While writing The Royle Family up in Manchester with Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, some days, just for a joke, Caroline would announce “it’s raining in London” and we would all cheer. When I was young, in the 60s and...
Read MoreHotels near airports or train stations can conjure up images of pokey rooms with a sad looking ironing board in the corner. As a 267-room, five-star hotel, I wasn’t expecting quite the same from Andaz London but to say it...
Read MoreFinding a hotel in the capital that strikes the right balance between comfort, location and price isn’t always easy. So when I heard about Assembly London’s ‘get up and go’ no-frills mantra, I was intrigued. I’m told that...
Read MoreWe live in an age where there’s an app for everything, and London life is no exception. Despite the constant struggle with phone storage, these are a few essential apps. I suppose it must be the thrifty Northerner in me but...
Read MoreNew Year’s resolutions for the students among us are made, not in January as you’d expect, but in September. Stationery is fawned over and purchased with last Christmas’s WHSmith gift cards, library books are checked out only to...
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