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It’s January. You’re skint and slightly heavier than you were this time last month. You’ve probably sworn off the booze for a bit and if you see another box of Cadbury’s Heroes you’re likely to throw up. So, in the spirit of the post-Xmas period, …

Forget ice skating at Somerset House, if you’re looking for some real fun this Christmas then you don’t have to go any further that Bankside, where Southwark council are installing a massive snow slide. The slide is part of the Frost Fair, an idea which …

If a white Christmas fails to materialise this year then you can always compensate by visiting the the White Station exhibition, which opened this week at the Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park. The White Station gathers together a handful of artists whose work revolves …

Remember when it was announced that Kirstie Allsop would be doing guided tours of the Tate Gallery, and we said, “What next? Nigella Lawson presents the Christmas Lectures?” Well we were nearly right. Because tomorrow night you can find Nigella at Somerset House, as a …

Last week we looked at the opening of the Somerset House ice rink, and received a comment from James letting us know about the ‘rival’ rink in Kew. Now we read that there’s an ice rink as close as the West End – Marble Arch …

Calling all budding Torvilles and Deans: today is the opening day of the ice rink at Somerset House. Probably the city’s classiest Christmas venue, the rink is open from 10am to 10pm every day up until Christmas Eve when times start to vary a bit …

It can’t be often that the action of a single protestor has brought about a change in the law of the land, but 55-year-old Brian Haw looks likely to achieve it. Mr Haw has spent three years in Parliament Square voicing anti-war protests through a …