working on the British stage and in television, playing everything from a feisty girlfriend in playwright David Henry Hwang’s acclaimed “Yellow Face” to a sexy synth on the sci-fi series “Humans.” She also scored a series of small roles in big movies like “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” and “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” And her six-year-long, live-in relationship — and 2017 breakup — with handsome co-star Jack Whitehall (of BBC’s campus comedy “Fresh Meat”) made news in the UK.

But what a difference an international blockbuster makes. Chan stunned as wealthy-but-heartbroken cousin Astrid in the groundbreaking “Crazy Rich Asians” — Hollywood’s first film in 25 years to feature an all-Asian cast — which has racked up more than $238 million worldwide and countless great reviews. Thanks to her poignant portrayal of the ultraglamorous heiress, the 36-year-old artist has now emerged as a potential marquee star, action star, fashion star and likely star of CRA’s swiftly green-lighted sequel.

Not that the modest British-Chinese rose is letting the hoopla go to her head. “I wouldn’t say I have my pick of things,” Chan tells Alexa. “People are more aware of me, but I’m just continuing to do what I did before — reading scripts, waiting for the right thing. I’m not sure what next year will hold, but I hope it’s diverse.”

It’s certainly looking that way. Chan will appear in a slew of high-profile projects, including the costume drama “Mary Queen of Scots,” opening Dec. 7, and the superhero flick “Captain Marvel,” out March 8, 2019. She also appears to be crazy in love with Dominic Cooper, her equally alluring British co-star of 2017’s action thriller “Stratton.” The new twosome were snapped vacationing on the Spanish island of Formentera last summer, then moving things into his London apartment.

Chan giggles at his name, but that’s it. “Um, on the whole, it’s something I don’t talk about in interviews — for my own sanity. Though I’m aware it comes with the territory. Believe it or not, it’s very normal and boring.”

Normal, perhaps. Boring — not. However, her newish paramour’s only a side note to what’s a verge-of-exploding career.

“You know, I don’t feel that different,” Chan proclaims of her post-CRA uptick. “But other people are treating me differently. The response was beyond what any of us would have hoped. I’m glad the door’s been kicked open for more Asian stories — I hope it’s not a passing trend.”

And it won’t be, if this go-getter has her way. Her father, an engineer from Hong Kong, and mother, a Chinese-Scottish pharmacist, taught their two daughters a formidable work ethic. Not only was Chan a nationally ranked swimmer by her teens, but the gifted musician considered a career as a violinist. Even so, when it came time for university, her parents pushed for a practical, highly paid career.

“They encouraged law school. It’s not that unusual in our world. On ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ three of us actors had studied law.”

Although her folks were disappointed when their eldest chose showbiz, today they are proud of her success. After all, CRA had only been in theaters for one week when Warner Bros. asked the creative team to move forward with the adaptation of “China Rich Girlfriend,” Kevin Kwan’s second book in the hit trilogy. Luckily for Chan, this one also moves Astrid front and center. “The character has great potential,” she says. “They can go into Kevin’s depiction of her past — her year in Paris, how she met her husband — she had only a short cameo in the first film.”

Which means Chan’s billing will be higher, particularly after her next big-screen releases. In “Mary,” she plays Bess of Hardwick, a real-life 16th-century aristocrat and trusted confidante of Queen Elizabeth (Margot Robbie) who was tasked with “hosting” Mary (Saoirse Ronan) in prison for more than 15 years. “Bess was a powerful figure in a man’s world,” Chan notes. “She outlived four husbands. She was the second-richest woman in England. She built beautiful homes in Derbyshire, which we actually shot in.”

Hmmm … the second wildly wealthy woman she’s played — in a row? “I know!” she says with a laugh. “Sadly, not a reflection of Gemma the actress. At least not at the moment. I don’t know why I get cast that way. I did get to wear gorgeous clothes in both. But Bess’ corseted gowns were not the most comfortable. When you wear it day in and day out, it’s excruciating. We women all suffered: The boning digs into your ribs. We couldn’t sit down; after scenes, we’d lean against the wall. You can’t run or take proper full breaths! But it does give you the posture of the time.”

The futuristic armor she wore to play brilliant Kree scientist Minn-Erva in “Captain Marvel” was equally constrictive. “I went from one uncomfortable costume to another! It looked like a one-piece, easy to put on, but it was designed with many, many parts: a major production to put on and go to the bathroom in. We had to schedule bathroom breaks! You go with a fitter, together. It took about half an hour to get in and out of. And you can’t hold up filming. For a while, I stopped drinking liquids. But then I got dehydrated, got headaches, so that’s no good either.”

On her worldwide press tour for CRA, Chan’s dazzling outfits by Jason Wu, Prabal Gurung, Simone Rocha, Altuzarra, Oscar de la Renta and others instantly transformed her into a fashion icon in the British press.

