29 h. ago Hassan laughs off suggestion Sunday's London marathon could be better than her debut

Hassan laughs off suggestion Sunday's London marathon could be better than her debut  Reuters

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51 h. ago Circa/LPO/Gardner review – Exhilarating, exquisite and extraordinary as Ravel melds with acrobatics

Royal Festival Hall, LondonMultitudes festival opened with a stunningly effective collaboration between the Australian circus company and the London Philharmonic OrchestraThe Southbank Centre’s cross-genre Multitudes festival opened with a double bill of Ravel’s ballets Daphnis et Chloé and La Valse, played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner, and performed by the Australian company Circa with choreography by their artistic director Yaron Lifschitz. Circa’s style amalgamates circus and acrobatics with contemporary dance, and the combination of athletic beauty, agility and strength suits Ravel uncommonly well.Rather than use the music as accompaniment to display, Lifschitz worked with the score rather than against it, though he dispensed with Daphnis et Chloé’s narrative, replacing it with a sequence of contrasting abstract tableaux, now exhilarating,now erotic, always rooted in the pulse and throb of the music, played with exquisite finesse and detail by the LP...

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63 h. ago Sky News political editor Beth Rigby running London marathon in honour of 'dearest friend'

Sky News political editor Beth Rigby running London marathon in honour of 'dearest friend'  Sky News

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3 d. ago Downgraded peace talks between US, Ukraine, and European allies begin in London.

Downgraded peace talks between US, Ukraine, and European allies begin in London.  The Kyiv Independent

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3 d. ago ‘Nepo babies should be doing stuff like this’: are rich people ruining or reviving club culture?

London’s underground dance scene is increasingly funded by inherited wealth. From Mike Ashley’s son to a Tetra Pak heir, monied promoters explain their motivationsNestled between Millwall FC stadium and an intersection of south London railway lines, the 350-capacity Venue MOT – once an actual MOT garage – is a cornerstone of the city’s underground music scene. But every Tuesday, owner Jan Mohammed gathers his staff at the bar and tells them how much money it has lost since the weekend.Mohammed, a sculptor, started renting a nearby space to use as a studio more than a decade ago. With no residential neighbours and relatively low costs, he opened Venue MOT in 2018 based on simple intuition: “I thought music could thrive here,” he says. Despite the losses and Mohammed calling his operation a “comedy of errors”, it does. Time Out recently labelled Venue MOT the best nightclub in London and Jamie xx called it “one of the last places in London that feels genuinely free and DIY” after his ...

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3 d. ago ‘Nepo babies should be doing stuff like this’: are rich people ruining or reviving UK club culture?

London’s underground dance scene is increasingly funded by inherited wealth. From Mike Ashley’s son to a Tetra Pak heir, moneyed promoters explain their motivationsNestled between Millwall FC stadium and an intersection of south London railway lines, the 350-capacity Venue MOT – once an actual MOT garage – is a cornerstone of the city’s underground music scene. But every Tuesday, owner Jan Mohammed gathers his staff at the bar and tells them how much money it has lost since the weekend.Mohammed, a sculptor, started renting a nearby space to use as a studio more than a decade ago. With no residential neighbours and relatively low costs, he opened Venue MOT in 2018 based on simple intuition: “I thought music could thrive here,” he says. Despite the losses and Mohammed calling his operation a “comedy of errors”, it does. Time Out recently labelled Venue MOT the best nightclub in London and Jamie xx called it “one of the last places in London that feels genuinely free and DIY” after his...

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3 d. ago The Spin | Reborn in the USA: has cricket finally cracked the American market?

A lack of pitches, kit and coaching has held the sport back for far too long but Major League Cricket may be the answerIf you look south from the Manhattan end of Brooklyn Bridge, you can just about imagine the cricket field that used to be beneath what is now the South Seaport – and, if you squint, pretend that the people making their way around the bars and clubs and restaurants are the descendants of the same New York crowd who attended a match here between a local team and a London XI in 1751. Modern-day Manhattan is built on cricket pitches, among other things. They are there under the streets, among the farms and tenements cleared to make way for skyscrapers. There’s another under Central Park, a third below the NYU Langone medical centre, where – in 1844 – Canada beat the USA by 23 runs in what is considered the first international fixture in all sport.People have been dreaming of reviving American cricket ever since it died during the civil war, more than 160 years ago. It w...

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3 d. ago Ukraine Peace Talks Between Foreign Ministers In London Postponed

Ukraine Peace Talks Between Foreign Ministers In London Postponed  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

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5 d. ago Why In The World Did American Airlines Fly Between Seattle & London?

Why In The World Did American Airlines Fly Between Seattle & London?  Simple Flying

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6 d. ago London Marathon last place runner hopes to fare better in 2025

London Marathon last place runner hopes to fare better in 2025  BBC

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7 d. ago 'Underrated' manager once flew into London to hold talks with Chelsea, he's so much better than Enzo Maresca

'Underrated' manager once flew into London to hold talks with Chelsea, he's so much better than Enzo Maresca  The Chelsea Chronicle

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7 d. ago I discovered a north London fish and chip shop that's better than the award

I discovered a north London fish and chip shop that's better than the award-winners  MyLondon

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8 d. ago Private island off the coast of Northern Ireland for sale for less than the price of a London flat

Get away from it all by buying your own private island and working remotely – or commuting between the two – just a three-hour round-trip from London

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8 d. ago Overtime needed for Thursday's OHL playoff between the Erie Otters and London Knights

Overtime needed for Thursday's OHL playoff between the Erie Otters and London Knights  Erie Times-News

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8 d. ago Trump Media urges regulators to investigate hedge fund’s vast bet against stock

Company behind Truth Social accuses London-based hedge fund Qube of alleged ‘suspicious trading activity’Donald Trump’s fledgling media firm has urged market regulators to investigate “suspicious activity” after a London-based hedge fund disclosed a vast bet against its stock.Trump Media & Technology Group, owner of the US president’s Truth Social platform, raised questions over trading by Qube Research & Technologies. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Sadiq Khan urged to identify new allotment sites in London to enable more food

Data shared with the London Assembly reveals significant gap in stock of allotments between inner and outer London

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1 week ago Tom Cruise, 62, and actress Ana De Armas, 36, continue to fuel romance rumours as they arrive in London via helicopter with her two pet pooches

Ana de Armas and Tom Cruise were seen arriving in London together on Sunday amid rumours of a romance between the pair. 

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2 w. ago ‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing

‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing  The Guardian

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2 w. ago Residents 'scream for help' in terrifying flat block blaze in London

The blaze, which engulfed the building, has left 11 people in hospital.

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2 w. ago Bethnal Green fire: Desperate screams of 'help, help' in video of 'terrifying' blaze

Locals have been stunned by the "sheer ferocity" of the blaze that ripped through Bradbeer House flats in Bethnal Green, East London, causing residents to flee in panic

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