The Steeple Times

Tag: British

  • Josie Cunningham

    Josie Cunningham

    Josie CunninghamNot so ‘Dozy Josie’ is a controversial scrounger who landed herself a £4,800 boob job on the NHS. This wannabe glamour model and escort from Leeds has 30,000 followers on Twitter and sold tickets to watch her give birth to her third child in 2014 for a total of £30,000. Makeup caked Cunningham – who is well known for her wonky cleavage –  attracted further controversy after stating she’d abort her baby to go on Big Brother and when it was revealed the taxpayer had footed £6,000 in taxi fees per year, she stated “needed them” for the school run. Her reasoning? “If the council think I’m getting a bus, they can think again”. Josie Cunningham’s view on life is simple: “Sticks and stones may break my bones but taxpayers will always fund me”. It’s no wonder The Mirror proclaimed her: “The most hated woman in Britain”.

     

  • Perfectly British

    Perfectly British

    An opportunity to create your own version of Downton Abbey in the Cotswolds

     

    For a mere £27 million you can currently purchase a 6-bedroomed mews house in Reeves Mews in Mayfair. Alternatively, a buyer with the same sum to hand could splash out on something a little grander, a 774.32 acre Cotswold estate complete with a mansion, two entrance lodges and eleven cottages. (more…)

  • Investigating Tulisa

    Investigating Tulisa

    In the wake of the collapse of the Tulisa Contostavlos drugs trial, we examine the merits of investigative journalism

     

    Tulisa Contostavlos declared she’d had a “rollercoaster of a week” after she was convicted of assault in one case yet saw off another after it was thrown out due to the “serious misconduct” on the part of key witnesses for the prosecution. Tonight, the singer will appear in a BBC Three documentary that will “lift the lid” on that trial and provide her with a sounding board to share her thoughts on investigative journalism in general. (more…)

  • New balls please

    New balls please

    Alexandra Naylor reports on this year’s strawberries and Pimm’s fuelled Wimbledon Championships

     

    It’s Wimbledon again – the oldest and most prestigious tennis championship in the world. (more…)

  • Speedback

    Speedback

    David Brown Automotive’s Speedback is a stunning vehicle

     

    David Brown shares not only his name with Sir David Brown of DB Aston Martin fame but also an ability to create the most stunning of cars. The contemporary Brown, though not related to Sir David or Aston Martin in any way, has plainly taken inspiration from his namesake in creating a new sports car that will be launched at the Top Marques show at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on 17th April. (more…)

  • Anton Casey

    Anton Casey

    Anton CaseyThis Singapore based banker caused an uproar in January 2014 by apparently describing a cabbie as a “retard” and moaning about the stench of public transport on both Facebook and YouTube. The Crossinvest Asia employee – who is married to a former Miss Singapore Universe named Bernice Wong – subsequently apologised for his “poor judgement” but received death threats aplenty and was widely condemned online. Closing his Facebook profile was probably the best decision Casey’s ever made.

     

  • Rolling along nicely

    Rolling along nicely

    Rolls-Royce and Bentley are prospering

     

    Yesterday’s financial press rightly hailed the success of two of Britain’s finest brands: Rolls-Royce and Bentley. Their results during 2013 were frankly astounding. (more…)

  • Lewis Moody: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”

    Lewis Moody: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”

    20 questions with former English rugby union player and England captain Lewis Moody

     

    The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?

    Family and friends who will always keep you grounded and honest

     

    “Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?

    A man’s character is not judged by his successes, but by how many times he is knocked on his ass and gets back up again.

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  • Errol Douglas MBE

    Errol Douglas MBE

    Errol DouglasThis award winning Guyanese-British hair stylist has had his own salon in Motcomb Street since 1998 and began his career in an East End salon at the age of eleven. Douglas’s clients are said to have variously included Emilia Fox, Annie Lennox, Brad Pitt and Forest Whittaker and he is a regular on the BBC and Channel 4. He has over 10,000 followers on Twitter and is one of the most personable characters of Belgravia.

  • What were they thinking?

    What were they thinking?

    The worst named restaurants in the world

     

    When opening a restaurant, some restaurateurs opt to name their businesses after a street whilst others use their surname or a historic figure. Here, however, we list a selection of ten of the most bizarre and ridculous that we’ve come across (more…)