Art for a better world: Arts influence on society and politics
From March until April 2025, many of the works will appear at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas.
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Author: Claudia Lee
Small but mighty London Short film Festival announces 2025 programme
Across its 22-year history, LSFF has debuted a number of short films from some of today’s most compelling filmmakers.
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Ex-Royal Ballet Principal Talks Nutcracker Season
Each Christmas, thousands of Londoners flock to see The Nutcracker.
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‘It’s a landmark for Croydon’: Surrey Street market funding welcomed but traders skeptical
Traders have welcomed funding from the Mayor of London but fear it will “go to waste” if their needs are not listened to.
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‘We all love you’: Father’s desperate plea to find missing daughter
Lily-Anne’s father, Mark Hook, addressed his daughter directly, saying: “We all love you”.
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Developer and global investment firm buys final £42m plot in Elephant Park
The 1.2-acre site sits within the final phase of Lendlease’s 10 acre Elephant Park regeneration project.
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Met drops probe into allegations of fraud at Croydon council
An investigation was launched into the previous leadership’s handling of finances after the council declared bankruptcy in 2020.
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Teenage girl missing from Lewisham for nearly three weeks
Police said Lily-Anne is known to frequent Peckham, Croydon and other parts of Sout-east London.
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TfL reopens all services impacted by cyber attack
Customers using pay as you go with a contactless bank card or mobile phones for travel can now see their full journey history online and apply for refunds if required.
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Police searching for two men suspected of making offensive gestures at pro-Palestine protest
The two men were separately involved in alleged incidents involving offensive gestures which took place in Coventry Street between 1pm and 4pm.
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Children’s services could be cut in council’s efforts to balance budget
The council said it is likely that vital services for residents will be cut back to “legal minimum levels” in the next two years.
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40,000 jobs in London pay below the minimum wage, new report finds
The report found that 39,000 jobs in the capital pay below the minimum wage, 168,000 employees are denied holiday pay, and 358,000 are not provided a payslip.
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Pupils hope to go viral with rap track for school fundraiser
The track has been created and professionally recorded at Crown Lane Studio by a group of young artists from Chestnut Park School.
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Wetland project set to transform Clapham Common
The initiative will create around 1000 square metres of wetland habitat with open water and reed beds.
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Nearly 200 people with HIV helped back into life-saving care
Almost 70 per cent of those re-engaged with treatment were from Black or Black British backgrounds.
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Government announces new plan to fix cladding on high-rise buildings
The announcement comes seven years after the Grenfell Tower fire killed 72 people in 2017.
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Campaign built on voices of black communities experience with cancer wins major award
One in 12 black men will die from prostate cancer compared to one in 24 white men, whilst black women are twice as likely to receive a later staged breast cancer diagnosis.
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New and longer trains to be introduced in bid to cut rush hour havoc
A timetable offering new and adjusted services will be introduced in two weeks’ time, on December 15.
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Taxi drivers trained to give life-saving CPR
The programme intends to offer CPR training to all 30 London Airport Taxis drivers who transport patients involved in clinical trials.
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