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[ SE1 Direct ] Issue 889
Monday 4 December 2017 ISSN 1750-0656
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IN THIS BULLETIN
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* Local news & features from the London SE1 website
* What's on this week
* Local job vacancies
* Small offices & desk spaces for rent
* Hot topics from the London SE1 Forum
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{ Local news & features from the London SE1 website }
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* Council to explore abortion clinic protest 'buffer zone'
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* Lambeth vetoes Roupell Street language school extension
Read more at: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/9466
* St Saviour's Estate: 75 new council homes could be built
Read more at: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/9467
* Old Father Thames leads lantern parade around SE1 streets
Read more at: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/9472
* Woman sexually assaulted in Falmouth Road: police appeal
Read more at: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/9471
* Southwark Bridge Road hotel changes hands for £64 million
Read more at: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/9469
* Southwark Street: police appeal for witnesses to collision
Read more at: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/9468
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{ What's on this week }
CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT
Monday 4 December
6.30pm-9.30pm at St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey Street; £10
(child £7) from http://www.dimblebycancercare.org/events
Join Dimbleby Cancer Care as they host an evening of Carols
by Candlelight with some celebrity supporters to raise
money. Hosted by David Dimbleby with special guests and
musical performances from Farringtons Junior School choir,
there will also be lots of opportunities for guests to join
in with the festive singing. The service will conclude with
a drinks reception and mince pies and a raffle. The charity
provides practical and psychological support to people
living with cancer and to their families and carers, and is
also developing a website resource to help people find care
and support services nearest to them which is due to be
launched early 2018.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/19115
SWITCHING ON OF CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
Wednesday 6 December
6.30pm at Borough Market, 8 Southwark Street
In addition to the lights there will be from today a
surprise installation which both celebrates Christmas and is
a symbol of the spirit of Borough Market.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/19149
MERRY MINGLE
Thursday 7 December
5pm-7pm at Red Cross Garden, Redcross Way
Community networking event to celebrate the Christmas
spirit.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/19101
A CONCERT FOR WINTER: A FEAST OF SONGS AND WORDS
Thursday 7 December
1pm at Shakespeare's Globe, New Globe Walk; free; register
at http://www.shakespearesglobe.com
This year's A Concert for Winter has the title is A Feast of
Songs and Words. Featuring song, dance, poetry and
performance by Southwark's rich talent.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/19192
AN EVENING OF CHEESE
Thursday 7 December
6pm-9pm at Borough Market, 8 Southwark Street
Cheese lovers will be treated to an entire evening filled
with talks and advice on how to put together the very best
cheese board for their Christmas parties. Borough Market has
put together a selection of original options ideal for the
festive cheeseboard; including the new BluGin from L'Ubriaco
Drunk Cheese, a mild, blue cheese soaked in gin. Created
with a mixologist, the cheese offers a creamy, subtle
saltiness with a kick of juniper on the finish - ideal
served with one of the nation's favourite spirits.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/19209
SOUTH BANK FORUM
Thursday 7 December
7pm at Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, 108 Stamford Street
Regular meeting for South Bank and Waterloo residents
convened by Kate Hoey MP and Neil Coyle MP together with
councillors from Bishop's ward (Lambeth) and Cathedrals ward
(Southwark). Agenda includes a presentation on arrangements
for the New Year fireworks display, plans for the Lumiere
event in Waterloo in January and an update on major projects
in the area. Mulled wine and mince pies will be served.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/19109
CHRISTIAN AID CAROL SERVICE
Thursday 7 December
7pm at St John's Waterloo, 73 Waterloo Road; free; Register
at http://caidcarol2017.eventbrite.co.uk
The Waterloo-based national charity's carol service is at
its parish church St John's. An evening of readings and
carols with the Oasis Academy South Bank choir. Revd Lucy
Winkett will give the address.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/19194
MERRY & BITE
Friday 8 December
11.30am-3pm at Courage Yard, Shad Thames
13 street food traders - including Chalana Steak Wraps,
BellyNBao and Comptoir Gourmand - will be setting up in
Courage Yard. The Gin Craze will be bringing their converted
horsebox bar. The new pavilion building will host an artisan
market made up of 20 stalls Expect to find gourmet cheeses,
olives, bread, teas, preserves and sweet treats.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/19137
AFRICAN CHRISTMAS MARKET
Friday 8 to Sunday 10 December
Fri 4pm-9pm; Sat 12-9pm; Sun 12-6pm at Africa Centre, 66
Great Suffolk Street; free
The African Christmas Market displaying the diversity of the
continent by featuring seasonal offerings of African and
Caribbean food, warming drinks, craft, fashion and jewellery
stalls, gospel choirs, Santa's Grotto and children's
activities and Christmas lights.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/19182
CHRISTMAS EXTRAVAGANZA
Saturday 9 to Sunday 10 December
12 noon-5pm at Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, Elephant
and Castle; free
A Christmas toboggan slide will be in the centre on
Saturday, followed on Sunday by a personal appearance from
Father Christmas. Free mince pies and giveaways on Sunday.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/19212
CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT
Monday 11 December
7pm-8.15pm at St George's Cathedral, Lambeth Road; £14
(children £3) from http://www.supportgstt.org.uk/carols
Festive cheer, inspiring stories, mulled wine and mince
pies. In aid of Evelina London Children's Hospital.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/19193
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* Office Adminstrator - part time, KYNISI
* International Medical Couriers, KYNISI
* 2 Part Time Female Home Helps wanted by disabled woman
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{ Hot topics from the London SE1 Forum }
* Facebook group for St Christopher House memories
http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/1/215188
* Christmas Trees
http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/1/215187
* Hall to hire near Bermondsey Street
http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/1/215132
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When hippy squatters took over a Piccadilly mansion By Mariam Issimdar

BBC News Published duration 5 October 2019

image copyright Keystone-France/Getty Images image caption Police stormed 144 Piccadilly after the mansion had been squatted in for three weeks

Fifty years ago police stormed across a makeshift drawbridge to evict hundreds of squatters from a prestigious Mayfair address. The three-week-long occupation of 144 Piccadilly had symbolised the stand-off between mainstream society and 1960s counter-culture and made headlines around the world.

By the time several hundred "unwashed Hippies" decided to make it their home, the 100-room mansion in London's West End had stood empty for years.

While squatters had been taking over derelict properties in central London for years, this was a prime address in the heart of establishment London. Next door to 144 was another mansion where the Queen had spent the first five years of her childhood.

After a decade in which rock music, drug-taking and radical political ideas had become increasingly prevalent, to some the occupation symbolised the final breakdown of society.

Reporters on a British Pathé newsreel from the time refer to the squatters as "scroungers and drop-outs" who "thought they could snub the conventions of decent society… doing the real homeless a disservice".

"It sort of dramatised a lot of the public's fears about the counter-culture, the alternative society," says Phil Cohen, now an emeritus professor at East London University but then the squatters' leader and known as "Dr John".

