Women who are out and about in the many bars, pubs and clubs of the West End were warned Friday by Westminster council that they are in serious danger of having their drinks spiked with dangerous date-rape drugs. The council will soon launch a poster campaign in hundreds of West End drinking dens, advising on how to stay safe. Women are urged to keep an eye at their drinks and advised not ot accept drinks from strangers.

The move was prompted by nine recent claims of attacks in the Westminster area. Seven were alleged rapes, one an alleged indecent assault, and another an indecent assault on a male. All are being treated seriously by police. Three of the victims say they were taken back to the attacker's home and assaulted, while one was attacked in a bar. Several of the others had trouble remembering where their assault took place.

The council's move has been backed by Westminster Police. Figures from the Drug Rape Trust show that 780 women reported attacks last year. The figures for this year are up 50%.

Two people have been injured after a double shooting in the West End in the early hours of Thursday morning. At 2.45am a doorman outside the nightclub Hanover Grand, off Regent Street, was shot at. The bullet also struck a passing civilian. The victim, a man, was rushed to hospital. His condition is not believed to be life threatening.

Only a few minutes later, a van driver was held at gunpoint and shot in the shoulder and his vehicle hijacked in Berwick Street, Soho. Details of both incidents were unclear this morning but it is believed police see a connection. Police later recovered the hijacked van which had been dumped in Tottenham Mews, near Tottenham Court Road, and officers arrested a man and a woman. A gun was found nearby.

A police officer has been arrested on suspicion of rape. The officer, who is in his early thirties, is alleged to have raped a 23-year-old woman in his police apartment in the West End. The constable met the woman in a bar and invited her to his home in in Marylebone. The woman later made a claim of rape.

A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said the officer was arrested on 18 July and had been suspended pending the outcome of a police inquiry into the incident.

A police officer was injured whilst tackling an armed suspect in central London. At approx. 01.55am on Sunday police were called to reports of a man armed with a knife stood in the Weighhouse Street/Davies Street area of W1. Officers attended and found a man behaving aggressively, armed with a knife. The man then attacked officers who deployed CS spray but were initially unable to subdue him.

During attempts to detain the man a PC aged in his 40s from Paddington police station was injured. He was taken by police to University College Hospital suffering from a stab wound to the arm. A man was arrested and is in custody at West End Central police station.

Any witnesses or anyone with information on the incident is asked to call West End Central CID on 020 7321 8873; if you wish to remain anonymous please call Crimestoppers 0800 555 111.

Ken Livingstone's congestion charging plans won't work, says a new report commissioned by Westminster City Council.

Transport engineers were asked to analyse the affects of the planned £5 charge and found that it would make only a marginal difference to the capital's traffic problems. There would be, "relatively marginal benefits at peak times and these benefits may be largely offset by increased congestion on diversion routes." Even with the proposed improvements, Londoners would still face "potentially a serious public transport shortfall."

Getting a dig in at London's other transport flashpoint, Derek Turner, Director of Street Management for Transport for London, said: "The procedures are there to modify it, unlike the PPP which would be set in stone for 30 years." The report suggests a public inquiry may be the best way forward.

The Queen is allowing visitors to Buckingham Palace this summer to walk in the 40-acre private garden as well as see the State Rooms. The 450-metre walk along the south side has views of the 19th century lake and the west aspect of the Palace.

The garden is a walled, secret sanctuary in the heart of London and home to a variety of wildlife, including 30 types of bird. The lake provides a refuge for water birds, including moorhens, shelduck and geese.

There are also over 350 different types of wild flowers and more than 200 mature trees in the garden, the design of which dates back to the conversion of Buckingham House into Buckingham Palace in 1825.

The Palace opens to the public from August 4 to September 30. Tickets are available from www.the-royal-collection.org.uk or through the credit card booking line: 020 7321 2233.

Bus fares will be frozen for another year but Tube tickets will continue to rise, London Mayor Ken Livingstone proposed today. Some of the most commonly used Tube tickets will undergo a 10p increase from January 2002, with the main change proposed for Tube fares increasing zone one tickets from £1.50 to £1.60. It will be offset, however, by a freeze and a series of price reductions for the capital's bus users.

