35 h. ago 'Killer' heatwave warning for London as capital to bake in 32C amid first UK hosepipe ban of year

Temperatures could reach 32C in London on Friday as a hosepipe ban comes into force in Yorkshire

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36 h. ago 'Killer' heatwave warning for London as first UK hosepipe ban of year comes into force

Temperatures could reach 32C in London on Friday as a hosepipe ban comes into force in Yorkshire

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40 h. ago Heatwave to reach 32C peak in London as first UK hosepipe ban of year comes into effect

Temperatures could reach 32C in London on Friday as a hosepipe ban comes into force in Yorkshire

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52 h. ago What went on in London this week: Johnny Depp makes his comeback at Curzon

Red carpets, actors turned artists, and Sabrina Carpenter’s unlikely guest

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53 h. ago BBC quietly adds classic horror film with 93% Rotten Tomatoes score

It's been branded a "must-see" by fans and is now available to stream for free

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53 h. ago Beloved British comedian targeted in blackmail probe as man arrested in East London

A man has reportedly been arrested on suspicion of blackmail, harassment, and malicious communications after allegedly targeting one of Britain’s most popular comedians

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55 h. ago Netflix drops 'hilarious' new comedy set in London from creator of classic HBO series

The show is peffect for any adult experinecing the highs and lows of modern dating

Culture

64 h. ago Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness review – Johnny Depp’s Modigliani as bohemian badass

A lineup including Stephen Graham and Al Pacino seem wasted on this lavish, but hackneyed drama about the Italian artist Some very cliched roistering, life-affirming wine-drinking, bourgeois-defying artistic shenanigans here from the veteran screenwriting couple Jerzy and Mary Olson-Kromolowski who have adapted a 1980 stage play, Modigliani by Dennis McIntyre, about the Italian sculptor and painter Amedeo Modigliani, known as Modi. Johnny Depp directs and perhaps sees his subject as a bohemian badass not unlike Hunter S Thompson, whom he played in Terry Gilliam’s 1998 movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – and perhaps not altogether unlike how he sees himself.It is 1916 in Paris and the brutality of war is destroying the belle époque; Riccardo Scamarcio plays Modigliani, a brilliant, sensual but penniless artist facing poverty and casual antisemitism. Having got into a chaotic affray at a pompous posh restaurant – filmed like a deleted scene from Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeer...

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64 h. ago Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of Madness review – Johnny Depp’s painter as bohemian badass

A lineup including Stephen Graham and Al Pacino seem wasted on this lavish, but hackneyed drama about the Italian artist Some very cliched roistering, life-affirming wine-drinking, bourgeois-defying artistic shenanigans here from the veteran screenwriting couple Jerzy and Mary Olson-Kromolowski who have adapted a 1980 stage play, Modigliani by Dennis McIntyre, about the Italian sculptor and painter Amedeo Modigliani, known as Modi. Johnny Depp directs and perhaps sees his subject as a bohemian badass not unlike Hunter S Thompson, whom he played in Terry Gilliam’s 1998 movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – and perhaps not altogether unlike how he sees himself.It is 1916 in Paris and the brutality of war is destroying the belle époque; Riccardo Scamarcio plays Modigliani, a brilliant, sensual but penniless artist facing poverty and casual antisemitism. Having got into a chaotic affray at a pompous posh restaurant – filmed like a deleted scene from Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeer...

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3 d. ago Master Tech Mayhem: Technology & Innovation Summit Comes To London

Master Tech Mayhem: Technology & Innovation Summit Comes To London  Forrester

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3 d. ago Paranormal Activity Stage Play to Tour U.S. Before Haunting London's West End

Paranormal Activity Stage Play to Tour U.S. Before Haunting London's West End  Playbill

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3 d. ago Visually, it’s dazzling but Noughts & Crosses wilts under the weight of its YA source material

Stage adaptation struggles to capture the emotional resonance of Malorie Blackman’s searing novel

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3 d. ago A stage adaptation of horror classic ‘Paranormal Activity’ is coming to London’s West End

A stage adaptation of horror classic ‘Paranormal Activity’ is coming to London’s West End  Time Out

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3 d. ago Heatwaves likely caused 263 more deaths in London, scientists estimate

Stark estimate of heatwave deaths in London comes as week-long yellow heat health alert kicks in at 10am on Wednesday

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4 d. ago A classic horror movie that spawned one of the worst reboots of all time is on TV tonight

The reboot was panned by critics and underperformed at the global box office

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5 d. ago Tim Minchin: Songs the World Will Never Hear review – a bumper night with the marvellous misfit

Hammersmith Apollo, LondonMinchin embraces his oddball status – is he musician, comedian, auteur or clown? – in this three-hour showIt’s 20 years since Tim Minchin’s life-changing Edinburgh fringe in 2005, and tonight he’s singing 20 songs of commemoration. There’s a lot to celebrate: few careers are this distinctive, or this successful. And there’s a real sense Minchin has got life where he wants it tonight. With a five-strong band in tow, the balance is better than on his last tour between troubadour and rock Gargantua. And there’s an embrace, too, of his misfit status: who cares if no one knows whether he’s a musician, a comedian, an auteur or a clown – or whether tonight’s show is, as Minchin describes it, “an absolute shitshow of tonal inconsistency”?I mean, he’s not wrong. Minchin has always been a curious mix of cool and uncool, sending up rock theatrics while openly in thrall to them. He is an artist of excess, never knowingly underwritten – and for more than three hours ton...

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5 d. ago The Zola Experience review – life follows art as stage relationship spills into real

When actor-director Anne Barbot embarks on an adaptation of a Zola novel with her neighbour, the gap between theatre and reality appears to collapse entirelyArt and life fuse deliriously in Gianluca Matarrese’s hybrid film, which alternates between documentary and fiction, theatre and cinema. Recently divorced from her husband, actor-director Anne Barbot throws herself into preparing a stage adaptation of Emile Zola’s classic novel L’Assommoir. In Gervaise, the working-class heroine of the book, Barbot finds echoes of her current situation: both are women who struggle to reclaim professional autonomy in the aftermath of broken relationships. Barbot’s production becomes more complicated when she casts Benoît Dallongeville, a neighbour who is also an actor, in the role of her love interest in the play. Soon, passion and tension begin to spill from personal relationships on to the page, and vice versa.Matarrese’s film keeps the camera strikingly close to Barbot and Dallongeville as the...

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6 d. ago From swim schools to eye clinics: how families of 7/7 victims used heartbreak to help others

Relatives tell of their determination to see good come from the killing of their loved ones in 2005 London bombingsIn the city of Bhubaneswar, the capital of the north-east Indian state of Odisha, there is an eye clinic that has transformed the lives of thousands of children.Before the unit was established in 2008, according to its vice-chair, there was no dedicated children’s eye care centre in the entire eastern part of India, a country home to 20% of the world’s blind children. The clinic now sees about 3,000 children a month and performs 350 eye surgeries – a significant proportion of them at no cost to the often very poor families who need them. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Singers Yungblud and Andy Bell and track star Kelly Holmes named Pride icons

The Peugeot Attitude Pride Awards Europe was hosted by comedian and presenter Tom Allen at the Peninsula hotel in London on Friday.

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8 d. ago Deliveroo and Uber Eats riders are being 'targeted' for vehicle theft, Met Police say

It comes amid a surge in vehicle thefts in London’s east end

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