His plays have won numerous awards, including seven London Evening Standard Awards.

Press coverage of punk misbehavior grew intense: On January 4, 1977, the Evening News of London ran a front-page story on how the Sex Pistols " vomited and spat their way to an Amsterdam flight ".

A fierce nationalistic spirit was aroused ; the London Evening News called for the story to be read to schoolchildren throughout the land, to coincide with the memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral on 14 February.

** In an interview with London Evening Standard reporter Maureen Cleave, John Lennon of The Beatles states that they are " more popular than Jesus now ".

In early 1903, London sold The Call of the Wild to The Saturday Evening Post for $ 750, and the book rights to Macmillan for $ 2, 000.

The comic strip Moomintroll, started in 1954 in the Evening News, a newspaper for the London area and London commuters ( no longer in business ).

The Evening Standard, since May 2009 styled the London Evening Standard, is a local, free daily newspaper, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format in London, United Kingdom.

Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of 7 July 2005 London bombings | London bombing on 7 July 2005, in Waterloo Station

In November 2009, it was announced that the London Evening Standard would drop its midday " News Extra " edition from 4 January 2010 with the first edition being the West End Final, available from 2 p. m. One edition of 600, 000 copies would be printed starting at 12: 30 p. m., ending 3 a. m. starts for journalists and the previous deadline of 9 a. m. for the first edition ; twenty people were expected to lose their jobs as a result.

Also in May 2009 the paper relaunched as the London Evening Standard with a new layout and masthead, marking the occasion by giving away 650, 000 free copies on the day, and refreshed its sports coverage.

The Evening Standard, although a regional newspaper for London, also covers national and international news, though with an emphasis on London-centred news ( especially in its features pages ), covering building developments, property prices, traffic schemes, politics, the congestion charge and, in the Londoner's Diary page, gossip on the social scene.

With the sale of the Evening Standard, but not the London Lite, to Alexander Lebedev on 21 January 2009, the ownership links between the Standard and the Lite were broken.

The newspaper's This Is London website carries some of the stories from the Evening Standard and promotions, reviews and competitions.

* This is London stories from the Evening Standard

* London Evening Standard E-edition ( requires registration to view )

In 2008, London Evening Standard critic, Ben Lewis, applied the term to three Turner Prize nominees and saw them amongst a movement which was reviving the formalism of the early 20th century ; he advocated values of an aesthetic informed by modesty, generosity and genuine emotion.

In fact Darling drank what was named " Standard Water " in reference to, and support of, the London Evening Standard newspaper's campaign to have plain tap water available in restaurants at no charge to customers.

Harris first came to general notice as the editor of a series of London papers including the Evening News, the Fortnightly Review and the Saturday Review, the last-named being the high point of his journalistic career, with H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw as regular contributors.

Alexander Walker of the London Evening Standard wrote, " So precisely nuanced is the speech, so subtle the behaviour of a group of friends, lovers, mistresses and cuckolds who keep splitting up and pairing off like unstable molecules ".

This revelation led in 1991 to one of the London Evening Standard's best-known front-page headlines: " I Took Abu Nidal Shopping.

Interestingly, the London Confession of 1689 was later used by Calvinistic Baptists in America ( called the Philadelphia Baptist Confession ), whereas the Standard Confession of 1660 was used by the American heirs of the English General Baptists, who soon came to be known as Free Will Baptists.

* Breuer J, Freud S, " Studies in Hysteria ", Vol II of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud ( Hogarth Press, London, 1955 ).

By the end of the 15th century, " Standard English " was established in the City of London.

* Greater London Authority Review, 2005-06-House of Commons Library Standard Note

Chancery Standard was largely based on the London and East Midland dialects, for those areas were the political and demographic centres of gravity.

Until 1999, there was a South East Standard Statistical Region, which also included the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Greater London.

