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Daily Mail
27-05-2025
- Daily Mail
As Lambeth loses case brought by local campaigners, and other councils face court showdowns... Is this the end of the road for the hated LTNs fleecing drivers and leaving our suburbs gridlocked?
As courtroom dramas go, it might not have matched the freeing of the Guildford Four or the conviction of murderer Dr Crippen. But thousands of south Londoners who five years ago found themselves suddenly barred from making local car journeys they had been undertaking for decades, greeted the judgment handed down by Deputy High Court Judge Jim Smith this month with something approaching euphoria.
Times
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The Crucible review — a stolid, no-frills revival at the Globe
The skies were busier than usual above Shakespeare's Globe, with aeroplanes and helicopters buzzing away overhead. But that, in a way, seemed fitting for a play that has its share of sudden interventions, real or imaginary, from on high. It certainly makes sense to bring Arthur Miller's portrait of the Salem witch trials to the period stage of the Globe. No gimmicks, no ultra-modern conceits. Ola Ince's stolid, no-frills production possesses the aura of a travelling show that has pitched its tents by the Thames and set out its wares for the passing public. If the tempo drags during the lengthy first-half exposition, the groundlings find themselves drawn into the tumult in the courtroom scene, witnesses and officials taking their places among the audience. This