"It was something that was beyond their control, and [represented] a whole generation of people who were against their society."

image copyright Keystone Press / Alamy Stock Photo image caption A police sergeant talks to Dr John, seen here in a stripy jumper, on the improvised drawbridge at 144 Piccadilly

image caption Dr John, alias Prof Phil Cohen

The squat was the culmination of an alternative movement that had, for several years, taken advantage of the capital's large number of empty properties.

The demolition of war-damaged properties and general slum clearances had created a housing shortage. At the same time, there were areas of planning blight as owners deliberately left properties empty until their development value increased. The law at the time allowed disused buildings to be used as emergency shelter for the homeless.

Squatters would make the most of this legal leeway, moving on to another property - often around the corner - if the bailiffs arrived.

A "derry" - slang for a derelict building - offered an option to young people seeking an alternative to the "taxpaying nine-to-five" lifestyle, says Prof Cohen.

image copyright Ronald Dumont/Getty Images image caption The squat received widespread media coverage

To protect themselves against the threat of eviction, some decided to organise. The resulting group became known as the London Street Commune (LSC).

It was the LSC that broke into 144 Piccadilly in September 1969. They barricaded the doors and installed a makeshift drawbridge through a ground-floor window over the dry moat that surrounded the building. Word spread and hundreds of young people who hung around the West End, including runaways, ex-borstal kids, rent boys and drug dealers, moved in.

The house soon became known as "HippyDilly".

image copyright Keystone Press / Alamy Stock Photo image caption Squatters would sleep in the old servants' quarters

"It was an extraordinary place - it was palatial," says Prof Cohen.

The squatters would sleep in the mansion's extensive servants' quarters, while house meetings were held in one of the two large ballrooms.

Inside, there was a degree of organisation. People would be tasked with various roles, including sourcing food from sympathetic catering staff at nearby restaurants and hotels.

As fascination and media coverage grew, onlookers would turn up, with some chanting: "Monkeys, get back to the zoo."

image caption Eddie Doughton remembers the 100-room mansion as "a good place to kip"

Newspaper reporters were an almost constant presence outside. Gangs of skinheads would also gather but were faced by the squatters' "security" - Hells Angels stationed at the mansion's drawbridge.

Eddie Doughton, a 19-year-old anti-war poet who had quit his job at the Admiralty after realising he was "part of the war machine", was among the residents.

He remembers it as "a good place to kip" that became "way bigger than it was supposed to be".

"Famous people were coming and going in legion numbers," he adds. "They just wanted to be seen to be hip. Actor Oliver Reed floated in, got his picture taken, then left."

image copyright Getty Images image caption "We are the writing on your wall" was a slogan painted on 144 Piccadilly that irritated the establishment, according to Prof Cohen

Many of those squatting were motivated by radical politics, but some were more interested in partying and staying somewhere rent-free.

"We were a bunch of stoners, mate - Phil [Cohen] was the agitprop," says Richie Gardener, another squatter who went on to be a roadie for the likes of Paul McCartney and Nina Simone.

Now 67 and living in Hay-on-Wye, on the Powys-Herefordshire border, he says his time in squats was the making of him.

"You walk away from the streets knowing you are going to be OK, you can survive anything."

image caption Richie Gardener says living in squats was the making of him

Prof Cohen agrees many just wanted to "enjoy their puff and their music", but he maintains the squat had a political aim.

"We were acting as sort of urban guerrillas," he says. "The city could belong to us, belong to everybody, it didn't just belong to the rich."

He would tell reporters stationed outside that the group wanted to become a "real people's forum, a resistance movement against all the institutions, like the family, schools, detention centres, borstals".

However, the scale and location of the squat led to a media-organised moral panic, he says.

"There was the idea that your property was no longer sacrosanct. Actually, I remember one of the newspaper headlines - 'What to do if hippies come to your house tonight'.

"Somehow there was this new generation that had come out of nowhere. It was outside the family, it was even hostile to the notion of the family.

"It couldn't be controlled and your own kids could run away and join us."

image copyright Mayday Rooms image caption Newspaper coverage of the squat was generally negative and sensationalist

image copyright Keystone Press / Alamy Stock Photo image caption One of the squatters during an argument with members of the public outside the building

So, on 21 September, after the squatters had ignored an eviction order and remained inside the mansion for three weeks, 144 Piccadilly was successfully raided by police.

Officers persuaded the squatters' security to allow them over the makeshift drawbridge to attend to "an ill pregnant woman inside".

Once inside, they let their fellow officers in and the house was soon under the control of the authorities.

"There was rubbish everywhere. People had written on the walls and things like that," says Graham Harris, the Under-Sheriff of London, who went into the building after the police stormed it.

The occupants, most of whom decided not to resist, were evicted. Despite all the arrests, very few were charged.

image copyright Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy Stock Photo image caption A top-hatted hippy is led away by a policeman after police stormed 144

image copyright Terry Disney/Getty Images image caption Police officers evicting a woman from the squat

Prof Cohen and other LSC members moved into another squat, about a mile away, on Endell Street. He later returned to his studies at a university in London.

A luxury hotel now stands in the place of 144 Piccadilly, which was demolished in the 1970s.

The LSC revolution may not have come about, and widespread squatting is also a thing of the past, but the issues around the availability and affordability of housing have not gone away.

Previously a civil matter, in 2012 it became a criminal offence to squat in residential properties.

Prof Cohen, who eventually rented a housing association flat where he still resides, says squatting is not a viable option for today's homeless.

"People who become homeless are, on the whole, isolated. They don't have the same kind of support structures, the same kind of network that would enable them to take collective action.

"It's much, much more difficult now. The whole thing has been criminalised."


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A record number of tourists came to Cheshire in 2014.

More than 31 million people visited Cheshire West and Chester and 46 million to the wider county, an increase of 10 million from 2009.

Marketing Cheshire announced the figures at their Annual Visitor Economy Conference.

Tourism spending was also at an all-time high, increasing by 9.5% up to £2.5bn, including the £1.6bn spent in Cheshire West and Cheshire.

Additional hotel rooms and shorter travel times from London by train are thought to have helped attract visitors.

The Cathedral at Height attraction, enhanced City Walls experience and more improvements at Cheshire Oaks are also cited for boosting numbers.

Marketing Cheshire chief executive Katrina Michel said: “We don’t stand still in Cheshire and these figures are testament to the hard work of our hotels, restaurants and attractions.

“Cheshire’s star continues to rise whether it’s through television coverage with shows such as Home Fires, or experiences such as Bolesworth International and CholmondeleyPageant of Power.”

In Cheshire East, Tatton Park’s award for Visit England’s Large Visitor Attraction of the Year 2014 and Dunham Massey’s transformation into a World War One military hospital has had a positive impact.

Chester Cathedral director of operations Simon Warburton said: “Chester Cathedral is delighted to have played a role in maintaining Chester’s position as a must-see visitor destination.

“Since going ‘free to enter’, we have increased our visitor numbers from 60,000 in 2012 to 230,000 in 2014.

“We also know that 20% of our visitors are from overseas and 47% are overnight visitors staying at least two nights.”

With several projects opening this year including Islands at Chester Zoo, the RE:NEW Chester Cultural Centre and a Jodrell Bank visitor centre, the rise is expected to continue.


