33 m. ago SAULT announce second ever live show at London’s All Points East with Cleo Sol

SAULT announce second ever live show at London’s All Points East with Cleo Sol  NME

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21 h. ago ‘I’m here to open doors’: Bernardine Evaristo on success, controversy and why she plans to donate her £100k award

The Girl, Woman, Other author has this week been awarded a one-off Women’s prize award for her outstanding contribution. She talks about her long road to recognition, and using her profile to support other writersBack in 2013, Bernardine Evaristo gave a reading in a south London bookshop from her novel Mr Loverman. Only six people showed up, a couple of them were dozing and she realised they were homeless people who had come to find somewhere comfortable to sleep. Last month, the hit TV adaptation Mr Loverman, about a 74-year-old gay Caribbean man set in Hackney, east London, won two Baftas, including leading actor for Lennie James, making him the first Black British actor to win the TV award in its 70-year history. “I checked Wikipedia!” Evaristo exclaims of this shocking fact when we meet in London.Evaristo’s long career is one of firsts and creating them for others. In 2019, at the age of 60, she became the first Black woman to win the Booker prize – shared with Margaret Atwood –...

Economics

22 h. ago Voices: Chilling red wine actually makes it taste better (yes, really)

I’m not suggesting I came up with the idea of chilling red wine, writes Rosamund Hall, but I love to see that it’s become more mainstream since the days I used to serve it at my east London wine bar

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37 h. ago Body is found in search for woman, 46, who disappeared in Ilford as man appears in court charged with her murder

A body has been found by police probing the disappearance of Colombian woman Yajaira Castro Mendez, 46, who went missing after leaving her home in Ilford, east London, last Saturday.

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37 h. ago Medical student who was paralysed when man fell 120 feet onto her from shopping centre third floor says: 'I wouldn't change a thing'

The medical student had been walking through Westfield shopping centre in east London when the intoxicated man leapt from the third-floor balcony and violently collided into her.

Economics

38 h. ago Detectives searching for missing East London woman, 46, find body

Detectives searching for missing East London woman, 46, find body  MyLondon

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63 h. ago Man charged with murder after disappearance of Colombian woman

Yajaira Castro Mendez, 46, was reported missing to the Metropolitan Police on May 31 after leaving her east London home.

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3 d. ago King Charles meets The OC star Ben McKenzie at cultural festival in east London (and the actor can't resist plugging his new book!)

The royal, 76, travelled to Old Spitalfields Market, for the city's first ever SXSW festival where businesses and individuals involved in music, technology, screen and culture come together.

Culture

3 d. ago King Charles meets The OC star Ben McKenzie at cultural festival in east London (and the actor can't resist pl

King Charles meets The OC star Ben McKenzie at cultural festival in east London (and the actor can't resist pl  Daily Mail

Culture

3 d. ago Gang followed and stabbed Greek tourist after botched bag robbery, court hears

Antonis Antoniadis, 26, was allegedly followed and attacked in New Cross, south-east London, on July 7 last year, and died two weeks later.

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3 d. ago Drill rapper guilty of murdering father in front of child at East London barbershop in 'savage' attack

Renai Belle has been convicted for the murder of Josh KcKay following a five-week trial at the Old Bailey

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4 d. ago Eurostar could see Channel Tunnel monopoly threatened as government reveals plans to increase number of trains from Britain to Europe

The Office of Rail and Road said it will allocate spare capacity at Eurostar's Temple Mills depot in Leyton, East London, to either one new operator or Eurostar itself, which has plans to grow.

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4 d. ago Dr Martens sees profits slide but on track for return to growth

The footwear group reported pre-tax profits of £8.8 million for the year to March 30, down from £93 million the previous year.

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4 d. ago Wagner spies 'plotted to blow up Mayfair restaurant and kidnap its owner'

The men were filmed setting fire to an east London warehouse, the Old Bailey heard

Society

4 d. ago Super Trouper meets supercomputer: AI helping Abba star to write musical

Björn Ulvaeus tells audience at SXSW London the technology is ‘very bad at lyrics’ but has helped him break through creative impassesAfter bringing a blockbuster hologram version of Abba to a purpose-built venue in east London, Björn Ulvaeus’s next technological exploration is a musical that he’s written with the help of artificial intelligence.Ulvaeus, 80, told an audience at SXSW London that he was “three-quarters” of the way through writing a new musical which he has created with assistance from AI songwriting tools. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Hainault sword attacker 'killed and skinned own cat' before rampage, court hears

Spanish-Brazilian Marcus Arduini Monzo has been charged with 10 offences following an alleged April rampage through Hainault, north east London, after killing his cat

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4 d. ago The Guardian view on Labour’s investment plans: sugaring the bitter pill of austerity | Editorial

The chancellor is right to be planning for the long term, but voters won’t be patient if change isn’t felt soonInequality between British regions is not a new problem and Rachel Reeves is not the first chancellor to want to close the gap. In 2014, George Osborne promised a “northern powerhouse” to rival the dominance of London and the south-east. He pledged devolution and investment in infrastructure to connect northern cities, to unlock productivity and growth.Since then, Britain’s economy has suffered multiple shocks, some external (the pandemic, inflation stoked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine), others self-inflicted (Brexit, Liz Truss’s mini-budget). Each time, the damage was more severe in places already falling behind. Boris Johnson claimed levelling up as his defining purpose. Rishi Sunak let the ambition slide. Now it is being revived by a Labour chancellor. In a speech announcing transport investments on Wednesday, Ms Reeves promised a “renewal of Britain”, with prosperity ...

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4 d. ago Killer skinned his own cat then hacked schoolboy, 14, to death during Samurai sword rampage when he also tried to kill four others, court hears

Marcus Monzo, 37, of West Beckton, Newham, is accused of murdering 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin (pictured) while he was on his way to school in Hainault, east London on April 30 last year.

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4 d. ago Man killed Daniel Anjorin, 14, during sword rampage in east London, jury told

Man killed Daniel Anjorin, 14, during sword rampage in east London, jury told  The Guardian

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4 d. ago Killer hacked schoolboy, 14, to death 'in an instant' during 20

Marcus Monzo, 37, of West Beckton, Newham, is accused of murdering 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin (pictured) while he was on his way to school in Hainault, east London on April 30 last year.

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