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Goodbye to the Gate: How funding cuts led to the final act of a decades-old theatre
‘The reality is that we have been about six months away from closing for a number of years’
The mystery of the Bloomsbury bandits
In the shadow of the British Museum, a strange gang keeps smashing the windows of a luxury clothes store... but they steal nothing
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How London’s most anticipated romance convention fell apart
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How high temperatures and Thames Water delays put an East London pub out of action
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Alys Key
Alys started her career at City A.M., before working on business desks at the Press Association and The i Paper. She was later founding features editor of tech publication Digital Frontier and launched the newsletter UK 2.0
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Peter is a writer and reporter. Prior to joining The Londoner, he wrote feature articles for Dispatch and The Fence magazines.
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