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Situated 2 minutes from Hyde Park Corner and 8 minutes from Victoria, The Caledonian Club is perfectly located for London meetings and events. Offering a selection of elegant function rooms accommodating from 4 to 250 delegates with natural daylight and free Wifi, the Club also has a terrace providing the ideal setting for al fresco entertaining during the summer months.

From your first point of contact, the club’s close-knit and experienced team will take you all the way through your event, ensuring attention to detail at every stage and giving you peace of mind. Founded in 1891, the Club moved location to 9 Halkin Street in 1946. A terrace garden was added in May 1994 and in 2006, a new four-storey wing was officially opened by HM The Queen, accompanied by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh.

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One of the last great Devonshire Country Houses, the Deer Park Country House has seen many changes over its 300-year history.

Originally a squire’s mansion dating back to 1721, the Georgian house is now a stunning hotel, family owned and independently managed. In late 2016, the multi-million pound re-development of the country house was completed with the addition of a beautiful Orangery, luxury thatched tree house, Motor House and executive detached house.

The Deer Park Country House Hotel has the capacity to hold up to 35 delegates in their debonair drawing room, 50 in their cheerful conservatory or, if you’re planning a jolly big shindig, they can accommodate 200 delegates in their brand new Georgian Orangery. With fabulous four-star accommodation and double AA rosette dining, they are the venue of choice for discerning businesses who like to mix business with pleasure.

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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.


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Sunday, 8 April 2012

Step Back In Time - Gregg's Table (at Bermondsey Hotel), London SE1

On a recent visit to José Tapas and Sherry bar, M and I decided to take a stroll around Bermondsey and that is how we stumbled upon this new restaurant by one of the MasterChef judges, Gregg Wallace. On the screen , he is the lovely cheeky chappie that everyone loves and I too am a fan of his easy and pleasant on screen persona. Despite the fact that we just had a full meal, we just felt we ought to pop in for some puddings.

Situated at the Bermondsey Hotel, the facade of the restaurant were all decked out with what looked like garden furniture draped with gingham tablecloths. It's rather quaint but not the most inviting introduction to the restaurant.

It was quiet and dead as a dodo inside. To be fair, it was in the late Sunday afternoon. Having said that, the cafe/restaurant opposite looked busy and was filled with diners sitting in the outdoor area.

The interior was simple and decidedly retro, hark back to the 70s which was what the owner himself was trying to recreate. The usage of pastel colours and dashes of canary yellow dotted around further contributed to this nolstagic ambiance. In a corner, there was a display of stacked tinned spam, OXO cubes, Marmite and other processed food of the yesteryear.

These were all very well, if only it has been brought up to date with a little bit more thought. By literally transporting the entire era into a venue, it all looked very tired and bland.

M decided on the cherry muffins and cappuccino; I went for the Knickerbocker glory and latte. The service were soulless, other the chirpy manager, the rest of the waiter/waitress seemed unenthusiastic and lacklustre. Compared to the service we just received at José, this was a disappointment.

The cherry muffin were moist and rather good, not too sweet and has a really nice texture and flavour. My knickerbocker glory, however, arrived looking like an a inferno tower and just as it landed before me, the solitary wafer decided to make a run for it! The waitress tried very careful to straighten it but it was having none of it and slipped out of the whipped cream mess and onto the table. She apologised, picked up the wafer and promised to come back with another one. Within minutes, two wafers appeared before my very eyes; all laid out on a dish lined with paper doilies, just when I thought things couldn't get any more nolstagic.

Once I got passed the pile of creamy mess, the chocolate ice cream was good, but the fruit cocktails of melon and mango were brittle and tasteless, obviously weren't ripen and at it's best. Even the trembling jelly had no taste. The coffee were ordinary and far too milky for my liking.

I have held back on writing this review thinking that I ought to give it another chance and pop back for a meal before I make up my mind about this place. However, a few days ago when I was back in Bermondsey, I find myself shuddering at the mere thought of returning to Gregg's Table again.

If you are a huge fan of all things 70s, maybe you will enjoy the venue better that I did. Let me know. Unfortunately, this just isn't for me.


Michael Collins’s prayer book has come to light in France 90 years after his death in Béal na Blá.

The book, titled The Christian Armed against the Seductions of the World and the Illusions Of His Own Heart, contains prayers and meditations and was found among his belongings in Portobello Barracks, Rathmines, following his death in August 1922.

After it was returned to the Collins family, the prayer book was given, as a gift, to a nun – Sr Aloysius at the Convent of Mercy in Cappoquin, Co Waterford, in November 1922 .

The leather-bound book, with gilt-edged pages, was eventually inherited by an Irish woman, who now lives in southern France. She has decided to sell it, along with a letter from a priest, Fr Ignatius of the Passionist Order, who had given the book to Collins.

The prayer book contains “instructions for meditation” on 31 topics (“maxims”) such as: “Time is precious; the loss of it is irreparable”; and, “The number is small of those who are saved” .

Other chapters include morning and evening prayers and a “Consideration on the Passions of Jesus Christ”.

The book has a single black-and-white illustration of Jesus carrying the cross and a quote from St Luke’s Gospel: “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me”.

Ireland’s idol

Collins clearly had a profound impact on the nun. Sr Aloysius’s notes, written into the prayer book, refer to Michael Collins as “Ireland’s idol”; “her Joan of Arc”; and “her greatest hero and leader”.

She said the book was her “best-loved and greatest treasure and will be preserved and cherished for all time”.

The prayer book and the priest’s letter will be auctioned as one lot by Mealy’s, the rare books auctioneers, in Dublin next month, with a pre-sale estimate of € 1,200-€1,800.

In the letter, sent to Collins’s sister after her brother’s death, Fr Ignatius reveals that he gave the prayer book to Collins during a mission at Greystones, Co Wicklow, in 1921, which Collins had attended before departing for London to negotiate the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Fr Ignatius recalled Collins, despite “being busy in Dublin, worked and worried almost beyond endurance”, had returned to the Grand Hotel in Greystones “one night very late and very tired on the eve of his departure to London re the pact”.

The priest continued: “He got up the next morning as early as 5.30am, came to the church and made a glorious general Confession and received Holy Communion.

“He said to me after Confession: ‘Say the Mass for Ireland and God bless you Father!’ He crossed an hour or so later to London.”

Fr Ignatius wrote: “There is not a man in a million would have done what Michael did that he might get to Confession and Holy Communion.”

Crucially for collectors of memorabilia, the letter confirms that he had given Collins the prayer book “in memory of the mission”.


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Dubai gears up for next, more modest boom

Dubai, March 27, 2013

By Andrew Torchia

Four kilometres off the coast of Dubai, more than 200 tiny, man-made islands bake under the sun. Built five years ago, they were to be one of the emirate's most spectacular projects, an archipelago of resorts and luxury housing laid out in the shape of a world map.

Apart from a few facilities such as a villa and a beach club, the islands are empty. After creating them at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, state-owned property firm Nakheel sold about 70 percent of the land. But most of the buyers have lacked the cash or the will to go ahead with development plans.

