January 2010 Archives

A 23-year-old Ladbroke Grove director has been nominated for a Bafta award.

Luke Snellin is up for the best short film gong for Mixtape - a story of young love which won him the top prize at the Virgin Media Shorts Awards last year.

Guests at the Holiday Inn in Kensington may find themselves in an unusual 'ménage-a-trois' as the hotel is trialling a 'human bed-warming' service.

The Cromwell Road hotel is sending human electric blankets dressed in all-in-one sleeper suits to warm the beds of guests for five minutes before they get under the covers.

Bill Brooks, the auctioneer who founded Christie's in South Kensington, has died aged 85.

Mr Brooks, whose impact on the antiques world is said to have given rise to TV shows such as Antiques Roadshow, ran the the auction house until his retirement in 1986.

He died on December 9 and is survived by his wife Joan, a daughter and two sons.

A last-ditch attempt to secure a Crossrail station in North Kensington is being made by Kensington and Chelsea Council.

The local authority's top brass will be meeting with Transport Minister Sadiq Khan next week to urge the Government to include a station on the site of the Kensal Gas Works.

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Police are caught in a 'cat and mouse' battle with prostitute carding gangs in an effort to prevent Earl's Court become 'the Amsterdam of London'.

Police officers and council cleaners clear the numerous phone boxes in the area around Earl's Court Road of erotic and offensive adverts twice daily but the gangs of 'carders' are so well organised they follow each sweep and plaster the booths again.

A keen cyclist begged passers-by not to leave her as she was crushed to death by a lorry in Notting Hill Gate, an inquest has heard.

Eilidh Cairns was knocked off her bike and dragged along for more than 3m under the wheels of the HGV and died of her horrific injuries in hospital just hours later.

Albert Bridge is to shut for renovation for 18 months from Monday February 15.

The grade 2 listed bridge will be closed to traffic while engineers strengthen, paint and resurface the 160-year-old bridge.

Guide Dogs for the Blind has pledged to continue its fight against turning Exhibition Road into a 'shared space' for cars and pedestrians after its legal challenge was rejected.

The charity, which represents blind and partially sighted people, claims plans to remove pavement and give pedestrians the right of way on the busy Kensington road are illegal and dangerous.

Three people escaped from a burning flat in West Brompton in the early hours of this morning.

Four fire engines and 20 firefighters were called to a blaze in a 19 storey block of flats on Blantyre Walk at about 12.20am.