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Rock and Pop: Latest Listings > August 4

FRIDAY, August 5
THE Jayhawks (an evening with). HMV Forum (Kentish Town tube), 7pm, £18.50-£22.50

FORUM: Railing against HS2 project

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TO my neighbours on the Queen’s Park Estate I say: “You’ve always dreamed of going to Birmingham half an hour faster, haven’t you?

Axe taken to Talking Books

• NOTHING illustrates Westminster City Council’s warped sense of priorities more than the decision to withdraw the Royal National Institute of Blind People Talking Book service from 50 r

The fox and the sheep

• I CAN’T say I have any sympathy for Met Chief Sir Paul Stephenson, who quit over the phone hacking scandal. 

School’s out – for educational trips!

• LITERACY campaigns such as “Get London Reading” must be regarded with some degree of scepticism, I think. 

Square’s new traffic system is even more dangerous for cyclists

• AFTER a year of disruption, the new traffic system around Russell Square has finally been revealed, and it is more unsafe for cyclists than it was. 

Museum piece?

• THE statue of Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria, has survived at Holborn Circus for 137 years

WEE- EXCLUSIVE - Axe falls on Centre for Independent Living - no respite for users as Training for Life lose contract

DEAF and disabled people are preparing to camp outside City Hall on the day their centre closes in protest at having “nowhere else to go”.

Keep activist protests away from the Ritz, says John Beveridge QC - 'Common sense to restrict marches'

John Beveridge QC

A DISTINGUISHED barrister has called on Theresa May to ban “left-wing” marches in Piccadilly after damage to the Ritz at anti-cuts protests earlier this year.