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Fancy living like a president but don’t fancy having to run an entire country? Now could be your chance. A house in southwest London has gone on the market that looks just like the White House, offering all the glamour of Washington DC without world peace resting on your shoulders.  The property’s real name is The Old Garden and it’s in the leafy, well-heeled neighbourhood of Richmond. Designed by celebrated ‘new classical’ (think columns, ornamentation, that sort of stuff) British architect Quinlan Terry, the grand property spans a total of 20,000 square feet.  Inside you’ll find nine elegant bedroom suites, ten pristine bathrooms and six spacious reception rooms. Behind those double fronted doors lies even more luxury, from wine cellars and swimming pools to tennis courts and cinema rooms. But it’s the property’s exterior that really catches the eye. After entering the grounds through solid oak gates and travelling up the 20-car driveway, you’d be forgiven for thinking that you’ve come face to face with one of America’s most prestigious buildings. With its immaculately kept gardens and grandiose entrance, adorned with four stone pillars, the property bears striking resemblance to the White House. Well, if you squint a bit.  Here are a few more pics of The Old Garden, inside and out.  Photograph: Knight Frank / Rightmove Photograph: Knight Frank / Rightmove Photograph: Knight Frank / Rightmove Photograph: Knight Frank / Rightmove Pretty swanky, eh? All this splendour

The 11th Sundance London hits the West End this summer and the line-up to the UK’s key indie fest has just been unveiled. Screening at Picturehouse Central in June are 11 films, a programme of UK shorts, and, of course, the fest’s ever-popular surprise screening. It all gets underway on June 6 with raucous Irish Gaelic hip-hop docudrama, ‘Kneecap’ – Belfast’s answer to ‘Patti Cake$’ or ‘8 Mile’ – and wraps on June 9 with Sean Wang’s Taiwanese-American coming-of-age story ‘Dìdi’.Bold cinematic voices are core to the fest’s philosophy and this year they’re provided by the likes of non-binary filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun (‘I Saw the TV Glow’), Shuchi Talati (‘Girls Will Be Girls’), and Londoner Chiwetel Ejiofor (‘Rob Peace’).Here’s the full festival line-up of fiction features and documentaries: ‘Dìdi’ (Sean Wang) ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ (Shuchi Talati) ‘Handling the Undead’ (Thea Hvistendahl) ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ (Jane Schoenbrun) ‘Kneecap’ (Rich Peppiatt) ‘My Old Ass’ (Megan Park) ‘Rob Peace’ (Chiwetel Ejiofor) ‘Sasquatch Sunset (David and Nathan Zellner) ‘Your Monster’ (Caroline Lindy) ‘Skywalkers: A Love Story’ (Jeff Zimbalist) ‘Never Look Away’ (Lucy Lawless) Sundance London runs June 6-9, and tickets go on sale to the public on April 30. If you want to jump the queue, festival passes are onsale now (£75) and offer priority booking and credits for five tickets. Picturehouse members and Sundance London passholders can book tickets now.Head to the official Sundance London site fo

London is known for many things: tall buildings, fast-paced locals, extremely overpriced pints of beer. But, unfortunately for some, it’s been a while since fried fish, chunky chips and mushy peas made that list.  In the National Fish and Chip Awards earlier this year, only one London chippy was nominated. But Stones Fish and Chips in Acton came home empty handed, losing out to chip shops in Wales, Glastonbury and Darlington, to name but a few. This miserable result for the capital led many to believe that London’s well and truly lost the art of deep-fried fish and vinegar-soaked chip butties. Or has it?  Betway (the online gambling company and, apparently, now chip shop connoisseur) recently embarked on a mission to discover which of the UK’s many fish and chip shops is the best. It did this by gathering data from Google, TripAdvisor and Instagram, and analysing the findings to come up with a most-popular list.  Fish Lounge in Brixton Hill, an unassuming establishment nestled between barber shops, came out on top. Along with Scottish fish and chip joint East Coast in Musselburgh, Fish Lounge was officially named the UK’s most popular destination for one of the nation’s most-loved dishes.  Fish Lounge may be the most popular, but does that actually make it the best? The people of TripAdvisor favour it highly. Reviews rave about the service, the food and the friendly vibe. The restaurant has been awarded a 4.5 out of 5 star rating on the platform. However, the esteemed 2024 Na