The price of children's Tube fares will remain frozen. Two other Tube fares that were frozen last year - the single zone and two zone suburban fares - are also increasing by 10p. One new change from 1 January will be a new All Day Travelcard to offer more flexible travel. The new Travelcards will be valid all day Monday to Friday on bus, Tube and rail.

Livingstone will confirm the importance of increased bus travel to his transport policy by unveiling a series of fare cuts, including cutting the cost of the weekly All Zones Bus Pass ticket from £9.50 to £8.50; cutting night bus fares from £1.50 to £1 outside zone one and from £1 down to 70p from this autumn; introducing a child Bus Saver Ticket priced at 35p a ride from this autumn.

In addition to this, all Travelcards will become valid across the entire bus system. The plans will be finalised after a period of consultation in July and August and introduced from 1 January 2002.

The Metropolitan Police are appealing for information and witnesses regarding a racial incident, which resulted in Grevious Bodily Harm in W1 on Friday 13th July. At approx. 02:40 police were called to a disturbance outside the Haymarket. On arrival officers found three Asian men in their twenties with stab wounds. 'A' was stabbed in the buttock, 'B' in the arm, and 'C' in the chest. All were taken to hospital. 'A' and 'C' remain in a stable condition. 'B' was later discharged.

At this early stage it appears there was a confrontation between two groups. The first consisted of several Asian males and the other consisted of two black men, and a white and Asian female. We believe, at this stage, that the incident was prompted by comments made by a member of the second group, which was interpreted by the first as racially motivated. The confrontation developed into a disturbance, which resulted in the victims receiving their wounds.

Police arrested two black male youths - 'D' 17 years and 'E' 18 years - in connection with the incident. They were taken to a central London police station where they remain in custody. DI Brian Ferguson, investigating the incident, said: "We would particularly appeal to anyone in the Haymarket area at the time of the incident to come forward. We require independent witnesses."

Anyone with information should contact the CID at West End Central on 020 7321 8730; or call anonymously Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.

London mayor Ken Livingstone has outlined a £5-per-day congestion charge scheme to cut down on traffic levels and air pollution in the heart of the capital.

Under the scheme, motorists entering the charging zone will be charged to stem traffic growth in this already gridlocked area. The charging zone stretch from near Tower Bridge up to Islington and King's Cross, along to Marylebone and Mayfair and down to Westminster and Vauxhall Bridge.

This will be enforced by wardens, CCTV and digital cameras and the money raised will, promises Livingstone, go towards improvements to bus, tube and train services. Whilst final details have yet to be confirmed, motorcycles, taxis, buses, emergency vehicles, vehicles belonging to registered disabled people, mail trucks and alternatively-fuelled vehicles are likely to be fully exempt.

Those who live within the charging zone will qualify for a 90% reduction in the charge, meaning that they pay 50p a day for unlimited access in and out of the area. The charge will apply from Monday to Friday, from 7am to 7pm. Drivers can pay on the day or in advance, and weekly, monthly or annual passes, like travelcards, will be available. Once the charge has been paid for the day, access in and out of the zone is unrestricted.

This weekend, the West End sees the first Continental-style mobile urinals being put up in an attempt to deal with the hordes of drunken men relieving themselves in the streets.

Westminster Council has borrowed the idea from Amsterdam and implied it this summer together with a warning that from the autumn, anyone found urinating in the street will face fines of up to £500.

The loos will go on trial from Friday night and will be installed at five locations in the West End. Westminster Council is producing a leaflet for pubs, clubs and restaurants containing a complete lavatory listing with a detailed map and opening hours.

Camden Council's introduction of an experimental traffic calming scheme in Covent Garden has infuriated motorists and businesses in the Monmouth Street area. They claim that the changes are confusing, especially the signs, and have caused confrontations between motorists.

On 18 June, Camden Council reversed the flow of traffic on a section of Monmouth Street linking St Martin's Lane to the Seven Dials roundabout from southbound to northbound, saying it was being used as a shortcut to Trafalgar Square.

Confusion over signs, that are being either ignored or missed, has resulted in several arguments between motorists caused by drivers travelling up Monmouth Street in the wrong direction.

The council will carry out a full review in September.

A new vision for Victoria Station, London's busiest transport interchange, has been unveiled by Westminster council. The council is consulting on a draft planning brief which envisages creating a new hub where passengers from mainline trains, tubes and buses will be able to move easier, under cover, from one mode of transport to another.

