“We look for anything from a smart kitchen for an Oxo ad to a bog standard one for Bold It depends what we need. We’re looking for a flat with a rubbish chute coming out of it but haven’t found one yet.”Margaret at the Location Company echoes the notion that an ordinary property can be as sought-after as a stately home but admits: “We do like large, aspirational properties with clean lines, wooden floors and preferably within the M25, but it’s not just yuppie flats, we need boring little semis with privet hedges as well.”She warns that whatever type of home you have, space is vital. 4 Lamb St E1, 0171-247 1120La La London (left) Re-opens tomorrow as a lifestyle shop selling the clubby, sexy clothes it is known for, with the addition of furniture and household accessories 17 Lamb Street E1sub. 41 Brushfield St E1, 0800 174 114The Hat Shop (far left) Fabulous hats, from winter woollies to feathered confections.

Booking: 0171-375 2637Stagestruck (top left) Fancy-dress hire shop run with love and care by Alan and Cyril, and which boasts more than 2,000 costumes Like walking through the wardrobe into Narnia. Info: 0171-247 9747Spitalfields Market Opera, The next performance is of Dirty Tricks from 22-26 October, by the Modern Music Theatre Troupe. This half was listed until 1991, when the Conservative Government lifted its listed status. Jil Cove, co-ordinator for the Save Spitalfields Campaign, is working furiously to gain support from Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, who has the power to intervene in the development process. In a meeting planned for 23 October all sides will gather to see whether planning permission will be granted to LIFFE.To support the Save Spitalfields campaign call Jil Cove on 0171-247 4283MARKET LEADERSSpitalfields Art ProjectPart of an urban regeneration scheme comprising Spitz Restaurant, Bar, Venue and Commercial Gallery 109 Commercial Street E1. Their shop is in the listed half of Spitalfields which borders Commercial Street. The other half which borders Steward Street has been earmarked by LIFFE (London International Financial Futures Exchange) who want to turn the site into a huge banking and shopping complex, designed by Sir Norman Foster.

Extortionate rents forced small shops out of the area and onto back quiet streets, only to be taken over by Marks and Spencer, Diesel, and Pepe Jeans. Covent Garden is now just like any other upmarket British high street. The Hat Shop, which recently relocated to Spitalfields, spent 15 years on Neal Street and was forced out due to rent increases, only to be taken over by Cobra Sports.These days, Hat Shop owners Nigel and Carol Denford are the lucky ones. Not with tourists like Camden or Portobello, but with real Londoners, out to meet friends or to sample the array of stalls selling everything from handmade soap and bedlinen, to wrought-iron beds, Tom Dixon furniture and second-hand clothes.The area has recently been described as the new Covent Garden, with small creative businesses setting up in their droves, a jazz bar, and an opera house, which provided the venue for Julien MacDonald’s fashion show two weeks ago.But, before Spitalfields is labelled as such, it is worth noting what has happened to Covent Garden in recent years. In a review in Nature last April, Rose suggested a moratorium on books with “evolution” in the title.

But the mind still evolved, as Gould has pointed out, and wanting to understand how is only human, after all. As for heritability, it is too important to be left to the kind of person who would lock up unlicensed mothers.. Spitalfields market in the heart of the East End has been one of London’s best-kept secrets for three years. The only problem is, the City’s fat cats are desperate to get their paws on it
Every Sunday, Spitalfields market is buzzing. However deeply we explore the origins of individuals, though, that still leaves the question of the origins of species. Modern Darwinists and their hereditarian cousins, he feels, have deplorable taste.Rose may be right to emphasise how much we could learn from studying organisms in the round.