BBC London
Chris Pratt 'Guardian's of the Galaxy Vol. 2' interview - BBC London News
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- Chris Pratt 'Guardian's of the Galaxy Vol. 2' interview - BBC London News
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- 2:15
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 premiere in London. Wendy Hurrell chats to Chris Pratt.
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- Bus numbers cut on Oxford Street – BBC London News
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- 3:06
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- From this summer, there'll be fewer buses on Oxford Street - they’ll be almost halved to try to cut congestion and pollution.
It'll affect twenty-three routes. So how's the news gone down with passengers and shoppers? We sent Sonja Jessup and Marc Ashdown to find out.
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- Incredible colour WWII photos - BBC London New
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Amazing photos from the Imperial War Museum London
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- Larry Lamb & Phil Daniels 'The Hatton Garden Job' interview - BBC London News
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- 2:27
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The Hatton Garden heist - the largest burglary in English legal history, planned by four pensioners. Underground safety deposit boxes holding tens of millions of pounds of valuables were taken - but nobody was hurt. It has been made into a film Alice Bhandukravi spoke to two of the cast.
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- Virtual Reality helps hospice patients
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- 8:28
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Mark Jordan finds out how virtual reality is making dreams come true for hospice patients.
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- Capturing the scent of a book - BBC London News
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- 2:07
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A smell can evoke memories of a certain time, place or experience – now scientists at University College London are documenting scents as a way of recording culturally significant artefacts. Helen Drew explains.
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- Michael Caine & Morgan Freeman 'Going in Style' interview - BBC London News
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- 1:40
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Legend of British film, Sir Michael Caine, and the man with one of the world's most distinctive voices, Morgan Freeman, have teamed up as unlikely bank robbers. Alice Bhandhukravi has been speaking to them both.
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- First aid to help combat knife crime - BBC London News
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- 2:13
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- All school children in London should be taught first-aid after the recent rise in knife crime. That's what a leading trauma surgeon has told BBC London.
He says he believes teaching them these skills will both save lives and also give them a respect for life.
Meanwhile, we've heard from mothers concerned that their children as young as twelve are carrying knives.
Ben Hunte reports.
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- Does switching on a satnav switch off part of the brain? – BBC London News
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- 3:01
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Scientists say using a satnav can switch off part of the brain - which could have implications for your health. Marc Ashdown reports.
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- The pupils who went on strike for their teacher – BBC London News
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- 2:09
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- In the 70s a teacher in Stepney was sacked from his school for encouraging pupils to write poems reflecting the harsh realities of life in the East End. It made front page news when schoolchildren went on strike to support him. Now, more than forty years on, he's back with another project - as Ayshea Buskh found out.
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- London's Night Economy - BBC London
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- 8:22
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- It’s claimed London's club land - once a hotbed of dance culture and diversity is in rapid decline. Countless venues have closed as councils, police and unhappy neighbours win the day. Add in fevered property development and you can see why Mayor Sadiq Khan appointed a Night Czar to ‘stem the flow of closures’. Mark Jordan caught up with the Night Czar... and some of the venues fighting for survival.
First shown on BBC Inside Out London http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08jll1n
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- The Poor School - BBC London
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- 7:17
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Ex-Eastenders actress Jesse Wallace says the closure of her old drama school will leave a "gaping hole" in her heart. The star, who use to play Kat Slater on the BBC soap, visited her former drama teacher Paul Caister at the Poor School in Kings Cross.
The aptly-named 'Poor School' has been running for 32 years, and in that time has turned out many successful stage and screen actors. Jo Good, who has trod the West End boards herself, went to see how the final set of hopefuls are getting on.
First shown on BBC Inside Out London http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08jll1n
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- Helping the Syrians - BBC London News
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- 9:41
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Londoner Tauqir Sharif Fox is a British aid worker in Syria. He went out there in 2012 and he tells us why he took a London ambulance to help Syrian refugees and how he copes with life with his family and children.
First shown on BBC Inside Out London http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08jll1n
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- The flying eye hospital - BBC London News
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Orbis is the world's only flying eye teaching hospital.
It’s been at Stansted airport where people could take a look at the facilities on board.
Normally it is found in developing countries, where a team of volunteers from all over the world carry out sight saving operations.
Filmed and edited by Richard Milliken
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- Do animals like performance art? - BBC London News
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- 2:05
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Actors improvising a performance for a bemused audience of sheep, pigs and goats in Peckham. Victoria Cook explains
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- Headteachers warn of job cuts - BBC London News
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- 3:35
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Head teachers say they'll have to axe jobs if the Government goes ahead with a new model for funding schools.