“I don’t know about that,” she demurs. “But the looks I wore did get a lot of coverage. I really enjoyed putting them together with my stylist Rebecca Corbin-Murray. We put an emphasis on Asian creativity.”

Speaking of creativity, Chan’s next TV project is a one-hour drama with British director Dominic Savage, who’s known for encouraging improvisation.

“I worked with him five years ago. He lets the actors flesh out the characters. It’s wonderful and equally terrifying. You don’t have a safety net. He says, ‘Bring your own s- -t — your emotional history.’ It’s physically and emotionally demanding; you can’t have anything false in it. You can get really amazing raw results, brutally emotionally truthful. But it’s so revealing.”

And she finally scored her first starring movie role in “Intrigo: Dear Agnes,” due out in 2019. She plays a woman who sets up the murder of her husband in the adaption of a Swedish crime novel directed by Daniel Alfredson, who made two of the original “Dragon Tattoo” films.

More than anything, Chan wants to stretch professionally. “I love comedy, I love drama and everything in between. I like to jump genres. I’d love to get back onstage. I shot a Jane Austen-style pilot with Freida Pinto; I’d love to do that [if it gets picked up]. I love the variation.”

Crazy — not. Like the fox she is.

Gemma Chan was photographed on location at The Hari, which opened two years ago in London’s leafy Belgravia neighborhood, just a quick hop from Knightsbridge. Interiors of the posh, 85-room hotel were designed by Tara Bernerd and Partners, who outfitted the retreat in “rough luxury,” complete with eclectic, vintage furnishings, gray wooden floors and marble bathrooms. A loft-like lobby lounge houses an oversized fireplace, rotating art installations and a cozy library. The hotel’s contemporary Italian restaurant (Il Pampero), bar and garden terrace offer more spots to indulge. The Hari is the first of a new concept from Hong Kong-based Harilela Group, which owns luxury hotels across Asia (including in Singapore, the setting of “Crazy Rich Asians”), Europe and North America. The company is slated to open a sister Hari property in Hong Kong in 2020. — Carrie Seim

Fashion Editor: Serena French; Stylist: Emma Pritchard for Goldteeth & Co.; Hair: Dayaruci at One Represents using Kérastase; Makeup: Alex Babsky at Premier Artists; Location: The Hari hotel in London, The Hari.


Rafael Nadal could reportedly earn $1M per day at Int'l Premier Tennis League.

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Bringing the World to your Kitchen

About the food of the United Kingdom

Arlington Row, Bibury, UK was built in 1380 as a monastic wool store. The buildings were converted into weaver cottages in the 17th century. Photo by Saffron Blaze.

I’m not sure why people groan when I ask them what they think about the food in the United Kingdom.

If I beg them to explain themselves, they mutter something about tripe, kidneys, haggis, mushy peas and lamb roasts. But, truly, what is more sublime than a bright green pea plucked from the garden just moments before eating it? Or farm-fresh meats, from down the street? This is what I love about cooking in the United Kingdom. There’s a taste of the farm everywhere. In her tea sandwiches, there’s cucumber, or perhaps a spicy bit of watercress. In her tea, there’s hot milk, as fresh as can be. And, in the desserts, there’s all manner of berries, juicy, ripe, and sweet.

Panorama of Cromford mill pond. Photo by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)

If the food doesn’t come from the farm, it may come from the ocean, as Fish and Chips prove.

When I was in London, I made sure to get a batch, smokin’ hot from the deep fryer. The fish is moist, the batter crispy, and the chips, as thick and delicious as any other French fry.

Panoramic view of London from St. Paul’s Cathedral. Photo by IgnisFatuus.

Beyond the farm and well past the port, the cuisine of the United Kingdom is as varied as her people and the lands to which she’s traveled. The U.K. is made up of Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, plus countries around the world. The World Cookbook for Students says that:

The United Kingdom has a varied cuisine based on French, Germanic, Scandinavian, and Celtic elements, with influences from immigrant groups, most particularly Indian, Italian, and Chinese.

Pulteney Bridge, Bath, UK. Photo by MichaelMaggs.

Case in point?

One of the most popular street foods in the U.K. is Tikki Masala, a dish with Indian origins adapted for British tastes. The creamy, gently spiced dish is a favorite with basmati rice. The famous (and much beloved) Coronation Chicken, a chicken salad made with curry and chutney, also demonstrates Britain’s close ties to India [Recipe].

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Just a note – you may annoy a lot of Irish people by posting a picture of Ireland in a post about the UK 😉

My favourite foods are probably chippy chips with gravy (which is far more common in the north – I didn’t find a single chip shop in London that served gravy) and crumpets. A Sunday roast with Yorkshire Pudding is lovely, too. Dessert wise, I like Bakewell tart/slices.

Gah – how did that get in there!? Thanks Michelle. I edited that out of an earlier version, or at least I thought I did. Wikimedia had them misfiled and didn’t notice until later. That pony was just too sweet.

