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Britain's first black Olympian to be honoured with blue plaque

The plaque honoring double bronze medallist Harry Edward will be placed on his former home in Bloomsbury, London

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Bloomsbury set for £400 million facelift

Plans are afoot to burnish the appeal of the neighbourhood that is home to the British Museum

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Murder investigation launched following death of newborn baby in Camden

A 26-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after a body was found in Taviton Street, Bloomsbury

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OPINION - John Darlington on great London monuments: St George’s — London’s most eccentric church

In 1751, William Hogarth, the great London painter and satirist, produced Gin Lane, one of his famous etchings. This raucous image is a good place to introduce the story of the city’s most eccentric church, because in the background is the unique spire of St George’s in Bloomsbury.

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British Museum told of unexploded bomb risk on Bloomsbury site amid energy centre plans

There is ‘medium risk’ of unexploded Second World War bombs, a survey found

Evening Standard

Return the Parthenon marbles. The British Museum has too much stuff anyway

These relics from the fountainhead of European culture don’t belong in a cold, grey Bloomsbury chamber, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Which artefacts have the British Museum been urged to return?

Parthenon Sculptures, Rosetta Stone and Benin Bronzes are just some of the ‘contested objects’ in Bloomsbury institution’s collection, Joe Sommerlad reports

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Present and Correct opens new London shop

Every stationery need is beautifully catered for by Present and Correct, who just opened a new Bloomsbury shop by Architecture for London

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Bloomsbury office to be converted into 300,000 sq ft life science complex

Development comes amid chronic shortages of lab space in central London

Evening Standard

Honey & Co. Daily: New takeaway deli and cafe to launch in Bloomsbury this autumn

Founders Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich will also host supper clubs at the new location

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Cocktails in the City: London bars join forces for summer showcase in Bloomsbury

Some of London’s most accomplished bars will showcase their very best mixology over three weekends this summer

Evening Standard

‘I'm a multi-millionaire after starting popular restaurant chain with 3 key ingredients'

Alan Yau opened his first restaurant in Bloomsbury, London, back in 1992, but he wanted to make a Chinese fast food chain to rival McDonalds

Daily Mirror

Bodies of young couple found in plane wreckage at north Queensland crash site

Search crews make a sad discovery in the ranges west of Proserpine after a missing aircraft failed to arrive at its destination.

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Grade II-listed Bloomsbury townhouse featured as dog grooming parlour in Cruella on sale for £2.35m

The perfect house for cinephiles? The original shop fronts of Duke’s Road have been “magically transformed” for films starring Eddie Redmayne, Paloma Faith and Bill Nighy, amongst others.

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Video shows moment two women violently attacked outside Bloosmbury club

Two young women suffered serious head injuries after they were attacked by a man outside a nightclub in Bloomsbury.

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Hidden women of history: 'the Buzzwinker' Ellen Miles, child convict, goldfields pickpocket and vagrant

—Me name’s Miles; Ellen Miles, remarked an old woman at the City Court yesterday. —And you are charged with vagrancy, stated Sergeant Eason. Can you show the Bench that you have means of support? —'How can I support myself when I’m continually in gaol and not a shilling coming into…

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Why I live in Bloomsbury: designer Gergei Erdei on the best places to shop, eat and be inspired in his central London district

Gergei Erdei worked at Gucci before setting up his design studio focusing on homewares inspired by antiquities. Here’s what he loves about Bloomsbury.

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Honey & Co. announces new restaurant in Bloomsbury as Fitzrovia site closes

Lamb’s Conduit Street is set for another star of London’s restaurant scene

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Londoner’s Diary: Ian McEwan in Bloomsbury tree showdown

NOVELIST Ian McEwan is in an unexpected face-off with an august international charity over a pair of troublesome London plane trees in swish Bloomsbury.

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