A little over three years after a corporate debt crisis drove it to the brink of default, Dubai is still littered with relics of the disaster, in the form of unfinished real estate projects and battered balance sheets.

But it is laying the groundwork for another economic boom, based on its role as a tourism and business hub for the surrounding region, and a haven for money from India, China and fast-growing countries in Africa.

The next boom is likely to be more gradual, partly because financing will not be as cheap and plentiful as it was during the excesses of the last decade. Growth will depend more directly on services that Dubai provides, rather than on the ability of its real estate market to suck up money.

But in some ways, the next boom could rival the last one, boosting Dubai's population about 50 percent by the end of this decade and pushing it deeper into a range of industries, from food processing to diamond trading.

Florence Eid, chief executive of London-based research and advisory firm Arabia Monitor, said some aspects of Dubai, such as its role as a relatively safe financial centre, were set back by the crisis and shown to be weaker than assumed.

"But some have actually been strengthened in the last few years, including its role as an operating base for businessmen from around the region and as a centre for entrepot trade, which it has enjoyed since the pearl fishing and spice trading days of the Arabian Gulf," she said.

"The economy now appears to be embarking on another wave of growth during which it will serve similar functions as Hong Kong and Singapore in Asia, supporting and profiting from growth in industry and trade in a large region surrounding it."

DEBT

Dubai's expansion plans are striking in that they are being announced while the emirate is still many years away from working through the debt pile it accumulated during last decade's boom and bust.

Standard Chartered estimates $48 billion of bonds and loans will mature between 2014 and 2016, including about $10 billion of restructured debt at state-owned Dubai World and Nakheel. Some of this debt might have to be restructured a second time, the bank said in a research report.

In December, Moody's Investors Service downgraded its credit ratings of three Dubai banks, including the largest, Emirates NBD. It cited concern about problem loans and said it was prepared to cut the ratings further.

But Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, signalled a push for growth in November, announcing plans for a huge tourism and retail development including the world's largest shopping mall, over 100 hotels, and a park 30 percent bigger than London's Hyde Park.

Since then a string of state-owned and private firms have said they are reviving projects mothballed during the crash or launching new ones. Plans even include more man-made islands: last month state-backed Meraas Holding said it would spend $1.6 billion to build an island housing the world's largest ferris wheel, just a few kilometres from Nakheel's archipelago.

Hotel industry consultancy STR Global estimates, based on its contacts with companies in the industry, said Dubai hoteliers plan to add 19,000 new hotel rooms in the next few years - almost a third of the current number of about 63,000.

The government's central projection is for the population to rise above 3 million people by 2020 from just over 2 million at present. Under an "aggressive" growth scenario, the population could be near 4 million by the end of the decade, it estimates.

Since fewer than 20 percent of Dubai's population are local citizens - the vast majority are expatriate workers - such growth would mean an influx of hundreds of thousands of people.

Construction work to accommodate them would require billions of dollars of fresh financing that may be hard to obtain in the wake of the global financial crisis. If growth does accelerate, it could produce the same kind of boom-and-bust cycle that plagued Dubai a few years ago.

"There are certainly legitimate questions to be asked about investment risk in Dubai, given the wild swings in the property market and the boom period's long record of broken promises, which extend to the highest levels," said Jim Krane, author of the book "City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism".

FEASIBLE

But there are grounds to think Dubai's ambitions are feasible - or at least a large part of them. One of the emirate's advantages is its geographical location, which lets it serve as an air transport hub between Asia, Europe and Africa; Dubai overtook Hong Kong to become the world's third-busiest airport for international passenger traffic last year.

Double-digit annual increases in this traffic, which hit 58 million passengers last year, are helping Dubai attract growing numbers of tourists and investors. About a fifth of passengers leave the airport and come into the city; local industries are lobbying the government to raise this ratio with changes to visa arrangements and other steps.

"The way Dubai has worked in the past few years, they'll create enough demand generators to make sure they have customers for the new hotel rooms," said Naureen Ahmed, manager of analysis at STR Global.

Taxes in Dubai are lower than in many European and Asian cities. This helped boost foreign direct investment flows into the emirate by 17 percent last year - a rapid rate during a period of global economic weakness.

The more difficult financing environment since the global crisis could also benefit Dubai in a way, by preventing the wild investment that characterised the last boom.

With loans harder to obtain, real estate developers are likely to be forced to build their projects in stages, ensuring each stage is viable before moving to the next one.

This may mean some of the projects announced in the last several months are delayed for many years, or never built at all - but the overall effect could be to support Dubai's growth by making the economy more stable.

Loic Pelichet, assistant vice president for research at regional investment firm NBK Capital, said one factor in Dubai's investment decisions would be whether its bid to host the World Expo 2020 is successful. A decision on which country will host the fair is expected this year; local officials have estimated the event could draw 25 million visitors to Dubai.

Iyad Malas, chief executive of local shopping mall and hotel operator Majid Al Futtaim, said Dubai's development would depend on two things: tourist numbers and population growth.

At some point, growth in the air travel industry will slow, affecting the whole economy through the retail and hospitality industries. But the emirate is not close to reaching that point, so its ambitions are reasonable, Malas said.

"You have to have a vision that is ambitious. If I set the target high and I hit 75 percent of it, I'm happy. If I set it low and achieve it year after year, I will never have strong growth." -Reuters


The Wheatsheaf, St Helens

The Wheatsheaf is a public house at Mill Lane, St Helens, Merseyside WA9 4HN, England.
It was built in 1936–1938 by the brewery Greenall Whitley & Co. Ltd of Warrington, to a design by the architect W. A. Hartley.

The building was Grade II listed in 2015 by Historic England as part of a drive to protect some of the country's best interwar pubs. The building was described as an example of "Brewers' Tudor", a type of Tudor Revival architecture. It is also included in CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

The pub was built as part of a reform movement to replace "drinking dens" with more civilized drinking. The granting of a licence for the new pub was conditional upon the surrender of the licences of three other public houses in the locality: the Crystal Palace, the Engine and Tender and the Wheatsheaf Hotel. There is a bowling green outside.

See also
For similarly-named pubs in London see
 The Wheatsheaf, Fitzrovia
 The Wheatsheaf, Southwark

References

External links
http://www.thewheaty.com/

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Meat Loaf's debut album, Bat Out of Hell, was released in 1978 and went on to become one of rock's biggest sellers of all time, staying in the UK charts for an astonishing 400 weeks. But Meat - real name Michael Lee Aday - has certainly had his own ride through hell when it comes to money. By 1983 he was filing for bankruptcy and began a long battle with Sony Records over unpaid royalties. The problems began when he fired his manager, David Sonneberg, who subsequently sued him for £51m. Meat Loaf used all his spare cash from the royalties he had received (which he was saving towards his retirement) to mount a defence and, as the case grew, so did the number of lawyers. He finished up with 11 attorneys and a £750,000 bill.