The future of Victoria Station will also be discussed. Development would be paid for by offices, shops and housing above and near the existing station. The shabby Terminus Place buildings would be demolished and a large, public piazza created in front of the station.

A man is fighting for his life and two others are in hospital after an outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease in the area around Portman Square.

Westminster council have launched an investigation and have warned that further victims cannot be ruled out. The potentially deadly disease has been sourced to two buildings in the Portman Square area, including one a hotel, and is believed to have had its onset about a month ago. The victims are two workmen from the Midlands and a tourist. Two of them are understood to be recovering, but the condition of one of the builders is said to be life-threatening.

Legionnaire's Disease is a form of pneumonia first identified in 1976 as caused by a previously unknown bacillus subsequently named Legionella pneumophila. The name of the disease derives from a 1976 state convention of the American Legion, a U.S. war veteran's organization, at a Philadelphia hotel where 182 Legionnaires contracted the disease, 29 of them fatally.

Although healthy individuals can contract Legionnaires' Disease, the most common patients are elderly or debilitated individuals or persons whose immunity is suppressed by drugs or disease. Although it is fairly well documented that the disease is rarely spread like pneumococcal pneumonia through person-to-person contact, the exact source of the outbreaks—which have appeared in several European countries and in travelers returning from China—has yet to be determined.

It is suspected that contaminated water in central air-conditioning units can serve to disseminate Legionella pneumophilia in droplets into the surrounding atmosphere. Potable water and drainage systems are suspect, as is water at construction sites.

A health shop owner in King's Cross is being questioned Friday after police seized cannabis with a value of £50,000 from his shop.

Tony Taylor, the proprietor of Tony's Hemp Corner, was arrested after police raided the premises. About 40 plants and a large quantity of cannabis resin were seized.

The shop has sold the drug openly, allegedly for medical use, for several years. Taylor's more than 250 regular customers include doctors and lawyers with multiple sclerosis, cancer and Aids.

A fire is causing traffic chaos in the West End. It broke out around 10am on Wednesday morning in a building opposite the department store Selfridge's in Oxford Street. The road around the junction with Portman Street has been closed. Traffic is being diverted away from the scene and there are delays back to Marble Arch.

Extra crews have been called to stop the fire spreading through the eight floors of the building. The fire is believed to have started in air conditioning pipes in the basement. Nobody is thought to have been injured.

Police in Soho are giving drug dealers a clear message in an initiative in which witness style appeal boards have been displayed across the area warning dealers of the consequence of their actions.

The 5 ft high boards which went up in June in the heart of the West End announce that on 5th June this year a Soho crack cocaine dealer was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment after being charged for dealing on the capital's streets.

The stark message on the board notes that a total of 133.5 years are being served by dealers for supplying crack cocaine this year in Soho which is in addition to the 19 suspects on remand awaiting sentence. The message warns dealers, "WE ARE WATCHING...ARE YOU GOING TO BE NEXT?"

DI Neil Wilson of the West End Central Police said: "The anti-drug boards are designed to ward off drug dealers from the streets of Soho and disrupt the criminal activity associated with drug dealing. This is just one aspect of a wider anti-drugs strategy for Soho and West End Central that has seen 288 people charged with drug offences this year."

"In the past the community have expressed concerns when they have seen witness appeals displayed in his manner relating to serious assaults. The idea behind using this format of warning the drug dealers is also intended to give our community some good news," said Wilson.

"As yet it is too early to assess the impact of the boards in Soho, but in themselves they send out a clear message. We are saying that the police and the community do not, and will not tolerate drug dealing, and together with other agencies we are steadily taking dealers off the streets of Soho."

A new sculpture for the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square was unveiled Monday by Culture Secretary Chris Smith. Artist Rachel Whiteread's Monument is a see-through resin cast of the inside of the granite plinth itself. The idea is that this massive structure, resembling a giant ice cube, will sit astride the plinth, oblivious to the traffic and bustle of the famous Square.

The sculpture is latest in a series of contemporary sculptures to be placed temporarily on the plinth, which has been empty since the square was first laid out in 1841. A life-sized statue of Christ called Ecce Homo was created by Mark Wallinger in 1999. For 2000, Bill Woodrow's work Regardless of History showed a head crushed by a book and clamped by tree-roots.

