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'My jaw dropped': Artist wins TV naked painting challenge

Rosalind Freeborn

TV

Bridget Galton

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Muswell Hill artist Ros Freeborn won Channel 4's 'Drawers Off' naked painting challenge with her paper collage of life model Clapmutt

Families enjoy the Teddy Bears Picnic Picture Polly Hancock

Jester Festival returns to West Hampstead after two year Covid pandemic

Nathalie Raffray

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Harry Styles at the O2 Arena in 2019

Review

Love on Tour: When Wembley was 'Harry's House'

Melissa Fishman

Queen's Freddie Mercury collected stamps as a boy

I want to philately! Freddie Mercury’s stamp collection goes on display

André Langlois

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Keats Grove was filled with colourful canvases as part of a Mural Festival on Saturday

Hampstead Summer Festival

Community murals decorate Hampstead street

Bridget Galton

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Benjamin Nabarro plays the opening weekend of the Proms at St Jude's festival in Hampstead Garden Suburb

Books

Proms opens with lit fest and top-class music

Bridget Galton

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Empty paddling pool in a park on a sunny day

Haringey Council

Paddling pool to be open all week after pipes replaced

André Langlois

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Elton John dedicated 'Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me' to George Michael at BST Hyde Park

Music

Elton John rockets through career-spanning BST Hyde Park gig

Ben Jolley

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Gabriels at Koko, June 21, 2022

Review

'Gabriels stun Koko – superstardom seems inevitable'

André Langlois

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The Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize 2022 - Julie Saddi with her painting Ruby and the Chair

Arts & Culture

Women artists championed by painting prize

Bridget Galton

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The team celebrate their Silver Medal win in the OmVed Seed pavilion

Gardening

Seed saving project germinates award-winning exhibit

Bridget Galton

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Veteran Jazz great Herbie Hancock played The Barbican on Wednesday

Music | Review

Herbie Hancock: Still going strong at 82

Adam Davidson

Tom Conti and Andrew Thornton, who runs the Budgens in Haverstock Hill and was vocally opposed to Te

Retail

How Belsize Park Budgens could help change the world

Bridget Galton

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Toby Olié at work on one of the puppets for 101 Dalmatians at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

Music

Dalmatians find their way home to Regent's Park

Bridget Galton

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Tom Dick and Harry at Alexandra Palace Theatre

Theatre

The great escape told by nine actors playing 600 parts

Bridget Galton

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Hostile Environment Training involves a faked kidnapping and safety instruction if you find yourself in a war zone

Travel Features | Opinion

'I took a course on kidnapping and hostile environment survival'

Kerstin Rodgers

Monkey Valley opens at London Zoo on August 15 and includes a new home for the troop of colobus monkeys

ZSL London Zoo

'High-flying monkeys' set to move into London Zoo's aviary

Bridget Galton

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Boy GeorgeHERITAGE LIVE KENWOOD 2022PHOTOS RUPERT FRERE

Music | Review

Boy George, Nile Rodgers and Noel Gallagher rock Kenwood House

Bridget Galton

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Jake Bugg played 15 songs in an hour long set as a warm up for Noel Gallagher.

Jake Bugg brings hits to Kenwood House

William Mata

Saint Etienne

Music

Saint Etienne return to Mario's Cafe

Bridget Galton

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What better for a heatwave than a delicious ice cream?

Heatwave! 6 great north London ice cream parlours

André Langlois

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Artist Brian Bicknell

Books

Graphic novel of English GI who fought in Patton's army

Bridget Galton

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The Crouch End Festival Chorus in their adopted home of Alexandra Palace's Victorian Theatre

Music

Chorus takes centre stage for first night of the Proms

Bridget Galton

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The South London Jazz Orchestra play one of the free concerts on the Regent's Park bandstand

Music

Bandstand concerts herald summer of music in Regent's Park

Bridget Galton

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Welsh wine

Food and Drink

Try local wines for English Wine Week

Julia Kirby-Smith

The Fellowship

Theatre

Sister act explores the children of Windrush

Bridget Galton

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Vines in Corsica

Food and Drink

Pink wine is about pleasure and passion but which to choose?

Liz Sagues

Alice Bellini and Denicia Allen practice their performance of "Reunion"

Alexandra Palace Theatre to host annual performance for disabled dance...

Melissa Fishman

Throwback to the last edition of Junction 2 festival.

London festival Junction 2 cancelled due to Network Rail strikes

Ben Jolley

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Rainer at Arcola Outside

Theatre | Review

Rainer: 'breakneck life of a London bike delivery rider'

Caroline David