When he ran out of cash, he was advised to file for Chapter 11 protection, the step before bankruptcy that, in US law, protects a debtor from law suits and allows time for preparing a financial strategy. But Sony claimed Meat Loaf was still under contract to perform, so he filed Chapter 7 instead - complete bankruptcy. In response, Sony declared him in breach of contract and refused to pay further royalties. The only way was to record and release more records.

"I'm a fighter," he tells me from his London hotel. "If I'm depressed, it's only for 15 minutes and then I'm angry. I decided they didn't have my name and couldn't take it away - so screw them.

"I get like an animal who's caged - no matter what they throw at me, I'm always going to fight my way out."

In the mid-1990's he turned the tables on Sony, accusing them of failing to correctly account for record sales. He claimed the company deliberately recorded fewer album sales, to pay artists lower royalties, and keep the extra cash themselves. He claimed they owed him £8m.

"They settled, but only in a very small way," he says. "The standard in Hollywood is if they owe you £15m, they want to settle for £6m or £10m and you think, 'Well £6m is better than nothing so I'll take it.' So then they've made £9m. If they do that ten times with ten artists, then they make £90m on top of what's already made.

"There's not an artist alive, or will ever be alive, that has ever been paid what they are owed. You just need to know that going in. If you sign with a record label be prepared - you won't get all your money. It's not going to happen."

That's not the only way he's been unlucky - he's had a poor experience with investments. He's been watching his stock values dive while a court injunction prevented him withdrawing any of the capital from his investments.

He doesn't want to talk about the reason for the injunction (probably connected to his divorce) but it's made him feel that the safest place for any money is underneath the mattress. Or in property. "I've made a whole lot of money buying and selling property," he enthuses, "more than I have recording and touring - trust me. I look for bargains and I renovate them, but I never put more in than I can get back."

If there's one result from the negative experiences it's that he keeps a tight control over his own budgets. Currently on tour for a year, he knows exactly how much things should be costing. He buys used sets, calculates the cost of the trucks, the riggers and even the fuel. Then he hands his tour company a budget for the first 100 shows and challenges then to show him where he's wrong.

This approach means he can set his own ticket price and he loves to be involved in making sure the price is fair.

"Sure I'll charge £12 for a shirt, but with my shirts you can be sure they cost me more than 60p which is what you get with other bands.

"Mine will have cost at least £4 because I make sure it's the best damn shirt money can buy."

Cheque it out ... it's strictly cash or cards

Prefers to pay - by cash or cards. He thinks checking accounts are just a way for banks to make money. He uses cards to pay business expenses, so he doesn't have to collect receipts.

Lottery - if he won £2m he'd give 35% to charity and use the rest to buy another property to renovate and sell.

General outlook - "never do anything for the money alone." He hates the Phantom of the Opera and would never appear in it, despite having been offered £96,000 a week to play the lead in Canada. "I don't get it, I don't understand it, I don't get why it's a hit, there's no redeeming features. I would go completely crazy doing that."

Collects - sports memorabilia, but a lot of that is given to him because he knows the athletes involved.

Revenue - he's made 10 albums and acted in 44 films "I've seen myself 12 times on English TV in the last 45 days. They are supposed to pay royalties every time. I'd be interested to see if I get anything when I get home..."


Image caption Those who knew Jimi Hendrix say he came across as a 'regular guy'

Forty years ago, one of the most admired of all rock guitarists died in London at the age of 27.

Since his death, Jimi Hendrix has become an icon of 1960s culture, both the music and the visual image known around the world.

Born in the US, Hendrix spent his final years mainly in London.

Image caption Hendrix is considered to be one of the best electric guitar players in the world

He died of an apparent overdose at what was then the Samarkand Hotel in Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill, on 18 September 1970.

Sound engineer Roger Mayer, who knew Hendrix well in London, believes Hendrix's drug-use has been exaggerated.

"When I knew him he wasn't stoned all the time, which is what people think," he says.

"You can't play guitar to that standard on stage or in the studio if you're stoned on drugs. I've seen other people try but it doesn't work.

"He was less outrageous than a lot of other people at the time," he adds.

'Immediate charisma'

Mr Mayer first approached Hendrix after a gig at the Bag O'Nails nightclub in London, organised to introduce him to journalists and the music industry.

He decided Hendrix ought to know about a pitch-shifting device he had been developing to give electric guitars a bigger range.

He was less outrageous than a lot of other people at the time Roger Mayer, "Sonic consultant"

Hendrix loved the Octavia and used it on classic tracks such as Purple Haze and Fire.

As "sonic consultant", Mr Mayer went to many Hendrix concerts.

"He wasn't the typical guitar player who was just staring at his shoes, he had immediate stage presence and charisma.

"He'd do all kinds of tricks like playing the instrument behind his head," he says.

At other times, Mr Mayer just hung around with Hendrix and his girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham.

"Offstage Jimi was not at all like his stage persona. Jimi was very quiet and unassuming," Mr Mayer says.

"He was very generous about inviting people to jam with him - but he liked to play board games too."

What about maintaining his visual image, which remains so well-known?

"He used to dress pretty much the same every day. Though he didn't like anyone to see him in his curlers when he was getting his hair ready. His hair was processed and curled."

"It was all very avant garde and flamboyant," he says.

"Guys couldn't take their eyes off the way he played guitar and the girls were fantasising about him as well. It was a total package really."

'Sexuality'

Photographer Gered Mankowitz was also in his early 20s when he met Hendrix at the same try-out gigs as Mr Mayer.

"After that the music business embraced him completely.

"Brian Jones had taken him shopping for clothes at Granny Takes a Trip on King's Road.

Jimi Hendrix Born Johnny Allen Hendricks in 1942 in Seattle, USA

Spent time in the US military

Became one of the most successful musicians of his era

Had his first top-ten hit single in 1966 with Hey Joe

Died in a hotel in Notting Hill, London, in 1970

Death certificate: Inhalation of vomit; barbiturate intoxication; insufficient evidence of circumstances; open verdict

Posthumously inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992

"Pete Townsend helped him buy equipment. He took the business by storm."

Hendrix came to two photo sessions at Mr Mankowitz's studio in central London.

"He looked extraordinary and unlike any other black guy I'd ever seen.

"He wore the fashion of the day as though it were made for him. He was wearing silk and velvet and lace. And he had a cloak he liked very much.

"But when I look at my pictures now he's incredibly natural. There's no make-up, no grooming as such," he says.

Mr Mankowitz took one picture in particular which still defines the singer's image.

Hendrix, hands on hips, is staring straight into the camera, wearing his famous hussar's top.

"His innate coolness and sexuality comes through. It's a powerful experience," says Mr Mankowitz.

"You do sense the man - and he let me in for that brief moment.

"But he was very funny - he laughed a lot.

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Enjoy a guided tour of Jimi Hendrix's former Mayfair pad

"A lot of the photographs I've got were of him smiling - but they were of no interest to anybody at the time because everyone wanted to see the mean, moody, sexy man," he says.

Mr Mankowitz has been going back through his 100 or so shots for a new book and exhibition.

"I think now as a visual icon he's as well known as for his music.

