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Now known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park the legacy team are transforming the Olympic and Paralympic venue into a huge location for everyone to enjoy. Great plans under way to celebrate anniversary of the Olympic Games in July. Best views are from the Orbit.
Be part of Our Big Gig! There will be concerts across the UK in July ideal for local musicians to demonstrate their talents. It will be a summer of fun and musical celebrations, and if you want to organize an event the video gives you full details of what to do.
Communities Minister Don Foster has announced Our Big Gig, a series of 250 free concerts across England that will perform from 11 – 14 July. They will feature the best of local musical talent and expected to draw crowds bigger than Glastonbury!
London’s Victoria and Albert David Bowie exhibition is the museum’s fastest selling show in its history. The display has more than 300 objects brought together for first time to celebrate the singer’s 50-year career
Peckham Film Awards discovered a winner in a local film maker. 25yr-old Sarah Peace got top prize at the SE15 YoungFilmmakers Awards 2012, for her film “Waiting At The Bus Station”. She based it on people who moan they’ve been waiting ‘hours’ for a bus when in fact its been minutes! Visually superb with original music
Teenage pop star Conor Maynard has rocketed to the top of the charts with his debut album Contrast. His motto: its better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. How’s that for a rising rock star! Check out whether he has the Justin Bieber factor. Go to Nation News at top of the page for more stories across the UK
The streets of rap were captured by former gangster and rap artist Ice-T in his film The Art of Rap recently premièred in London. He walked the streets where he found people that helped create rap and the hip-hop rhythms that have become a global sounds
UK’s biggest collection of music and drama saved, they were in a library threatened with closure
“Emperors” who were at the Savoy January 27 were treated to a spectacular fusion of Culture and Contemporary art created by award winning designer Clare Newton. They sat at tables and were treated to Savoy’s traditional afternoon tea
Music and a youth group from Birmingham hit the airwaves in a global broadcast to mark Music Freedom Day in March.
From Olympics to movies. The latest film of Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle, Trance, opens in UK cinemas Wednesday March 27. The dark thriller about a multi-million dollar art heist, stars James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel and Rosario Dawson. Brian Hayes has been to see it
Meryl Streep wins an Oscar as well as a BAFTA for best actress in The Iron Lady. Brian Hayes reviews her role
The film Hitchcock unfolds the complex love story between Hitchcock and his wife Alma during the making of the spine-tingling 1960 thriller Psycho. Brian Hayes has seen it and was impressed with the performances
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