Library closures in government spending cuts risk damaging a reading scheme that brought record numbers of children into libraries this summer. ... more
Save our Libraries: London should be investing in its libraries as vital community assets in times of economic hardship instead of closing them... more
Campaigners in Lewisham are to protest outside government offices in a last-ditch attempt to save five of the borough's 12 libraries from closure... more
Award-winning novelist Zadie Smith has condemned the Government's 'shameful' cuts to public services as she joined a campaign to save London libraries
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Best-selling novelist Tracy Chevalier has become the latest author to speak out in defence of libraries and support the Evening Standard's Save Our Libraries campaign... more
Writing and painting workshops in Wandsworth inspired former prisoner Dean Stalham to pursue his creativity on the outside — and to set up a theatre in New Cross to put on his play... more
It is exactly a week since the ridiculous mass hysteria first erupted over the death of MJ (as he is now being called). For seven days the nation has been deluged with little else but the ceaseless outpourings of grief... more
Eamonn McCabe invites us into private worlds in Writers' Rooms where the secrets of creativity, memories of agonies and inspirations are stored.
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Click on the links below for video highlights of the Evening Standard's Influentials debate on 'Are the Olympics good for London?' featuring Tessa Jowell, Will Self, Andrew Gilligan, Sebastian Coe and Kate Hoey...... more
The 2012 Games are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for London to boost grassroots participation in sport, and it must not be allowed to slip away... more
Do you remember that Monty Python scene from The Life Of Brian asking what the Romans ever did for us? There was sanitation, public health, irrigation, education, the roads - and so the list went on, but it was never enough... more
There's a second chance to see reggae musical The Harder They Come, there'll be an interactive performance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake in Trafalgar Square and Hot Fuzztival gets underway.... more
Soulwax take over Fabric, Isabelle Huppert gets her own season at the NFT and Will Self and Grayson Perry will be popping down to Late At Tate Britain. ... more
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