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Judith Kerr's evergreen fable comes to life with music and new characters
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Lifestyle
Summery linen clothing to help you keep your cool as the mercury rises.
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Food & Drink
Vast and spacious, these are London's best pub gardens boasting plenty of green space, secluded booths and stellar menus
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Wellbeing
Why choosing a mineral sunscreen might be the way to go
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Cinema
From Sydney Sweeney portraying Reality Winner in Reality to Margot Robbie stepping into Barbie's shoes via Greta Gerwig, here are the 10 films we're excited to see this summer
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Things to do
The London summer season is finally here. From open-air cinema to outdoor art, these are the unmissable events to help you make the most of the warm weather
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Kids
Many of London's parks and squares have exciting fountains, paddling pools and water features – to dip a toe into or run through with abandon…
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Shopping
White fashion has long been associated with cool elegance in the summer holidays.
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Shopping
Heatwave on Bastille day? Keep your style a la Parisienne
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Cinema
Daisy Edgar-Jones stars in this new film adaptation of Delia Owens' popular 2018 novel, co-produced by Reese Witherspoon
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Beauty
We have your essential summer SPF and saviour edit from doctors to derms and beauty insiders
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Netflix
From the latest Liane Moriarty adaptation, Nine Perfect Strangers, starring Nicole Kidman, to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's return in Mr. Corman, here are five of the best TV shows coming in August
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Classical Music
New-look Proms announces a final fortnight of live music-making – including a healing Last Night of the Proms
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Kids
Summer is full of fun and frolics for kids. Keep them safe outdoors with a fab sunscreen they won't mind you applying.
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TV
In the final episodes of I May Destroy You, Michaela Coel examines a mind-bending, torturous journey into empathy, understanding, and acceptance
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TV
Arabella (Michaela Coel) continues to struggle with her second work, but finds communal solace in her support group. Terry (Weruche Opia), on the other hand, is sceptical
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TV
Based on Eleanor Catton's Booker-winning novel, The Luminaries is an endlessly confusing murder-mystery wrapped in gold nuggets and zodiac signs. Eva Green stars
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West End Live, the free festival showcasing the best of musical theatre, goes online with an all singing, all dancing virtual offering
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TV
Based around the Salisbury Novichok attacks on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in 2018, this three-part BBC drama follows the efforts by Tracy Daszkiewicz (Anne-Marie Duff) to contain the poison
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TV
Episodes 3 and 4 of Michaela Coel's BBC series plunges into the sticky issues of consent, drugs, and period sex
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TV
In this new BBC drama from Michaela Coel, I May Destroy You follows the carefree life of Londoner Arabella (Coel), who pieces together the traumatic night before
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Lifestyle
Enjoy all the best marine-inspired buys – so you can get that feeling of being beach-side – all without flouting the social distancing rules
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Immersive
Dragons and Mythical Beasts is an interactive children's show that brings the most amazing creatures to life for the kids thanks to spectacular puppetry
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Kids
Cirque du Soleil's Corteo is.a celestial celebration of life, as performers float on chandeliers and trampoline across beds. Bring the kids.
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Opera
Poulenc's heart-breaking opera is staged for the first time ever at Glyndebourne, with Danielle de Niese as a young aristocratic who makes a courageous choice
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Netflix
From the dark, psychopathic pleasures of Joe Penhall's Mindhunter to the puppet-fighting fantasies of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Netflix in August is filled with adventure
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Shopping
Wide-brimmed, bucket, visor or headband - what's your summer style?
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Things to do
Looking for London parks where you can barbecue? Have no fear – we’ve rounded up all the spots where you can sizzle all summer long
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Kids
Some like it hot - kids do not. Here are the best water slides and water parks you can find in London and beyond
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Kids
School's out for summer: keep children entertained with our round up of the best London has to offer throughout the 2019 summer holidays
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Theatre
Dominic Hill's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Regent's Park is dark, hilarious and open air theatre at its very best
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Get ready for Disneyland England. Kent will become home to our very own mega-budget theme park, The London Resort, in 2024