3 h. ago Arrests after 'series of burglaries and drug offences' in Kentish Town and Chalk Farm

Arrests after 'series of burglaries and drug offences' in Kentish Town and Chalk Farm  This Is Local London

Events

9 h. ago ‘It seemed like quite a do’: why East Grinstead hosts one of Scientology’s glitziest evenings

Last week, 7,000 people – including Tom Cruise – descended on the West Sussex town for an event that divides local opinionIn the nearly 30 years that Diane Juchau has lived in East Grinstead, not many days live as long in the memory as the day she saw Tom Cruise on the high street. “I saw him a couple of years ago walking past Iceland,” she said.It may seem like a once-in-a-lifetime anecdote but, this week, Cruise was back – and, when the purpose for his visit was revealed, the chance sighting of the Mission: Impossible star in a West Sussex town makes a lot more sense. Continue reading...

Politics

52 h. ago Town’s ‘dying’ 35ft Christmas tree with dead branches is slammed as ‘diabolical disgrace’ & ‘roadkill’

A CHRISTMAS tree has been slammed as an "absolute disgrace" by a local town council. Wisbech Town Council fumed that the festive offering appeared "half dead or dying" when it was delivered to the Cambridgeshire area and demanded a fresh one be sent over. Councillors seethed that the tree was brown in places, was missing...

Events

53 h. ago Residents hit out at 'droopy and browning' Christmas tree dubbed a 'Temu special' that looks like it was left over from last year

The 'dying' fir tree was put up in Wisbech town centre, Cambridgeshire, on November 4, with locals describing it as an 'absolute disgrace'.

Events

66 h. ago French forking out £132k of UK taxpayers’ cash to build fence to prevent migrants bothering locals in town near Calais

FRENCH officials plan to splurge up to £132,000 of British taxpayers’ cash on a huge fence to prevent migrants bothering locals in a small town near Calais.  A local authority wants a 1,000-yard long, 6½ft tall barrier to keep them away from locals’ homes and gardens in Gravelines where scores of mostly young men await gangmasters’...

Economics

6 d. ago Englishman visits 'Scotland's best town' but feels 'conned' after arriving at Wetherspoons

An English YouTuber who runs the Honest Places channel explored Oban after it was named Scotland's 'Town of the Year' as part of the Scotland Loves Local Awards last year

Politics

6 d. ago A Mother's Son cast from Skins star to Call the Midwife favourite

The thriller sees a sleepy Suffolk market town thrown into turmoil after a local schoolgirl is murdered.

Politics

6 d. ago ‘Olives are everything for us’: West Bank farmers prevented from harvesting by settler violence

About 70% of town’s olives are inaccessible without risking a potentially fatal clash with Israeli settlersAround As-Sawiya, rolling hills covered in fields and orchards rise to a horizon sharp against a pristine blue sky. It is a stunning view. But look closer and it becomes clear why the few thousand residents of this small town in the north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank say they are under siege – and why the olives are still heavy on the trees two weeks after the official date of the beginning of the annual harvest.From the highest point in As-Sawiya, Mahmud Hassan, the mayor, points out the olive orchards on the other side of the highway below the town. They lie on land owned by local families but are now impossible to reach without risking a potentially fatal clash with Israeli settlers who live in settlements around the town, or with Israeli security forces, he says. In all, about 70% of the town’s olives are currently inaccessible. Continue reading...

Society

7 d. ago Actor Alexandra Roach looks back: ‘I’m from a small town – when I snuck into a nightclub underage, 11 people told my dad’

The Utopia and No Offence star on channelling her righteous younger self, how she shakes off heavy roles, and her alter ego DJ DaveBorn in Ammanford, south Wales, in 1987, Alexandra Roach began her career in the S4C soap Pobol y Cwm, before training at Rada in London. Her first major role was as a young Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady in 2011, and she has gone on to star in TV dramas including Utopia, No Offence, Hunderby and Being Human; she is currently staring in Amazon Prime Video’s series Lazarus. She lives in Bristol with her husband and daughter.This is me in my living room. I’m 12 years old and proudly holding a letter I’d written to the local town council. In it, I pleaded with them to do something radical for the sake of the youth of Ammanford: open a Claire’s Accessories. Continue reading...

