London.gov.uk Website The Lyric Hammersmith’s plans to refurbish and extend its west London home have been given a boost with the announcement of a “major grant from health care and education charity the Reuben Foundation

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London.gov.uk Website The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has praised the 19,000 volunteers from Team London, who have donated 250,000 hours of their free time to help boost literacy, skills and green projects

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The Times The Royal Family’s home movies, dating back to the 1920s, are to be digitised for the British Film Institute’s archive. However, access to most footage will remain private, preventing the 16mm films and video — which may well include “The World’s Funniest Corgi Moments” — from ending up on YouTube. The plans were […]

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Property Week They treat more than 2,000 seriously injured Londoners a year, cover 600 square miles of territory, and have the world’s highest success rate. But perhaps the most surprising thing about London’s Air Ambulance service is that it has only one helicopter and one team to serve the entire area within the M25. Despite […]

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Oxford Times PLANS for an £8.2m business centre scheme at Oxford Spires Academy have been recommended for approval by city planners. Councillors have been asked by officers to approve the proposals, which mark a new era for the school. The Reuben Business Centre will house ICT suites, a laboratory, sixth-form centre and a 330-seat lecture […]

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London SE1 Community website The British Film Institute library was officially opened in new South Bank home on Thursday night at a reception attended by Mayor of London Boris Johnson, King’s Speech director Tom Hooper, Sir Christopher Frayling and Kevin Brownlow. The library, which relocated from Stephen Street in June, is now known as the […]

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Britishracing.co.uk Julie Krone is delighted to be back at Doncaster Racecourse to ride in the Clipper Logistics Leger Legends Classified Stakes for the second year running. The 49-year-old American legend, the most successful female jockey ever, came out of retirement to take part in 2011 and won decisively on Invincible Hero, the 4/1 favourite trained […]

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The Oxford Times THIS artists’ impression offers the first glimpse of proposed state-of-the-art buildings at Oxford Spires. The £8.2m Reuben Business Centre will house ICT suites, a laboratory, sixth-form centre and a 330-seat lecture theatre on the East Oxford site. The scheme has been designed by Harwell-based Nightingale Associates, and will be built by Kier […]

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The Oxford Times PLANS for an £8.2m building at Oxford Spires Academy were unveiled last night. The pupil academy wants to demolish its ageing science block and create a new building with science and art facilities. Funding for the scheme is coming from a grant given to the school when it opened in January 2011 […]

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Evening Standard Easy money for some. How much would you pay to be photographed shaking Bill Clinton’s hand? £1,000 per person is the going rate when the Clinton Foundation holds its first event in London, in collaboration with The Reuben Foundation, on May 22. Bill’s daughter Chelsea, plus actors Gwyneth Paltrow and Damian Lewis, all […]

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