Folk Olympics: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Ships, Bones & Bad Breath
The story of Brunel’s cursed ship, and a cracking song about it, too.
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Folk Olympics: Emmanuel Swedenborg, Veruca Socks And Heavenly Secrets
Tales from the Olympic boroughs – this week, a Swedish mystic who predicted his own death.
Folk Olympics: Morris ‘Two-Guns’ Cohen
The unlikely story of the east-ender who ended up serving as a bodyguard in China.
Folk Olympics: Angela Burdett-Coutts, Queen Of The East End Poor
Celebrating the Olympic boroughs in video and song.
Curbing The Curry Touts Of Brick Lane
Council wants to discourage dodgy dopiaza deals in Spitalfieds.
EDL Tower Hamlets March Banned
‘No messages of hate’ for culturally-diverse London boroughs.
Weekend Round-Up
From brothels to Sharia rule in one news bulletin.
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Start of the week round-up, with bad news for artists TOX and Poussin.
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Tuesday’s other capital news.
London Boroughs Depicted In Beautiful ‘Sweet View’ Prints
Residents of Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Lambeth, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster…here’s something for your wall.
History In The Making: Spitalfields Summer Music Festival
Few, if any, music festivals are able to serve up the variety of venues that the Spitalfields festivals do.
