There are more experimental pairings available too. Everyone knows that a Bloody Mary goes perfectly with brunch, but Soho restaurant Randall & Aubin has taken the happy marriage a step further. For weekends throughout May, chef-patron Ed Baines has devised a menu of five beautifully executed brunch dishes, each matched with a cocktail based...
Audrey Gillan Visitors to the 2011 Kapow! convention in London. Photograph: Gavin Rodgers/Rex Features It’s a world where guys have superpowers and the girls are very often disempowered. But now two Glasgow-based women are attempting to shake up the often misogynistic comic book environment with the UK’s biggest comic convention, Kapow!, in London this weekend....
Laura Barton Sales of hand sanitisers rose 71% in 24 weeks during the 2009 swine flu outbreak. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Bakersfield, California, is a large city about 100 miles north of Los Angeles. Founded on recovered swampland by Colonel Thomas Baker, it is today famed for oil, gas and agriculture, as...
David Batty Hairdresser Vidal Sassoon in Los Angeles with Ronnie, his fourth wife. Photograph: Richard Young / Rex Features Celebrity hair stylist Vidal Sassoon, who revolutionised women’s cuts in the 1960s with his sharp geometric styles, has died at his home in Los Angeles aged 84. Police were called to Sassoon’s mansion in Mulholland...
Buffet brunch at the Cookbook Café’s, Intercontinetal London Park Lane hotel The buffet brunch in the Intercontinental hotel’s Cookbook Cafe may not be as lavish and giddy a production as the champagne brunches on offer in Singapore or Las Vegas, but in terms of value and quality it’s a blinder. A buffet usually brings...
Oliver Laughland ‘Of the lung-cancer patients I deal with, around 90% are smokers,’ says oncologist Adam Dangoor. X-ray shows cancer in a 71-year-old smoker. Photograph: © Kallista Images/Visuals Unlimi The breast specialist Tena Walters, 51, consultant, London Breast Clinic Just this week the papers splashed on another piece of research criticising breast cancer screening, saying...
Ben Quinn and Sarah Boseley The anti-abortion vigil near the British Pregnancy Advisory Service’s Bedord Square clinic, central London. Photograph: Corbis A new generation of doctors will be put off from becoming involved in abortion services by high-profile protest campaigns and a political “witch-hunt”, providers fear. The current climate is already causing anxiety among...
Esther Addley Pro-choice protesters chant slogans at supporters of the 40 Days for Life campaign group taking part in a anti-abortion vigil in Bedford Square, London. Photograph: Ian Nicholson/PA It made a strange chorus: on the one side, a small crowd of Catholics, intoning the rosary and singing Ave Maria, while, a few metres...
Ben Quinn Pro-choice campigners march in London earlier this year in protest against a proposal by Conservative MP Nadine Dorries that girls aged 13-16 be taught the ‘benefits of abstinence from sexual activity’. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian Pro-choice supporters are to protest against anti-abortion activists outside a London clinic run by Britain’s...
Joanna Moorhead Mariana Lopes and Simon Brooks, who donated baby Joseph’s cord blood. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian It is mid-morning in the delivery suite at King’s College hospital in London, and midwife Terie Duffy is cooing over the contents of a stainless-steel bowl. “Isn’t it beautiful?” she says. “This is what makes...
