Restaurants, pubs & hotels are being invited to save thousands of pounds and massively cut the amount of food they waste, under a free scheme supported by the Mayor Boris Johnson. The FoodSave scheme, being run by The Sustainable Restaurant Association, has already helped 15 of the capital’s small food businesses save more than £100,000 a year and prevent a staggering 70 tonnes of food – the equivalent of 550 large loaves of bread – going to waste.

The Imperial Chef Tom Hope with Mayor of London Environment Adviser Matt Pencharz

FoodSave is making very good progress towards its ultimate target to divert more than 1,000 tonnes of food waste from landfill, reduce over 150 tonnes of food waste and save businesses over £350,000.

(PRWEB UK) 30 May 2014

Restaurants, pubs & hotels are being invited to save thousands of pounds and massively cut the amount of food they waste, under a free scheme supported by the Mayor Boris Johnson. The Food Save scheme has already helped 15 of the capital’s small food businesses save more than £100,000 a year and prevent a staggering 70 tonnes of food – the equivalent of 550 large loaves of bread – going to waste.

One of the businesses, The Imperial, in south west London, is on track to save £10,000 and prevent almost one tonne of food waste a year by offering different portion sizes, measuring out sides in cups and using leftover food for their soup of the day and special menu items.

Research by WRAP indicates that more than 1.3 billion meals are wasted annually in UK’s hospitality and food service sector. FoodSave helps small businesses to stop throwing profits down the drain, with results from the first 15 businesses taking part showing average annual savings of over £6,000 in direct food costs and a reduction of 1.6 tonnes of actual food waste, equivalent to two dozen 180 litre bins. Two of the business are predicted to save over £10,000, with one expected to save a huge £24,000.

Due to this success, over 200 more small food businesses are invited to apply for the free scheme. The project is funded by the Mayor of London, European Regional Development Fund and London Waste and Recycling Board and being delivered by the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) and Sustain.

Today the Mayor’s Environment Adviser Matthew Pencharz visited The Imperial on Kings Road to see the waste reduction methods they have introduced. FoodSave is part of the Mayor’s wide ranging support for London’s food economy which aims to help make it healthier, more sustainable and more profitable.

Matthew Pencharz said: “With FoodSave cafes, pubs and restaurants are learning simple ways to reduce the amount of food they throw away and saving thousands of pounds in the process. The Mayor now wants hundreds more businesses to get on board this great free scheme and help us dramatically reduce food waste across the city.”

Kate MacWhirter, Director of The Imperial, said: “FoodSave has been an eye-opener and has really helped us identify precisely the areas where we were wasting food and enabled us to come up with solutions. We’ve changed the size of and ingredients for certain dishes and have created daily delicious specials with food that would historically have gone to waste. The amount we are saving is enough to help pay for another member of staff, which is fantastic.”

Victoria Moorhouse, Senior Operations Manager at the Sustainable Restaurant Association, said: “FoodSave is making very good progress towards its ultimate target to divert more than 1,000 tonnes of food waste from landfill, reduce over 150 tonnes of food waste and save businesses over £350,000.

“The power of what we are doing with FoodSave is measuring the impact that these interventions make to food waste and the resulting cost savings. By making staff aware of what they are throwing away and how this impacts the bottom line helps to shape behaviour change and this is the key to making change last. The lessons we learn will help us to drive down food waste across the UK hospitality sector, saving businesses money while also diverting waste from landfill.”

The Sustainable Restaurant Association team work with technology partner Winnow to run detailed food waste audits for restaurants, hotels, pubs, quick service restaurants and canteens to analyse the food waste being they produce. The Winnow system measures the real time weight and cost of food waste across different food waste types (spoilage, preparation and customer plate waste). The SRA then works with the catering teams to find ways of reducing food waste and tracking this over time.

WRAP estimates that the average annual cost of food waste for hospitality and food service outlets is £10,000 and that three quarters of food wasted in the sector could have been eaten.

Notes to editors
1 For images of the Imperial’s ‘Food mountain’ email Rachelle(dot)laurence(at)london(dot)gov(dot)uk and to find out more about FoodSave including how to take part visit http://www.london.gov.uk/foodsave.
2 Small and medium sized London restaurants, hotels, pubs, quick service restaurants and canteens interested in taking part in FoodSave should contact the SRA - foodsave(at)thesra(dot)org or call 020 7479 4224 http://www.thesra.org. The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) is a national, not-for-profit membership organisation providing restaurants with expert sustainability advice through a team of specialist account managers. The SRA helps member restaurants source food more sustainably, manage resources more efficiently and work more closely with their communities. Members enjoy the economic benefits of greater sustainability and the SRA promotes their activities to consumers.
3 Small and medium sized food retailers, markets, food manufacturers, wholesalers, wholesale markets and food growers interested in taking part in FoodSave should contact FoodSave, contact Charlotte Jarman oncharlotte(at)sustainweb(dot)org or 020 7065 0902. http://www.sustainweb.org. Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity.
4. WRAP figures from ‘Overview of Waste in the UK Hospitality and Food Service Sector’, WRAP, November 2013
5. The London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB), has a remit to improve waste management in the capital. For more information on LWARB visit http://www.lwarb.gov.uk.
6. The Mayor is working with the European Regional Development Fund and the London Waste Recycling Board to deliver the scheme and help 240 small and medium enterprises over the next 10 months. The FoodSave project is part financed by the European Regional Development Fund Programme 2007 to 2013. For more information visit http://www.gov.uk/browse/business/funding-debt/european-regional-development-funding.


Albany House

Albany House is a heritage listed building located on the corner of Stirling Terrace and York Street overlooking Princess Royal Harbour in Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

The building was originally constructed as the Union Bank of Australia building, and completed in 1884. The banking chamber occupied the ground floor while the manager's residence took up the first floor.

The two storey building was built in the Victorian Regency style; it is constructed from load-bearing masonry that has been rendered and painted. A rendered plinth at the base of the building is continuous around the main facade and is deepest at the truncated corner as the site slopes to the south. A single storey wing extends from the western side to the boundary with the London Hotel. The building has a dominant square form with a truncated corner, where the main entrance is located, at the intersection of Stirling Terrace and York Street. A decorative frieze stringcourse is found between the ground and first floors with further horizontal mouldings. The two street facades are identical and broken into bays by the pairing of the arched windows. The north facing balcony has timber flooring and a balustrade of cast iron panels. The building is topped with corrugated iron roofing concealed behind a parapet. Chimneys with moulded tops and a flagpole at the south east corner top the building.

A branch of the Union Bank was opened in 1878 by the General Manager, John Franklin McMullen. The Commercial and National Banks both also had branches in the town. McMullen then acquired the present site in 1879. With the construction of the Great Southern Railway and the economic future of Albany looking secure planning started to construct new premises.

The building was designed by architect George Charles Inskip in 1884. Inskip had also designed the Union bank buildings in Perth, Fremantle. Roebourne and Geraldton. Tenders for the Albany building were called for later the same year with the foundation stone laid in August. It was built by Charles Keyser, who also constructed Vancouver House, another heritage listed building further down Stirling Terrace.

In 1945 the block was subdivided and the land behind the building fronting York Street was sold. The building had some renovations in 1950. The Union Bank and the Bank of Australasia merged in 1951 to form the Australian and New Zealand Bank. In 1970, the bank then took over the English, Scottish and Australian Bank and became the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. and eventually moved to premises on Albany Highway. In 1973 the building was completely vacated and new premises were opened in Peel Place. Albany House was sold in 1975 to the Wyness family, then in 1976 to the Bellemore family, who renovated the building. QBE Insurance used the ground floor as offices in 1999.

In 2005 the building received a 5,000 grant from the state government to assist with the cost of preparing a conservation plan.

See also
 List of places on the State Register of Heritage Places in the City of Albany

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Image caption Prince Alwaleed has claimed there were inconsistencies in the magazine's valuation process

Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal has accused Forbes magazine of understating his wealth.

