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Boris Johnson economic agency will bear brunt if London event runs over budget

Mayor of London's director of marketing defends decision to use taxpayers' money to underwrite losses of SportAccord convention Boris Johnson's cash-strapped economic agency will bear the brunt of costs if a major London event...

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Union warns over tube overtime in pay row

By Alan Jones, Press Association Union leaders will today consider calling an overtime ban among engineering and electrical workers on London Underground in a row over pay, which they warned would disrupt services. Officials...

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PA wins Evening Standard video deal

PA's investment in video finally pays off, but news agency still forced to get rid of some reporters as well as it hopes to attract public money for regional reporting The Press Association news agency will provide news, sports...

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Jubilee Line faces more closures

Tube Lines said they believed the work could finish in December Contractors upgrading the Tube's Jubilee Line have asked for six further weekend closures to finish the work. Disruptions to the line have sparked criticism from...

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Confessions of Big Daddy

James Earl Jones has been breaking down barriers since the 1950s. As he prepares to star in an all-black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, he tells Maddy Costa about his absent father, elderly sex – and why his stutter was his salvation...

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Alan Bennett: too nice to be great?

Alan Bennett's wit and feel for the nuances of class have endeared him to millions. Teaming up: 'The Habit of Art' at the Lyttelton Theatre, with Alex Jennings, as Henry, and Richard Griffiths, as Fitz Richard Griffiths and...

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Roy Greenslade: Ray Tindle explains South London Press loss

I wish I could have put up a clarification to my Sunday posting, Tindle reveals £500,000 loss at London paper , yesterday. For a variety of reasons, I was unable to do so. If you go to that posting now, you'll see that it has...

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Award for Henry

A production of Othello that premiered at the West Yorkshire Playhouse has won an acting award for Lenny Henry. Henry, who made his stage-acting debut in Leeds with Othello, won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best...

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It's time to let jazz fans record the show

The clampdown on cameraphones at the London jazz festival is stopping a vibrant and spontaneous art form from reaching a wider audience online The ushers certainly had their work cut out. During this year's 250-gig London jazz...

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Queen star's boyhood remembered

Freddie Mercury wrote some of his classic songs at his parents' London home Eighteen years after the death of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, the people of Feltham in west London are preparing to honour him with a commemorative...

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