Harlequins Theatre School helps students with mental health issues following prolonged lockdown
A theatre school in Bromley has helped students with their mental health after noticing issues arising caused by the prolonged lockdown.
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Children’s lockdown activities initiative wins national award
An initiative which gave children in Wandsworth creative materials and activities during lockdown has won a national award. More than 4,000 children received a Create & Learn PlayKit through primary schools and food banks to help keep them stimulated.
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Get arty online with the London Transport Museum
The London Transport Museum is offering a chance to get creative with their free online art class. The event, on March 11, will guide you to make your own collage inspired by the museum’s collection of more than 2,000 posters.
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Talented Eltham singer impresses judges on The Voice
A 21-year-old singer from Eltham has wowed judges on the blind auditions of ITV’s talent show The Voice. Nathan Smoker sang Tom Odell’s powerful song Can’t Pretend causing judges Olly Murs and Anne-Marie to turn around almost immediately.
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Nobel prize-winning author and his daughter to discuss new book in online event
Nobel prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro and his daughter Naomi Ishiguro will make a rare public appear-ance to discuss their new novels in an online event.
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Greenpeace director writes lockdown inspired poems from his flat
Environmentalist and author Ed Gillespie has released a collection of poems written in and inspired by the first lockdown. Confined to his flat on Brixton Hill with more time on his hands than usual, Mr Gillespie, 48, started writing a five-minute poem each day.
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Children to receive three Covid tests during first week back at school
Children will receive three Covid tests during their first week back at secondary school from March 8, Kensington and Chelsea Council has said.
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Giant ice sculpture erected as part of campaign against climate change
A giant ice sculpture of Sir David Attenborough has been erected on the South Bank riverside as part of a new campaign against climate change
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For a fine selection of beers and ales check out The King & Co Clapham
For the pub industry it is March 3, when the Budget will reveal the support package available for pubs and brewers to help them survive and get going again when some semblance of normality returns.
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Cleaners at Clapham Catholic school set to strike for 40 days and 40 nights
The workers at Le Retraite Roman Catholic Girls’ School are planning industrial action starting on March 16 – which will be the first strike in the school’s 140-year history.
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Can you help pay for Henry to get CAT scan?
A woman and her daughter are appealing for help to pay for a CT scan for their Cavalier King Charles Spaniel whose eye swells and seeps blood and gunk.
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In My View: Bell Ribeiro-Addy, MP for Streatham
I was recently drawn for my first ever Prime Minister’s Question and had the opportunity to push the Government on the issue of children’s citizenship fees. It’s thanks to the brilliant work of campaign groups that this issue has been brought to light
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Tooting nursery founder and brave charity fundraiser dies just days after being made an MBE aged 96
The founder of the Eveline Day & Nursery Schools and MBE, Maria Keaveney-Jessiman, has died aged 96. Maria, a Wimbledon resident, was awarded an MBE for her services to education in the Queen’s 2021 New Year’s Honour list just days before her passing in January.
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School girl cooks 500 meatballs after being inspired by footballer Marcus Rashford
One Deptford schoolgirl has decided to play her part in helping feed the community this lockdown after being inspired by the footballer Marcus Rashford. Eight-year-old Leila Miah cooked 500 meatballs, using 30 tins of tomatoes and 15kg of pasta all in one day to donate 100 hot meals to her local community.
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Community garden sows seeds of change in Lewisham – with former Charlton and Leyton Orient midfielder helping out
Grow Lewisham have launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for their community garden project – which aims to give fresh fruit and vegetables to food banks and charities.
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Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust presents ‘Living in Greenwich: tales through time’
Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust, ‘Living in Greenwich: tales through time’ is a major exhibition that explores the history and heritage of Greenwich
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Rail workers share their story as part of LGBT history month
The saying goes that you should never work with your significant other, but Patricia and Joanna Dain, who married in a civil partnership in 2016, have been proving that theory wrong for the past few years. They are sharing their story to celebrate LGBT History Month.
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A feast for cheese lovers
Worthy Farm – home of the iconic Glastonbury Festival and award-winning dairy farm – has launched its first reserve Cheddar cheese, exclusively in Co-op stores.
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‘It is worse than the war. Back then you could go out’
It’s official – for civilians, living through the Covid-19 pandemic is worse than the Second World War. That is the verdict of Nell Pearce, who has lived through both and had her 95th birthday on February 2.
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Trailblazing Harry Daley was the first openly gay copper in the Met
His dad was from Bermondsey and he finished his career as a policeman with a nine-year stint in Wandsworth. But Harry Daley, whose autobiography was published posthumously, was anything but an ordinary bobbie. He was a true pioneer – the first openly gay officer in the force. Here historian STEPHEN BOURNE tells the story of the daring copper who had an affair with E M Forster and enforced the law while breaking it.
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Beckenham Photographer documents people receiving the Covid vaccine
A photographer has started a project documenting the Covid vaccine roll-out after being moved by seeing people receive their jabs. Jason Ashwood, 51, from Beckenham, began volunteering as a Covid marshall at Paxton Green Group Practice in Alleyn Park, Norwood where his wife works as the lead nurse.
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100 Club to trial Covid-secure measures when it re-opens
An iconic West End club where everyone from the The Rolling Stones to the Sleaford Mods has played will trial technology designed to keep people Covid-secure when it is able to reopen, writes Julia Gregory.
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Private school to pilot project to offer places to kids in care
A leading private school is one of a handful taking part in a pilot to give places to children who have been in care. A project to help vulnerable youngsters, the Royal National Children’s Springboard Foundation wants Alleyn’s, in Dulwich, to take them and transform their changes, partly funded by the government.
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