In its 2013 list of the world's richest people, Forbes estimated Prince Alwaleed's net worth at $20bn (£13bn), putting him in 26th place.

According to reports, the prince estimates his net worth to be $29.6bn, which would put him in the top 10.

Forbes said it had examined the prince's wealth "deeply" following claims he had exaggerated his fortune.

In an article published on its website, Forbes also said that the prince often went to great lengths to affect his ranking and had complained in previous years about the valuation Forbes had put on his wealth.

"Of the 1,426 billionaires on our list, not one - not even the vainglorious Donald Trump - goes to greater measure to try to affect his or her ranking," the magazine claimed.

Citing former associates of Prince Alwaleed, the magazine said his ranking was very important to the prince.

"This is how he wants the world to judge his success or his stature," an anonymous source was quoted as saying.

Analysis A journalist who used to work on the Sunday Times' annual UK Rich List says: Conventional wisdom says that the wealthy only discuss their riches with the bank manager and the tax inspector. But when I helped compile the Sunday Times' annual UK Rich List there were always people keen to flaunt their millionaire status. Not the super rich, for whom counting the pennies was pointless as they probably had no idea of their actual value. But for the nouveau millionaire a slot in the Rich List was a badge of honour. The calls would start coming in a few weeks before publication, never from the people themselves, but from a PR minion or marketing person. Had we got all the information we needed? Were we aware of this or that deal? Entrepreneurs, celebrities, wannabes: there was always someone angling for official recognition that they were rich. But the only thing worse than not being on the list of the UK's 1,000 wealthiest people was being lower than your ego demanded. Bust someone down to the 900s when they felt they should be in the 800s was a grave insult punishable by yet another phone call from a PR flunky.

The list, published on Monday, saw Mexico's Carlos Slim retain the top slot for the fourth straight year with a net worth of $73bn.

The 10th spot on the list went to Bernard Arnault and family of the luxury goods group LVMH, with a net worth of $29bn.

Severed ties

Prince Alwaleed's office claimed the magazine used flawed valuation methods that were "designed to disadvantage" Middle Eastern investors.

It alleged that the magazine had refused to accept the valuations of the stocks listed on Tadawul, the Saudi Arabian Stock Exchange, while it had accepted valuations of listings on other emerging markets such as the Mexican Stock Exchange.

It said that Forbes had applied "differing standards of proof for different individuals".

The prince's office said that it had requested Forbes to remove the prince from its rich list. It added that it had severed all ties with the magazine and would no longer co-operate with the valuation teams.

"We have worked very openly with the Forbes team over the years and have on multiple occasions pointed out problems with their methodology that need correction," Shadi Sanbar, chief financial officer of Kingdom Holding Company, which the prince owns, said in a statement.

"However, after several years of our efforts to correct mistakes falling on deaf ears, we have decided that Forbes has no intention of improving the accuracy of their valuation of our holdings and we have made the decision to move on."

The prince's Kingdom Holding Company, whose shares are traded on the Saudi stock exchange, owns stakes in hotel groups including Four Seasons and Fairmont Raffles and is a part-owner of the Savoy Hotel in London.

The prince is a major investor in News Corporation and, according to Forbes, he bought a 3% stake in Twitter last year for $300m.


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Anouska Hempel

Anouska Hempel, Lady Weinberg (born 13 December 1941 as Anne Geissler; sometimes credited as Anoushka Hempel) is a film and television actress turned hotelier and interior designer. She is a noted figure in London society.

Early life
Hempel is of Russian and Swiss German ancestry and has mused that she was born on a boat en route from Papua New Guinea to New Zealand. Her father emigrated to New Zealand where she was born. Her family later moved to Cronulla, south of Sydney in Australia, where he owned a garage. As a teenager in the mid-1950s, Hempel attended Sutherland High School. In 1962 she moved to England carrying only £10.

Acting
Hempel's first film appearance was in the Hammer Horror film The Kiss of the Vampire (1963). In 1969, she appeared in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service as one of the "angels of death". Thereafter she appeared in several films  including Scars of Dracula (1970), The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971), Go for a Take (1972), Tiffany Jones (1973), Russ Meyer's controversial, soft pornographic film Black Snake (1973), Double Exposure (1977), and Lady Oscar (1979). In the 1970s, Hempel appeared in one episode of the BBC series The Lotus Eaters and she also auditioned for the part of Jo Grant in Doctor Who and appeared in the science-fiction TV series' UFO ("Mindbender" 1970) and Space: 1999 ("The Metamorph" 1976).

Partial filmography
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) – The Australian Girl
The Breaking of Bumbo (1970) – Debutante
Scars of Dracula (1970) – Tania
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971) – Blonde (segment "Lust")
Carry on at Your Convenience (1971) – New Canteen Girl (uncredited)
Go for a Take (1972) – Suzi Eckmann
Black Snake (1973) – Lady Susan Walker
Tiffany Jones (1973) – Tiffany Jones
Double Exposure (1977) – Simone
Lady Oscar (1979) – Jeanne Vallois / Jeanne de la Motte

Hotel and design
After finishing acting, Hempel has embarked in a career as a hotelier and interior designer. In 2002, she was ranked by Architectural Digest as one of the top 100 interior designers and architects in the world.

Hotels
Hempel has established four hotels. Blakes Hotel was created in 1978 as one of the world's first luxury boutique hotels. Based in South Kensington, it is well known for its design, quality of service and privacy. The hotel's restaurant has become a destination in its own right, featuring a fusion of Hempel's own favourite cuisines – Japanese and Italian. Her second hotel, the Hempel Hotel, was noted as a minimalist hotel. Blakes Amsterdam was opened in 1999, drawing inspiration from Amsterdam's historic Dutch East India Company.

Hempel currently works as a silent adviser in her hotel company and is working on other hotels in Beirut, Santiago Chile, Lisbon, Istanbul and a new hotel for Baccarat in Rabat. Her showcase hotel "Warapuru" is set in the Brazilian rainforest overlooking the ocean, but opening has been delayed several years. Other recent openings include The Grosvenor House Apartments, on Park Lane and La Suite West in Bayswater, both in London. Blakes Hotel was recently sold to investors, following a renovation by the Anouska Hempel Design there are plans to expand the brand with the second Blakes due to open in Singapore in early 2016.

Other designs
Hempel's restaurant designs range from modern minimalist to theatrical. Her restaurant projects include Shy in Jakarta and Tom Aikens in London. She has designed retail stores for Van Cleef & Arpels (in London, Paris, Monaco, Beverly Hills, Osaka and Geneva) and Louis Vuitton, for whom she designed their flagship Paris store and items such as luxury fountain pens and ballpoint pens with leather and lacquer surface ("doc leather"). Other stores include Henry Cottons in Milan and Lokum in London.

Hempel has also designed two yachts: "Beluga", her own yacht, a renovated 10 berth Turkish Gulet which has black sails; and San Lorenzo, a sleek minimal design for a private commission.

Hempel has taken private commissions for homes and landscapes, most recently a garden in honour of Princess Margaret in Oxford. Her own homes, Cole Park near Malmesbury, Wiltshire and a large house in Ennismore Gardens, London, regularly appear in design magazines. Through a boutique in South Kensington, she has designed haute couture clothes for many famous women, including Princess Diana and Princess Margaret of the Royal Family.

Personal life
In 1964, she married Constantine Hempel, with whom she had a son and daughter.  He was a journalist and property developer who was killed in 1973, crashing his car into a basement in Pimlico. Hempel and her second husband, theatrical producer Bill Kenwright, divorced after two years of marriage in 1980. Later that year, Hempel married financier Sir Mark Weinberg, with whom she has a son, Jonathan. She appears in a photographic portrait by Bryan Wharton on display in the National Portrait Gallery.

