BBC London
London’s rubbish problem: Recycling – BBC London News
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- London’s rubbish problem: Recycling – BBC London News
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- 2:28
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- 9 years ago
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- Only three London boroughs are meeting their recycling targets, according to figures obtained by BBC London. Councils are all meant to be recycling 45% of their waste, but the overwhelming majority are failing to do so. Our environment correspondent Tom Edwards reports in the first part of our series on how we deal with the city's rubbish.
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- What happens to old pound coins, now they’ve been replaced? – BBC London News
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- 1:43
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- 9 years ago
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- There are just eight weeks left until 15 October, the deadline to return old one pound coins before they're no longer legal tender. But the process is going a little slower than expected because more people than expected are actually returning the new ones instead. Nicola Ford visited the company in Dagenham recycling all those old coins.
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- Erno Goldfinger: Trellick Tower designer and inspiration for James Bond ‘baddie’ – BBC London News
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- 2:08
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- 9 years ago
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- It's one of the most familiar landscapes on our skyline. Trellick Tower is just one of many tower blocks in London. We’ve heard from some of those who live there in our ‘Trellick Tales’ series, but what about the man who built it? Well, he was so divisive his name was used by the creator of James Bond for one of his most famous "baddies".
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- Mr Benn at 50 – BBC London News
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- 2:12
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- 9 years ago
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- You'll have to be of a certain age to have grown up watching this children's character. This year Mr Benn and his bowler hat turns 50-years-old. Alice Bhandhukravi has been speaking to Mr Benn's creator, David McKee, about the character and how his home in Putney was pivotal to the plot.
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- Gladiators in Guildhall Yard – BBC London News
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- 2:15
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- 9 years ago
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- It was the Romans who gave our city the name 'Londinium' and this weekend 'Gladiators' will once again return here to re-enact the drama. The arena in Guildhall Yard is where the original competitors battled to the death all those years ago. BBC London’s Jim Wheble reports.
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- The Ruff Sqwad Grime academy - BBC London News
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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Grime music is big business in the capital. In the past year alone sales have more than doubled. It's partly down to the success of artists like Stormzy and Skepta. Now the group Ruff Sqwad, who pioneered the movement as far back as 20 years ago, have set up an academy supporting young Londoners hoping to be the next big grime stars. Nicola Ford has been along to meet them.
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- Sheep grazing in Green Park – BBC London News
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- 1:59
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- If you're walking through or driving past Green Park this week, don't be surprised if you see some sheep. They're not lost. They're helping flowers to flourish and grow. The rare breed sheep are part of a conservation trial taking place next to Buckingham Palace. Nicky Ford explains.
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- The dog cinema – BBC London News
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- 2:06
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Many of us visit the cinema with our best friend, but what happens when that mate, is a four legged friend? Well a movie theatre in Central London is hoping to encourage dogs, and their owners, to watch films together. Helen Drew has been to find out more.
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- Trellick Tales: Turning 'waste in to gold' - BBC London News
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- In the third part of our series exploring life in a London high rise, we've been hearing from residents of Trellick Tower which was built by Erno Goldfinger in the 1970s. We meet those learning and teaching skills in the factory underneath the block.
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- Trellick Tales: Growing up in a tower block - BBC London News
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- 2:04
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- 9 years ago
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- BBC London has spent a week meeting the residents of one of the capital's first residential council blocks Trellick tower. In this episode we meet a young woman who wouldn't live anywhere else.
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- Trellick Tales: Home for 40 years - BBC London News
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- 2:04
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- 9 years ago
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- Did you know around 700,000 Londoners live in tower blocks? So what's life like living in a high-rise?
Residents of Trellick Tower in Kensignton and Chelsea have invited us in. #TrellickTales
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- African Fashion Week - BBC London News
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- 3:01
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- African Fashion Week is drawing in the crowds. The event is now in its 7th year, and as Helen Drew reports, designers come from all over the world to take part.
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- The hidden art deco cinema in Hackney – BBC London News
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- 2:19
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- In the decades after the cinema boom of the 30s, many theatres fell to ruin. One in Hackney has recently been rediscovered after being hidden for three decades. Wendy Hurrell has been to take a look before it begins a new lease of life.
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- Busking on the London Underground – BBC London News
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- 2:09
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The opportunity to busk on the Tube doesn't come round that often. You need to apply to Transport for London for a licence but they only hold auditions every two years. They're currently looking to add to the existing 250 buskers on the London Underground. Helen Drew reports.
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- LGBT venue is requirement of planning application - BBC London News
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- 2:27
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Should pubs be checked for how Gay they are before they are granted a licence to open? That's exactly what's happening in Tower Hamlets. It's all part of an attempt to stop the trend of LGBT venues closing down in London. The Council is even sending in an inspector, as Emma North reports.
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- End of an era for this London pie and mash shop - BBC London
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- 2:07
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Food trends come and go, but the traditional pie and mash has weathered many a culinary storm.
Maybe until now that is. Because after more than a hundred years in business one of London’s oldest pie shops, based in Islington, is about to close saying it can't afford increased business rates and is having to relocate to Essex.
