7 h. ago Take two Van Goghs daily: the growing popularity of museum prescriptions

Research backs schemes that encourage doctors to prescribe time in cultural institutions to boost mental health and reduce lonelinessIt was about six years ago that Nathalie Bondil heard of doctors prescribing outside the boundaries of traditional medicine, scribbling out orders to walk, cycle or swim, or sending their patients into nature.As she made her way through the halls of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, however, she was certain that its collection of Inuit art or paintings by Claude Monet or Camille Pissarro, could also be just what the doctor ordered. Continue reading...

Culture

12 h. ago Police offer £10,000 reward for information on boy who disappeared in London in 2008

Police offer £10,000 reward for information on boy who disappeared in London in 2008  The Guardian

Events

15 h. ago Police offer £10,000 reward for information on boy who went missing days before his 17th birthday in 2008

Alexander Sloley, from Islington, north London, was 16 when he disappeared in August 2008 and has had no contact with his family since then.

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2 d. ago ‘Mystery of a masterpiece’: how Van Gogh’s postman portrait ‘disappeared’ from London’s Tate Gallery a century ago

‘Mystery of a masterpiece’: how Van Gogh’s postman portrait ‘disappeared’ from London’s Tate Gallery a century ago  Art Newspaper

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1 week ago London’s black cabs destined for extinction in 20 years, TfL warned

Centre for London says numbers are falling and wants the government to step up to support the industryBlack cabs could disappear from London’s roads in 20 years, a thinktank has warned, unless authorities take steps to halt the decline – including giving cabbies bigger loans for new electric taxis and making the Knowledge test easier.Centre for London said that if the number of taxis in the capital continues to fall at the current rate, there would be none left by 2045. Continue reading...

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1 week ago No black taxis in London within 20 years 'unless cabbies get financial help to stay behind the wheel'

London icon could disappear from the streets by 2045, report warns

Economics

3 w. ago A new exhibition highlights how German artist Anselm Kiefer was inspired by Vincent van Gogh

When he was 17 years old, German artist Anselm Kiefer retraced the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh from the Netherlands through Belgium and into France

Politics

4 w. ago Missing Brit journalist Charlotte Peet's last known steps in Brazil as CCTV released

Journalist Charlotte Peet was last heard from on February 8 and was reported missing on February 17. Just four days before her disappearance, Charlotte posted about looking for a room in London

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