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Award-winning Edinburgh show coming to Warehouse Theatre

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.

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Heap and Pebble back to take on the world

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.

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Getting you back In The Mood

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.

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Carnival time

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.

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

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.

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A man on an anti-whaling mission

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.

Kurran and the Wolfnotes - Band Profile

2:50pm Friday 27th August 2010

Kingston’s very own Kurran and the Wolfnotes release their new single, Your Four Limbs, in September. Frontman Kurran Karbal told Will Gore what it’s like to be an indie band from the Royal Borough.

Winter warmers at the Landmark

2:40pm Friday 27th August 2010

The Landmark Arts Centre, in Teddington, has announced a season of song and laughter, with its autumn and winter programme. Music lovers are well catered for as the Festival of Song returns in October and the popular Comedy Works nights are back. There will also be art exhibitions, a quiz night, workshops and a food fair. Here are some of the highlights for the colder months.

Winter's art in the abstract

2:30pm Friday 27th August 2010

William Winter is a remarkable artist. At the age of 83 he is continuing to produce countless works of art and his still flourishing career is now being celebrated with a retrospective exhibition at The Gallery @ Handmade Frames, in Teddington.

South London's Leftfield back on stage after 10 years

11:23am Friday 27th August 2010

South London dance music pioneers Leftfield will perform in the capital for the first time in over 10 years this weekend.