Nicola Ford reports on the end of an era.
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- Inside Kew Garden's secretive tropical nursery - BBC London News
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- 3:32
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Kew Gardens has some of the most beautiful and exotic plants in the world, but there’s a secretive tropical nursery that’s normally closed to the public. It houses some of the rarest and strangest species.
This weekend, on August 5th and 6th, visitors will get a chance to glimpse inside.
Alice Bhandhukravi has taken a look:
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- David Walliams 'Gangsta Granny' interview - BBC London News
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- 2:05
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- From 'Little Britain' to 'Britain's Got Talent', David Walliams is one of the country's best known entertainers and also one of our most successful children's authors. His Gangsta Granny series has brought joy to thousands of youngsters. The book has been turned into a stage show and it opens for the first time in London today. Yesterday he came face-to-face with some of his biggest fans, and youngest critics as Alice Bhandhukravi reports.
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- The Battle of Passchendaele: Hertfordshire Regiment - BBC London News
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- 2:47
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele. As the country remembers one of the bloodiest battles of the conflict, our reporter Shaun Peel discovers the story of the Hertfordshire Regiment which was wiped out on Flanders fields on the very first morning.
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- Artist Blondey McCoy - BBC London News
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- 1:58
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- London has a tradition of producing talented young artists but not many of them can say they've worked with the likes of Damian Hurst, run their own fashion label and professionally skateboard as part of their art.
Meet Blondey McCoy who can boast all those things and more. Wendy Hurrell has been to meet him where it all began - at the Southbank.
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- London's underground mail train - BBC London News
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- 2:21
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- It's called 'Mail Rail'. That’s because for 75 years a network of railways ran under the streets of London. It was used by Royal Mail to sort all our post.
The system was closed almost 15 years ago but now it's back on track as a tourist attraction. Tim Muffett has been to see it.
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- Maternal mental health – BBC London News
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- 2:06
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- More than one in seven women who die within a year of giving birth commits suicide. Yet the mental health of pregnant women and new mothers isn’t often talked about. St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington is trying to help. Emma North reports.
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- Mud soldier sculpture in Trafalgar Square - BBC London News
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- 2:19
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- It was one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War in which nearly half a million troops were killed or wounded. The Battle of Passchendael saw the British launch a series of failed assaults against German forces in Belgium. Relatives of some of the soldiers who died attended the unveiling of an art installation made in honour of those who lost their lives. Caroline Davies reports.
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- Campaign to change language around Down's syndrome – BBC London News
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- 2:07
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A mother from Surrey, whose son has Down’s syndrome, has called for doctors and midwives to be given better advice on how to talk to parents if their baby is diagnosed with the genetic condition. Sarah Roberts from Woking feels the language used when she was told her son Oscar was affected left her confused and upset. She wants other parents to have better support. Thomas Magill reports.
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- Queen’s rarely seen possessions are on show at Buckingham Palace - BBC London News
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- 2:07
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Some of the Queen’s rarely seen possessions are on show at the state rooms at Buckingham Palace for the very first time. On display will be gifts the Queen has received on her travels around the world in her 65-year reign. The exhibition reveals some 'interesting' presents from world heads of states, as Wendy Hurrell reports.
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- A new purpose for London's iconic red telephone boxes – BBC London News
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- They may have fallen out of use but London’s iconic red telephone boxes have been refurbed and refashioned into snug workshops fixing, ironically, mobile phone handsets.
In fact they’re already 20 in the capital already and Niccola Ford went in search of one.
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- London’s summer events – BBC London News
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- 2:21
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Some of the capital's attractions have unveiled their big summer events. Emma North has been looking at how much a family day out could set you back and how you can enjoy London for free.
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- Illegal tobacco – BBC London News
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- 2:07
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Criminal networks are making tens of millions of pounds a year from selling illegal tobacco in London alone, and it's a growing problem. Trading Standards showed BBC London how they're cracking down on the illicit trade by using specially trained sniffer dogs to target businesses suspected of selling it. Thomas Magill reports.
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- Would you go sky dining? – BBC London News
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Not only will you need a head for heights but a stomach too. That's because a new pop-up restaurant has opened 100 feet in the air. It’s part of an event called London in the Sky and our reporter Nicola Ford has been at the chef's table with diners sampling food at dizzying heights.
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- Grenfell mural unveiled in Hackney – BBC London News
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The tragedy at Grenfell Tower has touched all of us in different ways. A mural by graffiti artist Ben Eine has been unveiled in Hackney, it was inspired by the world famous author Ben Okri and his poem dedicated to the victims of the fire.
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- Sarcophagus discovered in south east London - BBC London News
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A sarcophagus believed to be an ancient roman relic has been discovered buried in south east London. It’s one of only three ever found in the capital. BBC London’s cameras were allowed to film the painstaking excavation. Alice Bhandhukravi reports.
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- Searching for hedghogs - BBC London News
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Hedgehogs are becoming more and more elusive in London. Wildlife experts are trying to record their numbers using secret camera traps hidden in the trees to photograph them. But as Victoria Cook reports the search didn't turn out quite as planned.
