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Add a little colour

As we look out the window in the winter, when the sky is a dull shade of grey, it is not always very enticing to jump up and embrace the day ahead. A little motivation of colour and the illusion …

Film Reviews

FILM OF THE WEEK

THE IRON CLAW

Writer/director Sean Durkin made a remarkable feature film debut back in 2011 with MARTHA MACY MAY MARLENE, the film that first introduced Elizabeth Olsen to the screen and with Sarah Paulson as her …

Appeal following death of 21-year-old woman in Tower Hamlets

Police investigating the death of a woman in Tower Hamlets are appealing for witnesses to a fight that happened the night before she died.
We were called by London Ambulance Service to a residential address in Stainsby Road, E14 at …

Theatre Review

A searing operatic vision
Annilese Miskimmon’s incredibly powerful and stylish 2022 production (now under revival director James Hurley) of The Handmaid’s Tale (London Coliseum), based on Margaret Atwood’s novel, is yet another example of how the English National Opera take …

Paul Cartledge – Ancient historian and academic

Paul Cartledge – Ancient historian and academic

Paul Cartledge is the inaugural A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Clare College. He is also Hellenic Parliament Global …

Happy Birthday to our Dora Ioannou

Happy Birthday to our Dora Ioannou the Parikiaki Financial controller who is celebrating her birthday today…

Barnet enters year of the dragon with traditional Lunar New Year celebrations

Lunar New Year at Copthall

Families from across Barnet have enjoyed an afternoon of song, dance and other traditional festivities to mark the beginning of Lunar New Year.

Communities came together to bid farewell to the Year of the Rabbit

First of its kind ‘Fair Play’ playground opened by Mayor of Barnet

Children at Fair Play playground

The Mayor of Barnet opened a new inclusive and accessible playground yesterday (13 Feb) at Victoria Recreation Ground in East Barnet enabling people of all ages and abilities to play together.

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Eye to Eye celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2024

Moorfields Eye Charity’s annual fundraising walk Eye to Eye marks its 10th year on Sunday 23 June 2024. It will be their biggest and best event yet with lots of surprises along the way. This very memorable day will bring …

Pitch it easy business competition now open for 2023

After a successful Pitch it easy business competition held in 2023, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) has partnerd once again with founder of easyJet.com Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, to launch the ‘Pitch it easy’ start-up competition.

The successful candidate …