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Get your T-Mobile G1 Android TWO FULL HOURS before anyone elseIf you're the kind of person who hangs around London's Oxford Street at 7am, you've got the chance to get your hands on T-Mobile's G1 Android handset a full two hours before everyone else. Will we see queues round the block and overnight camping? Perhaps not, but if you're... ... |
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Westminster To Remove Banksy MuralThe Banksy daubing just north of Oxford Street is not long for this world. No mindless act of vandalism for this graffito, though - instead, Westminster City Council have decided that the mural will be removed in order to "send a message" to the city's urban scribblers (yeah, that'll w... |
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Selfridges, LondonI like those old department stores with almost one century of history. On 15th March,1909, Gordon Selfridges, an American businessman, opened a store in London “which was to put Oxford Street on the world retail map”. Visionary. In 1966: the opening of Miss Selfridges. Today merchand... |
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Free Tonight?Their debut album may not have sold billions, but Carl Barat is plowing on with his post Libertines band, Dirty Pretty Things, as they return tonight fresh from the glow of the Glastonbury Festival. Celebrating the release of their 2nd album 'Romance At Short Notice', the boys will be putting o... |
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`Lost and Found' (1), Parvati Nair, Centre Point, London, 6 June 2008When John handed the suitcase to me, the thought I had was not that I was taking it from him, but that it was taking me somewhere. Walking towards the station, I noticed how so many people looked at it as I walked by. The suitcase seemed to have a life force of its own, an ability to attract att... |
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Primark: a lessonPrimark always seems like a good idea at the time. It is the retail equivalent of one last drink, Mark in accounts, scrapping the 10p tax ban… and then some time later, you think: WHAT ON EARTH POSESSED ME? WHY DID I DO THAT? WHY, WHY, WHY?Is buying from Primark a false economy?And so it i... |

