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Headlines

Community

Marble Arch to get its own hill
Grassy knoll idea ‘a clarion call to the recovery of London’s hospitality and leisure sector’
23 February — By Tom Foot

Business

Gay’s The Word bookshop pioneer dies at 73
19 February — By Tom Foot

Coronavirus

Good Life star praises front-line NHS effort
19 February — By Tom Foot

Community

Decision day looms for duke estate demolition bid
12 February — By Tom Foot

The Xtra Diary

Food for thought: Take a dekko at the Art Deco
19 February — By The Xtra Diary

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Business

Under-threat India Club: ‘Old London is really being swept away’
As it faces fresh uncertainty, manager reveals what makes the Strand restaurant special – and vows to fight back
12 February — By Conrad Landin

Coronavirus

TV Eddie: ‘Low vaccine take-up is political’
09 February — By Tom Foot

Health

Colleagues pay tribute to NHS workers
05 February — By Tom Foot

Coronavirus

Police break up Soho ‘pyjama party’
05 February

Coronavirus

Vulnerable struggle to get vaccine
01 February — By Isabelle Stanley

The Xtra Diary

The Xtra Diary

Food for thought: Take a dekko at the Art Deco
Enjoy a great breakfast at the Regency Cafe “LYING in bed,” wrote the writer/philosopher GK Chesterton, “would be an altogether...
19 February — By The Xtra Diary

The Xtra Diary

The pinnacle of the pineapple, missing figures and compost!
12 February — By The Xtra Diary

The Xtra Diary

Ducking and diving in SW1
05 February — By The Xtra Diary

The Xtra Diary

Once more unto the bridge
29 January — By The Xtra Diary

The Xtra Diary

Let’s all go down the Strand
22 January — By The Xtra Diary

Review

From the Camden New Journal

Books

Owed to Keats
John Keats died 200 years ago this week. Here Conrad Landin examines three books that take a very different look at his life and...
25 February — By Conrad Landin
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Books

What lies beneath
18 February — By Dan Carrier
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Food & Drink

Citrus fruit: how to light up lockdown
18 February — By Tom Moggach
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Radio

The Ventriloquist’s Dummy: a gutsy take on tummy trouble
25 February — By Lucy Popescu
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Books

The power of poetry
25 February — By Dan Carrier

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Film

Frank god: inside story of a musical genius
19 February — By Dan Carrier
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Theatre

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Girl on an Altar; Typical; Behind the Beautiful Forevers
25 February — By Lucy Popescu
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Classical & Jazz

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: Pushkin House Festival; Oxford Lieder Festival;...
25 February — By Michael White
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Rock n Pop

GROOVES: Koko; GULZ; Absolute; Slowthai
25 February — By Róisín Gadelrab

Letters

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Letters

Privatisation threat to GP surgeries
18 February
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Letters

This so-called NHS reform is a cynical distraction
18 February
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Letters

Beware this government’s attack on academic freedom
• YOUR newspaper needs to be congratulated for its principled defence of free...
18 February
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Letters

Palestinians need vaccine
18 February
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Letters

Landlords see an opportunity to profit from the pandemic
18 February
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Letters

A dereliction of duty on trade
18 February
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Letters

Get involved with LIEN, Labour In Exile Network
18 February

Letters

I shall fight for my tenancy Boris Johnson
• I WAS delighted to read the views from the London Tenants Federation, (An invitation to tenants, a Zoom meeting about estate...
18 February

More news

Health

Great Ormond Street cleaners’ pay victory
14 December — By Bronwen Weatherby

Business

Markets’ secrets are dished up in online cookbook
24 December — By Tom Foot
From the Camden New Journal

Community

Tributes paid to ‘true force of nature’ Grenfell campaigner
10 December — By Angela Cobbinah

Crime

Robber ‘kicked woman of 87’
01 December

LGBT

From the Camden New Journal

Community

Events lineup for LGBT History Month
10 February
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Community

Founder of LGBT History Month speaks about diversity and tackling homophobia
07 February — By Helen Chapman
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Community

Heaven nightclub celebrates its 40th anniversary
07 February — By Danny Halpin
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