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Boing!!

One way you could entertain some children this weekend, yours or someone else’s – just get permission first, is to let them run riot in twelve miles of elastic. Stretch II is a show that uses a twelve mile long elastic, webby sculpture, created by …

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Tents In The Tate

First slides, now colouring in and camping. Tate believes the children are art’s future. They’re going to teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside… Sorry, but we all need a Whitney moment once in a …

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Jacko’s Luggage Gains More Press Coverage Than He Does

Heathrow is often a scrum of paparazzi and obsessed fans when a big star arrives, especially from a celeb-fest of a city like Los Angeles. No scrum was in evidence yesterday, however, as former uber-superstar Michael Jackson touched down and breezed through the terminal. In …

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The Best Free Thing To Do In Town Tonight…

Go visit the newly reopened Potters Fields, beside Tower Bridge. The space itself is neatly landscaped (at a cost of £3 million) and offers impressive views. But the reason we commend it with all our heart(s) is the entertainment. Specifically, ‘Get Lost’ – a walk …

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Say what?

You can only sanitise the world so much. If subject to the film board, Earth would certainly get an 18 certification. To their credit, Nintendo consistently provides fun for all ages while never slipping into completely antiseptic Disney terrain. Games that may at first seem …

Friday Film News

This week – rage causes a lot of trouble in 28 Weeks Later and the memoirs of Nelson Mandela’s prison guard are opened in Goodbye Bafana. In 28 Days Later the Rage virus spread throughout Britain leaving it full of dead people and those that …

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Retro Charity Ride

Want to race down the motorway from London to Brighton with the wind in your hair, a parka on your back and a classic soundtrack by The Who buzzing in your ears? Perhaps you don’t go in for all that reckless mod nonsense and for …

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Extra, Extra

Hackney mum admits killing her children. Traffic wardens must do more to ticket and clamp offenders, claim councils. Meanwhile, Mr Panayiotou pleads guilty to driving in an unfit state. Charlton ripe for takeover? Prince, or “The foreman, principally known as artist”, or whatever he was …

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Football: Lucarelli Would Move Livorno To England

Italian goalscoring star Cristiano Lucarelli (left of picture) told a packed University College London lecture theatre last night that his country’s footballing culture had something to learn from the English and that given a choice of where he could play, “If I had supernatural powers …

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London Marathon Mania!

What’s your name and which part of London do you live in? Ruth Sloss, South Ealing. How long have you been running for? About 4 years. Is this your first Marathon? Yes (gulp!). What inspired you to enter the Marathon? I started running thinking I …

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London Marathon Mania!

What’s your name and which part of London do you live in? My name’s Tim Jude and I live in Acton, West London. How long have you been running for? I started running 3 years ago when a friend persuaded me to take part in …