Holmes may have spared Suri a Scientology education — but what of the British teens at a private school just an hour from London shipped off to Sea Org? Joshi Herrmann reports from Greenfields

Tribute to the aspiring doctor killed by a polar bear is being built at the Spinal Treatment Centre in Salisbury

A new player in Holborn that's a good lunch option for workers

Flats in the Shard will go on sale for £30-£50m as the London property market reaches new heights. Joshi Herrmann looks at the new homes for the capital’s super-rich

With the Shard’s inauguration ceremony coming up next month, Joshi Herrmann sizes up the new London skyscrapers following in its footprint

From suspicions about his CV to a whispering campaign from the old guard — the flamboyant new chairman of London’s most exclusive sports club is under fire.

Yevgenia Tymoshenko, the British-educated daughter of Ukraine’s imprisoned former prime minister, tells Joshi Herrmann why Britain should act now to free her mother

Armed with a Polaroid camera, photographer Oleg Tolstoy asked Londoners to pose for a picture and write down their thoughts on the Olympics. The result? Some like it, some don’t

When the Standard’s food critic Fay Maschler awarded a rare five stars to Ollie Dabbous’s first venture she transformed the chef’s fortunes. Joshi Herrmann on a gastronomic revolution

Celebrity tweeters are mobilising the masses on a whim. Joshi Herrmann on the Twitter lynch mobs

Touchscreen phones have spawned a typing app battle

Now the Socialists are back in power London is proving even more irresistible to tax-fleeing French

The murder of a British banker has spotlighted the booming business of hothousing China’s richest students at a cost of up to £100,000

Who are the blue-blooded French set that entertained Pippa in Paris last weekend? Joshi Herrmann finds out from those who know them