References

External links

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The Hempel Hotel
Warapuru Hotel
Anouska Hempel, Lady Weinberg — National Portrait Gallery

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The Psychology Foundation of Canada’s 40th Anniversary Conference

When: April 2nd, 2014

Where: Hilton Toronto, 145 Richmond St West, Toronto, ON, M5H 2L2

What: Explore issues related to mental health and well-being for children and families. Every teacher needs to have a strong understanding of mental health issues as it relates directly or indirectly to our students. An important aspect of the conference will include a morning discussion concerning resiliency and the importance of social and emotional intelligence – the perfect topic for teachers working with at-risk students!

2014 Summit on Children & Youth Mental Health

When: April 3rd and 4th 2014

Where: Allstream Centre, 105 Princes’ Boulevard, Toronto

What: A conference for educators, health professionals, and children service professionals addressing a whole community approach to serving youth and child struggling with mental health. Again, an educator cannot have enough information and resources on this topic!

Ontario Healthy Schools Coalition
National Healthy Schools Conference

When: April 9th and 10th 2014

Where: Hilton Hotel and Conference Center, London, Ontario

What: This conference addresses the resources and practices needed for a whole child approach to our students needs. The speakers and workshops cover a broad range of topics such as mental health, literacy, violence, healthy eating, leadership skills, and physical fitness.


24k Gold Plated Ipads for Hotel Guests

The Burj Al Arab hotel has quite the legacy. They claim to be the world’s most luxurious and only 7 star hotel, and rightfully so. This sail shaped masterpiece tops the list in extravagance and pure opulence. With its average rate of $15,100 a night, guests have every right to expect the best of the best. However it’s their newest addition to their long list of luxuries that has caught everyone’s attention. As if the experience guests get from staying at this one of a kind hotel isn’t enough they will now be greeted with a 24k gold plated iPad. This iPad is theirs to use for the duration of their stay at the Burj Al Arab. Of course this over the top device is embossed with the Burj Al Jarab logo which is perched directly above Apples tell-tale symbol on the back of the iPad. This unique luxury is the result of a partnership between Gold & Co. of London and the Burj Al Arab hotel. These two joined forces to give an already over the top hotel even more impressive. With the iPad guests have access to the hotel’s services, menus, spa treatments, and of course concierge service. Not that there was any competition before, but it’s definitely going to be hard for other resorts to top the Burj Al Arab’s standard of excellence that extends to every last detail.


Sydney

Sydney is our biggest chapter, and you can expect to find anywhere from 10 to 300 fans in the pub for match days. If you can't make it to the Lane, then the Surry Hills Hotel is easily the next best thing, within an atmosphere more akin to that of a pub somewhere in North London.


Wimbledon 2016 with Allen Solly

So I mentioned in one of my previous posts (find it here) that I would be attending Wimbledon with the brand Allen Solly, and I was beyond thrilled about it! We were there last week, and it was definitely one of those unparalleled moments that I always thought would only be a dream.

I remember watching Wimbledon matches on TV with my mom every year, hoping to one day watch Djokovic and Federer work their magic in person. So you can only imagine my excitement when I learnt that I’d be lucky enough to watch them both. It couldn’t have gotten better! We attended the opening day, and started out with drinks and lunch at the VIP Village. I knew I wanted to wear a cute summer dress for that day, so I opted for a white one with blue floral details. Since London weather is known for being unpredictable, I couldn’t leave without a jacket. Post lunch, it was time for Djokovic’s match against James Ward. I’m not even exaggerating when I say that my heart was racing at a million miles an hour at this point! After we finished the first match, we got to binge on some delicious high tea treats, and the infamous Wimbledon strawberries and cream. We then went onto watch Federer do his thing, before we headed back to our hotel.

Having lived in London for almost a year, it’s always been like second home for me. And I couldn’t leave without revisiting all my favourite places, meeting my friends, and of course, shopping! But more on that later!

I put together another look from Allen Solly’s Wimbledon collection. I’m actually wearing a men’s shirt here, but I loved the umbrella print, and if I hadn’t gone with the dress for Wimbledon, this could definitely have been a good option! You can find their Wimbledon collection here!


“There have been times on our own island when the guilty have gone free.”

There is a lingering idea among Irish people that, because of our own past sufferings, we have a particularly sensitive moral antenna, highly attuned to instances of injustice and exploitation.

That does not always bear out in reality. Perhaps we’re just more hypocritical: witness the Irish red carpet for red China, rolled out earlier this year. Tiananmen Square?

Is that a Nama development?

The other striking aspect of the McAreavey trial and publication of the offending photographs is the determinedly bullish attitude taken towards the Mauritians by the Government, and by Northern Ireland’s First and Deputy First Ministers.

Of course, we are all shocked, all disgusted.

But there is also the sense that, with Mauritius, there is finally a state with which Ireland, North and South, can throw its weight around.

Ministers appear to have drawn confidence from the wave of high public feeling in taking this small island state sternly to task.

The question is whether we have accrued enough moral capital of our own to be able to do that with sufficient authority. There have been times on our own island when the guilty have gone free.

The former presidential candidate said he wants a retrial in Mauritius over the unsolved killing as he prepared to meet the country’s High Commissioner in London.

Legends hotel workers Sandip Moneea and Avinash Treebhoowoon were cleared of the murder by a jury at the Supreme Court in Port Louis last Thursday.

Jurors had deliberated for about two hours.

Mr McGuinness said: “The real purpose of the meeting is to discuss with the Mauritius authorities the appalling handling of the case relating to the murder of Michaela McAreavey and the appalling way in which the Harte and McAreavey families were treated during the course of not just the investigation but the court proceedings, and the perverse verdict of the jury.

“There’s a very strong view on the island of Ireland and shared by the McAreavey and Harte families that they did not get justice.”

In the interview on RTÉ Radio, he added: “I do disagree with the verdict of the jury.”

…..

Mr McGuinness said he believed that there are people in political authority in Mauritius who share his views.

[The Northern Ireland Attorney General] Mr Larkin has asked for a set of the trial papers and Mr McGuinness said he would be “examining in conjunction with the Mauritian authorities all of the possibilities. It would be foolish for me, someone who isn’t a lawyer, to delve into the legal process”. [added emphasis]

Acting Mauritian high commissioner to London Mohamed Latona said Mr McGuinness had expressed “his sentiments which . . . are legitimate”.

“I explained that the government will take all necessary action to bring the perpetrators to justice,” he said, adding that Mauritius was “looking forward” to collaborating with the PSNI and Garda “so that they can help us in further investigation so that we can start afresh”.

He emphasised, however, that Mauritius had an independent courts system. [added emphasis]


The winners of the Construction News Awards 2015 have been announced at a ceremony held at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel.

Here are the best of the best in the UK construction industry, the companies and projects that champion innovation and ambition.

Being shortlisted is a fantastic achievement in itself; well done to everyone who entered and a big congratulations to all of our winners.

These are the industry’s biggest and most prestigious awards, showcasing the best ideas and achievements from the past 12 months in construction.

Click on a category for full information on winners, the shortlists and judges’ comments. All the winners can be viewed here.


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The hotel is very nice, and the room is beautiful with lots of room. It sits right on the riverside. A little disappointed that they don't provide any complimentary bottles of water. If you want to see the attraction of london, this hotel is too far for walking distance, but only 2-3 hop away from the DLR (railway). If you...

Stayed in the Premium room with a view of the river. It was worth every penny. The view of London from the room was priceless. On arrival was greeted by a very helpful and amazing receptionist who made sure my stay was just perfect. Complimentary cakes was sent to the room and room service was one of a kind. Never...

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Amazing views and loved the spa!
The pool was spectacular.
The staff are very friendly too and the food was great.
Stayed just the 1 night with my mum. Had a great experience.
Well priced for the service you receive.
Will definitely return.

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We are attending ATP Finals and are staying at this comfortable relaxing hotel. We'll probably return next year in part just to stay here again. The hotel is old but smart. For example the bathroom has a huge marble counter for putting all one's stuff on. More modern hotels might be more upscale but often this is at the expense...

