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An A-Z of things you might say to Boris Johnson if you were trapped in a lift together.

All the theatrical F Scott Fitzgerald one city could possibly need

In which the Duke of York’s column encounters a glowing ring.

Explore the distances between those across the world and across the street

About one hundred and sixty years before Keanu Reeves was getting his head around The Matrix (some say he’s still trying), American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe was asking whether “is all that we see or seem/But a dream within a dream?” The American …

Not By Bread Alone, Nalaga’at Theatre LIFT is an unconventional theatre festival finding new ways of seeing the city through theatre, provoking and engaging diverse audiences along the way. Food Court has set the tone for 2010 – prepare to be challenged – but also, …

The Arts Activists of Barking and Dagenham The best reason to go to Barking we’ve ever had bursts into life today. Let’s hope the weather holds as it’s outdoors aerialistics to put a spring in the first steps of this performance festival tonight. Transe Expresse …

By Patras It’s been a cracking summer of local love even if it hasn’t been a cracking summer and it’s not over yet. Barking and Dagenham plays host to the LIFT Molten Festival between 21-31 August. Molten is a local celebration of art, culture and …

We’re hearing reports of an accident in one of the lift shafts in the north tower of Tower Bridge. Apparently a lift has fallen (or, according to Sky News, “plummeted”) a couple of floors, resulting in several injuries, the most serious of which seems to …

Image / daejn And he is Twittering about his ordeal somewhere near the 26th floor on his Stephen Fry Twitter account. Last we heard from him, an engineer was on his/her way but we may have the first ever live Twitter feed of skyscraper madness …