From Borough Market to Hollywood

From Borough Market to Hollywood

Michael HollandSep 19, 2024

Can Jeff Goldblum Make Dreams Come True? Bebe Barry was born in Guy’s Hospital and grew up in Borough Market – The Wheatsheaf pub,…

Review: The Truth About Harry Beck – London Transport Museum

Review: The Truth About Harry Beck – London Transport Museum

Michael HollandSep 19, 2024

Harry Beck was a draughtsman in the Signalling Department at London Transport whose job it was to create diagrams that simplified electrical circuits, but…

Slippage at 198

Slippage at 198

Michael HollandSep 19, 2024

198 Contemporary Arts and Learning is staging a new exhibition ‘Slippage: the Caribbean in Flux’ with new bodies of work by four of the…

Dare to Cross the Devil’s Dancefloor

Dare to Cross the Devil’s Dancefloor

Michael HollandSep 18, 2024

“We do not take the journey; the journey takes us.”  This month sees the world premiere of The Ice at the End of the…

‘Elderly targeted on Eltham High Street with one woman having close to £2K in cash taken’

‘Elderly targeted on Eltham High Street with one woman having close to £2K in cash taken’

South London shoppers are ‘wary’ of using their high street because pickpockets are snatching phones and purses from locals on a regular basis. Residents…

New Labour MP refuses to give up his council seat

New Labour MP refuses to give up his council seat

Ben LynchSep 17, 2024

A new London MP will not be giving up his seat on a local council and will juggle both roles, though he’s said he…

Have you been wrongly issued with Ulez charges due to vandalised cameras?

Have you been wrongly issued with Ulez charges due to vandalised cameras?

Drivers who have been wrongly issued with Ulez charges due to vandalised enforcement cameras will have their penalties cancelled, Transport for London (TfL) has…

New Stories From Local Author

New Stories From Local Author

Michael HollandSep 17, 2024

The flaws and greed of humanity are exposed  Clare Colvin has a collection of her short stories out: Stone Children and Other Stories.  The…

Cabinet Minister in Theatrical Debt

Cabinet Minister in Theatrical Debt

Michael HollandSep 16, 2024

Pinero’s breathless farce is given a new life Sir Julian Twombley is in trouble: his wife and son have run up massive debts and…

Disrupting Mythologies Presents Heist

Disrupting Mythologies Presents Heist

Michael HollandSep 16, 2024

Artists are thieves, pricking from the language the city offers and the many worlds that collide within it. Finding the profundity that undulates beneath…

Review: Julius Caesar – Southwark Playhouse 

Review: Julius Caesar – Southwark Playhouse 

Michael HollandSep 16, 2024

This bold production will certainly appeal to screen-savvy youngsters studying Shakespeare Frida was excited by the promise of a futuristic take on Shakespeare’s bloody…

Whistling As The Night Calls

Whistling As The Night Calls

Michael HollandSep 16, 2024

An  exhibition of collaborative photographic works Footsteps are heard on the stairs, but no one is seen descending. Glasses fall in the kitchen and…