Since the dawn of time the art world has been dominated by white men, whether it’s an abstract painting by Pablo Picasso or an impressionist piece by Van-Gough, our historical figures across the art world are always male; So to show that women do have an artistic voice and influence the Victoria miro gallery has launched “surface work” a new
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The Conservatives will probably dodge “utter disaster” despite Labour’s swing. As of the 26th April, the voting intentions for London are 29% Conservative, 51% Labour and 11% Liberal Democrat, though Labour will be making major gains according to most analysts there will be a few boroughs that will be tough for Labour to break through. Westminster and Wandsworth which have been
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Crystal Palace played on Saturday against Leicester City in their attempt to avoid relegation to the Championship and produced a wonderful performance against a Leicester, although they had nothing to play for. The opening goal came from Wilfred Zaha in 16 minutes, and it wasn’t long before their second goal by James McArthur made in 36 minutes making it even
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13 year old Kyle Jackson from Sidcup, Kent, breaks the norms to become a professional gamer. Kyle Jackson, who plays games almost everyday, has now made a career out of it. He plays in a team of three when playing secret Fortnite as the shooter, though he does not currently make any money as he will be gaining money from
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The streets of Brixton are coming alive on the 28th of April, with a new day and night festival celebrating 40 years of disco in some of Brixton’s most renowned venues. The Brixton disco festival is set to take place in venues surrounding Brixton’s iconic wind rush square the electric Brixton is going to be home to hundreds of ravers
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There are crucial games for London teams this weekend.Relegation battle, promotion and who’s getting into the European places in Premier League. Crystal Palace play against Leicester City, Chelsea are playing away from home against Swansea City, Arsenal play Manchester United at Old Trafford, Spurs are playing Watford at home and lastly West Ham play Manchester City at the London Stadium.
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Students taking drugs is not news to most people, but contrary to popular belief students are not as involved with illegal substances as the media and popular shows like skins would have you believe. Only about 2 in 5 students are regular drug users, and the most commonly used substances are weed, cocaine, ecstasy and nitrous oxide. Despite the moral panic of students bingeing on class A drugs the most frequently used is cannabis,
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Three drug dealers jailed for using a helicopter to transport Class A drugs to Britain. On the 26th April, 37 year old Dean Francis from Lewisham was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court, he was charged with conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and pleaded guilty to the offence back in March. He had two other accomplices who in total have been
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Police figures showing a 22% increase in knife crime and 11% rise in gun crime. Violent crime is on the up. In the last year police recorded 39,598 offences involving a knife or sharp instrument. 22% increase compared with the previous year (32, 468) and is the largest jump ever recorded since 2010. By the end of 2017, there were 688
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A source from TMz confirms that Avicii died of blood loss from a self inflicted injury days after the the public written letter from the family that indicated he died of suicide. Tim Bergling was a Swedish DJ, musician, producer and remixer who went by his stage name Avicii. On April 20th Bergling was found dead aged 28; no apparent
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