Politics

8 d. ago Wales' newest town is planned next to the M4 and it just took a big step

The latest 543 homes as part of the Llanilid development in RCT have just been approved - but there's lots more to come

Politics

8 d. ago Sandringham locals fume at 'horrible man' Andrew moving to their town

King Charles has given accommodation for Andrew on the Sandringham Estate after the disgraced royal was told he has to leave the Royal Lodge but the locals appear unhappy

Politics

1 week ago ‘Brilliantly conceived, written and acted’: farewell to Brassic, the raucous sitcom with real heart

After seven riotous seasons packed with stellar cameos and exhilarating farce, Joseph Gilgun’s chaotic comedy goes out on a high. It will be sorely missedBlame Brassic on Dominic West. While filming Pride, the rousing 2014 film about gay Londoners finding solidarity with a hardscrabble Welsh community during the miners’ strike, West was acting alongside lanky live wire Joseph Gilgun, who would regale him with wild tales of growing up in Chorley in Lancashire. Tickled by anecdotes like the theft of a shetland pony, West encouraged Gilgun to mine his formative years for material that could become a TV show.Gilgun teamed up with screenwriter Danny Brocklehurst, no stranger to authentic northern humour after working on Channel 4’s Shameless. The result was Brassic, a headlong comedy about a rowdy gang of scallywags, chancers and wheeler-dealers trying to stay one step ahead of the law and local heavies in the fictional northern town of Hawley. As well as repurposing the ducking and divi...

Politics

1 week ago Pretty town on the edge of Greater Manchester where locals are 'sick' of tourists

It's a charming place, but its popularity brings problems

Politics

1 week ago Liberation review – fiery and funny show brings 70s feminism to Broadway

James Earl Jones TheatrePlaywright Bess Wohl looks back on her mother’s activism in a moving and cleverly constructed look at how to balance the personal and the politicalThough not listed in the program, Liberation, an inventive and resonant new play by Bess Wohl, possesses a subtitle: A Memory Play About Things I Don’t Remember. The line presumably refers to the personal nature of the show, based in part on the life of Wohl’s mother, Lisa Cronin Wohl, who worked for Ms Magazine in New York during Wohl’s early years, but it also applies to the conversations at hand, within a women’s lib group in small-town Ohio, 1970. On the basketball court of a local rec center, six women hit the blinkered beats of second-wave feminism – workplace inequalities, consciousness raising, The Feminine Mystique – that many in the audience will only know secondhand, through family histories, re-creations like FX’s superb series Mrs America or inherited cultural shorthand. I, like Wohl – like anyone born...

Politics

1 week ago Seaside town to demolish high street but locals have same issue with proposal

The council has submitted plans to demolish more empty shops but some are not happy about the proposed replacement

Politics

1 week ago How 'the lady of the manor' sold her family's estate for £25million

Adlington estate (pictured, with the owner) in Cheshire, it has now emerged, has been earmarked as the site of an entire new town with up to 20,000 homes - infuriating locals.

Economics

1 week ago Delightful town near Manchester where locals are 'sick of tourists'

Nestled in the heart of the Calder Valley between Halifax and Todmorden, it looks like a town plucked straight from a postcard.

Politics

2 w. ago Burst of colour as Diwali celebrations hit Romford town centre

Burst of colour as Diwali celebrations hit Romford town centre  This Is Local London

Events

2 w. ago Paisley crowned Town of the Year at Scotland Loves Local Awards

It comes as new businesses open, new homes are built, and a new state-of-the-art secondary school and transformed Paisley Museum are due to open next year.

Events

2 w. ago Disturbing hate messages sprayed onto bus stop in Scots town

It is allegedly the second hate crime to take place in the Highland town after the local mosque on the same street was targeted last month.

Politics