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Cartoonist creates celebrity tube stops

Karl Marx represents Highgate in Stars on the Tube

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Bridget Galton

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Cartoonist and former Hampstead schoolboy Simon Ellinas has created a book of 272 caricatures of celebrities associated with each Tube stop.
Emily's Walking Book Club started out on Hampstead Heath in 2012 and has grown to have 1,000 members

Books

Walking Book Club raises funds for Ukraine appeal

Bridget Galton

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Idler Festival

Comedy

Jarvis Cocker to headline as Idler Festival returns to Fenton House

Bridget Galton

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Dishti one of the gown makers at Hampstead Town Hall featured in the book

Health

The story of the volunteer PPE factory in Hampstead's old town hall

Bridget Galton

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Maurice from Hampstead

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Photographs celebrate diversity of Britain's Jewish population

Bridget Galton

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Tim Sullivan

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Self published crime writer lands deal for his Detective with autism

Bridget Galton

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Hampstead child psychiatrist Dr Holan Liang has written a book about belonging

Books

Feeling you belong is the key to happiness

Bridget Galton

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The Sunday Papers Live is at Cecil Sharp House in Primrose Hill

Music

Sunday Papers festival turns Cecil Sharp House into giant living room

Bridget Galton

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Tracy-Ann Oberman is adapting Marika Cobbold's novel On Hampstead Heath for the screen

TV

Tracy-Ann Oberman to adapt Hampstead novel for the screen

Bridget Galton

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Author Arnold Bennett lent his name to a smoked haddock omelette and a road in Hornsey

Heritage

How author Arnold Bennett gave his name to an omelette and a Hornsey street

Patrick Donovan

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