The three other plinths in Trafalgar Square have large-scale equestrian statues. Two are of 19th century imperial generals and one of King George IV. But the fourth has stood empty since King William IV died without leaving the financial means to have his own statue erected.

In 1995 the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) was given permission by Westminster City Council to fill the plinth. The idea has been to give trial runs to three sculptures before choosing a permanent monument. The RSA has now handed over the project to the Greater London Authority which will oversee a rotation of contemporary works on the site.

The Pet Shop Boys have branched out from dance hits like West End Girls and penned a West End musical.

The pop duo attracted a star-studded audience for Thursday night's opening of Closer to Heaven, a riotous tale of sex, drugs and rock-and-roll in London clubland. The musical, with music and lyrics by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe and book by Jonathan Harvey (Beautiful Thing, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme), is being performed at the Art Theatre.

Elton John, Ian McKellen and Simon Callow were among the British stars who attended the opening. "I thought it was absolutely brilliant," Elton John said afterward. "It was one of the most incredible nights I have had at the theater for a long time."

Tennant said the first performance was a nervous event after laboring over the musical for five years. He said he took on the project to attract a new audience to theater. "People have been coming up to me tonight and saying that they have never before been to the theater and how much they enjoyed it," he said. "So that is wonderful."

As you would expect from Pet Shop Boys and Jonathan Harvey, this is not your average musical. Straight Dave, a sexy young barman fresh from Ireland falls for the beautiful, ambitious club manager's daughter Shell and the young, street-wise drug dealer Mile End Lee. The iconic Billie Tricks, hostess of London's most successful club night, oversees the action while the outrageous pop band manager Bob Saunders has his own plans for Straight Dave. As fame and fortune beckon, Dave has difficult decisions to make.

Closer To Heaven features 15 new songs from Pet Shop Boys and club choreography by Peter Darling (Billy Elliot and the musicals Merrily We Roll Along and Candide). "We've always liked the theatre and our live shows have had very strong theatrical elements," says Neil Tennant. "We've wanted to do a musical for ages because we wanted to see if it was possible to put contemporary pop music onto the stage."

The songs are vintage Pet Shop Boys though the writing process was different. "We've had to write songs to progress the plot so we've written to a brief," Chris Lowe explains. "But stylistically the music is Pet Shop Boys music. That's the whole point of it."

The seeds of Closer To Heaven were first planted eight years ago when the BBC wanted to commission a musical and suggested that Neil and Chris work with Jonathan Harvey. They saw his play Beautiful Thing and subsequently approached Jonathan with the idea of collaborating on a musical. They decided they would come up with an original story rather than base their musical on an existing book or film.

The three of then sat down and came up with the basic idea for the Closer To Heaven plot and the principal characters over a few months. Over the last six years the project has reached fruition. "Sometimes Jonathan has suggested ideas for songs and sometimes we've suggested scenes and Jonathan has written them," says Neil. "It's been a lot of fun working with him."

From June 4th, performances will be Mondays to Thursdays at 8pm, Fridays at 6pm and 9:15pm and Saturdays at 4pm and 8pm. Prior to this there will be only one performance on Fridays at 8pm. Ticket prices are £18.50, £22.50 and £28.50 for the Monday to Thursday and Friday at 6pm performances, and £20, £24 and £30 for the 9:15 performance on Fridays and both performances on Saturdays. Tickets are available from the Arts Theatre Box Office on tel. 020 7836 3334.

"We hope that it's going to be very different from anything anyone's ever seen before on a London stage," says Chris Lowe. "We haven't set out to do a big West End musical," adds Neil Tennant. "It's an attempt to do something new - contemporary drama with contemporary music."

Kate Beckinsale, the British star of Pearl Harbor, was greeted by crowds of screaming fans at the war epic's London première.

The movie's British launch Wednesday in central London's Leicester Square, however, was a low key affair compared with the lavish £3.5 million screening - the most expensive ever - at a U.S. aircraft carrier last week in Hawaii.

But the 28-year-old Beckinsale said she was more nervous in her home country, where her friends and family attended the screening: "This is much noisier and scarier than it was in Hawaii because it is Britain and my friends and family are all here," she said.

Thousands of fans gathered outside the cinema to catch a glimpse of Beckinsale and her co-stars, newcomer Josh Hartnett and Ewen Bremner. Ben Affleck did not attend.

"People in Hawaii were much more reserved and there were no real fans there," Bremner said. "Here it is kind of wild." The film opened to poor reviews but nevertheless has enjoyed good box office returns since it opened in the United States.

Australian supermodel Elle MacPherson, 38, will play Nicole Kidman's role in an Australian production of the acclaimed play The Blue Room by David Hare. The producers plan to bring it to London to repeat Nicole Kidman's triumph, described by critics as "theatrical Viagra".

Elle has gradually moved away from modelling into acting and started her mainstream career with an appearance in the 1994 film Sirens (starring Hugh Grant). In her most recent film, A Girl Thing (released in America this year), Elle stars with Kate Capshaw and Rebecca de Mornay.

The Royal Shakespeare Company plans to desert the Barbican, its present London home, in favour of a move to the West End.

As part of the RSC's sweeping reforms the internationally renowned theatrical institution will cease to be a fixture at the Barbican from May 2002. Instead, a less formal arrangement, in which the Barbican and the RSC will collaborate to present one-off performances at the City of London venue, will be established.

A production of Alice in Wonderland at the end of 2002 has already been confirmed under the arrangement.

However, theatre unions have criticised RSC's move, which will lead to some 60 redundancies at Stratford-upon-Avon and a possible 35 more at the Barbican, calling it "cultural vandalism".

Elle for Blue Room Elle MacPherson, 38, will play Nicole Kidman's role in an Australian production of The Blue Room. The producers hope to bring it to London to repeat Miss Kidman's triumph, described as "theatrical Viagra".

The high street store Marks & Spencer has announced falling profits for the third year running. Three years ago the group made a profit of over £1 billion, last year profits were down to £410 million and this year they are down to £145.5 million.

Chairman Luc Vandevelde who waived a £816,000 bonus earlier this year after intense internal and external pressure, admitted that his recovery plans would take longer than expected. "The results will not be seen overnight but our customers will see a gradual and progressive improvement" he claimed.

Sales fell 5.5 per cent last year and internal memos suggest there has been no let-up in the decline since the beginning of the new financial year.

The group has been squeezed by fierce competition from rivals such as Next and Top Shop and by dis-count retailers. Its food and home products divisions fared better, with sales up almost four and 11.5 per cent respectively.

The group has 300 British stores and employs 60,000 people nationwide. It intends to withdraw from most of its overseas operations. A restructuring programme, which involves more than 4,000 redundancies, will cost more than £335 million. Excluding this figure, profits last year were £480.2 million, down seven per cent from the comparable figure last year.

George Davis, who rose to fame as the head of Next in the Eighties, has been drafted in to design a dedicated range for M&S. Other key fashion appointments have been made and numerous members of the board have lost their jobs and been replaced by new recruits.

Mr Vandevelde, who last year pledged to resign by May 2002 if he had not engineered a recovery, said: "We need to focus on our core customer - the classically stylish woman. That does not mean we will not provide anything for anyone else but she is our focus. The first evidence of this new focus will be seen in the autumn."

The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden are considering hosting rock and pop concerts in a bid to attract a more diverse audience.

Icelandic singer Bjork is in discussions to appear at the Covent Garden theatre this autumn and ROH are hoping that this will lead to an interest among other popstars to perform there. The ROH reopened in November 1999 after a £214 million refurbishment. The result has received much well-deserved praise, but the seating is limited. The main auditorium seats 2,000, but the smaller Linbury Studio Theatre only 400 and the Vilar Floral Hall 200.

Perhaps the best idea for staging a major pop concert would be to show the performance on big screens that can be viewed by people outside in the Covent Garden Piazza. This was a huge success in early May, when thousands of people defied the rain to enjoy a sparkling performance of Othello.

A security guard is on the run abroad today after the theft of £1.5 million in cash and jewels from fashion house Versace's flagship store in Old Bond Street.

Scotland Yard officers are combing flight records and liaising with officials at ports and airports as an international manhunt began today. Interpol has joined the investigation and it is believed they are working closely with Spanish authorities on the Costa del Sol.

The unnamed security guard is said to have disappeared after emptying the safe at the end of the working day when the London store was closed for the weekend. Staff at the boutique reported the theft to police when they returned to work two days later.

Several pieces of jewellery, including a £250,000 ring, are believed to have been stolen - but an envelope containing £180 belonging to a fellow member of staff, was left behind. Police are understood to have been asked by the store's managers not to make any public appeals but Scotland Yard was today forced to confirm the theft after details leaked.

One insider is reported to have said: "He vanished that night and neither hide nor hair has been seen of him. The police have been to his house and all ports have been alerted in case he tries to leave the country. The Versace people have gone ballistic over how he managed to get away with it. It is embarrassing for them to say the least. It was obviously a hell of a temptation for someone only earning £250 a week."

The theft occurred on May 5th but details only emerged today. It is not known how the guard, who is said to be of South African origin and in his late 20s, obtained keys to the safe. The store is covered by a network of surveillance cameras. It is frequently visited by Donatella Versace, who took over the label after her brother Gianni was murdered by a serial killer in 1997.

Actress Anne Archer will take over the Mrs Robinson role from Amanda Donohue in the West End play The Graduate.

The role has taken on a measure of fame for a brief scene in which the actress playing Mrs Robinson takes off her clothes to bare all on stage. Jerry Hall and Kathleen Turner have also played the part in the production. 53-year-old Archer, best known for her role in Fatal Attraction, is the oldest of the four stars to have taken the role.

Regent Street is to get its own logo as part of a £500million redevelopment designed to attract big names in international retailing. The emphasis of the redevelopment is on preserving the Nash-designed street's traditions. The external appearance of the buildings will be restored but not altered. Crown Estate chief executive Sir Christopher Howes said that most of the buildings, developed in the 1920's, were in need of refurbishment.

"In order to retain the elegant style of the street and also make it a place where people want to shop, visit, work and relax, we envisage investing half-a-billion pounds over the next 10 years," he added. "Public space is also important and we will be seeking ways to provide a better, safer environment for pedestrians with less traffic and pollution, innovative lighting schemes and places where visitors can relax."

In June, The Crown Estate is expected to begin seeking planning consent from Westminster council for a refurbishment programme that should be completed in approximately 10 years' time. Rental income from the street is £38.3 million a year but the redevelopment would be expected to bring Regent Street rents much closer to those in Bond Street, the most expensive street in London.

The Crown Estate wants to provide 1.3million square feet of new commercial space. The trend towards the new began last summer when Alexandra Workwear left its premises next door to the Café Royal and was replaced by Starbucks. Shortly afterwards TopMan on Oxford Circus gave way to Niketown. Another old store, British Knitwear, was replaced by fashion jewellery store Folli Follie.

Then, Scottish Woollens gave way to more fashionable Kurt Geiger. House of Cashmere is also no more, while Burton and Dorothy Perkins are now Mango and Zara. Fashion has also won the battle against china and glass, banks and travel agents. Royal Jordanian Air has been replaced by Angelic Candles, while Chinacraft and Rosenthal are now Gymboree and Lego Kids Wear. June's new arrivals on the street will be Esprit, Hackett and Swarovski.

News

July
New club in Park Lane
Racial incident in W1
Buckingham Palace opens garden
"Congestion Charging Won't Work"
Tube fares to rise
Ramsay in the soup
Mobile urinals for the West End
The Beautiful Game closes

June
The Covent Garden Festival
Legionnaire's Disease in W1 hotel
Relaunch of Hamilton's gallery
Fire causes traffic chaos Oxford Street
Sculpture for plinth in Trafalgar Square
Scheme to ward off Soho drug dealers
£50,000 worth of cannabis in health shop
Contemporary Don Giovanni booed
Council's big plans for Victoria

May
Pearl Harbor opens in the West End
Elle MacPherson takes the West End?
RSC to leave Barbican for the West End
Royal Opera to host pop concerts?
Anne Archer - The New Mrs Robinson
Marks & Spencer's profits plummet
£1.5 million insider job at Versace
Regent Street to get £500 million makeover

Features
Sound and Vision at the ICA
Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective
High Heels and Low Lifes opens
Central Saint Martin's graduate show
Tomb Raider premières
Scandinavian style at Skandium
Liberty Ladies Fashion Week
Sir John Soane's Museum
Top West End restaurants
Hackett opens flagship store
Roberto Cavalli launch at Momo's
Pet Shop Boys' new musical
Creative Quarters
Cleopatra of Egypt