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Former Whitehall police station to be new Scotland Yard HQ
Monday 20 May 2013
Scotland Yard has confirmed the location for its new headquarters as the force prepares to sell off its current landmark site amid budget cuts.
Simon English: Who was to blame for the horrendous mismatch of Co-op and Britannia?
Thursday 16 May 2013
Outlook The press release was effusive. Britannia and Co-op Financial Services "unveil plans for super-mutual". The merger was to create "a unique" (that's always a worrying word), "ethical" (ditto), alternative to the nasty big banks.
Latitude 2013: Five minutes with... Clean Bandit
Wednesday 15 May 2013
Clean bandit are a hip gang of young British up-and-comers. Catch them at Latitude before they become massive.
Geoff Miller orders England to step it up or pay the price
Monday 13 May 2013
When Geoff Miller talks of players going through the motions and the need for matters to be rectified you can be sure that you are on the naughty stool. Miller has made it his business as the national selector to be emollient to the point of blandness.
Café culture coming to Princes Street as Edinburgh's most famous thoroughfare undergoes a makeover
Friday 10 May 2013
It is one of the few high streets in Britain bereft of cafés and bars. But now Edinburgh’s most famous thoroughfare, Princes Street, could be about to undergo a drastic makeover from shopping mecca to gourmet destination.
Starchitect’s Maze peace centre forgot the Irish
Thursday 09 May 2013
There are two things about Daniel Libeskind’s design for the peace centre on the Maze prison site that are disappointing. The first is that the design language is unremarkable. This is yet another Libeskind signature building, a generically shattered architecture that, in this case, expresses loss, violence and a degree of reconciliation. But the design is not inherently different to Berlin’s Jewish Museum, which made Libeskind a starchitect, or his Las Vegas buildings.
Design row over peace-building centre
Thursday 09 May 2013
Architect Daniel Libeskind has been criticised by his peers for failing to reflect unique nuances of The Troubles
Labour's return from the local elections shows a party that has missed the electorate's sweet-spot
Sunday 05 May 2013
The last few weeks have been disastrous for Miliband. And this was no turnaround
British Museum to display largest Viking ship ever discovered following £135m building revamp
Monday 29 April 2013
Senior figures at the British Museum will next year realise a dream when they display the largest Viking ship ever discovered as part of a major new blockbuster exhibition.
Newcastle United 0 Liverpool 6 match report: Daniel Sturridge fills gap to pile agony on Alan Pardew
Sunday 28 April 2013
Even without Suarez Liverpool inflict worst home defeat for 87 years
Portraits of survivors of Norway’s Utoeya massacre take top Sony prize
Thursday 25 April 2013
Portraits of survivors of Norway’s Utoeya massacre took the overall winner prize at the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards.
Rick Mather: Architect hailed for his subtle and light-filled renovations of historic buildings
Thursday 25 April 2013
The architect Rick Mather is celebrated for renovations of British museums and galleries that amounted to re-founding them, because with subtlety, refinement and, above all, respect for their traditions and collections, he made historic spaces work as modern institutions. His great imaginative gift was to take a dark or enclosed space and let in light and air.
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