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Terracotta army turn green for eco summit
SCULPTOR Antony Gormley’s passion for the fight against climate change remains undiminished ahead of the Copenhagen summit next week.
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Certain postcodes green with envy
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Portrait of jazz legend up for grabs
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Santas in fast lane with a traffic-free day for shoppers
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Success on the cards for artist
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Game for a political battle - THESE days you’re more likely to find David Rowntree in a sober shade of grey than banging the drums in a serotonin-induced sweat. >more
Moon landing... Goddess in Chinatown - SIZZLING satay sticks! Chinatown celebrated its mid-autumn festival this week with a spread of food sumptuous enough to...>more
Positive steps for mental health - FOR some of the more socially awkward out there, the prospect of dancing in a shadowy nightclub let alone under the glare of ...>more
Something snapped? - THROWING photographs on the fire is usually the last resort of the lovelorn. But, as we know, artistic types can be prone to the occasional ...>more
Footballing Field puts FA academy efforts on the spot - MARK Field has got football on the brain. A few weeks back the Conservative MP and Bury fan ...>more
Such a monstrous attack on Hazlitt - THAT old devil of a writer and historian, Paul Johnson, who is 82, slyly cocked his bushy eyebrows and with a faint... > more
From Brazil to Brunel - THE dank stairwells of Westbourne Green's Brunel estate are a world away from sun scorched Copacabana beach. But one man unfazed ...>more
John and Yoko, the family-friendly snapshot - NO stone was left unturned in Diary’s hunt for that picture of John and Yoko. If you read our story ...>more
Teddy’s bears: when senator visited zoo - MUCH ink has been spilled on the veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy, since his death at the age of 77 last week. >more
The road beyond snapshots - THINK of Westminster and you think of Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament. > more
Stout’s out in Covent Garden - TARA Stout is at it again.
The former television reporter, who is now homeless after four stints in...>more
Bright ideas ‘Drawing with light’ - STUNNING light graffiti photography has lit up major landmarks in the West End. The images were taken over the weekend ...>more
Battler on the end of the line - IT’S strange that although I never actually met Ian Wilder I feel as if I knew the inner man. I began to get to know him two or three ...>more
Younger set go for club scene - EMPIRE and elitism are two timeless staples of the gentleman’s club. But now it’s time to step aside gin-soaked colonels ...>more
Out of puff... Keeping up with Cyrus - DIARY ventured out early on Sunday morning for a spot of vicarious fitness work on Westminster Bridge, watching the athletic ...>more
Celebrating Seven Dials’ return - MEMBERS of the Seven Dials Trust who helped restore the Covent Garden landmark by the same name to pride of place 20 years...>more
A gig? What a drag! Film and show from Bi, 99 - IF you’re going to bill yourself as the oldest singer on the planet you better have your birth certificate within easy reach. >more
Gormley’s gang to get more than 15 minutes - A MAN who wants to pedal his pink folding bicycle, a woman dressed in a catsuit and a naked glass blower ...>more
And Lord’s said, ‘Let there be some light relief!’ - WHAT better way to spend a summer’s evening then snoozing under your panama hat, listening to the gentle ...>more
Lilywhite manifesto of MP with no ‘additional’ claims - DOES Diary detect a hint of smugness from Queen’s Park stranger Karen Buck MP? > more
Gay to Z: Special walking tours on the streets of Soho - SOHO has more tabernacles of tolerance per square mile than probably anywhere else in the country... > more
The Lord Mayor’s fine pedigree - ALCOHOL and war are two ills the great grandson of Winston Churchill will be looking to avoid in his year as the new Lord Mayor... > more
Mutts be love! Marylebone’s Crufts - THERE were no heists or dodgy Italian-American accents in this dog day afternoon, as prize pooches from the four... > more
Welcome to the jungle - HALF a century after it was banned for being too lewd by the Mary Whitehouse brigade, West End Jungle is coming back to our screens... > more
Fab flaw: Barry’s Beatles portrait re-touched for show - I ALMOST felt like trying to stop Barry Fantoni as he began to retouch a portrait of the Beatles he had painted... > more
John Berger in frame for National crime? - JOHN Berger has given a fascinating account in this week’s New Statesman about an extraordinary run-in with a... > more
UCH's nurses in a league of their own - IT was a time when a Sister’s word was sacrosanct, they said, and marriage spelled the end of your nursing career. > more
Olivia rolls out her flower bus - DID designers behind the new Routemaster got a little carried away after a few tokes on the peace pipe? Not quite! The flower-power... > more