"I have 12-year-old boys coming to my exhibitions who know all about him. And you see him on t-shirts even more than Che Guevara!"

'Not a diva'

Swedish radio journalist Lennart Wretlind met Hendrix only once, before a concert in Stockholm in January 1969.

But it resulted in one of the few surviving interviews with him.

"You could just turn up and there'd be no guards and no ID needed - there was a friendly atmosphere," says Mr Wretlind.

"It was very different in those days. Jimi didn't need any time to warm up: he was not a diva. He sounded totally relaxed and he came across as a nice person. He was a regular guy," he adds.

Listening to the radio interview now, Jimi Hendrix sounds the gentle, polite man recalled too by Mr Mayer and Mr Mankowitz.

All three men say they saw little connection between the performer on stage and the private man.

Aside from the sheer quality of his music, that enigmatic quality is surely why people remain fascinated by Jimi Hendrix today.

Singer Janis Joplin was to die only a few weeks after him, and Jim Morrison the next summer.

But of the three rock stars who died at the start of the 1970s, it is Jimi Hendrix whose music became the most potent shorthand for the new youth culture of the age.


The Sinister Muslim Plot to Steal Time

It's real. The Saudi government is currently building an enormous clock tower in Mecca, set to Arabia Standard Time, that they hope will overshadow the Greenwich Observatory as the true center of the world's time. Yes. Arab Muslims: Time Thieves.

From the Telegraph's chilling report:

For the past 125 years, the international community has accepted that the start of each day should be measured from the prime meridian, representing 0 degrees longitude, which passes through the Greenwich Observatory.

A standard time by which other clocks were set was needed to organise global travel and communications, but in the Islamic world the idea that it should be centred on a part of London is seen as a colonial anachronism.

As Mohammed al-Arkubi, manager of one of the hotels in the complex, put it: "Putting Mecca time in the face of Greenwich Mean Time. This is the goal."

Holy Christmas! Pretty soon we'll all be wearing white dresses and prayin' eastward. Which will be easy to remember to do, because the all-knowing Clock will tell us when it's time:

When a glittering spire is added, topped with a crescent to symbolise Islam, the edifice will stand at nearly 2,000 ft, making it the world's second tallest building.
...
Residents of Mecca will also be reminded that it is time to pray when 21,000 green and white lights, visible at a distance of 18 miles, flash five times a day.

This is not unlike the all-seeing eye at Mordor, is it?

Well, whatever. We'll still always run on good old American time. "Hey boy, what time you got?" "Why it's three cheeseburgers past Martina McBride, sir." "You're a good boy, Johnny. You're a good, good boy." Things like that. Don't worry folks, as long as we successfully fight against that nasty Time Displacement Center that those evil types are trying to build somewhere vaguely near Ground Zero, everything will be OK.

Though, we'd probably be better off if we just all moved to Mecca:

According to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian cleric known around the Muslim world for his popular television show "Sharia and Life", Mecca has a greater claim to being the prime meridian because it is "in perfect alignment with the magnetic north."

This claim that the holy city is a "zero magnetism zone" has won support from some Arab scientists like Abdel-Baset al-Sayyed of the Egyptian National Research Centre who says that there is no magnetic force in Mecca.

"That's why if someone travels to Mecca or lives there, he lives longer, is healthier and is less affected by the earth's gravity," he said. "You get charged with energy."


OAKLAND — Cerruti Cellars will exit the East Bay’s largest city following the sale of the Jack London Square building it occupies — but the deal will also bring Oakland a new company headquarters, executives said Tuesday.

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New downtown San Jose transit village comes into view An affiliate controlled by San Francisco-based H&L Partners, one of that city’s veteran and well-known advertising agencies, has paid $7 million for a three-story building at 100 Webster Street at the corner of Embarcadero West, right next to the Jack London Square restaurant, retail, office and hotel complex. The purchase was completed on Oct. 6, Alameda County property records show. Brokers from realty firms Cushman & Wakefield and Colliers International arranged the deal.

“We believe in the rebirth of Oakland, and we want to be part of that,” said Andrea Alfano, chief operating officer with H&L Partners. “Oakland has changed dramatically over the years. We will have a wonderful open space, a great creativity and collaboration space, and because it’s an open area near the water, that gives us more opportunities for creativity.”

H&L Partners will move its headquarters and about 55 to 60 employees to its new offices, Alfano said.

The sale of the property, though, will also trigger the departure of Cerruti Cellars. The three-story, 18,000-square-foot building was owned by the Tudal family that also operated the Cerruti Cellars business on the property. The wine-tasting and events center eventually will reopen in American Canyon, said Dan Kincheloe, a building manager for Cerruti Cellars.

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The Port of Oakland has done a poor job of marketing restaurants and retailers, Kincheloe said. He pointed to the exits from Jack London Square of several high-profile dining establishments this year.

“Bocanova, Haven, Il Pescatore, they’ve all closed,” said Kincheloe. “The Port of Oakland doesn’t do anything to promote this area. It’s why everyone is leaving this part of Oakland.”

Bocanova, though, decided to reopen in Oakland’s bustling Uptown district. A sign posted this week on the doors at Haven suggested its site is being renovated and was expected to reopen at some point.

Still, the prospect that the building at 100 Webster Street will by sometime in the spring of 2018 be open, and filled with a new headquarters and its employees, is a welcome counterpoint to some of the struggles at Jack London Square.

“We are doing a major remodeling in the building,” Alfano said. “It’s an old ice house that was built in 1928. We are boring holes, and opening an internal staircase to the second floor. It will be a completely open environment.”

The building is expected to accommodate additional staff beyond the group that moves to Oakland.

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San Francisco’s skyrocketing office rents were among the factors that influenced H&L’s decision to exit Oakland’s cross-bay neighbor, said Benjamin Harrison, a senior vice president with Colliers International.

“Rents are getting so high in San Francisco and H&L really wanted to own their new location, so this was a perfect fit for them,” Harrison said.

Other well-known companies have decided to leave San Francisco to escape the fast-rising rents, which are fueled by expansions of tech firms. Among the departures: Blue Shield and Delta Dental.

H&L Partners creates advertising for big-name brands such as Toyota, McDonald’s, Maytag and Touchstone Energy. The company’s website states that it generates $120 million a year in billings.

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“We are all looking forward to the move, and the staff is excited about being in Oakland,” Alfano said.


Keep Moving (song)

"Keep Moving" is the lead single released from the soundtrack of the film 4.3.2.1.. The song is performed by Adam Deacon and Bashy, and features vocals from English recording artist Paloma Faith. The track was written and produced by Alex "Cores" Hayes, and was released on 28 May 2010. The song reworks Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner". The song also acts as the first single to be taken from Deacon's debut studio record, Kreative Koncepts, due for release in 2013.

Background
Nick Mason and Phil Tidy, producers of the film, were approached by Maya Jenkins at Universal Pictures, who offered to help with the promotion of the film soundtrack. They came up with the idea of releasing a mainstream tie-in video for the track, featuring Paloma Faith, and an underground internet video, which features Deacon and Bashy only. The song was written and produced by Alex "Cores" Hayes, who also features in the video. The video was directed by Nick Mason, and produced by Phil Tidy. Shot on location in the Sanctum Soho Hotel in London’s glittering West End, where parts of the film were also shot, Phil and Nick shot on Red Cam anamorphic lenses, so it would cut in as best as possible with the movie footage.

