Results tagged “tesco”

The Isle of Dogs didn't escape last night's rioting with looters stealing £15,000 of goods from a Tesco store and four cars being burned out on the Timber Wharf estate.

The violence began at around 10.25pm when a gang of up to 60 youths attacked Tesco Express in Pepper Street.

Light-headed from our unrivalled celebrations of British Sandwich Week last week, The Wharf has decided to share some of its findings. It's hard to know whether the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, when, in 1762, he called for his manservant to bring him some cuts of beef between two slices of bread, was specifically thinking of Wharfers and their lunchtime needs, but his flash of brilliance has undoubtedly had a fundamental impact on their gastronomic lives.

The owner of the Docklands shop which was blown up by the IRA fears for his future in South Quay.

Ihsan Bashir, 43, believes a Tesco Express is planned for space next to his newsagent and that the competition would destroy his business if one opens.

By John Biggs

One of "my" two X-Factor contestants (they live in my constituency), Rachel, has been voted out. Stacey remains. There is an East End tradition of success from a modest start to which they both belong. Other examples of success from the East End are numerous - another, from a different field, comes to mind each morning as I walk through Whitechapel and glance up at the blue plaque marking the home of the founder of Tesco.

Giles Broadbent, not unlike his Freeview box, has a meltdown about the State's institutional mistrust of its citizens.

So, a while back, when I was supposed to, I retuned my Freeview box. I promptly lost half the channels but they were the poor half so I figured I could live without them.

A teenager attempted to hit a Tesco cashier with a charity tin when he was refused cigarettes.

The suspect tried to make the purchase from the Millharbour branch at 3.35pm on Sunday, January 25, but was turned away on the grounds he was underage.

Is pasta salad, pasta or salad? Only one of the three dishes we sampled called itself a
salad. The other two stress the pasta.

But then again, the other two in our taste test don’t exactly pile on the fresh, unadulterated offspring of Mother Earth.