Recently by Louisa Emery

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It is often said your smile is your first impression.

For Grand National winner Liam Treadwell, this was all too true when presenter Claire Balding pointed out his imperfect teeth on live television.

Spring lambs at Mudchute Farm

By Louisa Emery on April 24, 2009 4:09 PM |

aa-apr30-lamb1.jpgSpring has definitely sprung at Mudchute Farm, with the birth of twelve lambs.

The farm, next to Millwall Park, welcomed its first new arrivals on April 2nd and a final two are expected before the end of the month.

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A lifetime in sculpture has taken up a spring residence to offer some aesthetic relief on the Wharf from the daily grind.

Four decades of powerful sculpture by revered artist Phillip King are exhibited in the lobby of One Canada Square and Jubilee Place Park.

To see more pictures, go to The Wharf's picture gallery here

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Fans queued for two nights to be first to get their hands on tickets for the fastest selling tour in history.

Pre-sale tickets for Michael Jackson's first 30 shows at The O2 arena sold out and 20 more dates were added before offices opened at 7am on Friday.

Jackson fans queue for O2 tickets

By Louisa Emery on March 12, 2009 1:02 PM |

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Fans queued overnight to be first to get their hands on tickets for Michael Jackson's shows at The O2 Arena.

Pre-sale tickets for the first 30 shows are sold out and 14 more dates have been added.

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Low key and understated are two adjectives redundant in the vocabulary of The Mighty Boosh.

Arriving on stage at The O2 on Wednesday, December 17, Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, as their Boosh alter egos Vince Noir and Howard Moon, are 'electronic castaways', The Future Sailors.

Review: Dylan Moran at The O2

By Louisa Emery on December 4, 2008 3:06 PM |

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Dylan Moran is a man after my own heart. He despises people who film gigs on their mobile phones and he does not share his chocolate.

His sell out show, What It Is at the Indigo2, last Thursday, was reassuringly the comic at his remonstrative best.

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Soaked in sweat and marinated in cider, seas of kids worshipped at the altar of Brit Pop in the mid-nineties.

More than a decade later, these girls with asymmetric fringes and boys in ironic flat caps are all grown up and at an opera composed by the scene's leading light, Blur frontman Damon Albarn.

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