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A wonderful receptionist (Man) who was working on a late shift is most patient man ever, I should have asked for his name but whoever you are, Thank you.
The double room was just perfect. Bathroom is WOW. Food service is 24/7.

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Although rooms are spacious and quiet they are a bit boring in terms if decoration etc. The staff in the bar are great with attention on service, but their colleagues in the restaurant is lacking behind. Restaurant food is nice and pricy. The continental breakfast buffet is a full disappointment at the price if 14£! Breakfast service below standard forgetting...

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Despite the wonderful and friendly staff, this hotel misses on so many levels. It is very clear why the Four Seasons has deflagged this property. The entire hotel is in much need of a makeover. Its dated, in disrepair, and not clean. The hotel was very empty during a late October weekend but it looks as if it won't be...

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As part of our Golden Wedding celebration we had the pleasure of staying at the Canary Wharf Riverside Plaza. It was our first visit to this hotel and it will certainly not be our last. From the minute we arrived we knew we had made the correct hotel choice. The staff were welcoming, friendly and extremely helpfull, I'm sorry we...

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The whole experience from start to finish was immaculate.
Rasa was my masseuse and her service was exceptional throughout. She understood exactly what I wanted from the massage and explained the oils she would use as part of her recommendation. The massage itself was out of this world. Time just flew by.
The massage room was the perfect setting and...

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The London West Hollywood Hotel Review

: Building on its success with The London NYC, LXR Luxury Resorts & Hotels opened The London West Hollywood. The company took over the aging Bel Age Hotel and transformed it into an all-suite property, complete with rooftop pool and spa. Every suite in the hotel offers expansive views, a private terrace, living room, dining area (for two), wet bar, work space, "tech savvy" connectivity (docking outlets for cell phones, iPods, laptops) and complimentary Internet access. They even include free phone calls to London for up to eight hours a day. For those in the film biz, there is a 110-seat screening room and fully-wired second floor designed to cater to press junkets. And for mere mortals, the hotel features the services of Quintessentially, the "elite global personal concierge service" that promises you access to anything and everything the City of Angels has to offer. Dining is provided by Boxwood and Boxwood Café, featuring California fare from chef Anthony Keene.


With all the technology advancement on photography, name it monstrous resolution, quick autofocus, superb noise reduction, and many other factors, I admit it is less tempting for me to pace down with old equipments. But wait, this lens made by DJ-Optical known as 7artisans gives me some sort of “you had me at hello” feelings.

Though made for Leica M Mount, with adapter this lens could be paired with other camera brands. In my case, I’m using Sony A7R Mark III. Boasting over 40 megapixels, 10 frames per second, super wide range of ISO, two memory card slots, 4K video. Did I mention all of its features? Please help me do it. This combination is like pairing the past and present. Boom.

My review wouldn’t be that details, so I’ll put some key elements, price, built quality, weight, characteristics, and sample pictures.

Alright, here it is.

Price: the lens costs $369, I bought it at IDR 5.250.000. See their price list on this link.

Built quality: This lens is made of metal barrell with copper plate inside. It’s made in three colors, black, silver, and you’ll be excited about it, gold (it reminds of that fancy phone), which only produced in limited numbers. In the package you’ll find a plastic focus support that can be attached on the lens body and a screwdriver to adjust the focusing ring. Hmm.. interesting. Anyway, turn your focus peaking feature of you have an issue with your eye. Trust me, with F/1.1 it is a big chance you’ll miss your focus. Another thing, the click-less aperture ring is great for making video. Since I don’t, it somehow a challenge for me to pay attention and not losing track on what aperture I’m at.

Weight: this lens is quite small and light compared to my E-mount lenses. No issue with it.

Picture characteristics: frankly speaking, this is not the perfect lens at F1.1, the object will appear soft on the edges, so you’ll be questioning yourself whether or not it’s focused or blurred. It’s a lens you either like it or hate it. For me, I like it’s dreamy characteristics at open wide. Fun lens to have, also that vintage feelings though. The image seems to lose its contrast and saturation, but snap the aperture ring one stop and it will give a different result.

At F/1.4 until F/5.6 I still notice the fairly sharp image on the corner, but this doesn’t bother me.

Sample images: before going further, I would like to thank to Ballet Academy Indonesia for the collaboration especially the principal ballerina, Ms. Anindya Krisna and the soon to be Bolshoi ballerina, Sasha Fadilla.

It’s been a while since my last post on my blog and it’s time to refresh my thumbs. Last week I went to an event called Ennichisai, which organized by Japanese living in Indonesia, especially Jakarta. There are also volunteers involved, both locals and foreigners. This annual event purposely to express their gratitude of the fortune they have made also to show the beauty of Japanese culture. It took place on the crowded alley of Little Tokyo, Blok M.

Here are some of pictures I took on the first day of the event.

Shimizu San is caught again in my frame, and this year his fellow Indonesians take part on his drum-dragging carnaval. This year event marks his eight years living in Indonesia as a tech-consultant. He likes the tropical climate which he perceives good for his health and he’s glad with his slightly tanned skin. Moreover, he enjoys working with his Indonesian co-workers and learning Indonesian. I could say he’s a fluent speaker now. I must learn Japanese in return.

Here are his pictures last year on the same event:

Next, the pictures of the Mikoshi

Mikoshi. It’s a Japanese tradition related to Shinto belief. The portable temple is believed as a place to stay for Shinto gods. During festival such as Matsuri or Ennichisai, the temple will be carried on shoulders by group of male, female, and kids.
What keeps my eyes locked on this parade is the traditional attire these males wearing. Underwear, boxers, and unique shoes.
Fundoshi, or Japanese traditional undergarment for male usually worn on festivals. This guy in the front wearing rokushaku fundoshi, which the oldest types of this underwear. He also wears Tabi, the traditional shoes which cut certain way and installed with thin rubber outsole.

There’s a surprise on the event. Hiromi Kano, notably known for her deep relationship with traditional Javanese music performed as a Sinden, a title given for female Javanese singer. Moreover, she speaks Solo dialect. I’m a Javanese, but I can’t do that, what a shame for me.

Here are some photos of her:

There were many other activities such as cosplay, food bazaar, band audition, and flash mob. But, the Bonten Taiko – the Japanese drum show- and the Mikoshi at the finale were the most anticipated on the schedule.

“A picture tells a thousand words, but not necessarily the whole story”, this quote give an enlightenment to me on this bright Sunday morning. I feel obligated to share my experience on one of the biggest photography events in the world, not only by pictures also this short article. This year Sony and World Photo Organisation recorded over 200,000 photo submissions from 210 countries. I was beyond grateful to be awarded for the second consecutive year after winning an award last year. In 2017 I was selected as the winner of Indonesia National Award, and in 2018 I became the winner of Motion Category in Open Competition and the winner of Indonesia National Award. This has been the peak experience of my photography journey since I clicked my first image in 2005. If you’re curious about my winning pictures, please see below:

This year also a great achievement for Indonesia and Malaysia as we represented South East Asia for the photographer of the year nomination. I, Fajar Kristianto nominated for Open Competition and Mohd. Samsul. Mohd Said nominated for Professional Competition. He won the Current Affairs and News category – Professional Competition.

On this wonderful opportunity I’d would like to thank Sony South East Asia and Sony Indonesia for arranging unforgettable trips.

What could be better than winning a photography award, the prize from Sony, and a trip to UK? Yes, winning it twice. On this part I’d like to share about the trip in 2017 and 2018. On both trips I tried my best to spend my time for taking pictures and exploring the cities we went. But wait, Sony also equipped us with the newest camera and lenses in the market. We were given chances to try them out.