Track listings
 Promotional CD single
 "Keep Moving" (Radio Edit #1 - More Paloma, Less Adam & Bashy) - 2:58
 "Keep Moving" (Radio Edit #2 - Less Paloma, More Adam & Bashy) - 3:02

 UK Digital EP
 "Keep Moving" - 4:13
 "Keep Moving" (Instrumental) - 4:07

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Andrew Thomson – General Manager at COMO The Halkin London

COMO Hotels and Resorts properties are all individually designed to reflect their location and offer a high level of personal service in a very homely environment. In our exclusive interview with Andrew Thomson of COMO The Halkin London we reveal more about what makes the COMO brand so special.

Andrew Thomson – General Manager at COMO The Halkin London

Describe the COMO ethos; what makes the brand so special?

We stand for bespoke and personalised service, discreet luxury; we are neither formal nor informal in our approach. Every member of the team tries to add to the guest’s experience, from the food we serve to the recommendations we make during their stay.

Entrance at COMO The Halkin London

Each COMO Hotel and Resort is designed to reflect its location. How do you fit in?

COMO The Halkin manages to achieve a balance between easy downtime and efficient work. We are far enough from the busy London environment but only a stone’s throw away for those who want to indulge. Ours is a peaceful hotel that reflects the serenity of Hyde Park on our doorstep, but there’s also the excitement of having a great restaurant, which creates a natural buzz and pizzazz.

What do you love most about working at COMO The Halkin?

It sounds like a cliché but it is all about the people – our guests and the team. We have those who have stayed with us for many years and staff who have been employed since the hotel’s inception some 26 years ago.

Ours is a peaceful hotel that reflects the serenity of Hyde Park on our doorstep, but there’s also the excitement of having a great restaurant, which creates a natural buzz and pizzazz.

Give us one reason why our LuxuryBARED members should stay at COMO The Halkin

It would have to be the New Basque cuisine offered in Ametsa with Arzak Instruction, created by head chef Sergi Sanz Blanco. The restaurant is truly special, as Juan Mari and Elena Arzak’s first collaboration outside their three-starred Michelin restaurant based in San Sebastian, Spain.

And about the city… besides Ametsa with Arzak Instruction, of course, which is your favourite London restaurant for fine dining?

Simon Rogan’s Fera at Claridge’s is definitely worth a visit.

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For a guest with just 24 hours in London, what would you recommend doing?

Put on some comfortable shoes and walk everywhere. At every corner you turn, you either see a world-famous landmark or discover a hidden gem.

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London's top chefs return to London Eye to serve up eleven nights of fabulous food

Tuesday 08 June 2010

-Tickets for the 2010 London Restaurant Festival go on sale to the public today-The Merlin Entertainments London Eye to be transformed into fine dining restaurant for a record 11 nights; chefs cooking include Gordon Ramsay, Richard Corrigan, Angela Harnett and Giorgio Locatelli.-The highly popular Gordon Ramsay night will again be auctioned off for charity.

Opening in just over four months, the 2010 London Restaurant Festival (4-18 October) in partnership with American Express, today revealed the impressive line-up of top London chefs who will be cooking in London's most sought-after pop-up restaurant. After its sell-out debut last year, the 2010 festival will see the return of gourmet dining on the London Eye for eleven nights (an increase from the six sold-out nights last year). One capsule will be transformed each night into the capital's most exclusive restaurant, completing one rotation for each course. Each evening, ten guests will enjoy dinner 135m above the River Thames with what's been described as the UK’s most exclusive chef's table.

The reveal of the eleven chefs also marks the fact that tickets for all London Restaurant Festival events including the London Eye nights are on sale to the public from today at http://www.londonrestaurantfestival.com

This year the eleven chefs invited to take part include London's leading chefs and restaurants including: Gordon Ramsay, Angela Hartnett, Richard Corrigan, Giorgio Locatelli, Atul Kochhar and Mark Hix. Other top London restaurants serving up exclusive meals will be The Ivy which will see Gary Lee, Head Chef of The Ivy, create a special 20th anniversary menu which will celebrate The Ivy's much loved and diverse dishes from the past 20 years. Other top restaurants including the popular Hakassan and L'Anima will also be taking part. Two new international chefs to be added to the London Eye line-up (and who have recently made London their new culinary home) include New Yorker, Daniel Boulud who has just opened his first London restaurant 'Bar Boulud' and Michelin starred chef Joel Antunes who has returned with his new restaurant 'Brasserie Joel'.

Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who supports the Festival, commented: 'London's unbeatable restaurant scene has become home to some of the world's most creative chefs. The sheer scale of the capital's gastronomic delights is testament to the vibrancy of our city and the London Restaurant Festival is a fantastic way for people to experience some amazing dining experiences.'

Last year, the Gordon Ramsay night was auctioned off at a charity event where a mystery bidder paid an impressive £23,000. Once again the three-Michelin starred chef has agreed to auction off his 2010 Festival night to raise money for the charity StreetSmart, which will be the official charity for the 2010 London Restaurant Festival.

The charity works with London's homeless to provide food, clothes and shelter and is well known for working with London's restaurant industry to raise money. As well as the auctioned Gordon Ramsay capsule, a percentage of the ten other capsules sold will also be allocated to the StreetSmart charity.

Each person to buy a capsule will have a top London chef create a delicious four-course meal for them and nine guests. There will also be a Champagne reception which will be hosted at the brand new Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel and will be provided by the official London Restaurant Festival champagne sponsor G H Mumm. A varied wine selection which has been designed to complement each menu will also be served. As well as having one of the most stunning views in London, the ten diners will be able to meet the chefs who will be personally cooking for them all night.

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Hundreds of British properties suspected of belonging to corrupt politicians, tax evaders and criminals could be seized by enforcement agencies under tough new laws designed to tackle London’s reputation as a haven for dirty money.

Huge amounts of corrupt wealth is laundered through the capital’s banks. The National Crime Agency believes up to £100bn of tainted cash could be passing through the UK each year. Much of it ends up in real estate, and in other assets such as luxury cars, art and jewellery.

The criminal finances bill, published on Thursday, is designed to close a loophole which has left the authorities powerless to seize property from overseas criminals unless the individuals are first convicted in their country of origin.

It will introduce the concept of “unexplained wealth orders”. The Serious Fraud Office, HM Revenue and Customs and other agencies will be able to apply to the high court for an order forcing the owner of an asset to explain how they obtained the funds to purchase it.

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The orders will apply to property and other assets worth more than £100,000. If the owner fails to demonstrate that a home or piece of jewellery was acquired using legal sources of income, agencies will be able to seize it.

The law targets not just criminals, but politicians and public officials, known as “politically exposed persons”. Depending on how quickly it passes through parliament, the bill could come into force as early as spring 2017.

