London’s Next Big Restaurant? Shrimpy’s - New York Times Blogs
London’s King’s Cross is, as it sounds, a crossroads — a neighborhood anchored by the King’s Cross railway station. And in that sense it’s the perfect place for David Waddington and Pablo Flack’s latest restaurant, Shrimpy’s. It’s not quite Palm Springs, which is where the duo first dreamed up the idea for an eatery based on their transatlantic journeys; and it’s not quite Mexico or Brazil, where they sampled the local cuisine and nurtured their culinary concept. But it’s a little piece of the Americas all the same, Waddington insists: bright, bold and flavorful.
Situated beneath the refurbished canopy of the King’s Cross Filling Station, a semipermanent cultural arts space, Shrimpy’s offers up such regional dishes as Peruvian ceviche served with plantains and Argentine chimichurri with lomo as well as cocktails made with pisco, rum or tequila. The wine list, on the other hand, reveals a fondness for California’s Napa Valley. “We’re maintaining bright, punchy flavors,” Waddington says. “Good acidity, spice and chili, and a strong use of herbs. It’s healthy, almost, and most definitely vibrant.”
The building — adroitly refreshed by the London architects Carmody Groarke, who wrapped the structure in an undulating fiberglass screen — is a further nod to Waddington and Flack’s romance with the West Coast. “Our great references were the Palm Springs architect Albert Frey,” Waddington says, “and those incredibly iconic gas stations of the 1950s, when the car was this bold symbol of freedom and modernity.”
And it’s true that these days, all roads seem to lead to King’s Cross. The Guardian newspaper recently moved in next door. The publishers Phaidon and Pan Macmillan are just around the corner. And as of last year, so is Central Saint Martins, the legendary school of fashion, art and design. But then, Waddington and Flack have a talent for identifying neighborhoods that are on the up-and-up. Bistrotheque, the restaurant they opened in 2004 in what was then a questionable part of East London, remains a hip mainstay on the culinary scene. Shrimpy’s, too, seems to be in the right place at the right time. “King’s Cross is becoming incredibly modern,” says Waddington, excitedly, “and you get a lot of good energy from areas in transition. The real beauty is to create things that retain and maintain a bit of the old spirit. And with Shrimpy’s, I think we’ve just about done it.”
London 2012: Strike off after Tube staff agree Olympic pay deal - BBC News
A deal has been agreed for London Underground staff to receive extra pay for working during the Olympics.
The RMT union said it had reached an agreement with London Underground (LU).
It said drivers could earn up to £1,000 while other staff could get up to £850 in recognition of the "massive additional pressures" they will face.
The union added that it was still balloting its control staff and its maintenance members on strike action over other pay and condition issues.
Some of the workers who were being balloted for industrial action are employed by a contractor, which the union said had rejected a claim for an Olympic bonus.
A date has not been set for strikes if members vote to take this action.
Transport for London said RMT members now joined those of Aslef and Unite who had signed up to the deal and TSSA, which has agreed in principle.
The union said that it still had concerns about the staffing levels planned by LU and the use of untrained volunteers "at a time when safety and security will be absolutely paramount".
The union has also repeated its demand for a full-scale, mock emergency evacuation to test the robustness of the safety procedures in operation.
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said: "After months of hard work by our negotiators we have been able to come to an agreement that both protects the contractual rights and existing agreements of our members and rewards them in recognition of what we all know will be the biggest transport challenge ever faced by this city."
Howard Collins, LU chief operating officer, said: "I am pleased that we have now got agreement from all four unions on our proposals for how we can fairly reward staff over the London 2012 Games.
"I know our staff are keen to play their part in the Games and, now that we have agreement across the board, we can all look forward to focusing on supporting a fantastic summer of sport and cultural events in London."
London 2012: Road cycling tickets go on sale - BBC News
More tickets for road cycling events at the London Olympics are on sale, organiser Locog says.
Tickets are available for Box Hill in Surrey - where the road races can be viewed - and Hampton Court Palace, for the time trials.
Tickets priced from £5 to £15 are available on a first come, first served basis until they are sold out.
Box Hill is a special conservation area, but Locog said it was working to minimise the impact on wildlife.
The decision to charge for the 15,000 tickets being allocated to the prime viewing point has angered some local people, including local councillors, who say any profits from the event should go to ensuring the Olympics leave a legacy for the area.
Tickets providing access to The Hill and the big screen at Wimbledon - where the Olympic tennis events are being held - are also on sale, as well as tickets for the Orbit sculpture on the Olympic Park, Locog said.
The Orbit, which is between the Olympic Stadium and the Aquatics Centre, will give visitors a view of the entire park and across London's skyline.
BBC's Olympics correspondent James Pearce said he had been "inundated" by reports from people complaining that the London 2012 website was not working.
But the organisers said the problem had been resolved.
A London 2012 spokesperson said: "The sheer volume of demand meant that we managed transactions slowly in the first 20 minutes. However transactions now flowing through in their thousands."