UK Trip (2017 and 2018)

In 2017, besides London, the South East Asia group went to Brighton, Sussex, and a winery manufacture. I was more than excited to pair my Sony A7R Mark II with Sony SEL 70-200 F/2.8 G Master and Sony SEL 24-70 F/2.8 G Master lenses. Here are some shots from the trip:

In 2018, besides London, we went to Cotswolds, Worchestershire, and Hook Norton Brewery Manufacture. During this trip I challenge myself to use one lens for covering the whole trip, though I changed on some shots. I paired my Sony A7R Mark II with Sony FE 12-24 F/4 G lens. Here are some of them:

It’s more than just a trip. Sony World Photography Awards not only has gained the exposure towards my works but also connected me with talented photographers around the world. I expanded my knowledge and networks during the trip. Between events on our itinerary we went together taking pictures and discussed about many things not limited to photography.

Here are some pictures of us:

I can’t thank enough to Sony for the accommodation during the trip. We stayed in great hotels in the central London (Seriously it’s only 15 minutes away from the Buckingham Palace), in Brighton with great sunset, and centuries preserved building and castle in Cotswolds area. Sony also hosted lunches and dinners at famous restaurants.

For photography enthusiasts and everyone who read this short blog, I encourage you to explore your visual creativity and submit your works to Sony World Photography Awards 2019. They will open for submissions in June 2018 until January 2019.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Visitors to London have marked its hotels as the worst in a list of 100 cities due to overpriced minibars, lousy breakfasts and slow service, according to a survey released on Friday.

A study by travel metasearch website Trivago of hotel reviews from more than 140 accommodation booking sites found London came last in a list of 100 cities that had at least 135 hotels and 60 reviews. It did not include TripAdvisor postings.

The German city of Dresden came top with its hotels receiving the highest ratings and most positive reviews from guests.

"Users praised Dresden hotels for their value for money, whilst London hotels were criticised for their prices," said a spokeswoman for Trivago.

"In particular, reviewers felt the minibars were overpriced and breakfast service was both overpriced and disappointing, whilst hotels in Dresden were praised for their delicious and well-valued breakfasts."

She said London hotels were also criticised for overcrowding at breakfast, long queues at check-in, inability to cope with large groups of people, small rooms and poor views.

On the other hand, hotels in Dresden were praised for their exceptional service, efficiency, helpful staff, as well as their spacious rooms with excellent views.

Close behind Dresden in the list of cities with good hotels were Hanoi in Vietnam, Tokyo, Chicago, and Krakow in Poland.

Joining London in the bottom five were Rio de Janiero, Copenhagen, Paris and Amsterdam.

The spokeswoman from Trivago, which is majority owned by Expedia Inc., said the website released its reputation ranking classifying destinations according to the reputation of their hotels twice a year.

Metasearch engines allow users to send requests to other search engines and databases to get a single list of results and are popular with consumers facing an overload of information on various competing deals. The 10 best cities for hotel rooms: 1. Dresden, Germany 2. Hanoi, Vietnam 3. Portland, US 4. Tokyo, Japan 5. Santiago de Compostela, Spain 6. Gdansk, Poland 7. Chicago, US 8. Seattle, US 9. Krakow, Poland 10. Budapest, Hungary


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Victorian Character in the heart of London. Located opposite Hyde Park and moments away from Paddington, The Best Western Mornington Hotel is an oasis of peace yet only minutes from London’s West End and Oxford Street. Completely refurbished to combine its Victorian splendour with a modern contemporary finish, the BEST WESTERN Mornington Hotel the perfect hotel for your visit to London. With 70 fully air-conditioned bedrooms, complimentary high speed WiFi throughout the hotel, a professional meeting room, and stylish bar, our London Hotel is perfect for any occasion. Peace and tranquillity in the heart of London. Located one street back from Hyde Park and only moments from Paddington Station, the BEST WESTERN Mornington Hotel is ideally located close to the Hustle and bustle of the west end and Oxford street without the hassle. Only two minutes away from Lancaster Gate Tube station the Hotel offers fast access via the tube network to the city of London and the shopping mecca’s of Westfield White City and Stratford. Being moments away from Paddington allows easy access for those arriving on the Heathrow express and over ground trains. Surrounded by many excellent local restaurants and pubs that have retained their neighbourhood appeal to make this your home away from home, our hotel will give you an authentic London experience. Whether you are in London either on a budget or wanting to splash out The Best Western Mornington Hotel is your ideal choice. Local attractions: Natural History Museum, British Museum, Buckingham Palace, Palace of Westminster, London Eye, Hyde Park, Notting Hill Market, Madame Tussauds etc. Spacious, contemporary in design and adaptable, The Best Western Mornington is your ideal base near Paddington Station, opposite Hyde Park for any visit to London. With all 70 air conditioned rooms fully refurbished and including complimentary high speed WiFi, tea and coffee making facilities, iron & ironing board, laptop safe and en suite bathrooms, the Best Western Mornington Hotel is the right choice for both business and pleasure. The BEST WESTERN Mornington Hotel specialises in small London meetings for up to 10 delegates with a comfortable board room and modern conference facilities. Situated on the lower ground floor the room has natural daylight coming in from one end with tranquil forest scene decorating one wall giving you the ultimate space for creativity and concentration. With a permanent 55 inch HD LCD Screen, and complimentary high speed WiFi presentations come to life and meetings are a pleasure.

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Plymouth Savoy

The Plymouth Savoy is an automobile model produced from the 1954 through 1964 model years by Plymouth.

Early history

Plymouth used the name Savoy on several automobiles. From 1951-1953, the Savoy name was used on a station wagon, upgrading the base model Suburban. Later was a line of full-sized Plymouths from 1954-1961.

Another incarnation was among Plymouth's downsized full-size cars from 1962-1964.

As with Plymouth's Plaza and Belvedere models, the Savoy was named after an upscale hotel, the Savoy Hotel in London.

1954

When introduced in 1954, later in the year with 1955 model paint schemes, the Savoy was Plymouth's mid-level car and priced between the base Plaza sedans and the top-line Belvedere models.

In 1954, the Savoy was available as a two-door Club Coupe, four-door sedan, and 2-door Club Sedan.

1955-1956

In 1955, the Savoy was available with new power steering.

In 1956, the line added a hardtop coupe and the Custom Suburban station wagon.

In 1956, seat belts were added for safety. The Highway Hi-Fi record player was also optional.

Here is a promotional video produced by Chrysler, where the 1955-1956 Plymouth models were built on the assembly line at Lynch Road Assembly.

1957-1959

For the 1957 and 1958 model years, the line added a four-door hardtop sedan.

In 1959, Plymouth dropped the Plaza and replaced it with the Savoy, making the Savoy the model's entry level full-size Plymouth. The two hardtop models were dropped, as well as the side trim and interior appointments. Sales were not diminished as the Savoy became fleet vehicles used by taxicab companies, police departments and other fleet-minded customers where luxury was not a concern. The model was also available to customers who were in the market for a low-cost, economical vehicle with the availability of a V-8 engine and automatic transmission, and room of a full-size vehicle. By 1960, a new model, the Plymouth Taxi Special, was spun off from the Savoy. Front leg room was 45.5".

1960-1961

Plymouth models were restyled in 1960. The styling for 1961 was a year "most beholders would agree...it was hit with the ugly stick". This was because of the odd chromed "lashes" on the front.

1962-1964

Plymouth discontinued the Savoy nameplate at the end of the 1964 model year, except in Canada, where it continued through 1965.

In 1965, the full-sized entry level Plymouth model in the U.S. was the Fury I; in Canada it was called the Savoy but the top-level models were named Fury II and Fury III.

Other markets

The Plymouth Savoy and the Dodge Kingsway were built in India by Premier Automobiles in Kurla, Bombay.
In Mexico was assembly by Automex between 1960–1961, the car was rebadged as the Dodge Savoy. The plant was localited in Lago Alberto, Mexico City.
Chrysler Australia produced the P25 series Plymouth Savoy from 1954 to 1957. An Australian developed coupe utility variant of the Savoy was produced from 1956 to 1958.

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Motor Vehicle Data Book Sanford-Evans Communications, various issues 1955-1966

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Owner's page of a 1960 Plymouth Savoy sedan

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Jackson's (restaurant)

Jackson's was a restaurant in Highgate, an inner suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It was established in July 1998 and closed in 2014. For much of its existence, it was Perth's number one "special night out" destination. It won many awards, and was described by The New York Times as "... perhaps the town's top table, with a formidable selection of Australian wines ...".

