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Harlequins revive Big Game with December double header at Twickenham

September 15, 2021

Harlequins’ annual Big Game is returning to Twickenham after a one year hiatus for a double header featuring the men’s and women’s teams. Quins men will play Northampton Saints on Bank Holiday Monday 27 December following a clash between Harlequins Women and Wasps Women. Dubbed the world’s biggest annual club rugby event, this will be [...]
What will you be doing on City Giving Day?

September 15, 2021 | Sponsored

Every year City Giving Day celebrates the value of the City to society and shows how businesses can make a difference, as part of our bid to create a fair society. This year’s City Giving Day on Tuesday 21st September will champion activities – whether corporate social responsibility, philanthropy, or volunteering initiatives. The Lord Mayor’s [...]
Tower Hamlets council approves plan to build shopping mall on Brick Lane

September 15, 2021

Controversial plans to build a shopping mall on the site of the historic Truman Brewery on Brick Lane have been given a green light. At a meeting of the Tower Hamlet Development Committee yesterday councillors voted 2-1 in favour of a proposal to redevelop the Brewery as a five story office building and retail space. [...]
GTO Engineering California Spyder review: Hollywood glamour, Italian soul

September 15, 2021

The latest car from GTO Engineering is a recreation of the classic Ferrari 250 SWB California Spyder. It’s as glorious as it looks.
Scottish Premiership clubs Hibs, Hearts, Aberdeen, Dundee and Dundee United task Deloitte with finding ways to increase league revenues

September 15, 2021

Scottish Premiership football clubs have commissioned Deloitte to conduct a review of the league with a view to unlocking new revenue. Aberdeen, Dundee, Dundee United, Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian say they would like to see annual distributions increase from £27m to at least £50m a year by 2026. The five clubs say they will [...]
Prisoners of The Ghostland – more Nicolas Cage madness

September 15, 2021

The poster for Prisoners of The Ghostland features a surprising quote – not from a critic or an enthusiastic viewer, but from the star Nicolas Cage himself, who calls it “The Wildest Movie I’ve Ever Made”. When you consider some of the offbeat choices the Oscar winner has made, that’s a powerful claim. He plays [...]
Champions League 2021-22: Which are the easiest and hardest groups?

September 14, 2021

The Champions League returns in earnest this evening when the group stage gets under way, with holders Chelsea mong those in action. Despite the use of a seeding system to make the draw fairer, some groups appear to pack a lot more pedigree than others. So which is the hardest Champions League group and which [...]
Rose Plays Julie review: A tense exploration of trauma

September 14, 2021

Many films are about delving into the deep, murky lake of a character’s past, but few do it as intensely, or as uniquely, as this week’s Rose Plays Julie. Directed Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, collectively known as the creative partnership Desperate Optimists, Anne Skelly plays Rose, a young Irish woman training to be a [...]
Emma Raducanu’s success shouldn’t be measured in dollars but in her cultural impact way beyond tennis

September 14, 2021

There are two stories written when any sports star bursts on the scene in the way that Emma Raducanu has this summer. The first is about how much money they’ll earn and the second surrounds the number of people who will immediately take up the sport because of it. Both narratives are overly simplistic for different reasons. Distilling Raducanu’s sporting achievement to monetary gain – and let’s face, it [...]
Booze like Bond at this immersive dining experience

September 14, 2021

Monte Carlo, the French Riviera, New Orleans, the Caribbean: these are the places we associate with James Bond. Portobello Road, not so much. But this stands to change, for over the next few weeks the bohemian enclave of Notting Hill will be aswarm with Sunspel polo shirts, Persol eyewear, Goodyear-welted Crockett and Jones Norwich boots, [...]