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Baker takes on another TV institution

Colin Baker (Morse) and Andrew Bone (Lewis)

2:50pm Friday 3rd September 2010

Colin Baker, one of the 11 actors to have played Doctor Who, is now taking to the stage to tackle another television institution - the grumpy, Jaguar-driving super sleuth, Inspector Morse.

Volunteer actors ready for Rose experience

Our Town opens at The Rose

1:20pm Friday 3rd September 2010

The history of Kingston will be brought to life on The Rose Theatre’s stage next week as Our Town: A Kingston Story begins a four day run at the venue.

Mistakes are making their own way in the music industry...

mistakes.in.animation  are releasing their debut EP this month

12:30pm Friday 3rd September 2010

It has always been the way that no matter how fresh, exciting or talented a band are, getting a deal can be trickier than two hours of Paul Daniels on the telly and with the music industry currently in meltdown more and more bands are going down the DIY route.

National Theatre stages supports for Twickenham charity

Care support: Roy Kinnear house resident Donna Brown with Carmel Kinnear

1:26pm Friday 3rd September 2010

The Roy Kinnear Foundation is on an appropriately theatrical fundraising mission to raise cash to renovate its residential home for disabled young people and adults, writes Will Gore.

Award-winning Edinburgh show coming to Warehouse Theatre

Blazing a trail: Ovid's Metamorphoses

12:40pm Wednesday 1st September 2010

One of the success stories of this year's Edinburgh Festival, Pants of Fire's Ovid's Metamorphoses, leaves Scotland and heads straight for Croydon's Warehouse Theatre next week.

Heap and Pebble back to take on the world

Skating on this wood: Valentina Ceschi and Thomas Eccleshare

11:04am Wednesday 1st September 2010

Previous visitors to Battersea Arts Centre's Scratch festival might remember Dancing Brick and their show, 6.0: How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and Won.

Getting you back In The Mood

Perfect partners: Chris and Simone Smith

11:11am Wednesday 1st September 2010

Given the weather last week and the apparent end of summer and decent into gloomy winter, I think we all need a pick me up and I have just the thing.

Carnival time

Colourful celebration: Caribbean Carnival

11:09am Wednesday 1st September 2010

Get those moth-balls off that dress ladies and dust off those dancing shoes gentleman, it's carnival time.

Game review: Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light - Xbox 360

Game news: Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

12:28pm Tuesday 31st August 2010

Last time we saw Lara Croft was in 2008’s Tomb Raider: Underworld. A lot has changed since then.

A man on an anti-whaling mission

John Burton

3:40pm Friday 27th August 2010

As a teenager Isleworth resident John Burton, 77, worked as a whaler but in recent times he has become a leading anti-whaling campaigner. He has now written a book, Ta-ra Johnny Boy: Boy Whaler to Rainbow Warrior, about his experiences which he hopes will alert more people to the cause.










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