Yay, you made it to my home country! As an Englishwoman living in the USA, my list of foods would be a long one and everything I miss.
Toad in the hole (Yorkshire pudding with sausages baked in), back bacon, a decent chippy (fish and chip shop), savoury pies and pasties of all kinds ( steak and kidney, cornish pasties, sausage rolls ). A great curry. Also parkin (a sort of gingerbread cake) among others.
We only have milk in a cup of tea though, never, ever cream…………….

By the way, you may want to check in on Prince Charles’ [and Camilla’s now] organic free-range farm and vegetable garden – the source of his daily bacon, meats, veggies, etc. From what I have read, he is quite adamant about eating healthy and thus ‘grows his own’…

Having lived in London I have come to love Brittish food. Bubble and Squeek, roast beef with horseradish sauce and Yorkshire Pudding, Shepherds Pie , mashed swedes or Colcanon. Or you could go Indian with Chicken Sagwala and all the chutneys. Yummy! England has a lot to offer.

This is my 2nd visit to your website. I wish I had known about this from the beginning, it is a great concept. Will it become a book? 😉

I visited England and France this year and in my opinion the food in England was much better than the food in France. Even the most casual meal was served with good presentation. The word “proper” always came to mind!

Welcome, Terri! I’m working on a food memoir – it’s more about my life – but a few sprinklings from the blog will be included 🙂 If you’d like to get notified when it comes out, fill out the form right above these comments. 🙂

Toad in the hole- ( only with real English ‘bangers’ sausages.. anything else just won’t do.) , Bubble and squeak – ( leftover cooked cabbage and potatoes from Sunday dinner) Thrown in a pan with a little oil and butter on Monday and fried together, chopping the vegetables up and turning as you go till golden brown. Yum. A good cuppa. I like Typhoo tea, but black without milk, first thing in the morning. My kids would always laugh at me and call my toast bricks, because forsaking the toaster to them I put my bread in the oven at about 315 degrees and turning it every 7 minutes or so, till it looked more like a rusk, spread with butter and apricot jam… what else do you need? I miss good currant scones and some of the boiled sweets( candies) In particular Oatfield Clove and I can’t remember the brand but tell me if anyone remember this boiled sweet- rhubarb or rhubarb and cream? If I had a last meal out of anything in the world it would be: Fresh just caught English Grey sole or Dover sole ( the real deal.. not what they pass off as sole fillets in the US because it rarely is sole actually). sauteed in brown butter, salt and pepper, a little fresh parsley served with lemon, chips and a simple green salad. I agree with Judi Suttles, England has a lot to offer.

When in London, I ordered fresh caught Dover Sole at one of the best – and most pricey – restaurants: The Athenaeum. I figured, if I was going to try it, I might as well go all the way.. Presentation was fantastic; however, the fish was very tough and unappetizing. For almost $100, if I had known, I would go to an Indian restaurant and eat so much better and to my heart’s desire… . No regrets trying the Sole – good experience… .

One of the best things about London was tea at the Goring Hotel…tea served the way it should be – five essential items : one pot with hot water, one pot with warm milk, the cup and saucer to drink from, a small bowl for “refuse”, and a container of sugar cubes with ‘tweezers’ to pick the cubes up with …really an adventure..
Oh! Don’t forget the fine wood box with lock and key containing all the tea choices. If you are unable to think of something to talk about with your companion, you can always focus on the art and science of making and sipping your teas. [Melt-in-your mouth SCONES WERE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR BREAKFAST FRESH MADE FROM THE KITCHEN – none for lunch or afternoon tea]

Re-reading this, I realized there are two pots of hot water….one to put your teabag in , and the other to lighten the tea once it is poured into your cup.
So all together there are three pots, two bowls, and one cup & saucer.,,,

Not at THE GORING Hotel…next door to Buckingham Palace…”one of London’s best-kept secrets”*….where the guest list matches it’s setting and the Queen has been known to lunch….and where guests are given a 20 min, 25 min, or 35 min optional jogging guide for very early morning excursions

I am as British as they come, and I HATE both Bubble and Squeak and Toad in the Hole! Also not keen on Yorkshire pudding, and only like Roasts when the potatoes are done PROPERLY (crunchy on the outside fluffy on the inside, preferably in Goose or Duck fat),and if the meat is lamb shoulder with garlic and rosemary slow cooked until the bone pulls right out, or chicken stuffed with lemon and rubbed all over with salt, or Pork with crunchy, not chewy, crackling and apple sauce (and so never bother ordering roasts when out.).

If you go back into Britains food history then primary influence is actually middle-eastern spices, Mace, Cinnamon and ginger, made into rich sauces etc. (at least for the richer folk). In fact the french chefs learnt from us, a couple hundred years went past, then it became all the rage to have a french chef, – then throw in food rationing after WW2 and people cooking everything in lard and there’s our ‘bad’ reputation for food!

