Results tagged “Limehouse”
Looking for some inspiration to keep those New Year fitness resolutions and learn some self defence while you are at it?
Well, how about trying jiu jitsu, Brazilian-style? No, it's not anything to do with bikini waxing, or a samba-style karate.
He's the sixth best squash player in the world but Limehouse's Peter Barker is targeting a tournament closer to home in his aims this year.
The 26-year-old ended 2009 with his highest ever world ranking but in 2010 there's one tournament he's desperate to win - the ISS Canary Wharf Classic.
GASTROPUB
The Narrow
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IN A NUTSHELL
Superstar chef Gordon Ramsay's Limehouse gastropub is delivering the food goods, and the view's not bad either.
By Tim Archer
I've spent the first week of the new year visiting Bangladesh. A third of the constituency I hope to represent, Poplar and Limehouse, are from, or their families originate from, Bangladesh.
It's important to get to know and understand as much as possible about all the people of the constituency and my second trip to Bangladesh has really helped me to do this.
It's been a memorable year in Canary Wharf but how much of the detail can you remember?
Test your knowledge of the events around Docklands in 2009 - no prizes other than the satisfaction of knowing you kept up-to-date reading Canary Wharf's original and leading local paper.
As late workers and midweek drinkers ambled to the DLR late last Wednesday, some spotted a slightly longer train pulling into the platform.
It may not have been in operation, but this was the first sighting of DLR's new three-car trains on the Bank to Lewisham line.
Rock and Roll legend Chuck Berry will not be appearing in Limehouse after all.
The man behind Johnny B Goode and Roll Over Beethoven has cancelled his appearance at the Troxy on November 28. His only London show will now be a date at Hammersmith Town Hall the previous day.
Employment lawyer Clare Murray spent a morning last week flanked by pink camouflage, placards and a perky coloured mini.
The eye-catching display turned a few heads towards BMW's Canada Square showroom, but there was a serious message beneath the gaudy colours.
A woman has been sent to prison for beating a fellow DLR passenger around the head with a metal dog chain.
Lauren Gregson, 20, of Beaumont Grove in Stepney Green, was given a 40 week sentence for what police described as a "vicious attack".
Limehouse's Narrow Street fete will be taking a hiatus this year.
The popular traditional summer gathering in Ropemakers Field will not take place in 2009 due to time pressures and nervousness resulting from the credit crunch. This blip has not discouraged organisers from planning for a "bolder" event next year.
Fed up with life stuck behind a desk or finding the hot weather too much to cope with already?
Well, Limehouse resident Charlotte Byrne is leaving London behind to trek to the magnetic North Pole next April - and she needs another team-mate to join her.
His work left an indelible mark on the film-making world.
But many of the old haunts from Alfred Hitchcock's brief childhood in Limehouse have fared less well in the last century.
Boris Johnson escaped injury in Narrow Street this morning when a truck's doors hooked a car and nearly dragged it into the path of his bike.
See the video below, or click here for the full story, exclusively revealed this afternoon at wharf.co.uk
Boris Johnson was involved in a near miss in Limehouse this morning when a truck nearly dragged a car into the path of his bike.
The London mayor was among a group cycling along Narrow Street when the vehicle's doors swung open, catching on a car and dragging it along the road.
It is often said your smile is your first impression.
For Grand National winner Liam Treadwell, this was all too true when presenter Claire Balding pointed out his imperfect teeth on live television.
Rotherhithe Tunnel and Branch Road will shut over the weekend as work continues on the extension of the Limehouse DLR station platform.
Transport for London confirmed the roads would be closed from midnight on Friday to 5am on Monday.
A row over allocated parking spaces led to a 59-year-old van driver being punched and kicked to the ground.
The incident took place at around 6pm on Saturday (January 17) when the victim attempted to park in an allocated space in Wapping's West Gardens.
THE UNTOLD Docklands story of a legendary director will be unearthed in a new film.
Movie-makers Bill Hodgson and John Pridige aim to shed light on the early life of Alfred Hitchcock, who spent at least eight years living above a shop in Limehouse.
Click here for Ben Broomfield's photo gallery of this year's Narrow Street Fete
THE RIPPED regulars of The Grapes flexed their muscles in the Narrow Street Fete's battle of the bars on Bank Holiday Monday.
The Narrow Street pub put down their pints to pull their way to victory for the second year running in the annual tug of war with neighbouring bar Booty's. The win gives The Grapes a 2-1 lead in the series, which is a highlight of the yearly community-run fete.
HE’S been seen in Shakespeare, The Simpsons and the Shire – but now Sir Ian McKellen is branching out into garage music.
The venerable actor recorded a Shakespearean sonnet onto a beat created by members of the Limehouse Youth Club.