The restaurant's owner and chef, English-born Neal Jackson, served his apprenticeship at the Savoy Hotel in London, and later worked elsewhere in that city. He emigrated to Australia in 1971, and initially held various positions in restaurants around Western Australia. In 1981, he opened his first restaurant, the Anchor and Hope Inn at Donnybrook, and he was later the proprietor of Louisa's, a Bunbury restaurant "... that brought him a legion of fans, many of whom would drive from Perth to eat his dishes ...". He opened his eponymous restaurant in Perth in 1998.

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Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance spent nearly $250,000 over the past five years from a state asset forfeiture fund on fine dining, first-class airfare, and luxurious hotels, according to public records obtained by The City, a nonprofit news outlet in New York City.

While regular state employees, like the line prosecutors under Vance, are bound by strict travel and expense rules, Vance is under no such regulations, and his office controls more than $600 million in funds seized by New York law enforcement in civil and criminal cases.

During his frequent trips across the country, Vance lived high on the hog, The City reports:

Expense reports show that in the last fiscal year alone, Vance visited Washington nine times, Aspen and London twice, and Paris and Los Angeles once apiece. While in Paris, he spent four nights at Hôtel d'Aubusson, paying $2,816. The five-star hotel "is housed in a true Parisian mansion dating back to 1634" and boasts "discrete luxury, Louis XV furniture, original Aubusson tapestries and a wonderful wood burning fireplace," according to a description posted on TripAdvisor. In London, Vance was booked at the Ned Hotel, paying $994 for a two-night stay. The five-star accommodations are located in a former bank described on the hotel's website as an "abandoned architectural masterpiece," with a rooftop pool that overlooks St. Paul's Cathedral. Vance spent $128 for a meal in the hotel's restaurant, records show.

Notably, The City reports that Vance's spending over that period dwarfs that of district attorneys in New York City's other boroughs. The next highest spender was Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark, who expensed $18,407 since taking office on Jan. 1, 2016.

Vance defended the spending in statements to The City, saying they were within the rules and involved travel to important policing and counter-terrorism conferences. Vance's office has also spent $38 million in forfeiture funds to help local prosecutors across the country test rape kits.

But the report highlights one of the chief criticisms of asset forfeiture: The loose rules and lax oversight over how those funds are used.

Civil asset forfeiture laws allow police and prosecutors to seize property—cash, cars, and even houses—suspected of being connected to criminal activity. Much of that money is often funneled back into police department and district attorney offices' budgets.

Civil liberties groups argue that creates a perverse profit incentive. Many states have lax reporting requirements for forfeiture expenditures, and numerous watchdog and media investigations have revealed local police departments and prosecutors using forfeiture revenues as a slush fund.

Local news outlets reported earlier this year that the district attorney in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, used $21,000 in asset forfeiture revenues intended for drug enforcement to lease a 2016 Toyota Highlander.

In Macomb County, Michigan, county officials launched an audit of the local prosecutor's office after a successful public records lawsuit revealed more than $100,000 in questionable expenditures from the asset forfeiture fund, including office furniture, birthdays, and retirement parties.

In Illinois, former La Salle County state's attorney Brian Towne is facing criminal charges for misconduct and misappropriating public funds after he allegedly spent asset forfeiture funds on an SUV, WiFi for his home, and local youth sports programs. Town created his own highway interdiction unit and asset forfeiture fund for his office, an unusual move that the Illinois Supreme Court later ruled was illegal.

A 2016 Department of Justice Office of Inspector General audit found that an Illinois police department spent more than $20,000 in equitable sharing funds on accessories for two lightly used motorcycles, including after-market exhaust pipes, decorative chrome, and heated handgrips.

There was also the Georgia sheriff who purchased a $90,000 Dodge Viper with forfeiture funds for the department's D.A.R.E. program—not to be confused with the other Georgia sheriff who bought a $70,000 Dodge Charger Hellcat with forfeiture funds.


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Colin Peter Field

Colin Peter Field (born 17 May 1961 at Rugby, West Midlands, England) is a bartender and author who has been ranked as best bartender in the world by Forbes and Travel + Leisure magazines. He is the head bartender at the Hemingway Bar of the Hôtel Ritz Paris, voted Best of the Best Bar in the World by Virtuoso in Las Vegas in 2016, and has invented several drinks, such as the Picasso Martini, Highland Cream, Serendipity and Clean Dirty Martini. He is involved in the training of students for bartending in France and in Switzerland, and has authored the books The Cocktails of the Ritz Paris and Cocktails, A Simple Story.

Career
Forbes and Travel + Leisure magazines have stated that Field is the world's best bartender. Forbes stated Field was the world's best bartender in 1997, 2001, and 2004. Field has presided over the Hemingway Bar at Hôtel Ritz Paris as head bartender. since its opening in 1994, though the hotel closed for refurbishment in 2012 and opened in 2016.

Field earned the Silver Medal for the Scott Cup for French Bartenders in 1982 before going on to take the Silver Medal for the World title(Martini Grand Prix for Bartenders in the same year.

He was the first bartender to be published in the French version of Who's Who, which occurred in 2011. Field has offered cocktail courses to the public at the Hôtel Ritz Paris, in which participants receive a signed certificate from Field upon completion of the course, and is involved in the training of students for bartending and degree courses in the Cesar Ritz school in Montreux, Switzerland.

In 2011 Field  created the world's first degree for Bartenders in France.  The M.O.F.(Meilleure Ouvrier de France). This is a B.A.C +2 level 3 from the Sorbonne University. Field was recruited by the French restaurant La Mer, located in Honolulu, Hawaii, as a consultant in the redesign of its L'Aperitif bar and drink menu. The bar's cocktail list was developed by Field. Field also reworked the drink list for the restaurant's Lewers Lounge. He has also provided consulting for hotels, such as the Carlyle Hotel and The Mark Hotel in New York.. He has worked on short missions or events in The Ritz Hotel, The Connaught Hotel, The Beaumont Hotel and Browns in London, The Taj Mumbai, The Pierre,and the Surrey Hotel in New York, The President Hotel and The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, The Vittoria Excelsior in Sorrento, Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany and Cipriani Hotel in Venise also The Orient Express V.S.O.E. During the Ritz Closure between 2012 and 2016, Field was a consultant, event organiser and worked with Air France aboard the A380 and Boeing 777 making cocktails in the air in First Class and Business Class to New York, Houston, Miami, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Japan, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro.

Mixologist
Field has invented drinks such as the Picasso Martini, which involves the use of an ice cube made with frozen dry vermouth and distilled water. Another Field drink invention is the Highland Cream cocktail, which he created in 1982. The Serendipity, which includes champagne, apple juice and mint, among other items, is another one of his inventions. The World's first Clean Dirty Martini was invented in the Hemingway Bar in 2016.

Guinness World Records listed Field as preparing the "first most expensive cocktail in the world, titled the Ritz Sidecar, which originally was sold for 400 euros initiating a race around the world to create more and more expensive cocktails. The Ritz Side Car was priced at €1,500 in 2016 rates, this is approximately US$1,796 in 2016. The current world record is held by Joel Heffernan's drink, the Winston, which was served on 7 February 2013 at Club 23, Melbourne, Australia. His cocktail in 2013 was US$12,916.

Field was also the impetus for the now global bartender tweezers, originally using surgeons' tweezers in 1994. Field was rather embarrassed at the time but carried on using them in cocktail contests and behind the Hemingway bar, going on to patent a style of cocktail tweezers in France.

Awards
In 1983 at the Martini World Championships, Field won a silver medal for France and the Silver Medal for The Scott Cup France.

Book
The Cocktails of the Ritz Paris is an illustrated book that covers various cocktails, their preparation and their history. Kate Moss, a personal friend of Field's, wrote the preface to Field's book. Moss is a regular customer at the Hemingway bar.

