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This week has been hectic, happy, sad and exciting all at once so I thought I’d take the chance to sit down with a cup of tea and bring you up to speed on what’s been going on. I started off the week in London with my Mum. As many of you...

The classical star talked about making opera affordable, her heroes and whether she’d snog Elton John 2.28pm GMT Ok guys! So they're chucking me out of the Guardian office now. Actually it's the webchat that's expiring shortly... but it's been so great...

Joseph Grimaldi Joseph Grimaldi (18 December 1778 – 31 May 1837) was an English actor, comedian and dancer, who became the most popular English entertainer of the Regency era. In the early 1800s, he expanded the role of Clown in the harlequinade...

It has often been said that London is really a series of interconnecting villages, each with their own distinct identities, resulting from all the different settlements that once occupied this sprawling city mass. In many of these areas you can walk...

http://www.lsdbritain.com/page25.htm A Saucerful of Secrets Step back 40 years to the heady days of 1967 as Andy Roberts explains how the Summer of Love was in part shaped by the hippie movement’s fascination with flying saucers. First published...