Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 102

URBAN 3BAN FOX URBAN FOX URBAN FOX URBAN FOX URBAN FO at i11'" Vj House of Jazz Halloween party roovy designer label House of Jazz held a Halloween party in association with Courvoisier in a rather gothic townhouse on Portland Place owned by the equally gothic Eddie Davenport Pablo Flack and Hazel Robinson hosted the dinner at a table laden with chandeliers and atmosphere Minnie Driver wafted around in a diaphanous shift and teeny tiara while hip architect Tom Bartlett (see page 64) made a jolly devil in large wonky horns and Mica Paris tilted her trilby enigmatically over one eye Some costumes were wild so wild in fact that when a cunning party-thief walked out actually wearing a lcaopardskin rug (with head still attached) worth £1000 no one noticed crmv 9" ft I' Alessajidro Nivola and wife Emily Mortimer if BILLY HAYES 49 ANDY GILCHRIST 43 BOB CROW 42 General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union General Secretary of the RMT Son of an East End docker he joined London Underground at 16 Has been a Communist Party member since his twenties and picketed with the miners Lives with his wife and three children in Essex Born in Liverpool left school at 15 to become a welder First learnt of trade unions aged ten: 1 remember being warned by my teacher that all Liverpool dockers were Undeterred he joined the union when he became a postman at 21 and took on full-time union duties in 1988 Lives in Mitcham with his wife and two children The son of a Scottish able seaman and a school-dinner lady he was born in Portsmouth After attending direct-grant school Bedford Modern he had a trial as a striker for Luton Town FC Unsuccessful at 19 he became a fireman and did the job for 17 years before becoming a full-time union official He lives in Chertsey with his wife and two children i ynr The firemen walked out 'h During the recent postal strike 20000 staff staged an walkout An agreement to reach an agreement has been negotiated In 2002 the RMT shut down the TUbe four times Trouble has continued and a of is threatened 0) () Q) iA Q) Iff 0 ill 1 id ii id 12 ikes Dislikes Says Likes: pay rises he received a 'T 23 per cent rise this year (ten times the rate for the postmen he represents) and the Beatles Dislikes: are seven million dogs in Britain and postal workers are among those most at risk' Likes: Millwall FC and the weather he would have liked to be a meteorologist Dislikes: the EU he calls it a and the Royal Family: got more in common with a Chinese coolie than Princess during the lead-up to the Iraq war Unofficial protests are spreading again as the pay rise is delayed jjfj Likes: eating out -he once spent fc 1 £817 on dinner at The Cinnamon 1 Club during peace talks and more recently blew £460 at The 4 Castle in Taunton Dislikes: Tony Blair we are one of the scars Kx on his back so be it am a patriot and I am also an internationalist' Dim Compiled by Alistair Duncan up apathy is not an says a socialist but forget Hitler called his party National.