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The tap dance festival performers take their acclaim on stage.

WATCH: The London Tap Dance Festival hosts international students and teachers

The London Tap Dance Festival welcomed participants from across the world to Brixton for a unique celebration of rhythm tap

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Brixton House’s Housemates Festival returns for 2026

A London festival featuring emerging artists tackling difficult topics has returned to the capital for the fourth year running. From

WATCH: A bustling Balham coffee shop in the back of a Renault F4

In a corner of Tooting Common, a growing community in Balham get their coffee from the back of a Renault

Vaping linked to significant health problems in children, paediatricians warn in new review

Vaping is linked to a number of serious health issues in children and young people, a major new review has

A bonsai tree with a wooden staircase wrapped around it with small plastic human figures on the steps

WATCH: Bonsai treehouses on show in Oxford Square Gardens exhibition

A collection of bonsai trees fitted with treehouses are now on display as part of a new outdoor exhibition at

A stylised portrayal of the Declaration of Independence being signed. A woman sits with a quill looking out of the window, with an early US flag on the table and draped from the balcony.

New exhibition commemorates Surrey’s influence in the American fight for independence – 250 years on

Andre Odom at Afewee Boxing Club

‘I’m not letting anything stop me’: Meet the blind Brixton boxer

Costa Del Croydon returns with new adult club night added to family favourites

Ed Davey addresses the Lib Dem Conference

Ed Davey calls for Surbiton Post Office to stay open until at least the New Year

An image of supermarket shelves

New Tesco pop-up opens up at London Southend Airport as they team up with EasyJet for ‘back from holiday’ shop

A charity volunteer with a water vole, releasing it into the river.

Water voles are thriving four years on from their return to Surrey

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