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She's Britain's queen of Mexican cuisine and Thomasina Miers was stirring things up in Canary Wharf last week.

She's no stranger to these parts, having opened a branch of her Wahaca restaurant in Canada Square Pavilion last November, and was in Canada Square mall last Tuesday to promote her latest cookbook.

Angela Clarke knows too much about one random man in Waitrose

What's worse than going to a group meal where one of the couples has a fight? Going on a group holiday, where one of the couples has a fight.

Few things beat the voyeuristic pleasure of seeing strangers having a barney. It gives you a warm feeling inside about your own stable relationship.

Dan Bourke treads carefully when it comes to wearing the wrong socks on the wrong day.

There are two types of people in this world. There are those who, if they own socks with days of the week on them, are absolutely fine wearing the wrong day's socks: Saturday on a Tuesday, say, or Thursday on a Monday.

BOOK
Hollywood Moon by Joseph Wambaugh
Quercus, £17.99
2/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Cops on the Hollywood beat don't come face to face with your average crim, as this eccentric procedural reveals.

General Gordon Place in Woolwich not only commemorates the nearby birthplace of the military "saint" but also the location of his training - Woolwich Military Academy.

Charles George Gordon (1833-1885) first saw serious action in the Crimean War in 1855, and, after successes in the 1860 "Arrow" war against the Chinese.

There is a school of thought which demands that public authorities divest themselves of all interests that could be considered peripheral, frivolous or beyond the ken of bureaucrats.

Anything from Christmas lights to Town Hall portraits should go in some kind of Cromwellian austerity drive, paring down council tax to fund just the routine basics.

Fiona Rule didn't know London's docklands from a plate of pie and mash when she started research for her book - but she'd heard the stories.

Stories about the Blitz, of course - their finest hour - but mostly stories about the sense of community, the casual savagery of working life, the cheek-by-jowl two-up-two-downs with their tin baths and coal-specked washing.

By Andrew Williams

The last couple of years have not been easy for businesses in the UK. With the financial system in meltdown, household names going to the wall or being sold and banks holding out the begging bowl, it has been a crazy time to be running a business.

Aldgate was the easternmost gate of a number built by the Romans, one of seven whose names live on a modern map.

The original Aldgate linked the City of London and Whitechapel and sat in the London Wall. The wall was a form of defence constructed by the Romans and it is believed Aldgate spanned the road to Colchester.

Dan Bourke questions why he volunteered to be a fire marshall in Britain's tallest building.

I think there might be two drunk blokes, short of breath, still running up the stairs in One Canada Square. By now actually I should imagine that they're pretty hungover, and they've probably stopped seeing the funny side too.