The ‘fry up’ came from Chop Houses, the first establishments where lower and upper classes would mix, all having pork chops and ale for breakfast. 🙂

People also forget what is now considered ‘posh’ seafood was often eaten by working class people. Like Oysters, winkles, and crab. But being an Island it’s so easy to get deliciously fresh seafood – in Cornwall there are mussels growing on high rocks (so no grit) plump and juicy and living in the clear waters of the North atlantic, they taste so different freshly picked to the farmed ones from shops. Dying out now is the taste for Jellied Eels (Which, once you get past the looks, essentially taste like Salmon!) My uncle used to catch eels and my mum said they would always ‘squeal’ in the cooking pot!!!

Plum pudding at Christmas is also dying out, it’s so moist and light, but everyone always does yucky Christmas pudding!

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Image copyright EPA Image caption O'Riordan's unmistakable voice resonates through the new material

Exactly 12 months after Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan's death, her bandmates have opened up about their "painful year".

The group were speaking to BBC Radio 2 as they premiered All Over Now, a new song using vocals that O'Riordan recorded before she died.

A heartbreaking story of domestic abuse, the song captures the band at their emotional best.

O'Riordan was found dead in a London hotel room on 15 January 2018.

Eerily, the new song opens with the lyric: "Do you remember that night at a hotel in London?"

But the song ultimately celebrates a woman who escapes a cycle of violence. Her story remains unfinished, however, as O'Riordan only left a single verse and chorus for her bandmates to work with.

Speaking to Jeremy Vine, guitarist Noel Hogan said working on the track had been emotionally draining.

"The hardest part for us was, a couple of month after she'd passed, you start going back through the demos," he said.

"It was hard at first to listen to Dolores coming through the speakers like that. I found you could only take x amount of time a day."

Having taken some time out to come to terms with O'Riordan's death, the band have now completed an entire album of music, using demos they recorded in late 2017.

Image copyright BMG Image caption The band will split after releasing this final album

Titled In The End, it will be released in April. After that, the band - who rose to fame with songs like Linger and Zombie in the 1990s - will split permanently.

Hogan said he hoped the album would be "a celebration this band and Dolores and the legacy we'll leave behind".

O'Riordan was just 46 years old when she was found dead in the bath of her hotel room at London's Hilton Park Lane on 15 January last year.

The mother-of-three from Limerick, Ireland, had suffered with depression and alcoholism in the past, and was more than four times over the legal limit for driving when she died.

An inquest ruled her death was caused by drowning due to excessive alcohol consumption.

However, her bandmates said the star had been in "good spirits" in the months leading up to her death.

"Over the years we probably collectively spent more time together than we have with our own families," said Hogan.

"When you're on tour, you get to know people so well - their good point and their bad points [and] especially the troubles Dolores had.

"And Dolores never made a secret of that. She was very good [at] recognising there was a problem with herself.

"So there were times when you would worry a lot about her. But the weird thing for us is that, particularly the last couple of years, she was in really, really good spirits.

"Things had turned around and she seemed to be heading the other direction, away from all of that.

"And especially the months of writing this album, she was sending ideas all the time and you were thinking, 'This is fantastic, she's got so much to say right now.'"

In a statement announcing the album, O'Riordan's mother Eileen said: "I miss her awfully, especially today, as does the entire family.

"That said I can't think of a more fitting way to commemorate the first anniversary of her passing and to celebrate her life than to announce to the world the release of her final album with the band.

"She was very excited about this new album and was really looking forward to its release. I have no doubt that she is happy now and would be delighted with today's announcement."

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Chosen for late availability with good pricing

Pros: Accessibility - just off Marylebone so can get to London attractions and transport links easily. Nice and quiet

Cons: Minor niggles - didn't get on the Internet this time and both water taps ran hot in the evening

Location: Walk, bike or tube to just about everything

Small downstairs room but about standard for busy central London

3 out of 5

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Not the hotel in photographs

Posted Feb 10, 2015

Tiny room & not the one I had seen in the photos but the hotel next door. Nice staff & clean but a bit of a surprise.

4 out of 5

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Nice close hotel for Palladium show

Posted Jan 26, 2015

Good all round hotel although slightly small. Staff we're accommodating and breakfast was adequate and I have to thank the Receptionist for his support after forgetting and leaving a small bag in the room after checking out. Many thanks

Disappointing stay

Cons: See above - staff could be more guest friendly. Sort out the shower so you can actually use it! Make the rooms more welcoming.

Location: Good location close to Marylebone Road and Oxford Street. Good for west end, shopping and transport links from outside London

double twin room with no gap between the beds. small room, shower dribbled water. Cooked breakfast floated in grease and so cramped in basement room with kitchen staff not particularly friendly.

3 out of 5

Recommended for Everyone

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Posted Jan 2, 2015

Pros: cleanand location

Cons: frendlier staff hot food unless your having just cerial

Location: new celebrity resarant close by

our room was a basement room with a single glassed window at 3 oclock in the morning i would rather not hear people ttalking from above as if it was the middle of the day ( not there fault they diden know we were in bed below) also breakfast was cold not even luke warm cold !!!