The Department for Education wants a fairer and more modern method of distributing money, but critics claim the new plan will see London schools losing hundreds of millions of pounds.
One head fears she'll have to cut 12 teachers as a result.
BBC London’s Education reporter, Marc Ashdown, has the latest.
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- Celebrating natural black hair - BBC London News
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- 1:47
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The mother of an 11-year-old girl from east London has created a billboard to celebrate natural black hair.
Lekia Lee says she doesn't want her daughter to think she has to use extensions, wigs or chemical straighteners to look good.
Valley Fontaine reports
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- Filming wildlife in London – BBC London News
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- 7:53
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Mike Dilger meets an amateur film-maker capturing the capital's most elusive wildlife.
From BBC London Inside Out http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0071mkv
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- International Women's Day - Portrayal of women in adverts
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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- As part of International Women's Day we've been looking at the portrayal of women in adverts at the Museum of Brands.
In the past, women have mainly been shown as housewives, mothers or sex symbols. Things have begun to change, but many believe there's still a long way to go.
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- Can you make your day less polluted? – BBC London News
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- 8:20
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- London is one of the most polluted cities on earth – and its toxic air is a real worry for parents. But is there anything they can do about it? Inside Out meets a panel of experts, who believe small changes in our daily routines, can improve the quality of the air we breathe. We’ll put their theories to the test – by tracking a London family with newly developed pollution sensors. Can changing the way they get to work, or even clean their home really make a difference?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0071mkv
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- Ghost signs of London – BBC London News
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- 8:01
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Jo Good goes in search of London's lost 'ghost signs'.
From BBC London Inside Out http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0071mkv
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- Women in art part 2 – Female revolution – BBC London News
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- 2:27
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Female artists are still under-represented in London’s galleries. But it seems things are changing as more women take up art as a job – and increasingly in the top roles. Here’s Wendy Hurrell’s second report on the subject
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- Women in art part 1 - Females in the Background – BBC London News
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- 2:20
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- London’s galleries have some of the greatest masterpieces in the world. But most of it is by male artists. Women, it seems, have been very largely in the background – even overlooked entirely. In the first of two reports, Wendy Hurrell has been talking to women of the art world, to find out why this is.
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- 50 years since the law made it OK to be gay - BBC London News
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- 3:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- This year marks the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality. But campaigners say more still needs to be done to improve equality for people living here in the Capital. Thomas Magill has been hearing one man's story reflecting on how things have changed over the years for the gay community in London.
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- Photographs taken by two city policemen during the Blitz - BBC London News
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A new exhibition at the Museum of London, includes photographs taken by two city policemen which show the true extent of the devastation in London during the Blitz. Caroline Davies has been looking at the images.
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- Emma Watson & Dan Stevens 'Beauty and the Beast' interview - BBC London News
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- To people of a certain age the Disney animation, Beauty and the Beast was a childhood favourite. Now, 26 years later, it's been remade with as a live action film, but the old magic and music is still there.
BBC London's Wendy Hurrell talked to the leads Emma Watson and Dan Stevens.
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- Director, JJ Abrams takes London slapstick to New York
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- He's the Director who brought us 'Star Wars - The Force Awakens', and the new Star Trek films. So it might come as a surprise that JJ Abrams is getting involved with the London stage. He was so taken with slapstick comedy 'The Play that Goes Wrong', he's decided to take it to Broadway. Alice Bhandhukravi joined him and the cast as they prepare to take their show to the Big Apple.
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- Harriet Harman talks about her book 'A Woman's Work'
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- 4:32
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Harriet Harman was elected as Labour MP for Peckham in 1982. Joining a House of Commons which was 97% male, she had three children while in Parliament. She has been politics' most prominent champion for women's rights, introducing the National Childcare Strategy, the Equality Act and changing the law on domestic violence. She was the first woman to represent the Labour Party at Prime Minister's Questions.
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- Do darker-skinned women have a tougher time finding love - BBC London
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- 4:45
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Few prominent black men have wives and girlfriends whose skin is darker than their own. Barack Obama is one notable exception. Our reporter Valley Fontaine travelled from London to Washington where it’s Black History Month exploring what is known as Shadism or Colourism.
Listen to the documentary, Michelle Obama: Black Like Me, on BBC World Service Radio
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04smw2z
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- A message of love through music - BBC London News
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A message of love through music at Shooting Star Chase
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- 100 year old pilot flies to mark Biggin Hill Centenary – BBC London News
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- 2:42
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Biggin Hill airport once stood as the first line of defence for London – Carrie Davies reports on celebrations to mark the centenary.
