Results tagged “East London”
Evolution has no foresight. It doesn't know where it's going. It plods along mutating here and there in the hope that serendipity will give it a shot. Such is the path followed by The Dome.
The dark days of 2001 act as a reminder of the general cluelessness and lack of direction that dogged much of the millennium experience.
By John Biggs
Another year draws to an end giving me an opportunity to set out my priorities for next year. My main focus for 2010 is to make the case for east London's connectivity to enable it to benefit from opportunities elsewhere, and to grow within.
London must climb out of the economic hole, and east London is key.
Corporate giving could be making a comeback after Barclays pledged its support for Boris Johnson's Fund for London morning.
The Wharf-based bank promised a £1million donation over four years for the Mayor's Fund, a charitable initiative to help improve the lives of underprivileged children in east London.
He's earned a reputation as one of the most ferocious of food critics but east London restaurants have on the whole avoided the scorn of Michael Winner.
The former film director has become something of an enfant terrible, with his trenchant views in his weekly Winner's Dinners column in the Sunday Times.
Chessboxing could be coming to East London. Are you ready for fight knight?
BRAINS and brawn could be colliding in Docklands this summer.
The area may host Britain’s first showcase of Chessboxing, a discipline which allows competitors to test their opponent’s brain power before pummelling it in the ring.
North London resident Tim Woolgar is keen to launch the sport in the UK after visiting an event in Berlin last year. He runs a class in Islington but also hopes to set up another in Shadwell.
He said: “It’s the number one thinking sport combined with the number one fighting sport.
“I think the East End has the right sort of atmosphere for this. People seem quite open to trying new things.�
