When it was a Best Western, I stayed there a few times, when I had to be back in east London having moved to the island. By then it had shed its underworld reputation and was a bog standard British h… (View Post)

You could have gone to the Epping Forest Hotel, formerly the County Hotel, where the Krays did much of their business deals. Now permanently closed, it seems. (View Post)

I ran into Bean back in the ‘90s when he was a young QC doing boundary commission hearings for the Labour Party (View Post)

That would be Mr Perry? They're still going, employing a team now, and covering the whole island (View Post)

Local newspapers, especially. When I was first elected a councillor, there was a press table in the corner of the committee room, and at most committee meetings there'd be two local paper journa… (View Post)