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NEWS IN BRIEF
ALLEGRA HICKS is opening a new shop at 42 Elizabeth
Street in late October. The luxury lifestyle brand will stock
women’s fashion collections, homeware and fabrics. There
will be an interiors showroom in the basement. Hicks’
products are known for their bohemian, eclectic style and
she has been dubbed the queen of kaftans.
THE OPENING of Gordon Ramsay’s
Pétrus has been delayed. The restaurant
was due to open at 1 Kinnerton Street in
September, but has been put back to late
November. Asked the reason for the
hold-up, a spokesman spilled the beans:
“As with the majority of restaurant
launches, it’s been put back due to
building work.” On top of the world
FATHER ALASDAIR COLES of St Mary’s When Anshul Raja reached the Hospital Kidney Patients’ Association
and St Barnabas churches is leaving in summit of the world’s tallest free- – his grandfather was successfully
November to become chaplain of an standing mountain, Kilimanjaro, he treated there in 1971.
academy in Bedfordshire. His last day in felt on top of the world. Anshul’s grandfather, who passed
Belgravia is All Saints Day, November 1. The estate agent, from Chesteron away in 2002, often said that once
“St Mary’s is a very special place with a Humberts on Lowndes Street, said you’ve climbed one mountain you
wonderful collection of people who are the six-day trek was his “greatest should conquer another – and that’s
devoted to it,” he said. achievement yet”. He raised almost exactly what he’ll be doing. “I’m off
£3,000 for Guy’s and St Thomas’ to the Himalayas next year,” he said.
HARRY PATCH, “the last Tommy” from World War One
who died in July, was paid tribute by the German Embassy in
Belgrave Square. Minister Eckhard Lübkemeier, who
attended Mr Patch’s funeral at Wells Cathedral, told the
BBC: “We really appreciate the generous gesture of Harry
Patch because he expressly wanted his former enemy to be
Sporting chance
represented at his funeral service. It is a great honour.” Highland
The words “flattering” and “wetsuit” don’t often appear
AN EATON SQUARE mansion has sold for a “discount” price in the same sentence – so when fund-raising parents and
of £33 million. Known as Hugh House, it belonged to a teachers turned up to school assembly at St Peter’s clad home
Russian tycoon and was on the market for £45 million. The in rubber, their dedication was undeniable.
six-storey pad is Grade II listed and freehold, with more than The plucky bunch were promoting a triathlon, which Scottish private members’ club
15,000 square feet of floor space. It has an indoor swimming 41 parents, staff and governors completed in July to raise the Caledonian hopes to attract
pool, six bedrooms and a library. The agent was Savills. cash for the school. more women and young people
Aged from 21 to 60, the team swam half a mile in a in a new membership drive.
A £7 million bid to clean up Victoria by 2015 goes to ballot in freezing cold lake, cycled 19 miles then sprinted five Said to be a “home-from-
October, when eligible businesses can vote on the Victoria more. They raised about £13,000, which will go towards home” for Scots, the Halkin
Partnership becoming a Business Improvement District. sport and learning support. They still hope to find Street haunt regularly hosts
Belgravia streets within the boundary are: Buckingham Palace another £3,000. balls, ladies’ lunches, a Burns
Road, Beeston Place, the lower parts of Eccleston Street and Mum Annabel Elkington, who helped organise the night supper and St Andrew’s
Elizabeth Street, Grosvenor Gardens, Lower Grosvenor race, said: “We wanted to show the children how much Day dinner.
Place, Semley Place and Victoria Square. For more fun sport can be and that it is for everyone.” About 200 whiskies are
information visit www.victoria-partnership.co.uk stocked in the tartan-clad bar
and Scotch delicacies like
TEN DOWNING STREET is in need of a makeover, smoked salmon, Arbroath
according to Nicky Haslam. “I’ve visited quite recently and smokies and haggis are served.
it’s a rather wonderful home, but it’s coated with sunny Membership, however, is
yellow paint under which you look green with rage,” said the restricted to those of Scottish
Belgravia interior designer, who was speaking at Bonhams. birth, descent or with some
Of the prime ministers’ portraits hung on the wall up the other “very close connection” to
stairs, he said: “I hate that, it’s such a cliché.” Gordon Brown the north of the border – so for
– take note. us Sassenachs the chances of
getting in are pretty slim.
Belgravia
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