5 out of 5

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Pros: Price and proximity to shops.

Cons: Staff need to be a bit more customer focused.

Location: Loads of pubs, places to eat, shops and banks.

If you're looking for somewhere to bed down for the night this is just the job. Nothing fancy but perfectly decent and clean, and a hot breakfast thrown in. It's great for the lovely shops too and has plenty of restaurants nearby.....the staff are friendly enough but aren't particularly knowledgeable of the area. I asked the receptionist "do you know the Greek restaurant across the road?" She didn't. I could see it from the window....also I had to step through a crowd of staff smoking on the steps when I left which was a bit annoying but I'm being picky.


These Are the Women Accusing Harvey Weinstein of Sexual Harassment

Film producer and Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein is taking a leave of absence after a New York Times report detailed decades of sexual harassment allegations against him.

According to the report, the Oscar-winning producer and Miramax co-founder invited several actors and female employees to various hotels for business meetings but behaved inappropriately when they arrived. The women allege that he asked for massages, appeared naked, and, in one case, asked a woman to watch him shower.

“There is a toxic environment for women at this company,” Lauren O’Connor, an employee at the Weinstein Company, wrote in a 2015 memo to company executives, according to the Times.

Weinstein has reached settlements with at least eight of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct, according to the Times.

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“I appreciate the way I’ve behaved with my colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologize for it,” he said.

In addition to O’Connor, the story also names several other women who had reported sexual misconduct involving Weinstein, including actor Rose McGowan, Zelda Perkins (then an assistant to Weinstein), Emily Nestor (a temporary employee of Weinstein’s in 2014) and Italian model Ambra Battilana (who called New York police in 2015 after Weinstein allegedly groped her, the Times reported).

After the Times story went live on Thursday, Weinstein’s lawyer Charles Harder emailed TIME that the story was “saturated with false and defamatory statements.” He also said that he planned to sue the newspaper and that the Times story ” relies on mostly hearsay accounts and a faulty report.”

Here are the stories of the women who have spoken publicly about Weinstein:

Ashley Judd

Weinstein invited actor Ashley Judd to a business breakfast at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel in the late 1990s as she was filming Kiss the Girls, Judd told the Times. When she arrived, Weinstein allegedly had her meet him in his suite and greeted her in a bathrobe. He then asked her for a massage and if she would watch him shower, the Times reported.

“I said no, a lot of ways, a lot of times, and he always came back with some new ask,” Judd told the Times. “It was all this bargaining, this coercive bargaining.”

Judd told Variety in 2015 that she was sexually harassed “by one of our industry’s most famous, admired-slash-reviled bosses,” but did not name Weinstein. “It took years before I could evaluate that incident and realize that there was something incredibly wrong and illegal about it,” she told Variety.

“Women have been talking about Harvey amongst ourselves for a long time, and it’s simply beyond time to have the conversation publicly,” Judd told the Times.

Laura Madden

Starting in 1991, Weinstein had asked Madden, a former employee, for massages while he was staying at hotels in Dublin and London, according to the Times.

“It was so manipulative,” Madden told the Times. “You consistently question yourself — am I the one who is the problem?”

At one point, Madden locked herself in the bathroom of one of Weinstein’s hotel rooms and cried, a friend and former colleague of Madden’s told the Times.


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Healthcare professionals being given the chance to gain recognition for their professionalism, commitment and hard work at a major awards ceremony.

Organisers of the BMJ Awards want clinically led teams based in the UK, who have made a major contribution to improving healthcare and outcomes for patients and communities across the country, to apply.

Now in its 10th year the BMJ Awards are the UK’s leading medical awards and is free to enter.

It was developed to promote excellence in healthcare, showcase knowledge and experience that will inspire others. It also gives exposure to teams who demonstrate courage and passion for overcoming challenges within the medical profession.

Organisers have published several top tips on how to write a successful submission which include keeping the entry concise, but with “specific facts and figures” and to allow plenty of time to draft the content.

Once submissions have closed, the BMJ’s internal champions (mostly doctors and senior editors within BMJ) and an expert judge will shortlist all entries. Each category will have five to six shortlisted teams. The shortlist will be announced in February 2018 and teams will then be invited to present in front of an expert panel. The judging day will take place on Thursday, May 10 and winners will be announced at a ceremony at the Park Plaza Westminster Hotel in London.

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Interesting additional information about the 1918 strike of women workers on London transport.

The following was published in the Gazette, 23 August 1918:

With startling suddenness Uxbridge and the whole of West Middlesex found itself tramless on Saturday through a strike of women workers.

The cause of the trouble was that whereas the award of the Committee on Production gave five shillings to the men it declined a similar concession to the women employees. Those employed on several services of the London United Tramway Company including the Shepherds Bush, Uxbridge line refused to start work on Saturday morning.

