63 m. ago ‘What are you trying to incite?’ Billy Porter asks thorny questions with This Bitter Earth

The Cabaret and Pose star is making his UK directorial debut with Harrison David Rivers’ play about love and activism. We join rehearsals with Omari Douglas and Alexander LincolnWhen Billy Porter talks, people listen. They have no choice. The actor, fresh from a stint as Emcee in the London run of Cabaret, and about to reprise the role on Broadway, speaks in a poised, purposeful, regal fashion. Each word is selected with care and weighed in his hand as if it were an avocado in the fruit and veg aisle, the gaps between words so lengthy that it isn’t always clear when he has finished speaking. Seated around the table in the south London studio where Porter is overseeing rehearsals for This Bitter Earth, which marks his UK directorial debut, are the playwright Harrison David Rivers and the actors Omari Douglas (It’s a Sin) and Alexander Lincoln (Emmerdale). Everyone maintains an attentive silence while Porter is speaking, until there can be no doubt that he has completed his thought.“T...

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78 m. ago Met officers to face gross misconduct hearing after woman, 90, targeted with Taser

Two serving officers and one former officer to face hearing after woman was also handcuffed and put in spit hoodTwo serving Metropolitan police officers and one former officer will face a gross misconduct hearing after a 90-year-old woman with dementia was targeted with a Taser, the police watchdog said.The woman was also handcuffed and put in a spit hood during the incident in Peckham, south London, in May 2023, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Three Met officers facing misconduct hearing after woman, 90, marked with Taser

The woman, who had dementia, was also handcuffed and put in a spit hood during the incident in Peckham, south London, on May 9 2023.

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2 h. ago Teachers left shocked as 'thriving' historic south London primary school to close after 131 years

The school first opened in 1894 and used to be known as Eardley school

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2 h. ago Jourdan Dunn donates blood and calls for more black heritage donors

The 34-year-old model, whose son has sickle cell anaemia, gave blood herself at Brixton Donor Centre in south London.

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3 h. ago Inside lair of rapist PhD student Zhenhao Zou chillingly fitted out with cameras

Zhenhao Zou would go out with women, before drugging and raping them in his flat in south-east London, which was covered in CCTV to film the depravity that went on inside

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4 h. ago Lillie Clack: Distraught friend tells of terror before 100mph car crash that killed ‘popular princess’

Drunk driver Charlie Hilton, 25, was being chased by police before his Mercedes hit a tree and burst into flames in south London

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5 h. ago Revealed: the seven boroughs where the number of £1m+ homes has more than doubled in six years

Rightmove has recorded a ‘substantial’ surge in million-pound homes for sale across Britain

Economics

5 h. ago Rookie Met Police officer cracks £150k south London shoplifting ring with DNA trap

In a first-of-its-kind operation for the Met, the synthetic DNA allowed stolen goods to be uniquely identified and traced back to their original stores

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26 h. ago Moment ‘paedophile’ calls a child safety hotline as charity warns women now one in 10 offenders

Standard hears simulated call from ‘disgusted’ 23-year-old on visit to Lucy Faithfull Foundation’s headquarters in south London

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52 h. ago Voices: What do you have to do to sell your home in a property downturn?

As Rightmove reports that homeowners in London and the south-east are slashing asking prices, James Moore suggests things you can do to secure a sale

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55 h. ago Thug who murdered man for his phone in south east London park loses prison appeal

Thug who murdered man for his phone in south east London park loses prison appeal  Yahoo

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57 h. ago Aldi reveals 115 locations where it wants to open new UK stores

The locations where Aldi is keen to expand to include London, Manchester, the South West, Scotland and Wales - you can find the full list of places below

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59 h. ago UK’s first dedicated Marie Antoinette exhibition to open at London museum

Marie Antoinette Style will open at the museum in September.

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66 h. ago UK’s first ever dedicated Marie Antoinette exhibition to open at London museum

Marie Antoinette Style will open at the museum in September.

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3 d. ago Elephant and Castle regeneration: Tube station expansion boosts hopes of Bakerloo line extension

The new Northern line entrance will create an interchange at the south London train station

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3 d. ago South London nurse struck off after sending 'sexually motivated' WhatsApp messages to colleague

Leonajar Bato Pulido claimed he had always tried to maintain professional boundaries with colleagues and that his texts were just ‘banter’

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3 d. ago Renfrewshire paedophile branded "every parent's worst nightmare" after sending sexual messages to teen girls

Twisted John McNaught sent sexual messages on social media platforms to six young teenage girls.

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3 d. ago Montessori nursery worker guilty of child cruelty for pinching and scratching babies

Roksana Lecka, 22, assaulted and mistreated 21 children while working at the Riverside Nursery in Twickenham, south west London

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3 d. ago The shocking number of burglaries in south east London in one year

The shocking number of burglaries in south east London in one year  This Is Local London

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