Opera & Dance

ACTORS in costume will pose as figures from literature for an extraordinary life-drawing session in Holloway tomorrow (Saturday).

AFTER carefully ensuring his pictures of infinity were hanging the right way up, Patrick Hughes hosted a party to celebrate 50 years in the art world this week.

STUDENTS at a Finsbury Park school have been given a platform to unleash their creative potential with the help of critically acclaimed author Betsy Tobin.

SHE has lived through both world wars, rubbed shoulders with royalty and, as far as anyone knows, is Westminster’s oldest resident.

IF there’s one thing students don’t need to learn it’s how to put on a party. 

SCHOOLCHILDREN danced their way down the street as an end-of-term celebration kicked off at St John’s Upper Holloway School in Pemberton Gardens on Wednesday morning. 

A RECORD-breaking swim has sparked Olympic ambitions for eight-year-old Olivia Dunn.

A MAN who threatened a 15-year-old girl with a stun gun has been jailed for two years and four months.

HOLLYWOOD star Rupert Everett was a surprise guest at the commemorative opening of a new school playground at St George The Martyr Primary School in Holborn. 

CCTV cameras are to be installed in Whitecross Street in Bunhill in a bid to stamp out shoplifting and dangerous scooter drag racing.

LIB Dems in Islington are claiming victory after their leader, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, announced that councils will be given control of business rates – boost­ing the Town Hall&

A CONCERNED woman’s hunt for her “missing” husband ended in horror when she heard his mobile phone ringing on a deserted building site.

PLANS to transform the public square at King’s Cross station will be on display from next Friday until Tuesday.

A STUNT involving a helicopter to launch the Bloomsbury Art Fair backfired when the force of its propellers smashed an expensive artwork. 

A STATUE of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, was this week unveiled in the West End.