ONE summer’s afternoon in 2007, a class of unruly 15-year-olds cascaded into a battered classroom at William Ellis School, Highgate, to the news we were getting our third English teacher of the year.

MARK Rosenblatt, better known as a director, makes his writing debut with this nuanced and layered play about Roald Dahl (John Lithgow), the beloved, irascible children’s author. Bearing an uncanny ...

IT was a safe place where up to 11 rough sleepers had once pitched their tents, choosing the site for the warmth and shelter provided by air vents. But over the past year University College London ...

ONE of the capital’s best known private club chains has got the all clear to “double” its numbers, a few months after opening up a new venue. Councillors approved the expansion at Soho House’s latest ...

CHILDHOOD friends of a 12-year-old boy stabbed to death in a busy London street by a self-declared satanist have demanded that the killer is not released until he has spent at least 30 years in prison ...

YOU don’t need to be a fan of a particular artist or genre to find some fascinating tales, and Q&As in the selection of movies curated by this year’s Doc ’n Roll Film Festival. The subjects covered by ...

Glasses were raised on Thursday evening to the community teamwork which have made Dumpton Place a pleasant place to be TWELVE years since plans were discussed for the transformation of a Primrose Hill ...

READERS may recall Rob Jenrick urging people to “get out there and not waste the summer” on a ministerial visit to the Belsize Village “streatery” during the Covid pandemic. The visit was promo­ting ...

• I AM naturally cheered by our MP Sir Keir’s great fathering skills in making available an alternative study space for his son to save him from an intrusive media scrum in the run-up to his GCSEs ...

ANY restaurant that survives for 20 years deserves huge respect – and an epic party. Yauatcha has been trading on Berwick Street in Soho for two decades, specialising in spectacular Cantonese dim sum.

WHEN a leadership election unfolds, particularly in the Labour Party, the labels begin to fly around. Camden’s recently-installed new Number One has probably most often being described as a “centrist” ...

HIGH-END shops on Hampstead High Street have been hit by “mindless vandalism” leading to warnings that businesses may quit the area if they are not protected. Police are investigating damage to four ...