Art on the Underground wanted to show off the new cover design Wing-sleepers by artist Marianna Simnett for the Night Pocket Tube Map (Her web site is the most minimalist I’ve ever visited but don’t click just now if you have a needle phobia). The idea was to have actual real people using the maps…
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The actor Idris Elba and Sabrina Dhowre at Buckingham Palace for The Prince’s Trust. Idris Elba is now a patron of The Prince’s Trust but he was also a recipient as a Hackney school leaver in 1988. He was given a £1500 grant to start his career in the National Youth Music Theatre. What a good…
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HRH Prince of Wales met with the Finsbury Park Mosque Imam Mohammed Mahmoud (the ‘hero Imam’ who prevented his congregation from retaliating in the immediate aftermath of the Welsh van driver’s attack on them) along with other prominent members of the Muslim Community for an hour-long meeting in St James’ Palace before sitting (or standing)…
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Lord Rumi Verjee hosted a fund raising dinner for the Clinton Foundation and Bill, the 42nd President of the United States (1993 – 2001) was there to talk to all the guests. The plan was to be the after dinner speaker but right at the beginning, as soon as he was introduced, he began talking…
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