Try the working-class samba from Rio - We all know Brazilians have got rhythm, but you probably haven’t seen it like this before. A new kind of dancing has emerged... > more
New plaque in honour of ‘The Few’ - If you paid attention in history class you’d know that in the summer of 1940, 2,936 pilots took to the sky to fight the German... > more
Victoria celebrates its 150th - FOR most people, Victoria Station is an unremarkable place. At a push it’s an architectural curiosity in an otherwise dour area, but for... > more
Men on a mission: dance theatre to explore masculinity - THE male psyche goes under the microscope at a new show next week. If you believe some people... > more
Cartoonists weigh in against PM - A dour Scot with Stalinist tendencies or a political heavyweight saving the world from economic meltdown. What you think of... > more
Sold, to the macabre gentleman - A DESK belonging to the late Lord Lucan is to be sold at auction. > more
Marylebone is the latest home for ‘village’ people - THAT'S’s wrong with plain old Marylebone, Diary asks? This week marked the arrival of the latest... > more
It’s an ironic twist as councillors join parade - WESTMINSTER has earned a reputation among some residents as a local authority that likes to pick pockets... > more
Explosive send-off for a stellar film critic - ON what would have been his 73rd birthday in November, our late film critic William Hall had his final wish granted. > more
Perfect timing: For donkey aid - DONKEYS are in high demand at this festive time of year. But that did not stop Cedric breaking his busy nativity schedule and... > more
Cafe to go under hammer - A PLAYGROUND for the rich and famous, the Café Royal has been a hub of glamour and scandal for decades. Some of the most celebrated... > more
Mark’s blueprint for the Beeb - IN the wake of the Jonathan Ross/ Russell Brand row, Mark Field has piled into the BBC with his own blueprint for a remodelled Beeb. > more
Top brass are on their way to Ronnie Scott - RONNIE Scott’s will be hosting the cream of the capital’s jazz scene as part of London Jazz Festival next week. > more
Torture ‘king’ tells Moazzam that he’s sorry - SMALL, bespectacled and very articulate, it’s hard to think of torture and Moazzam Begg in the... > more
Unlocking prisoners’ creative sides - I LEFT with a skip in my step as I walked out of the grounds of Wormwood Scrubs on Tuesday evening – despite the heavy sleet. > more
Rich imagery of the secret Mayfair - NOT just the most expensive square on the Monopoly board, Mayfair is an area full of contrasts, so says photographer... > more
City fan Field calls full-time on self-regulation in soccer - IS Mark Field experiencing a mid-life crisis? Or has the Conservative MP for Cities of London and... > more
Mario’s 14 hours in the ‘slammer’ was no joke - OUR boys in blue did it again at Heathrow on Monday – and held a well known stand up comic in detention for... > more
Rock ’n’ roll years on the Street - CARNABY is synonymous with rock ’n’ roll.
From the Beatles to the Rolling Stones, the Sex Pistols to the Clash, the... > more
Homeless in My Heart finds Felix full of life - WITH an estimated £750 million fortune, some might imagine that Felix Dennis has it pretty good. > more
Maybe West Words is bucking the trend - WESTMINSTER City Council doesn’t make newspapers but if it did it would probably be the best... > more
Give us a Blue, the cartoonists’ choice - THE Tory party has always lent itself
to satire. Whether it was shagging and sleaze during the Major years... > more
Set sale! Maps up for auction - FROM Long John Silver and his band of buccaneers to Christopher Columbus, Captain Cook and their boatloads of disciples, the map... > more
Pimlico’s war in pictures - EVERY Tuesday a group of ladies from Pimlico meet up for three hours to reminisce about life during the Second World War. > more
Bradley’s in frame to set an Olympic record in Beijing - TRIPLE Olympic gold medalist and local lad Bradley Wiggins is set to try and pedal his way into the history... > more
Pamphlet collection makes a Swift sale - IT was a leather-bound collection of the radical pamphlet The Examiner that first set Michael Foot on the trail of the Irish... > more
Honouring the Brigades heroes - THE inscription on the side of the sculpture reads: “We came because our open eyes can see no other way.” As I stood on the... > more
Top brass of literary world - John Galsworthy, Max Arthur, Lisa Appignanesi, Deborah Moggach, Julian Evans and others - strike a blow for free speech - I HEADED... > more
Young playwrights are ‘free and open - WESTMINSTER'S young playwrights have seen their works performed on a West End stage. > more
007 flies in for a bite at Gay Hussar - DANIEL Craig, the world-famous star of the latest James Bond film Casino Royale, was in the town on Monday to mark the... > more
Finding Mr Right in familiar places? - WRITTEN in Soho, set in Soho, and soon to be screened in Soho, the feature film Mr Right is undoubtedly a local story. > more
Sir Terry’s birthday vision for the city - IT’s not the usual way to celebrate your birthday, but then architect Sir Terry Farrell is not your... > more
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