The local Croydon news site is reporting that a “disgruntled resident has refused to pay £20 of her council tax bill, the amount levied towards the cost of hosting the 2012 Olympic Games.” And so it begins. 52-year-old Helen Burrows is quoted as saying that …
“I don’t blame the war. The war was alright. I miss it. It’s just you come back to this.” Motortown opens tomorrow night at the Royal Court Theatre – a new play by Olivier Award Winning playwright Simon Stephens (Best New Play 2006 for On …
How can the majority of England fans drag the cameramen and reporters away from focussing on a violent minority? Tonight from 7pm at The Offside Bar, 271 City Road, London EC1, over a hundred fans who will be travelling to Germany will be meeting the …
Remember when Hollywood considered the IRA a soft touch so had Sean Bean hassling Harrison Ford as a member of an even more lethal splinter group in Patriot Games? Well it seems fact is finally catching up to fiction as that constant thorn in London’s …
Art, it seems, still needs its access and appeal widening. It still needs to reach young people – and the ICA, that hotbed of hype and hipness, has come up with a new way of getting it to them: via their Playstation Portables. Because if …
The money pit known as Wembley Stadium is now not due to open until 2007. Bon Jovi, Take That, Robbie Williams and the Rolling Stones have now been cast to the four winds – they’ll probably relocate to Twickenham and erm Milton Keynes. Anyone who …
Another hearth warming story from the Newham Recorder today. Twenty three community centres have opened their doors to the over 50s as part of Newham Council’s Warm Centre’s scheme. There they can get advice, health checks and take part in various activities: reading, arts and …
Your partner of nine years, your soulmate, has left you and run off to Italy with another woman. She is an older lady, THE old lady, and you can’t help but notice the size of her bank balance and the quality of the contents of …
Banksy seems to have put away his stencil set for a while and penned an interesting article in today’s Guardian about the whitewashing of street art in Melbourne to make way for the Commonwealth games. This makes for an excellent preamble to his worries about …
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Estate agents, Tess Daly, and racists – sounds grim, doesn’t it? Yes, perhaps to reflect the unrelenting yuckiness of the weather (look, it’s almost April – please can we have a little, just a little sunshine?) the TV schedules are about s appetising as day-old …
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