Dan Carrier

1 week ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Dan Carrier

MOTEL DESTINODirected by Karim AïnouzCertificate: 15☆☆☆☆THIS film sweats its way through a plot that has a grotty motel, whose calling card is basically somewhere you can go to have sex at its centre. A roadside den of body-melding delights, it’s not a destination on a tourist trail, rather an out-of-the-way place people can transport themselves to anywhere they damn well please, if they’ve checked in properly. We meet Heraldo (Iago Xavier) in this run-down Brazilian seaside town.

1 week ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Dan Carrier

Kerry Fletcher and Natasha KhamjaniMORRIS dancing and breakdancing might appear to be a world apart in style and form, but they have shared cultural roots, and for Kerry Fletcher and Natasha Khamjani, finding the similarities between these two very different-looking styles of movement is key. The pair run the Folk Dance Remixed dance company – and on Monday they will be bringing their eclectic mix of a traditional May Day Cèilidh fused with street dance to Camden High Street.

1 week ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Dan Carrier

Garden manager Louise Gates, head gardener Niki Barnett-Henry, and historian Jane Palm-GoldA MUCH-LOVED oasis in the heart of the West End is under threat after a towering hotel development was given the green light. The Phoenix Garden is behind the former Saville Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, and on Monday, councillors voted to let developers Yoo Capital create a new basement theatre on the site of the Grade-II listed art deco venue and add a five-storey hotel on top.

1 week ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Dan Carrier

Jeremy Corbyn, left, and Ken Loach in The Bad PatriotsTHEY look like two mild-mannered geography teachers at parents’ evening, gently explaining why your child got a B instead of an A. Patient, thoughtful and above all kind – not the image many were presented with when Jeremy Corbyn was a handful of seats away from dethroning Theresa May in 2017, or when Ken Loach scooped the Palme D’Or at Cannes.

2 weeks ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Dan Carrier

How the new building would lookFROM a cosy family home to an imposing six-floor block of flats – plans to raze a 100-year-old house in Dartmouth Park and replace it with six homes faces blanket opposition with developers accused of “sheer greed” after presenting plans to the Town Hall. The house, called Lamorna, dates from 1930 and was kept deliberately at two storeys when it was first built to provide a snug home that did not impact on gardens and a sense of space.