Our correspondent tweeted that the site was meant to cope with 250,000 transactions an hour.
Unsold ticketsVisitors will be able to take a trip up the structure in a lift and have the option of walking down the spiral staircase.
Tickets for the Orbit are available only to those who have Olympic Park tickets or tickets for an event in the park, and only for the day they are due to visit, Locog said.
On Friday, the BBC reported that about 300,000 Olympics tickets that went on sale earlier this month remain unsold.
That is out of 928,000 put on general sale earlier this month and are in addition to the more than one million football tickets which remain unsold so far.
All tickets have been sold in some sports, including athletics, track cycling, equestrianism, rhythmic gymnastics and swimming.
The opening and closing ceremonies are also fully sold out.
But tickets are still available for sports including boxing, basketball, beach volleyball, weightlifting and football.
London 2012: BOA demand talks with GB Taekwondo about Aaron Cook - The Guardian
The hopes of Aaron Cook, the soon-to-be taekwondo world No1, of competing at London 2012 remain alive after the British Olympic Association demanded urgent talks over his controversial omission from the Team GB squad.
The BOA's qualification standards panel met in London on Tuesday to consider thorny selection issues in taekwondo – on which it resolved urgently to seek a meeting with the governing body over Cook's omission – and wrestling, which it awarded just one of the three host-nation places that had been requested.
Cook had said it was "incredible" that he has been passed over in favour of Lutalo Muhammad despite receiving the backing of the performance director, Gary Hall. Cook, expected to return to world No1 in his 80kg division when the rankings are published on Friday, severed ties with GB Taekwondo's world-class performance programme last year – leading to suspicions that his non-selection was politically motivated.
The decision, which has been defended by GB Taekwondo, appears to fly in the face of advice from the World Taekwondo Federation, that selected athletes should be ranked in the world top 20 for the two years from May 2010. The BOA will meet GB Taekwondo on Thursday, with a final decision expected soon afterwards. It is understood one of the reasons put forward by the governing body for Muhammad's inclusion was the impact of changes to the way international taekwondo is scored.
As such the BOA has sought further information on the process by which the four selected athletes were chosen and further clarification on the head-kick scoring regulations in international taekwondo and their bearing on the decision.
They will also ask for more clarity on the extent to which Cook's coaches were able to make representations on his behalf, given that he operates outside the system.
GB Taekwondo has claimed its aim is to "select athletes who have the best potential to win the best set of medals for Great Britain".
The other three weight categories were endorsed by the BOA, with the places expected to be filled by Jade Jones, Sarah Stevenson and Martin Stamper.
The BOA's four-strong panel – comprising the chef de mission Andy Hunt, the deputy chefs de mission Sir Clive Woodward and Mark England and the athletes commission chair Sarah Winckless – also ruled that wrestling should be granted only one of the three host-nation places it had provisionally been awarded after falling short of self-imposed performance standards.
Olga Butkevych, the Ukraine-born wrestler who won a bronze medal at the European Championships last year, is expected to take up the single position granted for the women's under-55kg category.
Butkevych was believed to have had her application for a British passport approved on Tuesday.
British wrestling has been split over the fact that overseas training partners brought over by the governing body in 2007 have ended up eclipsing homegrown athletes and was also recently hit by a doping scandal involving one of its Olympic contenders.
The BOA's job was simply to rule on performance and legacy criteria, but its assessment of the health of the sport also took into account the effect of the ongoing controversies.
The BOA told British Wrestling that "more work" needed to be done to ensure a meaningful post-Games legacy, including "much greater emphasis on increasing participation at the grass-roots level in the UK and a clear performance plan to qualify athletes by right for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games".ends
London woman jailed for Tube race rant - The Age
Jacqueline Woodhouse ... jailed for racist rant.
A drunk passenger who hurled racist abuse at fellow travellers on a London underground train in a tirade that became an internet sensation has been jailed for 21 weeks.
Jacqueline Woodhouse, 42, launched an expletive-laden rant at passengers on the Central line, telling those seated near her: "I used to live in England and now I live in the United Nations."
A seven-minute video of the verbal assault was uploaded to YouTube and viewed more than 200,000 times.
Condemning her showdown, District Judge Michael Snow at Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London, said: "Anyone viewing it would feel a deep sense of shame that our citizens could be subject to such behaviour who may, as a consequence, believe that it secretly represents the views of other white people."
Woodhouse was fined following a similar offence in 2008.
In the video of her latest foul-mouthed outburst, filmed by businessman Galbant Juttla, Woodhouse can be heard shouting in a thick Essex accent: "All f****** foreign f******* s*** heads."
The former secretary, of Romford, Essex, turns to other passengers and asks: "Where do you come from? Where do you come from? Where do you come from?
"All over the world, f****** jokers. f****** country's a F****** joke.
"I would like to know if any of you are illegal? I am sure like 30 per cent of you are. f****** jokers taking the f****** piss."
