New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Popular prejudice about the demanding women of West London, with their busy lifestyles and high-profile careers, is confirmed with figures showing the local NHS trust is the caesarean capital of Britain.The flagship Chelsea and...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust tops the league tables today with the highest rate of caesarean deliveries in England. 2 in 3 babies are cut out of the womb in west London, compared to a national average of 1 in 4. Many of these are, of course, medically essential but the rate of elective caesareans at Chelsea and Westminster is 3 times higher than the hospital with the lowest rate in England. Several...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Section delivery accounts for third of Chelsea and Westminster trust babies, indicating 'too posh to push' outlook persists Large variations in the numbers of babies delivered by caesarean section emerged today in figures showing a breakdown of how many mothers had had the procedure in various parts of Britain. The figures, from the NHS Information Centre, show that a third of babies born at London's...
Dave Strickson (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Model's Struggle After Brutal Acid Attack A model who suffered a horrific acid attack has revealed the harrowing details of her battle to recover. Katie Piper was beaten and raped by her jealous boyfriend at a London hotel in March 2008. Steroid-fuelled Daniel Lynch then arranged for another man to throw sulphuric acid in her face as she walked along Golders Green High Street. The corrosive liquid...
auntie joanna writes (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
...Catholic History Walk, this time in Chelsea, with a wonderful welcome at Holy Redeemer Church where parishioner Josephine Robinson showed us round and with a joyful bonus in a visit to Allen Hall , the diocesan seminary built on what was once St Thomas More's land. There is a good-sized community of seminarians there now, as numbers of men training for the priesthood in the diocese has been rising...
auntie joanna writes (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
...is all around us in London. Come on the next Catholic History Walk ! Thursday, October 15th. Meet at 6.30pm at the church of Our Most Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More, Cheyne Row, London SW3. We will be walking in the footsteps of St Thomas More, and the tour starts with a look round the church named in his honour, after which we will go down along the river, vsiting his statue on the Embankment,...
Hint Blog (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
All kinds of goodies fell out of the Burberry bonnet today. Let's review...- The show will take place at Chelsea College of Art and Design in Westminster, where the last ad campaign was shot.- For...
auntie joanna writes (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
...took place yesterday evening, starting from Westminster Cathedral . We got a huge crowd!! I started by explaining about the history of the Cathedral, and the convent in Carlisle Place , and Archbishop's House, and then we went on down past Horseferry Road - where I told them about James II's family escaping that way in 1688, with James 111, later to be called the "Old Pretender", as a...
iCelebZ.com (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Burberry closed the London Fashion Week on September 23 with the premiere of the Burberry Prorsum Womenswear Spring Summer 2010 collection. The show was held at the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in Westminster, London. The company also celebrated the new Burberry headquarters at Horseferry House in Westminster, along with the 25th anniversary of London Fashion...
Midweek Wayfarers (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
The A & B rides combined at North Cheam for the annual mystery ride and as I, Frank was leading it wasn’t too much of a surprise that we headed for the Metropolis. The only mystery was how 21 left North Cheam and 21 arrived at The Pommelers Rest, Wetherspoons at Tower Bridge. They consisted of Judy, Stephanie, Tony, Toni D, Grant, Graham H, Rob, Godfrey, Jeff, Norman, Mark G, David, Bob,...
Mark's campaign notepad (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
I can’t help noticing a common theme in many of the big planning issues in Westminster right now. The Chelsea Barracks site, St John’s Wood Barracks, ‘Noho’ and now Luxborough Street – all precious pieces of real estate where essentially there’s a battle between the interests of developers (often with the support of Westminster City [...]
workinproperty (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Following the intervention of Prince Charles, a new list of architects has been compiled for the redesign of Chelsea Barracks by the developer Qatari Diar. One obvious omission... Alan Baxter & Associates LLP and Paul Davis and Partners Porphyrios Associates and Allies and Morrison Duany Plater-Zyberk & Compan y + others Dixon Jones Limited Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Terry Farrell and Partners...
iCelebZ.com (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
Five of the 10 architectural firms who have been asked to draw up new plans for the redevelopment of London's Chelsea Barracks have links to Prince Charles. The 60-year-old royal was accused of "single handedly destroying" the original development project after he wrote a letter to the Qatari royal family - which owns the site - to complain about the "modernist" look of the proposed...
Hodges' Model: Welcome to the Quad (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
Computing this past week featured an item (extract below with link) - Five more NHS trusts involved in serious data breaches Written by Tom Young Computing, 17 Jul 2009 Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has found five more NHS organisations in breach of the Data Protection Act. The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust reported the loss of an unencrypted CD initially thought to...
computing (Free subscription) | 07/17/2009
Tom Young, Computing , Friday 17 July 2009 at 17:20:00 Data still not being encrypted on laptops and mobile devices Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has found five more NHS organisations in breach of the Data Protection Act. The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust reported the loss of an unencrypted CD initially thought to contain medical treatment details of 20,000 patients...
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