Why sweat it out on a train to Brighton when we have a charming ‘resort’ of our very own – within stumbling distance? Kentishtowners are luckier than most urban dwellers, enjoying fall-out-the-door access to one of London’s most celebrated almost-rural escapes. And as all good Heath walks need a focal point, so Swain’s Lane, on […]
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Getting high on MDMA is less dangerous that horse riding. Pointing out that statistical fact famously got Professor David Nutt fired from his role as drugs advisor to Tony Blair’s government. Last week he was all over the papers again, as misquoted source of the ‘cocaine caused the banking crash’ story. As usual, the press
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There are plenty of famous gastro boozers to be found scattered about the fringes of Hampstead Heath. The Magdala is perhaps a little more tucked away and less flashy than most. It’s also rather more infamous too, forever being known as the place where Ruth Ellis shot her abusive lover on Easter Sunday in 1955,
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Readers may remember our shortlisting alongside some big guns in the Newspaper Awards 2013 for the UK’s Best Digital News Service. And on Wednesday night the winners of what some people call the “Oscars of journalism” were announced. Of our category, the judges said: “it was another cracking year, where news media outlets are really
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