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Free Weekend? Be inspired to enjoy the great outdoors (and win a copy of this guidebook)

Pedlars’ Guide to the Great Outdoors (Square Peg, £16.99) is a beautifully illustrated and immensely practical hardback book. But we have to come clean: we’re biased, …

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Pinboard Extra: Brixton’s Brick Box goes to Wandsworth

Starting tomorrow at 4pm, and running until 19 May Brixton’s Brick Box, home to the market’s great crêperie, is hopping along a borough to co-host the …

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Pinboard Extra: party with the Southbank-saving skaters this weekend

How are you spending your bank holiday weekend? If you’re below the river – though it’s barely a hop from the north either – do …

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Pinboard: The Stone Roses come to south London, free food for a decade and arts under the arches

Shane Meadows does the Stone Roses – in Brixton (and Clapham and Greenwich) “It takes time for people to fall in love with ya,” says …

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Pinboard extra: Cilla Black singing, “They’ve taken London Bridge Away!”

We loved Travis Elborough’s brilliantly bizarre Wednesday Picture story yesterday about the sale, in the 1960s, of London Bridge to an Arizona oilman. Yep. Our 1831 …

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Pinboard: media fame, secret urban gardens and Shakespearian suppers

1. Our first print advert! Oh look. That’s us, that is. Starring in our first ever print advert. Woo! The ad features in the hot-off-the-press …

Food

Why It Matters: no more fast food in Loughborough Junction!

Lambeth has between 91 and 173 fast food takeaways for every 100,000 people, one of the highest in the country Loughborough Junction local, Anthea Masey, …

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Top 5: Ra Ra Ra Mike Skinner’s back to Dogstar

Yes, Brixton locals will recognise those words – they’ve been plastered across Dogstar’s facade for weeks, echoing the lyrics of the Streets’ hit that mentions …

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Pinboard: urban demolition art in southeast London, the pop-up National Theatre and the return of the South Lambeth market

1. Beautiful photography in Forest Hill Megan Taylor is a brilliant documentary photographer whose work you’re likely to have come across in the various broadsheets …

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Pinboard extra: Invite 100 in Lewisham

Lewisham locals: could the people who lived in your house 100 years ago be in this photograph? In short, yes. And today, you could find …