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Team GB Olympic And Paralympic Parade Part 1: The Athletes

21 truck-loads of talent.

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Olympic Tickets: Tactics For The Final UK Sale Today

Read how to give yourself the best chance of success in this morning’s Olympic ticket sale.

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Preview: Orson Welles Season @ The ICA

Haven’t got around to watching Citizen Kane yet? Now’s your chance.

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Yuri Gagarin Statue Unveiled On The Mall

A temporary monument to mark 50 years since the historic flight.

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ICA Launch Fresh Music Initiative

Innovative and challenging contemporary music fills the ICA this summer.

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London To Get Yuri Gagarin Statue

The cosmonaut’s likeness will stand on the Mall.

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In Pictures: Papal Protests

Not since David Blaine’s perspex box-stunt in 2003 (or, at a push, George W. Bush in 2008) has the arrival of one man in London sparked such vitriol. Thousands massed around the Mall and beyond over the weekend to complain about the Holy Father’s state …

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ICA Launches New Website

When we reported last month that the ICA might be forced to close, some commenters suggested that the ramshackle and thoroughly confusing old website was one reason why the Institute was so financially imperilled. We’ve just noticed that the ICA has now launched a brand-new …

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I See A Free ICA

The Institute of Contemporary Arts has followed its bigger cultural brethren and abandoned the entrance fee. Previous visitors to the reclusive gallery on the Mall had been forced to hand over £3 to access exhibitions and the cafe – not a huge sum, but enough …

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Tour de France Prologue: Five Lessons To Learn

We think everybody who attended Saturday’s sun-soaked Tour de France Prologue would agree that, on the whole, it was a well-organised, popular success. However, with the shadow of the Olympics hanging over every large scale sporting happening in London between now and 2012 our experiences …

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Interview: Mark Howell of TfL on the Tour de France

Only a fortnight to go now before central London is engulfed by the two-wheeled juggernaut of the world’s most celebrated race. “Le Grand Depart” is the title given to the weekend of sport and festivities from 6th – 8th July that marks the first visit …