Alex Collins

The British Labour party has asked Stephen Hopkins, director of the blockbuster series �24,’ to use his talents to revive their campaign. The BBC’s Alex Collins has details.

The World’s Alex Collins reports on the controversial design for a new Olympic monument in London. The monument is meant to attract tourists to East London well after the 2012 Summer Olympics. But many Londoners think it’s just plain ugly.

Drivers of London’s black cabs are famous for their skills as talkers, a trait that delights some passengers but annoys others. New recruits to the job could be given training in another skill: knowing when to zip it. The World’s Alex Collins has more.

It was a big day for �The London Evening Standard� today. The newspaper is now free. The World’s Alex Collins spoke with one vendor named Christine at the Temple underground station in central London.

The answer to our Geo Quiz today is Shoreditch, a trendy neighborhood of London where a local pub has come up with a novel way to beat the recession — bartering for beer. Customers can trade anything from old vacuum cleaners to a painting for a pint of beer. Producer Alex Collins sent us an […]