London’s legendary West End theatres are closed and shrouded in darkness, as are cinemas across the capital.
But there was drama aplenty amid the gloom in exclusive Notting Hill this week, when the London Fire Brigade responded to a 999 call coming from the £10 million townhouse of acclaimed fashion designer Stella McCartney.
‘Two fire engines came out,’ a Notting Hill local tells me. ‘There must have been at least seven firefighters who went into the house.’
Neighbours gathered, watching anxiously, but there was no sign of 49-year-old Stella, nor of her husband, Alasdhair Willis, nor their four children, Miller, Beckett, Bailey and Reiley.