“There are some hundreds of properties in the UK strongly suspected to have been acquired with the proceeds of corruption,” said the campaign group Transparency International, which has been pressing for the new measures. “This will provide low-hanging fruit for immediate action by law enforcement agencies, if those agencies are properly resourced.”

The Guardian revealed through the Panama Papers how a powerful member of Muammar Gaddafi’s inner circle had built a multimillion-pound portfolio of boutique hotels in Scotland and luxury homes in Mayfair, Marylebone and Hampstead in London. Ali Dabaiba, who was head of Libya’s infrastructure fund for a decade, has been accused by government prosecutors in Tripoli of plundering money meant for hospitals, schools and archaeology. He rejects the allegations.

Scottish police have confirmed they are investigating, but Libya’s request for an asset freeze has not been implemented.

Bukola Saraki, the president of the Nigerian senate who faces allegations that he failed to declare his assets, owns a property in Belgravia in his own name.

The Panama Papers revealed that the £5.7m property next door belonged to Seychelles and BVI companies benefiting Saraki’s wife and former special assistant. Saraki said he had declared all his assets correctly and in accordance with Nigerian legislation.

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During the London anti-corruption summit in May, the Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, was asked if he demanded an apology from David Cameron for a gaffe in which the prime minister was filmed describing the west African country as “fantastically corrupt”. Buhari replied that he wanted action: “What I am demanding is the return of the assets”.

Unexplained wealth orders will also help expose the owners of properties. Land Registry figures show UK real estate worth more than £170bn is held by more than 30,000 tax haven companies.

Most owners of these companies hide behind anonymous trusts, or nominee directors and shareholders. In a single 50-storey apartment complex in London, the Tower at St George Wharf in Vauxhall, a quarter of the flats are held through offshore companies.

Those targeted will not need to be resident in the UK. So long as their assets are in the UK, an order can be enforced. The law will apply to property acquired before it is introduced.

The bill also contains stronger seizure and forfeiture powers designed to make it easier for police and investigators to freeze bank accounts and confiscate assets such as jewellery and art, which are harder to seize under current laws.

“We will not stand by and watch criminals use the UK to launder their dirty money or fund terrorism,” said the security minister, Ben Wallace. “This legislation will ensure the UK is taking a world-leading role in cracking down on corruption and send a clear message to criminals – we will take your liberty and your money.”

Campaigners say that for the new law to be effective, agencies must be given the financial and political support to take powerful and wealthy individuals to court.

“We simply cannot continue to roll out the red carpet to the world’s corrupt elite wanting to lodge their illicit wealth in the UK,” said the director of Transparency International, Robert Barrington. “The UK has a responsibility to ensure that any stolen wealth flowing into the country is stopped, frozen, and ultimately returned to the people from whom it was stolen.”


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54th Street (Manhattan)

54th Street is a two-mile-long (3.2 km), one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan.

Notable places, west to east

Twelfth Avenue
The route begins at Twelfth Avenue (New York Route 9A). Opposite the intersection is the New York Passenger Ship Terminal and the Hudson River. This is the only two-way portion of 54th Street; the remainder (east of Eleventh Avenue) is one-way eastbound.
De Witt Clinton Park. The west side neighborhood of Clinton derives its name from the park. (south)

Eleventh Avenue
Clinton Towers Apartments, 39-floor apartment building completed in 1974  (north)
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore studios
AT&T Switching Center at 811 Tenth Avenue, 21-story, 113 m/370 ft switching station completed in 1964 (south)

Tenth Avenue
Sony Music Studios, 460 West 54th (south)
The Hit Factory, 421 West 54th (north)

Ninth Avenue
New York City Transit Rapid Transit Division's Rail Command Control Center, on former site of 54th Street Bus Depot and Ninth Avenue Railroad barn at 354 West 54th (south)
Midtown Community Court Building (south)
Midtown North precinct of New York City Police (south)

Eighth Avenue

The section between Eighth and Broadway is signed Señor Wences Way for the ventriloquist who had appeared on the nearby Ed Sullivan Show and who lived in the Ameritania Hotel.
The Marc, 260 West 54th, 42-floor, 142 m / 464 ft apartment tower on top of municipal garage (south)
Studio 54 (south)
Ameritania Hotel (south)

Broadway
The corner of Broadway and 54th is signed "Big Apple Corner" in honor of writer John J. Fitz Gerald who lived there and popularized the phrase Big Apple.
1700 Broadway, 42-story, 162 m / 533 ft office tower that is headquarters of King World Productions

Seventh Avenue

1325 Avenue of the Americas (north) (actually closer to Seventh Avenue) 35-story 153 m / 502 ft, is the office tower that was portrayed as Elaine's workplace on Seinfeld. It is connected to the Hilton Hotel. (south)
The London NYC, 54-floor 180 m / 590 ft office tower that is tallest building on West 54th  (north)
Ziegfeld Theatre (north)
New York Hilton Hotel, 49-floor, 148 m  hotel completed in 1963. Designed by Lapidus it was originally supposed to resemble the Miami Beach's curved Fontainebleau Hotel but was later changed to resembled the nearby New York Sheraton which Lapidus had also designed. (south)
1345 Avenue of the Americas, 50-story, 191 m / 625 ft office tower (north)

Sixth Avenue
1330 Sixth Avenue, called "Brown Rock" when it was headquarters of ABC Television (south)
Financial Times Building, 41-story, 151 m / 496 ft office tower completed in 1965 (south)
The Warwick Hotel, 36-story,  	111 m  /	363 ft hotel completed in 1927 (north)
Tower Verre, an under construction 77-story, 320 m / 1,050 ft tower at 53 West 53rd Street (south)
Museum of Modern Art (south)
Museum Tower 52-story  	179 m  	 Cesar Pelli tower completed in 1985
Millionaires Row at 13 West 54th where Nelson Rockefeller died (north)
7 West 54th Street, Townhouse built 1899/1900 for bankers Philip and Robert Lehman
4 West 54th Street, Mansion and Residence of John D. Rockefeller (now Museum of Modern Art)
University Club (north)

Fifth Avenue
520 Madison Avenue 43-story, 176 m / 577 ft office tower with sloping lower walls and a section of the Berlin Wall in its adjoining park (south)

Madison Avenue
Dillon, Read & Company Building, 36-story 141 m /464 ft building completed in 1982
527 Madison, 26-story  	107 m  	 building completed in 1986
Hotel Elysee (south)

Park Avenue
399 Park Avenue, headquarter of Citigroup (south)
Lever House (south)

Lexington Avenue
Citigroup Center, tallest building on street (south)

Third Avenue

Lipstick Building (south)
909 Third Avenue, 32 floor tower built above the FDR Station (a post office) (north)

Second Avenue
 Neighborhood Playhouse, 340 East 54th Street
 East 54th Recreation Center
 Mondrian Condominiums, 43-story  	134 m  	 apartment complex completed in 1992

First Avenue
Rivertower Apartments 39 floor apartments (south)
Saint James' Tower, 30 floor apartments

Sutton Place South
The street ends at a cul-de-sac off Sutton Place South.

References

External links

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