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What to see at the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival: our picks of this year’s mega line-up

Ready your diaries: the London festival returns with a jam-packed roster of inspiring and thought-provoking shows

Evening Standard

OPINION - Even if you hate Ulez, you should be angry that central government tried to block it

George Osborne used to tell the world’s most expensive jokes. At the 2015 Budget, the then-chancellor said £1 million would be spent to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, primarily to land a gag about a Labour-SNP alliance. Further public money was allocated to reducing tolls on…

Evening Standard

64 Goodge Street, London W1: ‘You can imagine a Helena Bonham Carter character lunching here’ – restaurant review

A French bistro that will knock the fluff off your beret

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"We knew within forty-five minutes that we had a superstar. It was electrifying": The Elton John show that launched his career into the stratosphere

In August 1970, Elton John played his first US gig at the 300-capacity Troubadour club in Los Angeles. It would change everything

Louder

Two million to join in double celebration at Notting Hill Carnival

Three days of partying to mark Windrush anniversary and 50 years since Mas bands helped transform event

Evening Standard

More than half of the children in London haven’t seen a dentist in a year

The extent of London’s dental crisis was laid bare on Friday as figures showed that more than half of London children hadn’t seen a dentist in the past year.

Evening Standard

Thousands of bank holiday travellers have flights cancelled on busiest day of year for airlines

Disgruntled passengers report missing weddings and birthday celebrations

Evening Standard

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Train strikes 2023: Everything you need to know about August and September rail industrial action

RMT and Aslef unions are planning fresh strikes as disputes appear deadlocked

The Independent UK

Police to trial ‘safety cameras’ to avoid Notting Hill Carnival crushes

Officer in charge of policing event wishes everyone ‘a brilliant weekend’ at one of the biggest events on London calendar

Evening Standard

Experience: I married my partner four times

Changes in the law and where we were living prompted us to have very different ceremonies

The Guardian - UK

London Duathlon 2023: Route, day, times and everything you need to know

The run-bike-run race returns to Richmond Park on Sunday 3 September, with 4,000 participants taking to the closed-roads course. Katie Strick has a guide to the day

Evening Standard

Travel chaos kicks off bank holiday weekend as British Airways and easyJet cancel dozens of flights

Exclusive: Thousands stranded overnight, with some easyJet passengers from Rhodes routed back to Gatwick via Edinburgh and Bristol

The Independent UK

‘He is a mate’: Mike Dean admits ignoring VAR call to protect referee in Chelsea vs Tottenham draw

Former Premier League referee Mike Dean has made a remarkable admission regarding a VAR call in last season's fiery London derby between Chelsea and Tottenham at Stamford Bridge.

Evening Standard

Ulez expansion labelled ‘death of the modern classic car’ by owners

One owner said he will refuse to pay the charge when the boundary is extended to cover the whole of Greater London on August 29.

The Independent UK

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The Week

When the Apple Ripens: Peter Howson at 65 review

Peter Howson is an artist who has spent much of his life “tussling with the beast inside”, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. Born in London in 1958 and brought up in Glasgow, he immediately “stood out” when he first began exhibiting his work in the mid-1980s. For one…

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A London apartment inspired by Gerrit Rietveld interiors

Studiomama led the renovation of a London apartment, whose shape-shifting interiors were inspired by Rietveld’s Schröder House

Evening Standard

Couple victims of homophobic attack as they returned from UK Black Pride

‘The experience was horrible. I was in shock and so confused what happened,’ victim Michael Smith said

Evening Standard

Vibrant Windrush-themed bus to feature at Notting Hill Carnival

Following the carnival, the bus will be in service throughout Black History Month in October

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Evening Standard

An August surge, two new variants and a Barbenheimer spike: is London facing a Covid autumn?

Cases have surged by 17 per cent in the last week, with experts blaming waning immunity, increased indoor mixing and new mutations

The Guardian - UK

‘Overrun with rats’: Charles Dickens Museum illuminates author’s factory stint

Dickens was taken out of school aged 11 to work in a London blacking factory as his father sank into debt

Evening Standard

The best exhibitions this week in London, from Donna Huddleston to Simnikiwe Buhlungu (September 9 to 16)

We pick the best art shows to enjoy this week

Evening Standard

Food charity launches skyscraper challenge at Canary Wharf

Londoners can scale 48 floors to help The Felix Project distribute meals to 870,000 people

Evening Standard

Husband and wife ‘kicked and punched by racist’ at south London station

Police release images of woman they want to trace as part of appeal

Evening Standard

City Hall to consider MP’s call to grant Ulez exemption for hospice staff and patients

Jon Cruddas, the Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham, made the request in a letter to Seb Dance, London’s deputy mayor of transport

Evening Standard

Man, 66, dies after being hit by lorry in Peckham

A pensioner has died following a collision with a lorry on Peckham High Street in south London.

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