Peckham Levels announces 450
The launch party tomorrow will be curated by SZN Settings – forward thinking event organisers who have worked with many rising UK rap and R&B performers.
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Bringing the ‘lunchtime theatre’ slot back to life
It is another significant slice of West End theatre history – a place which helped launch the careers of Hanif Kureishi, Simon Callow, Bob Hoskins and Caryl Churchill, among many others.
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‘Don’t become a one-trick pony’
Lee Sterling, 57, has joined UK Power Networks’ 40-plus Club, which honours long-serving staff who help to keep electricity flowing to 8.4 million homes and businesses.
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Shakespeare’s The Tempest now playing at The Globe
This summer we have already been treated to an excellent production of The Tempest by the Shakespeare in the Parks team. Now it is the turn of the players at the Globe to throw their hat in the ring, writes Christopher Walker.
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Oxford Street candy shops could face court action
Westminster City council is working with HMRC as it ramps up its crackdown against American candy stores and souvenir shops selling dodgy goods along the iconic route.
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We must open more doors to our youth, not fewer
The North-South divide for students’ achievements has persisted for another year, and we expect this will again be true for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds when compared with their better-off peers.
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The Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival is back
The festival will run from September 8 to 18, with a packed schedule of screenings in a variety of indoor and outdoor venues across SE15.
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In My View: Vicky Foxcroft, MP for Lewisham Deptford
With energy bills set to rise by 80per cent and inflation at a record high, we can only hope that this new plan will show recognition of the scale of the challenge, and a willingness to address it.
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Croydon council forecasts possible £19m overspend
Speaking about the budget black hole, mayor Jason Perry also warned the borough’s finances were ‘built on sand.’
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Choose the right insurance for your pet
The 2022 PDSA Animal Wellbeing (PAW) Report found that 61 per cent of cats and 39 per cent of dogs in the UK are uninsured, showing that many pets may not be covered for all eventualities.
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The gift that is Brexit just keeps on giving – not!
Brexit: the gift that keeps on giving. Here are some of the latest examples of how Britons lose out as citizens of what is now a ‘third country’ as regards the EU.
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In My View: Marsha de Cordova, MP for Battersea
Workers are rightly demanding a decent pay rise, including postal workers, who are facing a real-terms pay cut even though Royal Mail paid out £400m to shareholders last year.
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Darren and Ross, up for top gong…
Darren Chambers, a heating engineer from Orpington and Ross Roberts, a builder from Sutton are one step closer to being crowned the champion of the trade, after reaching the semi-finals of Screwfix Top Tradesperson 2022.
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The Grosvenor Arms – a modern “brew pub” but still a backstreet boozer
It doesn’t exactly look like an old-school pub anymore, but it still retains that air, as if there is some power in the atmosphere clinging onto old memories.
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New builds outside the city is cheaper
You could save thousands of pounds with a new-build property outside of the city
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Hercules Wimbledon have success at Surrey County Athletics Championships
Hercules Wimbledon had a string of wins at the Surrey County Athletics Championships, writes George Mallett.
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It’s Real Outside opens September at Deptford X Festival fringe
As part of the cultural festivities, gallery space dept.con.temporary will play host to an exhibition of 19 local artists.
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Southbank is running free course for young people pursuing a career in music
Its latest initiative, EMP (Emerging Music Professionals), is looking to mould and inspire a new generation of Lambeth creatives who will one day perform there.
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All Alone in A Crowded Room explores themes of grief and loss
Leading street artist Ant Carver is exhibiting All Alone in A Crowded Room at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham.
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