No intimation of their intentions was given and many early morning workers found themselves unable to get to business. The inconvenience increased during the day. People in the Hayes and Hillingdon districts who desired to get to Uxbridge or Southall to do their Saturday shopping were faced with the alternative of walking or going without provisions. There was no question of buying locally for many of the villages are rationed for meat, butter etc at town shops and were therefore in an awkward position.

The stoppage came as a thunder-bolt to many of the men conductors and drivers who had heard nothing about it as it had been more or less secretly organised by the women. One conductress thus explained the situation, "When we were taken on by the Company they promised to give us whatever rise the men had. We are doing just as much work as the men who realise the justice of our case and are supporting our strike."

Male employees who are opposed to the women's claim base their opposition to the fact that many conductresses are the wives of soldiers and are receiving separation allowances, whereas the men have families to support.

During the week the strike spread with startling rapidity. The bus employees in and around London joined with the tramway people and these were followed by tube girls.

By Tuesday places affected included Bath, Brighton, Bristol, Folkestone, Hastings and Weston-Super-mare.

Sir George Asquith, the chief industrial commissioner, had held a number of conferences with the parties engaged in the dispute with the hope of arranging a settlement, but it was not until Wednesday night that an arrangement was reached.

A conference under the auspices of the National Transport Workers Federation was held in the morning and a resolution was passed committing the unions affiliated to the organisation of "Immediate appropriate and determined action" to enforce national adoption of equal pay for equal labour to women and men. The unions represented at the conference were the Amalgamated Association of Tramway and Vehicle Workers London and the Provincial Union

of Licensed Vehicle Workers, National Union of Vehicle Workers, National Union of General Workers and Dock, Wharf and Riverside General Labourers Union.

The terms of the resolution adopted by the conference were sent to Sir George Asquith, chief industrial commissioner, and in the afternoon delegates from the conference were received by him. After discussion lasting four hours the following official announcement was made, "The three Unions concerned with representatives of the National Transport Workers Federation

met with Sir George Asquith today and after lengthy conference decided to recommend to the Executive Committee the following terms.

Resumption of work pending reference to the Committee on Production of interpretation of their awards, namely whether under Clause 14 of the Award of July 9 the Committee be understood to nullify any agreement or undertaking and in particular any such undertaking as is alluded to in Clause 4 of the Award

of March 8 and on the claim that equal total payments be made to women as to men for equal work in the tramway and omnibus, undertakings who were parties to the Award of March 8 and July 9 and that any present changes of payments are to date from the beginning of the first full pay day following July 9 and that any future changes of payments should take place jointly with those of the men. The Hearing will take place on Monday next at 2.30 and the Awards will be issued as speedily as possible."

In the Uxbridge district great inconvenience has been caused by the stoppages. Many of those who in the past decried the trams have now realised their worth, tradesmen have found a considerable falling off in their takings and many people have passed the remark "Doesn't it seem strange without trams?" Men on government work in the district have suffered by the stoppages, but at one big works motor lorries have been conveying men to and from work, trains have been more than usually uncomfortably packed and bicycles have been more generally used this week than for a long time past.

A large majority of women tram and bus conductresses joined unions by 1918. Many had been practically compelled by men members to join the union. The understanding was that they should be employed on exactly the same terms as men whilst their employment must terminate by the end of the war. In some cases women were employed on short shifts, but this policy was opposed by the Union. It was feared that any relief of this kind would not only give employers an excuse for deductions from wages, but add to men's hours of work. It might even have the undesirable effect of encouraging women's employment in the future. Women drivers who were entirely composed of commercial private employees formed a comparatively small section of members, probably less than 1/8th.

The larger number of women drivers involved for auxiliary war service were not encouraged by the government to join Trade Unions. Women tram and bus conductors who were well organised for a start, had little difficulty in obtaining men's minimum rates of wages, but the question of war advances was a matter of constant dispute. The important National Award for February 1918

which men received an aggregate advance of 20/- a week on pre-war rates, laid down that, "Where agreements or awards already exist providing the same rates to be paid to women as to men, such agreements or awards are to hold good and an increase to be paid accordingly." In the absence of such agreements, women were to receive only an advance of 4/- on the current rates.

The London Women Bus Conductresses were at once accorded the full bonus and a subsequent decision of the committee of production by which they were refused, a further advance of 51- met with such a determined resistance that the decision was reversed. All women were however by no means so

successful Outside London the women's claim had been prejudiced for the most part by the terms of previous awards by which they received not more than about two thirds of men's war advances.

In London, however, their claim was undeniable and here they secured the full sum of 20/-, bringing up their earnings to 63/- a week. In the following July a fresh appeal was made to arbitration, and men were granted a further advance of 5/- a week. But this time the women were left out. The award met with an unexpected storm of indignation. London women bus conductresses were not accustomed to such treatment. They had, moreover, begun to taste power. A protest meeting was held at once and they announced their intention to take drastic action unless their claim received attention. It did not receive attention.

