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No need for hard stares as Paddington: The Musical triumphs at Olivier awards
April 12, 2026It was a night of sweet victory for Michael Bond’s marmalade-loving bear as Paddington: The Musical dominated the Olivier awards on Sunday. Amid the tuxes and gowns of a glittering ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the duffle coat-wearing bear got his sticky paws all over seven prizes including best new musical. The […]
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Can’t beet it! Humble mangelwurzel to star at Chelsea flower show
April 12, 2026They are an unloved root vegetable traditionally grown for cattle feed, and when pulled from the ground they look like an ingredient destined for a witch’s cauldron. But the humble mangelwurzel will be in pride of place in the Great Pavilion at this year’s Chelsea flower show (19-23 May), after becoming the subject of an […]
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Why the UK banned Kanye West – podcast
April 10, 2026When Kanye West was announced as the headliner for Wireless festival in London this summer, the backlash was immediate. “He’d been on a campaign of four or five years of antisemitic trolling,” Lanre Bakare, the Guardian’s arts and culture correspondent, tells Nosheen Iqbal. “Embracing neo-Nazi imagery, pushing out far-right conspiracy theories about Jewish people.” Bakare […]
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‘I’m broken-hearted’: father pays tribute to student, 21, stabbed in Primrose Hill
April 9, 2026A film student who was stabbed to death in London’s Primrose Hill was a “beautiful, lovely, outgoing, loving” man, his father has said. Finbar Sullivan, 21, was stabbed in a fight in the north London park in the early evening on Tuesday and was pronounced dead at the scene. His father, Christopher Sullivan, said his […]
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Londoners may regret protest votes for Reform or Greens in local elections, says Sadiq Khan
April 8, 2026Sadiq Khan has said he can understand why some former Labour voters are “flirting” with other parties in the run-up to May’s elections, but said that they may regret seeing a Green or Reform-led council in their areas. Speaking to the Guardian at a youth centre, where he was announcing new funding for facilities for […]
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National Gallery picks Tokyo Olympic stadium architect to design new wing
April 7, 2026The National Gallery has announced that its largest and most significant transformation in its 200-year history will be designed by the Japanese architect behind Tokyo’s Olympic stadium. The new wing will be designed by Kengo Kuma as part of Project Domani, the gallery’s expansion into art from the 20th and 21st centuries. Its completion will […]
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Do we really need truncheons and pepper spray to fight off London’s ‘feral’ teenage shoplifters? | Zoe Williams
April 6, 2026Last week, some teenagers in the Clapham area of south-west London started running up and down the high street. The terms used to describe them ranged from “feral gang” to “chaotic swarm”; evidently, it is in the eye of the beholder as to whether they were closer to animals or insects. Definitely, positively, some of […]
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Ban Kanye West from performing at Wireless festival, antisemitism charity urges
April 6, 2026Kanye West should be banned from entering the UK to perform at Wireless festival, the Campaign Against Antisemitism has urged. The Jewish charity is the latest voice to join calls for the rapper’s performance to be cancelled following his antisemitic remarks and raises doubts about whether the music festival, due to take place in London’s […]
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‘Not quite Greggs’: TikTok creators put London’s ‘gentrified’ bakeries to the test
April 4, 2026The video that started it all was innocuous enough: a woman in her 20s posted on TikTok about how she spends a perfect weekend in north London. On her list were the bakeries Jolene and Gail’s, and the De Beauvoir Deli. The reaction, however, was anything but. Many locals commented that they had never heard […]
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UK food halls buck downbeat hospitality trend: ‘In this impossible climate, they shine hope’
April 4, 2026Beeps chirp through the cavernous Cambridge Street Collective on a busy weekday, as buzzers alert the lunch crowd to collect their sushi tacos, rendang curries or Palestinian chicken musakhan. The Sheffield food hall is Europe’s largest purpose-built venue of its kind, at 20,000 sq ft, and arrived in 2024 as part of a major redevelopment […]
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