Publications
 The Cocktails of the Ritz Paris. Simon and Schuster. 2003. .
"Cocktails, A simple Story" Editions de La Martiniere, 2010.

See also
 List of bartenders

References

External links

 The Hemingway Bar at Hôtel Ritz Paris
 A Moment With...The Hemingway Bar's Colin Field. Daily Front Row. 8 February 2011.

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After living through a bloody civil war that dragged on for three decades, the people of Sri Lanka are no strangers to terror.

But the carnage that unfolded yesterday saw the country’s enemies take on new depths of depravity.

It had all the hallmarks of the barbaric Islamic State group – executed meticulously and without mercy.

Within minutes of yesterday’s blasts, MI5 was trying to establish if there were any British links to those who could be behind the plot. There were no immediate claims of responsibility, nor any established motive for the attack, although 13 suspects had been arrested by last night.

Early evidence pointed to the National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ), a relatively unknown radical Islamist group said to have formed in Kattankudy, a Muslim-dominated town in eastern Sri Lanka, in 2014.

Alex and Anita Nicholson photographed in London in 2015. Both were killed in the bomb blast in the Shangri-La hotel

Last photo: Shantha Mayadunne (second left) and her daughter Nisanga (right) were among the victims of the Sri Lanka bomb attacks on Sunday. The family posted this picture of their Easter breakfast at the Shangri-La hotel just before the blast there

A map showing where the eight blasts went off today, six of them in very quick succession on Easter Sunday morning

ISIS militants marching in Raqqa, Syria, in 2014. This year the fundamentalists were driven from the last land they occupied but security experts have warned of 'pop up' terror cells

It has no history of mass fatality attacks.

In fact, its only mention appears to be last year when it was linked to the vandalism of Buddhist statues.

Sources in the Muslim community in Sri Lanka claim the group has publicly supported Islamic State. They also say that Zahran Hashim, named in reports as one of the bombers, was its founder.

Although intelligence files on the group are small, there is no doubt the warning signs were there.

On April 11, Sri Lankan police circulated a document entitled ‘Information of an alleged plan attack’ which said they had been warned by an unnamed foreign intelligence agency that the NTJ was plotting suicide attacks on churches in Colombo.

It added that intelligence pointed to any of the following methods: suicide attack, weapon attack or truck attack.

The original warning is most likely to have come from Australia – one of the ‘five eyes’ with a close intelligence-sharing relationship with Britain – that has kept watch on the rise of extremism in the region.

Documents show that Sri Lanka’s police chief Pujuth Jayasundara then issued an intelligence alert to top officers, specifically warning that suicide bombers planned to hit ‘prominent churches’.

Sri Lanka's defence ministry has now ordered curfew with immediate effect 'until further notice', and the Sri Lankan government said it had shut down access to social media messaging services, sources say

Hospital staff push a trolley with a casualty after an explosion at a church in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

A crime scene official inspects the site of a bomb blast inside a church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, which lost half its roof tiles with the force of the blast

Documents even named six individuals as likely suicide bombers, including Hashim. Yesterday, the seemingly far-fetched plan became frighteningly real.

Why the police did not sound the alarm earlier will remain a mystery. Prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe admitted that information about the attacks had been received in advance but denied having direct knowledge himself. ‘We must look into why adequate precautions were not taken. Neither I nor the ministers were kept informed,’ he said following intense anger in the community.

Whichever group was behind yesterday’s attack, it was most certainly inspired by the tactics used by IS. The suicide bombings explicitly targeted civilians, designed to create maximum terror for maximum effect – like the Manchester Arena bombings and the London Bridge attack.

They also chose iconic locations packed full of people, including many foreigners.

IS – which lost its final sliver of territory in Syria just weeks ago – also has a history of staging attacks against Christians on holy days, notably Christmas and Easter.

British military chiefs and ministers have long warned that the defeat of the terror group in the Middle East does not mean it has been vanquished.

They have referred to a ‘pop-up’ IS involving the group emerging elsewhere, often in states where they can exploit a vacuum. They have specifically warned of the rising threat from such diehard jihadis in south-east Asia.

IS fostered a brand which was so effective other terror groups wanted to be associated with it.

Some radicalised Muslims travelled from Sri Lanka to Syria to fight in that country’s civil war.

In 2016, the justice minister said 32 Sri Lankan Muslims from ‘well-educated and elite’ families had joined IS in Syria.

The recent loss of its last territory makes it even more likely that foreign fighters from countries such as Sri Lanka may now be returning home.

Terrorism expert Raffaello Pantucci says the demise of the group’s ‘caliphate’ could have persuaded extremists to stay in their countries and mount attacks there instead. ‘Think how big Islamic State’s footprint is,’ he said. ‘This means it has a reverse effect as well – their ideas are going out to a big pool of places.’

Sri Lankan military stand guard near the explosion site at a church in Batticaloa,with police tape keeping out bysanders

Security forces inspect the St. Anthony's Shrine after an explosion hit St Anthony's Church in Kochchikade in Colombo

State minister of defence Ruwan Wijewardene said investigators have identified the culprits behind the 'terrorist' attacks (pictuerd: Shangri La hotel, Colombo)

Yesterday’s bombings end a decade of relative peace in Sri Lanka following the end of its civil war in 2009. Terrorist bombings were common during the brutal 25-year struggle during which the Sri Lankan government fought Tamil separatism.

But despite the period of calm, much bitterness and grievance has remained in the country, riven by ethnic disputes.

Sri Lanka, which is mainly Buddhist, does not have a recent history of persecution of its Christian minority, which comprises 7 per cent of the population.

Yet its relations with others, including Hindus and Muslims, have not always been easy. Over the years there has been an increasing rise of discontent among Sri Lanka’s Muslim community, which make up 10 per cent of the population.

In November 1990, many were expelled from their homes in the north and have since been living as ‘displaced’ in the southern part of the country, under the patronage of the state.

Whatever the motives behind yesterday’s attack, there is little doubt that the brutal tactics used by Islamic State will continue to inspire others.


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Image caption Nadine Dorries was cleared of any expenses wrong-doing

MP Nadine Dorries has said that the blog she writes on her constituency website is "70% fiction and 30% fact".

She was criticised by the MPs' standards watchdog for giving the impression on the site that she spent more time at her Mid-Beds constituency home than she actually did.

Ms Dorries, a Conservative MP since 2005, was cleared of the main charge of misusing her allowances.

She said she had written "fiction" to protect her family and staff.

The MP told BBC Radio 4's PM: "I think I probably meant to say it was 30% fiction."

'Horrific' ordeal

But she said there was "purpose to it", because she had received "unwanted and inappropriate attention" during the investigation into her expenses and the police had advised her that her blog, which mentioned dates and times of her public engagements, was making her a target.

I rely heavily on poetic licence and frequently replace one place name/event/fact with another Nadine Dorries Ex-MP Mackay told to apologise

The police had told her "the best thing to do was try to disguise" her movements, she told PM.

She said the 15 month investigation into her expenses had been a "horrific" ordeal, which had seen her front window smashed, eggs thrown at her house and her daughter bullied, and she was relieved to have been cleared and could now "hold my head up high" again.

She told PM she would continue to write her blog, which is one of the most popular at Westminster, adding: "I have been as honest as any MP can be with my constituents".

Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, John Lyon, earlier rejected a series of complaints made by a BNP spokesman that Ms Dorries lied about where her second home was and made inappropriate claims.

'Bullying'

But she was criticised for comments on her blog which "suggested that she spent the majority of her weekends in the constituency, whilst she had told the Commissioner that nearly all weekends were spent in her main home".

Explaining the discrepancy, she told the watchdog: "My blog is 70% fiction and 30% fact.

"It is written as a tool to enable my constituents to know me better and to reassure them of my commitment to Mid Bedfordshire.

"I rely heavily on poetic licence and frequently replace one place name/event/fact with another.

