Olympia is released on October 25, with Kate Moss on the cover in a re-creation of Manet’s painting of a naked courtesan of that name. The album title also refers to the location of Ferry’s London studio.
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We’re in the Shanghai Blues restaurant in London, at the start of a four-hour journey in which the 50-year-old installation artist and film-maker will try to explain, and make me appreciate, Ten Thousand Waves, the dizzyingly complex nine-screen installation he’s been working on for the past six years.…Julien has certainly done something innovative with the [...]
A London council has threatened legal action over the “disgusting” state of the traditional red phone boxes.Once seen as symbols of British life, the phone boxes are becoming increasingly redundant and have been turned into drug dens which blight the streets, Westminster City Council said.It called for BT to seal up the boxes, some of [...]
A man who murdered a woman in north London and then stole cash, jewellery and a phone has been jailed for life.Destiny Lauren, 29, was found strangled in her Leighton Crescent home in Kentish Town last November, Snaresbrook Crown Court was told.Leon Fyle, 21, of Lewisham, visited the transsexual prostitute “for the purposes of a [...]
He had visited the 29-year-old prostitute for sex at her Kentish Town flat on November 5th 2009 before strangling her with her tights.Ms Lauren, who was born male, was found dead by her her brother two hours later.According to the Hampstead and Highgate Express, Fyle, of Catford, was jailed for life yesterday at Snaresbrook crown [...]
Yusuf Arslan, 20, tried to kill the men in Tottenham last September as Turkish drug gangs fought a bloody war over control of the north London heroin trade in which at least three people were killed.A month later shop worker Cem Duzgun, 21, died in a hail of bullets after he left a club in [...]
Yusuf Arslan got out of a Vauxhall Corsa in September last year and fired shots with a sub-machine gun at the car behind, before fleeing the scene.One of the men in the car was hit in the arm, but the pair escaped the attack relatively unscathed, and detectives launched a search for the gunman.Arslan, 20, [...]
Natasha then knew there was a demand and her new business was on a roll.She started researching patterned toilet papers and found wholesalers in Europe but nothing to supply Britain.She said: “I decided I wanted the rolls to be tasteful and bring a bit of glamour to the bathroom.“When your friends come round you buy [...]
A planning application has been lodged to Sedgemoor District Council to convert the former Burnham Institute gentleman’s club in Regent Street into four flats with parking and storage areas.
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One of this year’s most successful female websites has been Ihollaback.org, a blog where women can catalogue their experiences of street harrassment. It started in New York in 2005 and is now an international phenomenon, having set up in most cities across the States, as well as in London [...]