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OUR LONDON | Each week an Aussie Times writer will bring you a top five list from their favourite neighbourhood. If all roads lead to Rome, then all Tube lines deliver you to Hammersmith. This week MICHAELA GRAY shows you what’s out there once you leave the Underground.

Australian expats in London can still enjoy the fun and frivolity of the race that stops a nation with the 2013 Corporate Traveller Melbourne Cup celebrations on Tuesday 5 November at Australia House.

EXPAT FACTOR | Australian singer/songwriter Bowie Jane is a professionally trained lawyer, with a double degree in Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws. For years she lived a double life, practicing criminal law by day before rushing to gigs at night. Bowie Jane now lives in the UK, and ...

Last Thursday night the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith played host to a wealth of Australian and New Zealand literary talent at a special Literary BBQ event.

A wealth of Australian and New Zealand literary talent will be on show in London this August at the Australian and New Zealand Literary BBQ in Hammersmith. It is a showcase event for the ANZ Festival of Literature and Arts planned for May 2014 in London.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has delivered the opening address at the Melbourne Writers Festival in Australia, announcing he might be planning a future writing career to rival J.K. Rowling.

Australian chef Scott Hallsworth is set to achieve his dream of taking high-end Japanese flavours and making them accessible to all with his latest central London venture, Japanese izakaya 'Kurobuta'.

After 10 years in London Zöé Caldwell has got her fingers in many creative pies, taking full advantage of the opportunities London has to offer. In addition to her role as Associate Producer, Zoe also finds time to dabble in music management, comedy and co-found IronBark — a theatre company ...

Dusty Limits, aka Mr Dorian Black, singer, comic and compere and has been called a “trailblazer” on the UK cabaret circuit. He is also originally from Australia. Here he tells us ‘what’s with the accent’ ahead of his Soho Theatre show.

A man has been charged in London today after a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by Australian artist Ralph Heimans was defaced at Westminster Abbey.

Sex Pistols lead singer Johnny Rotten sparked controversy in Australia yesterday after a televised rant on Channel Ten's The Project in which he told Gold Logie nominee Carrie Bickmore not to talk when a man was speaking.

THE EXPAT FACTOR | Matt Parker used skills learnt as a maths teacher to springboard into a new career in London - stand-up mathematician. Matt now does regular stand-up on his favourite topic, as well as spots on TV and radio talking all things maths and education. Add in regular ...

Nursing remains one of the most in-demand job sectors in Australia.

The New Year is always a good time to reflect on the year that has passed. ALEX BRUCE-SMITH looks back on a year in London, from shopping to shandys in the sun.

Ahead of her first UK stand-up show since 1999, Judith Lucy talks to GEORGE KATRALIS about her journey up through the ranks of Australian comedy, and what she would do with Ryan Gosling if she had the chance.

This year Halloween is right in the middle of the week, which means you’ve got two weekends to celebrate it! If you haven’t had your fill of frights, here are this weekend’s eeriest events and activities around London.

Punched on stage, banned by Christian groups and hated by ‘many’, Jim Jefferies is one Aussie comedian who is seriously turning heads. PAUL BLEAKLEY finds out how this ‘unknown bloke back home’ cracked America, how he keeps cracking up people around the world, and how he’s moved on from the ...

Full list of the major Queen's Diamond Jubilee events in London, including the Thames Boat Procession and Jubilee Concert plus where to watch the celebration on big screens.

Steven McRae, Australian Principal Dancer with the Royal Ballet, starred in the Royal Opera House's performance of La Fille Mal Gardee as it was broadcast to hundreds of cinema screens worldwide.

BRON IN THE DON | Already a theatre aficionado, our resident London adventurer rushed at the chance to tick #79 off her London Top 100 list and visit Sadler’s Wells Theatre in Islington.

In an interview with BIANCA SOLDANI, Australian actor Michael Budd shares his experience of the London theatre world and gives us a behind the scenes glance at working alongside Bruce Willis in his latest blockbuster, The Cold Light of Day.

Australian acting legend Cate Blanchett is wowing London's theatre-going public with an energetic but moving depiction of isolation in the Sydney Theatre Company's new production "Big and Small" at the Barbican.

BACK in Oz, before heading to London, I hired a black London cab to chauffeur my dad, my bridesmaids and me to my wedding.

One of London’s hidden gems (and now a very popular tourist site) is the former fruit and veggie market, Covent Garden. Our resident adventurer headed down to see what the fuss was all about and tick off #76 on her London Top 100 list.

Australian Times' Will Fitzgibbon spoke to Director of DV8 Physical Theatre, Australian Lloyd Newson, before going to see the much-discussed performance Can We Talk About This? at London's National Theatre.

BRON IN THE DON | Our London adventurer fell in love with this grand old city all over again when she ticked number 33 off her London Top 100 list and visited the Museum of London.

With ‘carnival’ season quickly approaching around the world, NINA McGRATH visited the famed canals of Venice to unmask one of Europe’s most giddy traditional celebrations.

An Australian's time spent in the UK can be filled with any number of traditionally English experiences. But one is both easily experienced and a truly English cultural experience, going to see a pantomime.

Aussie comedian Deborah Frances-White reveals her tricks to getting almost anyone to want to sleep with you.

BRON IN THE DON | Our resident London explorer heads to Soho this week to tick one more off her London's Top 100 list and delight in the maze that makes up one of the busiest parts of the English capital.

After only a very brief phone conversation, Liam Flanagan found out why Hannah Gadsby has quickly become one of Australia’s most successful comedians.

So you’re living in London, the most exciting city in the world. The centre of the universe, you might say, when it comes to music, theatre, travel, media. But does it ever occur to you that not only do you live in London, but if you zoom out a little ...

The relationship between Oscar Wilde and Australia is often a conflicted one. Much like the relationship between the celebrated playwright and his 'new' play, Constance, showing at north London's King's Head Theatre.

Vlad, it was clear, had been fully trained in an ancient art of vodka warfare and he was about to give me a lesson…