"In the light of the bullying onslaught of the Daily Telegraph (which reported the claims about her expenses) I used my blog to its best effect in reassuring my constituents of my commitment to Mid Beds. My commitment is absolute and is always my first consideration regardless of where I sleep at night.

"However, I have always been aware that should my personal domestic arrangements become the knowledge of my political opponents, they would be able to exaggerate that to good effect. Hence the reason for my blog and my need to reassure my constituents."

She also told Mr Lyon that she had wanted to maintain "some degree of a private life" and that, although she was often in the constituency at weekends, as she had said on her blog, that did not mean she slept there.

'Comfort'

The Commons standards and privileges committee said Mr Lyons accepted her explanation of the blog entries but "notes that they 'provided a misleading impression of her arrangements', as did her comments about her use of the constituency home reported in the newspaper article which was referred to in the original complaint".

In a series of letters to the commissioner, which are included in the report, Ms Dorries explains why she wanted to give the impression that she lived at a house she was renting in her constituency.

She says: "Since I first rented in the constituency, I made a song and dance about being at the property. I have mentioned it on my blog a number of times.

"This was done to comfort my Association. The previous MP only visited the constituency occasionally-sometimes only as often as once every six weeks - and they were keen that I reversed that impression.

"His lack of time in the constituency contributed to his de-selection."

The £18,000 rent on the constituency house was paid using her second home allowance - she said she had considered buying a house with the allowance but it "just didn't feel right".

While attending Parliament in London, she mainly lived at her family home in the Cotswolds, and until December 2006 claimed for overnight stays in a Westminster flat.

After that, she occasionally stayed overnight in a hotel or at the Carlton Club, a central London gentleman's club with traditional links to the Conservative Party, the report reveals.

In January 2007, she changed the location of her second home to the constituency home, where her diary shows she spent 89 nights in 2007/08, compared with 223 at her main home, 10 nights in London and 44 elsewhere.

'Bolthole'

In one of her letters to the watchdog, she describes the constituency home as an "extremely modest" terraced house that was mostly unfurnished or carpeted.

When she was interviewed by a Sunday Telegraph reporter last year she said she transported "boxes of books and ornaments and a couple of pictures to make the place look lived in".

"The Sunday Telegraph journalist saw through this and commented on the sparsity and dustiness of the house and the fact that the post hadn't been picked up from the mat for two weeks.

"I then described it as my 'post divorce bolt hole' even though I wasn't yet divorced in order to give the impression to my constituents that I did in fact live there and to convince the journalist that I did."

A subsequent Daily Telegraph article, which said she spent only spare weekends and holidays away from her constituency home, prompted a complaint from BNP spokesman Michael Barnbrook, who told the Commissioner that in his view she had breached the rules of the Additional Cost Allowance by claiming second home expenses.

Ms Dorries produced detailed extracts from her office diary to prove that she had spent most of her nights at her main home, as the rules demand, and the watchdog also spoke to her constituency neighbours before deciding to reject the complaints.

Ms Dorries' blog is one of the most widely-read and popular blogs at Westminster. Former foreign secretary Jack Straw is among those who have said they are a fan.


Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption A British-inspired menu was prepared for the monarchs using many ingredients sourced locally

Kings and queens from around the world have gathered in Britain to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

Twelve UK royals joined the Queen to welcome the sovereigns of 26 countries for a luncheon at Windsor Castle.

Human rights campaigners have condemned the inclusion of Bahrain's King Hamad al-Khalifa but the Palace said the Foreign Office approved his invitation.

Protesters gathered at Buckingham Palace, where Prince Charles is hosting a dinner for some of the royals.

King Hamad is not at the banquet.

Another invitation proving to be controversial is that of King Mswati III of Swaziland, who is accused of living a lavish lifestyle while his people go hungry.

Demonstrators at Buckingham Palace chanted and held banners reading: "Shame on you Liz Windsor," and "Democracy now for Swaziland".

Analysis For a woman whose key role is to act as a unifying figure, this was a divisive lunch. The Queen's supporters would argue it's not her fault. According to them, Elizabeth can hardly pick and choose between a Hamad, a Mswati or a Simeon. And anyway they continue, her government is keen on deepening relations with Bahrain. Some critics of the luncheon (the correct word for the occasion in royal circles) blame the Queen; others point the finger at the Foreign Office. Against this backdrop, the 20 sovereign guests and six substitutes gathered for a photo with their host. They represent a club you are born into and cannot join, other than through marriage. Some have not fared as well as the Queen. They have no throne, though they still style themselves king. It was a rare occasion. A family gathering of sorts where politics intruded. According to one report, Prince Andrew was heard to remark, "It's alright. It's going alright. I think".

Graham Smith, chief executive of Republic, said the group was "standing in solidarity" with protesters from Bahrain and Swaziland.

Campaigner Peter Tatchell criticised the Queen for "wining and dining dictators who stand accused of very serious human rights abuse".

The Foreign Office earlier said it was having "a full and frank discussion on a range of issues" with Bahrain's government.

The world figures arrived at Windsor Castle in a convoy of black chauffeur-driven cars in time for the start of the lunch at 12:30 BST amid tight security.

Also joining the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh for the lunch were Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, the Duke of York, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie and the Earl and Countess of Wessex.

There was a group photograph before the royals sat down to lunch at round tables seating 12. Each group had least one sovereign, their spouse, a member of the British royal family and a member of the royal household.

A British-inspired menu was prepared using many ingredients sourced locally.

To start, the royals were given a tartlet of poached egg with English asparagus.

This was followed by a main course of new season Windsor Lamb with braised potatoes, artichokes, peas, carrots, broad beans, cabbage, and a tomato and basil salad.

Kent strawberries, vanilla Charlotte, dessert fruit and cheese concluded the meal.

The menu for Prince Charles's banquet includes twice-baked cheese souffle with baby leaf spinach, line-caught sea bass with coastal samphire and rhubarb Eton mess.

Mr Tatchell said inviting the kings of Bahrain and Swaziland was "a shocking misjudgement" that showed the Queen was "out of touch with the humanitarian values of most British people".

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Peter Tatchell: "It is very wrong that the Queen has invited seven royal dictators to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee"

"Inviting bloodstained despots brings shame to our monarchy and tarnishes the Diamond Jubilee celebrations," he said.

Mohammed Sadiq, spokesperson for Justice for Bahrain, told the BBC he fully supported the Jubilee, but did not understand what had changed in Bahrain to prompt the Queen to invite King Hamad.

In April 2011, Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa pulled out of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding amid controversy over human rights.

Mr Sadiq said: "How would the British feel if the Queen had invited Saddam Hussein or Colonel Gaddafi to such an occasion?"

Last month, Bahrain Grand Prix organisers were urged to cancel the race amid public unrest in the country and accusations of human rights abuses.

A Foreign Office spokesman said Britain had "consistently encouraged the Bahraini government to take further urgent steps to implement in full the recommendations of the Independent Commission of Inquiry as His Majesty the King has committed to doing.

"This includes bringing to account those individuals responsible for human rights abuses."

Gibraltar tensions

On Wednesday, meanwhile, a group of UK-based Swazis protested outside the Savoy hotel, in London, where King Mswati - who is widely accused of profligate spending - is thought to be staying, with a delegation of 30 officials.

Kings and queens of the world Which monarchs were invited to lunch?

King Mswati is rated by Forbes magazine as the world's 15th richest monarch with a personal fortune of $100m (£62m) - while many of his 1.2 million subjects live in poverty.

Democracy campaigners also want Africa's last absolute monarch to allow political parties and elections .

Saudi and Kuwaiti royals are also attending the banquet.

Amnesty international has recently highlighted repression in Saudi Arabia, as the authorities there crack down on protesters and reformists.

And Human Rights Watch has criticised Kuwait for the suspension of a daily newspaper and the conviction of its editor for incitement.

Meanwhile, because of a dispute over fishing rights off Gibraltar, a UK territory that Spain also claims.


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