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The London Standard - March 20, 2025

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Publisher: ESI Media

Category: Newspaper

Language: English

Frequency: Weekly

The London Standard is a new weekly paper that brings together the newspaper qualities that audiences have read for almost two hundred years. Sharp opinion, analysis, interviews and deeply researched features will combine with ES Magazine’s core values of design, visual impact, luxury lifestyle content and relevance. With an insider’s feel it will offer an original, energetic take on everything London has to offer - the very best comment, consumer guides, business, fashion, food, travel, reviews, politics and the hottest places in London to enjoy the weekend..

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March 20, 2025

“I never look on prison as a bad time. It made me more powerful. It made me who I am today

Ashley Walters really wishes people would stop asking him about jail.

7 mins

Two Nasa astronauts return to Earth after nine months in space

“It was a homecoming that made everyone — and everything — flip for joy.

1 min

Relax in style in sun-drenched Crete

Daios Cove offers sun, sand and serenity - and an opportunity to recharge your mind and body

1 min

North London's gang wars go global

Drug feud blood is now spilling over into Spain, Moldova and beyond

8 mins

The great fire of London

Where is everybody going to party now Chiltern has gone?

4 mins

What London could learn from the North's great renaissance

As even young high-fliers struggle in the capital, it’s time for radical change

4 mins

Why are local residents trying to strangle Soho?

It's London's beating heart, but it seems not everyone's on board with fun

4 mins

'Don't pigeonhole me — I can do anything I want!'

Raised in a strict religious 'cult, musician Sasami has found her spiritual home among the genre-busting vanguard of female pop

5 mins

Mammamia! This paint-by-numbers tratis bellissima

Senza Fondo! Now here's a place playing a risky game. Has any recent opening seemed so easy to detest? Curl your lip at the puppyish excla- mation mark, the punctuation of choice forthe mentally unassembled.

3 mins

A modern pub that’s hot to trot

I had all but forgotten about Le Bab, the high-end kebab shop that launched in Soho almost a decade ago. I visited the first place in Kingly Court and was enamoured by the food.

1 min

This clued-up nostalgia fest is partying as if it's 1995

Omigod guys, Amy Heckerling's musical adaptation of her 1995 film about a rich Beverly Hills brat finding wisdom and true love is, like, kinda fun.

2 mins

Luxuriate on Sardinia's south coast

These three unique getaways at Forte Village Resort have plenty to tempt couples and families

1 min

Ticket to joy The Beatles story you never knew you needed

There have been many books on the Fab Four but this is a masterpiece

4 mins

Forgettidyhomes: this story of the fight against enforced domesticity is a bit of a mess

Housework is unbelievably boring.

2 mins

Inside South by Southwest, where tech bros and hippies battle for the soul of Austin

Tech is taking over Texas - but what does it mean for its free-spirited capital? CLAUDIA COCKERELL reports

4 mins

Bada bing, bada boom! Get set for the second take-off of supersonic passenger flight

On November 26, 2003, Concorde took off for the last time. After revolutionising air travel for nearly 30 years, spiralling costs and a fatal crash in the year 2000 forced the aircraft to retire.

2 mins

Location, location! How to cash in on your home

Could you be using your home as an extra revenue stream? Forget frantically ironing pillowcases for Airbnb guests; Amber Hopkins, an artist and mother-of-two, regularly welcomes small teams of creatives into her house during the school day.

4 mins

Must-buy homewares to put a spring in your step

Ready to refresh your home for spring? From playful ceramics to fruity lighting, this season’s collaborations and collections are all about letting the sunshine in.

2 mins

Museum of Brands

Much of our lives are shaped, subtly sometimes but often not, by branding. Your shoes, watch, what you had for lunch.

4 mins

Find your niche in the city's best boutiques

London has long acted as a breeding ground for the most exciting independent boutiques in the world. At the Design Museum's recent Outlaws exhibition, which looked back at the 1980s fashion scene, the central space was built to look like the old Kensington Market; each stand was dedicated to one of the many indie designers and multi-brand outlets that used to attract fanatics from across the globe — from Hyper Hyper to Pineal Eye. That spirit can still be felt across the capital, if you know where to look. In the interests of stopping every high street space becoming an unaffordable gym, they are all well worth supporting. Here’s our pick of the best.