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- The world's first ATM – BBC London News
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The world’s first ATM was unveiled fifty years ago in June 1967 at a Barclays Bank in Enfield. But with an ever-growing number of ways to pay will the hole in the wall endure? Alpa Patel reports.
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- Survivors stories from the Grenfell Tower fire - BBC London News
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- 3:59
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Residents of Grenfell Tower in west London have told their stories of how they escaped a fatal blaze that has destroyed the 24 storey building. The fire took hold in the early hours of the morning, as people searching for loved ones and witnesses explain.
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- Fire safety in London's tower blocks - BBC London News
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- 4:04
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Safety inside the capital’s tower blocks is being questioned after the fatal Grenfell Tower fire in west London. A number of recommendations were made after a similar fire in a block of flats in 2009 in Southwark. But some critics say they have not been acted upon and lessons have not been learned. Tom Edwards reports.
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- Drone racing at Alexandra Palace – BBC London News
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Imagine being inside a video game, travelling at high speed or even flying through the air. If you like the sound of that then you going to like this – drone racing. It’s growing in popularity and now there’s even the first ever professional UK drone race. It’s being hosted at Alexandra Palace and Emma Jones has been to see the drones in action.
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- Grayson Perry 'The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!' - BBC London News
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- 6:57
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- He's famous for his ceramics and tapestry which he says are a commentary on the society we live in. Now, artist Grayson Perry is unveiling a new series of works at the Serpentine Gallery, which includes pots depicting Brexit and a custom-built motorbike. Alice Bhandhukravi went to meet him.
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- Faron’s fight against knife crime in London – BBC London News
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Nine teenagers have so far been stabbed to death on London’s streets in 2017, and it’s only June.
Faron Alex Paul is trying to tackle the problem on the streets of Enfield.
He’s a vlogger using social media to reach those who feel the need to carry knives.
BBC London’s Alpa Patel went to meet him.
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- BBC Election 2017: The London Debate - part 4 NHS and social care
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- 11:11
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- London's leading politicians debate the issues that matter to London.
Part 4: NHS and social care
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- BBC Election 2017: The London Debate - part 3 Brexit
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- 9:47
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- London's leading politicians debate the issues that matter to London.
Part 3: Brexit
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- BBC Election 2017: The London Debate - part 2 Housing
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- 10:35
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- London's leading politicians debate the issues that matter to London.
Part 2: Housing
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- BBC Election 2017: The London Debate - part 1 Security
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- 12:32
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- London's leading politicians debate the issues that matter to London.
Part 1: Security
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- Stormzy funds Harvard dreams – BBC London News
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- 1:44
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A student from south London offered a place at Harvard University in America has raised her fees with the help of a crowd funding campaign. She raised it all in less than 24 hours... largely because of a big donation from the Grime artist Stormzy. Alpa Patel has the story.
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- Guy Ritchie 'King Arthur' interview - BBC London News
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- King Arthur has a cast of hundreds including Lewisham's Jude Law and even Leytonstone's David Beckham. Sonja Jessup caught up with director Guy Ritchie on the red carpet at the film’s premiere in Leicester Square.
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- David Mach at the Griffin Gallery - BBC London News
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- 1:54
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The artist David Mach is known for working with match sticks, coat hangers and straws. Now, the Turner Prize-nominee is putting some of our old newspapers to good use. He's currently installing his latest works at the Griffin Gallery in Notting Hill, including one which he uses more than 20-tonnes of recycled newspaper to create. Alice Bhandhukravi went to meet him.
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- Ray Winstone & Johnny Harris 'Jawbone' interview - BBC London News
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- 3:55
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Ray Winstone stars in Jawbone. A film written by former amateur boxer Johnny Harris who also stars in the film. The film’s based on his experience as a troubled youngster growing up in Lambeth, finding his way with the help of his boxing coach Mick.
Alice Bhandhukravi talked to its stars.
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- Orlando Bloom interview – BBC London News
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- This month Orlando Bloom hits the big screen twice in two very different films. The much anticipated ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 5’ and ‘Unlocked’ a spy thriller set in London in which he plays an MI5 agent. So would he like to be the next Bond? He's been talking to our correspondent Sophie van Brugen.
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- John Boyega ‘Woyzeck’ interview – BBC London News
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- 1:42
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- He's best known as Star Wars stormtrooper Finn, but now John Boyega is taking to the London stage. He's playing his first lead role in Woyzeck a new production at the Old Vic, and says he's enjoying being 'back at home'. Alice Bhandhukravi went to meet him.
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- Why are London Marathon runners selling their medals? - BBC London News
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- 1:53
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Why, just days after the race are some London Marathon medals appearing on auction websites? Alpa Patel spoke to one man who decided to part with his medal.
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- Jude Law on playing a young Dumbledore
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- 1:47
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- He's set to play one of fiction's greatest wizards and Jude Law says it fills him with excitement and just a little trepidation to take on the role of a young Dumbledore later in the year.
He is of course most well known for his film roles but he says the stage is actually where his heart lies.
He's been speaking to Alice Bhandukravi at the opening of his latest theatre production.