It was apparently not even communicated by their Union to the Company. In August, therefore, the women struck work without further notice and the men came out after them.

The public were surprised and not a little inconvenienced, but its sympathies were in the main on the side of the women. Even The Times admitted the strength of the women's case which lay precisely in this - That their work was as well done as any man could do it and that everyone could see that it was.

The Committee of Production by which body the award had been given was obliged to yield to the storm and to re-consider its decision and the women won their case.

Such was the victory of the women tram drivers that Mary McArthur, the Leader of the Women's Union declared the award to be the absolute vindication of theprinciple for which we are contending.

Note:

The London United Tramways began operating a service between Southalland Uxbridge (along the Uxbridge Road) in May 1904.

At Uxbridge Civic dignitaries gathered at the municipal boundaries to raise their bowler hats and wave an "open sesame" to the tram. The streets bedecked with flags and bunting, crowds lined the route to see the tram glide safely along. Hillingdon Band played and the bells of St Margaret's church rang out, children were given free rides, and a lunch was held for 90 prominent people in the Chequers Hotel

The first London Transport Trolley bus from Shepherds Bush to Uxbridgeran in November 1936 and last ran 8th November 1960

The Hayes Labour Party regularly called for a more regular and cheaper service from Hayes station (opended 1864) and the Hayes Communist Party in its 1945 manifesto called for the extension of the Underground line to Hayes.

Hayes Labour Councillors had been calling for a Tram line to replace the 207 bus route from the mid 1980's

Taken from https://ourhistory-hayes.blogspot.co.uk/2007/02/women-tramworkers-equal-...


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Housed in an historic 19th Century building located in Britain's royal and political heartland, with Buckingham Palace, St. James's Park, Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey in the surrounding vicinity as well as excellent transport links at the doorstep, the Holiday Inn Express London - Victoria is the ideal choice for smart business and leisure traveller.

Housed in an historic 19th Century building located in Britain's royal and political heartland, with Buckingham Palace, St. James's Park, Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey in the surrounding vicinity as well as excellent transport links at the doorstep, the Holiday Inn Express London - Victoria is the ideal choice for smart business and leisure traveller.

Enjoy a warm welcome from our friendly multi-lingual staff at our intimate 52 room hotel, in a beautifully restored Victorian building in the centre of London. Excellent transport links mean you can be in any corner of London within minutes as the Holiday Inn Express London – Victoria is a short walk from Victoria & Pimlico underground stations with excellent bus routes on the doorstep!

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Getting to Holiday Inn Express London-Victoria is easy, thanks to its location near the transport hub of Victoria train station and Pimlico Undergound. Hotel is only 4 minutes walk from Pimlico station and 15 minutes from Victoria Railway Station. Gatwick Airport is just 30 minutes by express train, Heathrow Airport is accessible by London Underground, and buses serve the city centre and beyond.

Guest Reviews

Rated 5.0 out of 5.0 by Stellibobs33 The Birthday
Very nice comfortable and quiet no bacon for breakfast,but managed without it .it was very calming and nice place to stay
July 31, 2015

Rated 4.0 out of 5.0 by PierreL Noisy Room
Some sort of electrical noise all night long coming from a grey box in my room
Eventually went to sleep but each time I woke I heard it again
July 30, 2015

Rated 4.0 out of 5.0 by JJPhare Great Staff, good value
We arrived a bit early after a cruise however the staff was quite accommodating and was able to give us a room promptly. All of the staff was cordial, courteous and welcoming. The hotel is within walking distance of the Underground (Pimlico and Victoria) and within blocks of a variety of cafes. The included morning breakfast had good variety.
We previously stayed at this hotel 11 years ago on our honeymoon. Some improvements have changed things for the better and some things have stayed the same. Having read other reviews, we were prepared for an issue dealing with street noise. The hotel now has earplugs available however I did not expect a mezzo soprano to be practicing for a few hours below my window. Obviously a nearby howling dog also did not care for her either. Their exchange was quite humorous. It eventually stopped and life went on.
There is no a/c however the hotel does provide a fan for comfort (much appreciated). I'd have no problem staying here again based on the value of amenities received.
July 26, 2015

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Holiday Inn London - Regent's Park

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Couples

Business

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Recent guest reviews

no heat in the cold winter, the room is small and the bathroom is tiny. the lady at front desk is unfriendly and unprofessional,
our holiday inn experience in US is very pleasant, but this one in London is horrible.

Was a very professional and nice hotel with a good location for getting around London. Seemed to be mostly for people traveling on business but that didn't bother me who was just there to see the sites.

the hotel was wonderfully convenient. near two tube stations that took us in both necessary directions, great restaurants close by. the room was comfortable and cleaning staff competent and timely.The concierges were marvelous, extremely helpful, courteous, competent and personable. fgreat experience, we will surely return.

