IT was a quirky, non-conformist bar near Mount Pleasant where everybody could be themselves. But The Apple Tree pub is to become another pin on the map of London’s lost LGBT venues – after plans to ...

• WITH the government banging on about the need to get people back to work so that we can have growth – the magic ingredient that will solve most of our economic problems – how depressing it is to ...

GOING to operas based on Shakespeare, you should never assume that too much of the original story will survive. Composers intervene. And a case in point is Bellini whose I Capuleti e I Montecchi (The ...

• I WAS very dismayed to suddenly see notices appear on the large green recycling bins near the West End Green toilets, in West Hampstead, stating that they are to be removed due to fly-tipping and ...

THE mother of a young woman killed by a speeding police car died after her life “fell apart” following the tragedy, her friends believe. Noreen Mutua struggled after the death of her daughter Jade in ...

SPURS boss and mate to us all Ange Postecoglou was credited with showing some passion after Spurs went out of the FA Cup to Aston Villa on Sunday. This “passion” meant he rubbed his face in despair ...

A GREAT-grandmother who lost a husband and a son to the infected blood scandal slammed the government for failing to ensure victims are paid out before they die. Kitty Stewart, who is no longer being ...

AT least, Carl and Franz of the American rock and roll band The Hold Steady say, we knew what waking up to a Donald Trump presidency was going to feel like. Craig Finn – vocals and guitar – and Franz ...

A NEW head chef has taken charge at Rovi – and the results are spectacular. This restaurant in Fitzrovia was created by Yotam Ottolenghi, one of Britain’s leading tastemakers. He’s sold millions of ...

PARENTS, teenagers and businesses have warned of the threat of “constant robbery” outside Tufnell Park tube station. The Tufnell Park Fish & Kebab, directly opposite, said school­children from Acland ...

FOUR recently planted red-flowering trees have been axed by “brainless neanderthals” in a “heinous act”, residents say. The Person ironwood “Vanessa” trees in Canfield Gardens, close to the ...

Stephen Mangan, Nicola Walker and Erin Doherty in Unicorn [Marc Brenner] MIKE Bartlett’s comedy, Unicorn, is about a middle-aged, middle-class couple, Polly (Nicola Walker) and Nick (Stephen Mangan), ...