In unofficial usage, the South East can refer to a varying area-sometimes only to London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, and Surrey ; but sometimes to an area corresponding to the former Standard Statistical Region ( above ), which corresponded approximately to the London commuter belt.

After a long history of paid circulation, on 12 October 2009 the Standard became a free newspaper, with free circulation limited to central London.

" The Standard also won the daily newspaper of the year award at the London Press Club Press Awards in May 2011.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

The Bank's original home was in Walbrook in the City of London, where during the building's reconstruction in 1954 archaeologists found the remains of a Roman temple of Mithras ( Mithras was – rather fittingly – worshipped as being the God of Contracts ); the Mithraeum ruins are perhaps the most famous of all twentieth-century Roman discoveries in the City of London and can now be viewed by the public.

While in London he visited the Central London District School of his childhood, somewhere he had avoided on the 1921 trip, and found it an emotional experience.

This date format was commonly used alongside the small endian form in the United Kingdom until the early 20th Century, and can be found in both defunct and modern print media such as the London Gazette and The Times, respectively.

The first recorded use of the word cocktail is found in The Morning Post and Gazetteer in London, England on March 20, 1798:

His playing was known all the way from his homeland Italy to the Tsardom of Russia and he found a prominent place performing in concerts with the Philharmonic Society of London.

Also in that year, she was made one of the visiting physicians of the East London Hospital for Children, becoming the first woman in Britain to be appointed to a medical post, but she found the duties of these two positions to be incompatible with her principal work in her private practice and the dispensary, as well as her role as a new mother, so she resigned from these posts by 1873.

In 1610 Bacon and his associates received a charter from the king to form the Tresurer and the Companye of Adventurers and planter of the Cittye of London and Bristoll for the Collonye or plantacon in Newfoundland and sent John Guy to found a colony there.

" The news reached readers of The New York Times the next day ; Victor K. McElheny, in researching his biography, " Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution ", found a clipping of a six-paragraph New York Times article written from London and dated 16 May 1953 with the headline " Form of ` Life Unit ' in Cell Is Scanned.

Eventually in October, after sending A Clergyman's Daughter to Moore, he left for London to take a job that had been found for him by his Aunt Nellie Limouzin.

Also, most plague cases were found in the suburbs of the city and not in the centre of London that was affected by the Fire.

The media were desperate to speak one-on-one with Hurst and they found him the day after the final, back home in London.

There are seats for each of the 79 councillors, situated in a Hemicycle, all facing the Lord Provost ( the Scottish equivalent of the lord mayor found in London and other cities ), his Depute, and the Chief Executive, who are seated behind the mace.

Back in England, however, he found his movement sharply divided among provincial Friends ( such as William Rogers, John Wilkinson and John Story ) who resisted establishment of women's meetings and the power of those who resided in or near London.

By now, the king was convinced that his marriage was hexed, and having already found a new queen, Jane Seymour, he put Anne in the Tower of London on charges of witchcraft.

Farr, already of the opinion that the London temple should be closed, wrote to Mathers expressing her wish to resign as his representative, though she was willing to carry on until a successor was found.

The harp found its early orchestral use in concerti by many baroque and classical composers ( Handel, J. C. Bach, Mozart, Albrechtsberger, Schenck, Dussek, Spohr ) and in the opera houses of London, Paris and Berlin and most other capitals.

Rich finds such as the Battersea Shield, found in the Thames near Chelsea, suggest the area was important ; there may have been important settlements at Egham and Brentford, and there was a hillfort at Uppall, but no city in the area of the Roman London, the present day City of London.

19th-century South Africa did not attract mass Irish migration, but Irish communities are to be found in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Kimberley, and Johannesburg, with smaller communities in Pretoria, Barberton, Durban and East London.

* 1982 – The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.

He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects, and a selection of his paintings can today be found in some of the most important museums in London, including the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Britain.

The trophy was found just seven days later wrapped in newspaper at the bottom of a suburban garden hedge in Upper Norwood, South London, by a dog named Pickles .< ref >