I've stayed many times at the Holiday Inn in Carburton Street, just south of Regent's Park, London, and it's as good as ever. The location is great for just about any central London destination, being a short walk from no less than three Tube stations, and while it would never win any awards for individuality, it is clean and comfortable, with friendly helpful staff and pretty good food should you happen to want to eat in. Only downsides are that the rooms are a bit small (inevitable on such a tight site) and that they charge a lot for wi-fi access... why? Make that free, and it would get the fifth star for value.

When I went the internet was down and had been down for a reported five days before I got there. It was not fixed for the four I stayed there and so one of their selling points was removed (the internet when working is of the pay as you go variety and you were required to plug your computer into a router via cable - I don't believe they had WiFi). That said the location was decent (right next to a tube stop on the circle line - the line that also had stops at the Tower of London and Paddington Station). There were plenty of pubs and restaurants in the general area, as it is more of a middle class residential area than a touristy one.

This hotel was in a good location, within a block of an Underground station. We also walked from Oxford Circus area and it wasn't terrible. There were some good pubs for drinking and eating nearby. The hotel room seemed a bit older and small, but the size seemed normal for London standards. This hotel met our needs for price and location.

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Walking distance to BT Tower and Royal Academy of Music

Free WiFi in rooms and public areas

Onsite dining

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Located in Marylebone, Holiday Inn London - Regent's Park is within a 5-minute walk of BT Tower and within 15 minutes of other popular attractions like Royal Academy of Music. This 332-room, 4-star hotel welcomes guests with conveniences like a restaurant, a bar/lounge, and free in-room WiFi. It's in central London and also a short walk from London Palladium Theatre and University of London.

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This hotel is home to a restaurant and a bar/lounge. Order from 24-hour room service to satisfy your hunger without leaving your room. Start your day off with breakfast, available for a fee.

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Guests of Holiday Inn London - Regent's Park enjoy access to free WiFi in public areas, 8 meeting rooms, and conference space. If you drive, self parking is GBP 40 per day, and there's also limo/town car service. The 24-hour front desk has multilingual staff ready to assist with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Additional amenities include a business center, free newspapers, and laundry facilities.

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Guest reviews for Holiday Inn London - Regent's Park

Couples (5)Business (2)Family (1)Other (1)Friends (1)

1

horrible experience

Couples

no heat in the cold winter, the room is small and the bathroom is tiny. the lady at front desk is unfriendly and unprofessional,
our holiday inn experience in US is very pleasant, but this one in London is horrible.

By charles on Jan 18, 2016

4

nice stay

BusinessTravelers

Comfortable and a nice place to stay very central and good staff. I would go back.

By Joe G. on Jun 15, 2015

4

traveling with friends

BusinessTravelers

Was a very professional and nice hotel with a good location for getting around London. Seemed to be mostly for people traveling on business but that didn't bother me who was just there to see the sites.

By DButts on Feb 20, 2015

4

convenient, clean, comfortable

Families

the hotel was wonderfully convenient. near two tube stations that took us in both necessary directions, great restaurants close by. the room was comfortable and cleaning staff competent and timely.The concierges were marvelous, extremely helpful, courteous, competent and personable. fgreat experience, we will surely return.

By romana gaby on Oct 10, 2014

4

regent's park holiday inn as reliable as ever

Couples

I've stayed many times at the Holiday Inn in Carburton Street, just south of Regent's Park, London, and it's as good as ever. The location is great for just about any central London destination, being a short walk from no less than three Tube stations, and while it would never win any awards for individuality, it is clean and comfortable, with friendly helpful staff and pretty good food should you happen to want to eat in. Only downsides are that the rooms are a bit small (inevitable on such a tight site) and that they charge a lot for wi-fi access... why? Make that free, and it would get the fifth star for value.

By david.brown on May 8, 2013

3

ok

Couples

good option if you need to stay in the area in the area.

By nicknamenicknamenickname on Apr 22, 2013

4

business trip

Couples

This is a convenient and well located hotel: easy access to transportation

By Marce 40 on Mar 11, 2013

4

solid option in london

Singles

When I went the internet was down and had been down for a reported five days before I got there. It was not fixed for the four I stayed there and so one of their selling points was removed (the internet when working is of the pay as you go variety and you were required to plug your computer into a router via cable - I don't believe they had WiFi). That said the location was decent (right next to a tube stop on the circle line - the line that also had stops at the Tower of London and Paddington Station). There were plenty of pubs and restaurants in the general area, as it is more of a middle class residential area than a touristy one.

By Anonymous on Aug 14, 2010

3

older hotel, good location

Couples

This hotel was in a good location, within a block of an Underground station. We also walked from Oxford Circus area and it wasn't terrible. There were some good pubs for drinking and eating nearby. The hotel room seemed a bit older and small, but the size seemed normal for London standards. This hotel met our needs for price and location.

By Anonymous on Aug 9, 2010

4

great location

GetawayWithFriends

went for the pats/bucs game subway at end of street. good location for seeing the sights.

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This establishment has received its official star rating from VisitEngland, the National Tourist Board for England.

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