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Bus driver avoids jail over death of Windrush pensioner

Edna McLean, 83, was hit and killed by a double-decker near Woolwich Arsenal station.

Evening Standard

Windrush Day: our pick of London’s best cultural events and celebrations

From film festivals to exhibitions to parties, the city is packed with festivities

Evening Standard

London Overground: new names and colours for six lines revealed

Web of orange on tube map revamped to celebrate city’s unique local history and culture, says mayor

The Guardian - UK

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Three Little Birds on ITVX review: Lenny Henry's Windrush drama is a triumph

This story pulls no punches in showing the ugly truth of this immigrant story, inspired by his own mother's experiences

Evening Standard

Lenny Henry hopes Windrush drama will generate conversation about immigration

Three Little Birds, based on stories of Henry’s family in 1950s, is not ‘Disneyfication’ of prejudice his parents’ generation encountered

The Guardian - UK

‘I watched it and burst into tears’: Lenny Henry on his poignant, hilarious ode to Windrush

Russell T Davies helped Henry turn his family’s tales of leaving the Caribbean for 50s Dudley into a moving period drama. He talks sexism, racism and wishing he was more like Scorsese

The Guardian - UK

Teenager who defaced Windrush mural with Nazi symbols unmasked

Aristedes Haynes, 17, was sentenced to one year and seven months’ detention after admitting a string of terror offences and criminal damage

Evening Standard

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Former RAF cadet defaced Windrush mural with Nazi symbols

The 17-year-old youth from South Wales admitted a string of terror offences and criminal damage and appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday.

The Independent UK

Teenage neo-Nazi defaced Windrush mural and had ‘race war’ fantasies, court told

The boy admitted to a string of terror offences and criminal damage charges.

The Independent UK

The most controversial British scandals of the 21st century

Prince William has paid tribute to the Windrush generation on the 75th anniversary of their arrival in Britain – and five years after their treatment by the Home Office was the subject of a scandal whose repercussions are still being felt.

The Week

Reclaiming Windrush Square: why urban development projects need to heed local voices

Windrush Square is a vibrant public plaza at the heart of Brixton, in the London borough of Lambeth. It was first named in 1998 in commemoration of the arrival of the Empire Windrush, which docked in Essex in 1948, carrying 1,027 passengers, at least 500 of whom were from the…

The Conversation

Windrush heroes, knotted ropes and Macca’s Beatles snaps – the week in art

Leonor Antunes gets knotted, Carrie Mae Weems questions Black representation and Paul McCartney shares his early adventures with the Fab Four

The Guardian - UK

King Charles attends service marking 75th anniversary of Windrush arrival

Caribbean arrivals made ‘profound and immeasurable’ contribution to UK, the King said

Evening Standard

King attends service marking 75th anniversary of Windrush arrival

Hundreds gathered at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle to remember the pioneering voyagers.

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Evening Standard

Windrush 75: “A chip on my shoulder? No. It’s a log”

Seventy-five years ago the HMT Empire Windrush brought the first passengers from the Caribbean looking for a new life in Britain. Kemi Alemoru meets some of the early arrivals

The Guardian - UK

‘We’ll play until our teeth drop out!’ The long, remarkable lives of Britain’s Windrush-era musicians

Now in their 80s and 90s, having faced down racism and neglect, musicians of Caribbean heritage are still centre stage in the adopted country where they’ve enriched music in so many ways

The Independent UK

Windrush campaigner urges Government to rule out closing compensation scheme

Patrick Vernon was speaking at a commemorative event held a day ahead of the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush to England.

The Conversation

How cricket helped Windrush arrivals build a sense of 'home' in Britain

Cricket was played extensively in Britain in the 1950s, in towns, villages and cities, both in workplaces and as a social activity. And the sport had also become a ubiquitous cultural pastime in the English-speaking Caribbean.

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The Guardian - UK

Home Office delays Windrush grants amid row over social media posts

This year’s £150,000 allocation scrapped amid discussions about including groups critical of government

The Independent UK

Elderly Windrush widow wrongly told she would be deported wins battle to stay in UK

Exclusive: ‘The government should do better with the Windrush people and their children; how they treat us is disgusting,’ Ms Scayle told The Independent

The Guardian - UK

UK’s hostile environment policies ‘disproportionately impact’ people of colour

Government evaluation of the legislation is the first official review of the policies that led to the Windrush scandal

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Othello; The Unfriend; On the Ropes – review

Brute force speaks volumes in Frantic Assembly’s breathtaking Othello; Steven Moffat and co flirt with farce; and the story of Windrush boxer Vernon Vanriel hits home in song

Daily Mirror

Suella Braverman accused of 'dangerously flirting with ideologues' over Windrush

Actor David Harewood today said the decision to drop three key reforms brought in following the Windrush scandal was 'awful', while Baroness Floella Benjamin said the move would cause 'even more pain and hurt'

Evening Standard

Criticism mounts over Braverman’s ‘awful’ dropping of Windrush pledges

Baroness Floella Benjamin and actor David Harewood branded the decision ‘cruel’ and ‘dangerous’

The Independent UK

Suella Braverman ditching Windrush reform is ‘slap in the face’ for victims

The Home Secretary has dropped plans to establish the post of migrants’ commissioner and hold reconciliation events.

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