Don’t get too attached to the London you see: Streatham was a spa retreat, Limehouse housed Chinatown and the area around St Pancras station was a disease hotbed nicknamed Ague Town Contemporary ...

West Mercia Police said officers had been in contact with the woman before she died The death of a woman in a city park has been referred for review under police professional standards. Emergency ...

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1 September 1948: In the basements of what were shops and dwellings, there is a waist-high tangle of willowherb, spear-plume thistle, and Oxford ragwort London A gentle breeze was blowing as I walked ...

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Does anything in London appear more incongruous than St Giles' Cripplegate, an oasis in the brutalist desert of the Barbican? The name derives from the parish of Cripplegate Without, it being outside ...

A fusion of Eastern and Western influence is brought to St Giles’ Church Cripplegate in Jericho House’s touring version of The Tempest, to mark 400 years since the play was first performed. With ...

Hosted by ECSA (the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance),the BBC Singers give a climatic concert at St Giles’ Church Cripplegate, London celebrating the very best of European contemporary choral ...

Evelin Seppar (b.1986) (pictured below by by Sade-triis Jurikaas) was not a name I knew, but her music made an impression, and a strong, individual identity emerged in the Carice Singers’ performances ...