24 h. ago Chelsea XI vs Tottenham: Cole Palmer latest, confirmed team news, predicted lineup and injuries

Enzo Maresca set for major triple attacking boost for huge London derby at Stamford Bridge

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3 d. ago Want a limited edition artwork tattooed on your skin? Berlin is the place to go

The city’s tattoo studios are booming while the art world flounders. Under a new initiative, buyers receive exclusive rights to an artist’s new design, and the artist receives 50% of the profitIt may be the oldest art form in the world, practised 5,000 years ago by Ötzi the iceman and his fellow copper age Europeans. But with its more recent associations with red-light entertainment and gangland crime, modern tattooing has long been shunned by the galleries that turn lines on canvas into financial assets.A new initiative in Berlin concedes that the tables have turned. With tattoo studios in the German capital booming but many artists struggling to make a living, the Works on Skin project specialises in selling works by established and emerging contemporary artists that are not to be hung on a wall but to be etched on the human body. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘Expressing your pain in artistic form is not easy’: exiled Russian theatre director builds bridges in London

‘Expressing your pain in artistic form is not easy’: exiled Russian theatre director builds bridges in London  The Guardian

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3 d. ago ‘I went to a new bar at London Bridge and I’d rate it SIXT33N out of 10’

‘I went to a new bar at London Bridge and I’d rate it SIXT33N out of 10’  News Shopper

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5 d. ago London Bridge 2 pipeline strong as committed capital hits $2.7bn: Keese

London Bridge 2 pipeline strong as committed capital hits $2.7bn: Keese  The Insurance Insider

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6 d. ago Ofsted chief backs headteachers taking ‘tough’ decision to ban phones in schools

Sir Martyn Oliver told parents at a Q&A in London that he had walked into schools in ‘utter chaos’ where phones were rife.

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7 d. ago Gatwick Airport train chaos as vehicle crashes into railway bridge and blocks lines

Gatwick Express said in a statement shared to social media that a road vehicle has collided with a railway bridge between London Victoria and Gatwick Airport

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8 d. ago Met officers cleared of misconduct after tasered man jumped from Chelsea Bridge and died

Oladeji Omishore, 41, died after a confrontation with the officers on June 4, 2022

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8 d. ago Chelsea bombshell: London club says goodbye to Stamford Bridge

Chelsea bombshell: London club says goodbye to Stamford Bridge  Marca English

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8 d. ago Chelsea owners may ‘go different ways’ over Stamford Bridge plans – Todd Boehly

Boehly owns just under 37 per cent of the west London club with the Clearlake Capital consortium fronted by Behdad Eghbali owning most of the rest.

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1 week ago LIVE updates as 'crash involving bus' closes bridge in south London

LIVE updates as 'crash involving bus' closes bridge in south London  News Shopper

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1 week ago From Helsinki’s Landmark Bridge to London’s Urban Regeneration: Recent Updates from Knight Architects, Foster + Partners, and More

From Helsinki’s Landmark Bridge to London’s Urban Regeneration: Recent Updates from Knight Architects, Foster + Partners, and More  ArchDaily

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1 week ago Artist Peter Sedgley, founder of Space Studios, dies aged 94

The London-born artist was known for his kinetic and optical art.

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1 week ago Education Secretary says London’s falling birth rate brings ‘opportunities to think creatively’

Bridget Phillipson also tells the Standard that Government will ‘look at the evidence’ from Sir Sadiq Khan’s free school meal programme

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2 w. ago Bridget Phillipson tells critics to ‘leave London for a change’ to see scale of schools crisis as reform row escalates

The education secretary has become embroiled in a war of words over her school reforms

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2 w. ago Bridget Phillipson tells critics to ‘leave London for a change’ as school reform row escalates

The education secretary has become embroiled in a war of words over her school reforms

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2 w. ago Flood Re enters cat bond market with Vision 2039 placement via London Bridge 2

Flood Re enters cat bond market with Vision 2039 placement via London Bridge 2  TradingView

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2 w. ago The London Bridge shuffleboard venue perfect for groups or a date night icebreaker

The London Bridge shuffleboard venue perfect for groups or a date night icebreaker  Hackney Gazette

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2 w. ago New Wetherspoons pub set to open next to one of London's most popular tourist destinations

The pub, which will be named The Sun Wharf, will occupy the former London Dungeon space located within the arches at 50 Tooley Street, near London Bridge.

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3 w. ago Tower Bridge, Wapping and Limehouse: Is this London's best riverside walk (it has great pubs, too)?

Julian McDonnell, the author of Rather Splendid Pub Walks, and star of @joolzguides shares one of his favourite walks in the capital

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