5 h. ago Wishaw opticians spread Christmas cheer with gift donation to children’s ward

The team at Specsavers Wishaw, which is located on the town’s Main Street, invited customers to donate new, unwrapped gifts suitable for children aged 10 weeks to 15 years via a gift bank in store throughout December.

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9 h. ago Janet Street Porter leaves Escape To The Country host scrambling with blistering swipe

The Loose Women star, 78, who owns an apartment in central London, wanted some help to find her dream home in East Anglia that she can share with her husband Peter.

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10 h. ago Peep Show the reunion is here! Everywhere Olivia Colman has lived , from Peckham to Norfolk

After decades spent in south-east London, Colman has returned to her Norfolk roots

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10 h. ago A floral stylist and writer's Georgian terraced house in east London

A floral stylist and writer's Georgian terraced house in east London  House & Garden

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12 h. ago Harry Redknapp eyes King George glory in ‘Champions League’ of racing

FA Cup-winning manager and former King of the Jungle has live hopes of landing the big Boxing Day prize at Kempton with Jukebox ManHe has been a professional footballer, an FA Cup-winning manager and the King of the Jungle over the storied course of the past 60 years, but as Harry Redknapp talked about The Jukebox Man, his King George VI Chase contender, at Ben Pauling’s stable last week, he was the East End kid whose nan was a bookie’s runner and would be astonished to see where life and luck have taken her grandson.“She wouldn’t believe it,” Redknapp says, suddenly back in Poplar in the 1950s. “It’s a far cry from the East End of London, [when she was] getting slung in the back of a police van every other day for collecting the bets. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Everywhere Olivia Colman has lived, from her Peckham townhouse to her Norfolk barn conversion

After decades spent in south-east London, Colman has returned to her Norfolk roots

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30 h. ago ‘I wouldn’t answer Stephen Graham’s calls’: Erin Doherty on dreams, danger and ghosting Adolescence’s creator

She won an Emmy for her electric performance in the Netflix smash hit, but the casting process wasn’t exactly hiccup-free. The actor opens up about a year of success, struggle – and how she nearly became a footballerFor a while, Erin Doherty ignored Stephen Graham’s calls. Not deliberately, she stresses with a laugh. “I’m just really bad at my phone. I’m such a technophobe, and he knew that,” she says. They had made the Disney+ show A Thousand Blows together, in which Doherty plays an East End crime boss in Victorian London, and Graham had talked about an idea he wanted to dramatise, about a teenage boy who is catastrophically radicalised by online misogyny. A couple of months after they’d wrapped A Thousand Blows, Graham and his wife and producing partner, Hannah Walters, kept trying to get in touch. “I was getting voice notes from him and Hannah being like, ‘Erin, pick up your phone!’” Doherty’s girlfriend told her to ring him back and Graham offered her the role in Adolescence. S...

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31 h. ago Man dies in hospital three weeks after brutal east London pub attack

George Graham, 34, was involved in a large fight in Hackney on November 29

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32 h. ago News | The South East and Greater London offices occupier and investment year reviewed

News | The South East and Greater London offices occupier and investment year reviewed  CoStar

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35 h. ago BREAKING: Man dies in hospital three weeks after Hackney pub brawl as no arrests made

George Graham was left critically injured following a group fight at The Globe pub in east London in the early hours of November 29

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50 h. ago Fatberg weighing 100 tons and 328ft long discovered in the sewers of east London

The rancid mass of solidified fat, oil and grease was found beneath Whitechapel, in the same area as the infamous 2017 fatberg.

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50 h. ago Fatberg weighing 100 tonnes and 328ft long discovered in the sewers of east London

Fatberg weighing 100 tonnes and 328ft long discovered in the sewers of east London  Daily Mail

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52 h. ago The luxury hand cream causing chaos for an east London craft shop

Aesop on Broadway Market is putting ‘unnecessary stress’ on its next door neighbour

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52 h. ago The luxury hand cream causing a stink at an east London craft shop

Aesop on Broadway Market is putting ‘unnecessary stress’ on its next door neighbour

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55 h. ago Man and woman taken to hospital after shooting in south east London

Man and woman taken to hospital after shooting in south east London  News Shopper

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55 h. ago Classy Lewis Hamilton gives sweet Christmas present to more than 1,000 Ferrari employees with four

LEWIS HAMILTON turned into Ferrari's very own Father Christmas as he gave out presents to more than 1,000 employees. The seven-time world champion visited the Maranello factory last week to spread some Christmas cheer to the struggling Italian team. Hamilton personally presented each member of the Scuderia Ferrari team a typically British present of a...

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55 h. ago LONDON CALLING – PART I: Passions run deep for Orient as East London club survives in the third division (1995)

LONDON CALLING – PART I: Passions run deep for Orient as East London club survives in the third division (1995)  Front Row Soccer

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2 d. ago West Lothian health club help spread festive cheer thanks to Christmas appeal

Throughout the last month, members and local residents dropped off toys and gifts at Bannatyne Health Club helping support families across Livingston and West Lothian who are struggling with the rising cost of living.

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3 d. ago ‘To bring joy to everyone’: East London, Ont. diner embraces extreme Christmas theme

‘To bring joy to everyone’: East London, Ont. diner embraces extreme Christmas theme  CTV News

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3 d. ago Stephen Lawrence's racist killer clashes with Manchester Arena plotter Hashem Abedi behind bars

David Norris, 49, threatened the killer, called him a terrorist and swore at him during a heated exchange at Belmarsh Prison in South East London.

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