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- The celebrity love triangle which shocked a nation – BBC London News
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- 2:41
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- He was a war hero and an admiral, she the great beauty of her age. The problem was they were both married to others. Now a new exhibition at Greenwich's Royal Maritime Museum remembers the story and the scandal of Emma Hamilton and Lord Nelson. Jim Wheble has the story.
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- Top cop retires, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe's legacy - BBC London
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- 8:12
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- BBC London's home affairs correspondent Nick Beake speaks candidly with the outgoing Metropolitan Police chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe about his successes and failures.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0071mkv
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- Crossrail Discoveries - BBC London News
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- 0:46
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Bison bone fragments and Tudor bowling balls are just some of the artefacts found underneath London during the Crossrail project.
They are among about 500 exhibits going on show at the Museum of London Docklands.
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- Lego Batman crashes into the South Bank - BBC London News
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- 0:29
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Lego Batman crashes into the South Bank
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- High Rise in the capital – BBC London
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- 8:44
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- 400 new high rise buildings are in the pipeline for the capital – but many believe that councils only allow such developments because they bring them massive revenue for greenlighting the planning consent. Mark Jordan reports.
From BBC Inside Out London: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08cbrcf
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- £1000 coin at historic coin checking legal trial – BBC London News
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- 1:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A jury has been checking the quality of the coins produced by The Royal Mint - including a £1000 coin. Here's Victoria Cook to explain.
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- Art deco ceiling rediscovered in Peckham – BBC London News
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- 2:54
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Rye Lane in Peckham, in its heyday it was a rival shopping destination to Oxford Street. So much so, that the Holdron's Department Store, which opened in the 1880s was later snapped up by Selfridges, who traded there for years. Now, after falling into disrepair over decades, some forgotten treasures have been re-discovered. As Jim Wheble has been finding out.
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- Fixing Tower Bridge – BBC London News
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- 7:01
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- We celebrate the history and enduring appeal of this famous London landmark.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0071mkv
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- Using PrEP to prevent HIV - BBC London
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- 2:21
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Figures tell us that people living in London are affected by the HIV virus - more than anywhere else in the UK.
But the number of newly diagnosed cases in London is falling.
Some experts say it's due to large numbers of gay men taking a drug currently not available on the NHS but available online.
Ben Hunt has the story.
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- The campaign to get more women to have smear tests - BBC London News
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- 1:51
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A charity based in east London, believes health officials aren’t doing enough to encourage women to have smear tests. 'Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust' says over the past 5 years - there's been a small but significant drop in the number of women having checks. Here's Tolu Adeoye
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- Mother creates doll to reflect Jamaican heritage – BBC London News
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- 2:03
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A mother from south east London has created her own doll, because she couldn't find a toy that reflected her Jamaican heritage. Toya was made to look and sound like her daughter.
And just six weeks since the launch of the Jamaican Patois-speaking doll, sales have been booming as Ayshea Buksh explains.
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- 100 years on from huge explosion in Silvertown – BBC
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- 2:13
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Today marks a hundred years since a huge explosion destroyed a whole community in east London. It happened at a munitions factory in Silvertown during the First World War. Caroline Davies has been going through the archives and listening to eyewitness accounts of some of those who were there.
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- Body image confidence among teenagers
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A new campaign has been launched to help school children deal with body confidence. A school in East London is the first to start lessons using a Body Confidence Campaign Toolkit.
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- Marking 100 years of The Ivy – BBC London News
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- 2:22
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The Ivy's been recognised with a green plaque for its contribution to London life. Frankie McCamley has been behind the scenes of the world famous venue that started life as a small Italian café.
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- Piccadilly Circus lights switched off
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- 1:44
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The world-famous advertising screens which light up Piccadilly Circus have been switched-off for renovation work - which will take months - but will produce some impressive results.
Emilia Papadopoulos has been finding out more.
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- 'Poisoning for profit' illegal skin whitening creams – BBC London
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Shopkeepers across London have been fined hundreds of thousands of pounds - after being caught selling illegal skin whitening treatments. Alpa Patel reports.
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- The Body Coach Joe Wicks' tips for success on social media - BBC London News
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The Body Coach Joe Wicks is the man behind 'Lean in 15' - here are his tips for success on social media...
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- Joe Wicks on his rise to fame - BBC London News
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- In just a few years, Joe Wicks - has become a global phenomenon. From personal trainer to best-selling author. So how did the man from Epsom who began his career handing out flyers offering his training services - go on to become an internet sensation and create a multi-million pound business? Alpa Patel went to find out
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- Could your barber be putting you at risk? - BBC London News
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- 2:50
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Barbers in the UK don't need a licence, unlike in the United States, Australia and parts of Europe. BBC London has discovered that it could be putting people at risk here in the capital. Ben Hunte reports