Prosecutor Claire Campbell said Woodhouse, who has since lost her job and is now claiming benefits, began her stream of abuse after a retirement party when she was feeling a little "worse for wear". She had drunk an unknown quantity of champagne.
Woodhouse sat with her head bowed as CCTV footage of the prolonged rant between St Paul's and Mile End stations was played to the court.
In it she could be seen turning to the Pakistani man sitting next to her, who is singing his national anthem.
"You can fing sing my f****** dear friend. I hope they f****** catch up with you and shove you off. I will punch you in the face, you are a f****** joke.
"Pakistani fing losers.
"Ninety per cent of you are f****** illegal. I wouldn't mind if you loved our country."
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Vauxhall inks parts distribution deal with Norbert - Automotive Business Review
Vauxhall Motors has awarded a GBP1m contract to Norbert Dentressangle for the distribution of its parts further three years.
As per the deal, Norbert will be responsible for the overnight distribution of automotive parts to 300 Vauxhall and Chevrolet retailers throughout the UK.
The logistics firm will also collect orders from Vauxhall's parts distribution centre in Luton, UK for overnight delivery to retailers through its national shared-user network.
Norbert will also offer various services including waste management, sorting and management, yard services, site shunting and outbound loading.
Vauxhall Motors warehouse operations manager Peter Durham said that Norbert Dentressangle provides a transport solution that enables the company to maintain a high level of service to its retailers.
"This combined with the a range of added value site services means we will continue to benefit from a reliable and cost effective parts distribution operation," Durham said.
Norbert has been providing Vauxhall with aftersales parts distribution since 12 years, and with this contract extension it will offer services to 35 new trailers.
London riots: breakdown of Monday night's violence - Daily Telegraph
Peckham, south-east London
Around 500 youths gathered in Peckham High Street, vandalising shops, lighting fires and targeting officers with missiles. Teams of riot police were seen charging at fleeing rioters after a major fire was started at a shop adjoining a Greggs bakery. Matthew Yeoland, 43, a teacher, said: "It's like a war zone and the police weren't doing anything. There were too many people and not enough police."
Croydon, south London
A string of cars and buildings were set alight by gangs of youths. A 26-year-old man was injured in a shooting, while Reeves, a family furniture business that has stood in the area for more than 100 years, was gutted following a massive blaze. A woman was filmed jumping from a building which had been set on fire by rioters
Watch: London riots spread to Croydon as buildings torched
Ealing, west London
Locals reported similar scenes of violence with groups of youths congregating in Haven Green park opposite Ealing Broadway Tube, throwing bricks at local shops, starting fires in the street and torching cars.
Fulham, west London
Youngsters threw a bicycle under a bus to block a road while they looted Curry’s, the electrical store. Helicopters circled the area throughout the night.
Hammersmith, west London
Further reports of looting. Shopkeepers in Shepherd’s Bush barricaded their businesses to try to keep out troublemakers.
Clapham, south London
Up to 1000 looters preyed on shops causing widespread disruption. Youths raided a Debenhams store and a number shops in Lavender Hill, while some broke into a fancy dress store near Clapham Junction stealing masks to conceal their identities. Looters were heard shouting “I’ve got jewellery, what have you got?” Scotland Yard said armoured police vehicles were used in Lavender Hill to push back more than 150 people in the area.
Watch: Police fight running battles with looters in Clapham Junction
Bethnal Green, east London
More than 100 people looted a Tesco premises and two officers were injured. Police said there had also been looting in Stratford High Street, Newham.
Lewisham, south London
The Metropolitan Police said roaming groups of youths were also involved in disorder in a number of locations in the area.
Woolwich, south London
A large gang gathered outside the Stone Lane Retail Park branch of PC World last night, trying to force open the doors. Within minutes of gaining entry, large flat screen TVs and other electronic goods were being carted out.
Watch: Looters overwhelm police in Woolwich
Camden and Chalk Farm, north London
A number of officers were also called to Camden in north London to deal with troublemakers. Rioters smashed windows of a bicycle shop.
Enfield, north London
Around 40 firefighters tackled a large blaze, reported to have been started by looters, at a Sony warehouse in Solar Way.
Liverpool
Violence flared in Liverpool overnight for up to five hours as hundreds of rioters marauded through the streets to the south of the city centre. Cars and wheelie bins were set alight on a trail of destruction which stretched from the city centre to Toxteth, Dingle and Wavertree. The first reports of disorder came in at 10pm and calm was not restored until about 3am.
Birmingham
West Midlands Police said around 100 arrests were made after rioters rampaged across Birmingham city centre and some surrounding areas. Hundreds of youths gathered in the city's main retail area close to the Bullring shopping mall, which closed its doors early in anticipation of violence, while there were reports that a police station in Handsworth was set on fire.
Watch: Rioters target Birmingham shopping centre
Bristol
More than 150 young rioters also caused disruption in the areas of St Paul's and Stokes Croft in Bristol, with police urging members of the public to stay away from the city centre.
Watch: copycat attacks spread to the south-west
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