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PLANS for “excessive” advertising in Leicester Square have been refused after they were described as being better suited to Disneyland Paris.

Banner Holdings Limited hoped to install five LED screens across several floors of the prominent building at 39 Charing Cross Road.

The application divided councillors on Westminster City Council’s planning sub-committee.

Michael Riley, a resident who has visual processing difficulties, told the meeting on Tuesday the bright LED lights would be overstimulating for people with his sight condition. He said: “Leicester Square shouldn’t become a no-go zone for people like me and there’s thousands of us who cannot stand the overstimulation.”

Planning sub-committee chair Councillor Patrick Lilley said the LED screens “would be more fitting for Disneyland Paris”.

But ward councillor for St James’s, Louise Hyams, said: “I wouldn’t be supporting it if were for any other location but I firmly believe the area around Leicester Square is the perfect location for it.”

She added: “Of course, I have sympathy for the previous speaker but Leicester Square is the centre of our entertainment district.”

The proposal would have introduced five continuous bright illuminated bands across the building displaying static advertising images. However, the plans sit within the Leicester Square conservation zone, where special consideration is given to “preserving or enhancing the character or appearance” of the area.

Henry Squire, from Squire and Partner Architects, said: “The signage would support local businesses and it is entirely in keeping with the character of the area and will elevate the building’s appearance.”

The application was recommended to be refused by council officers due to an “excessive scale”. A “draft decision” letter read: “Because of the excessive scale, high level positioning and cumulative illuminated visual impact of the five proposed LED screens, the advertisements would harm the appearance of the building and the appearance (amenity) of the area.”

Poignant piece of gig theatre explores the emotional fallout of mental illness on those closest to it

Maimuna Memon in Manic Street Creature [Johan Persson]

IN Manic Street Creature – the award-winning show that premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022 – Ria (Maimuna Memon) is in the studio recording her debut album with bandmates Heidi (Rachel Barnes), Finn (Sam Beveridge) and Raz (Harley Johnson). As the session progresses, she reveals a troubled love story through her songs.

A singer-songwriter, Ria travels from Lancaster to Camden to start afresh. While trying to make ends meet by performing in local pubs, she meets Daniel. Finding they have a lot in common, they quickly become a couple; he joins her band and they move in together in Dalston.

But Daniel has mental health issues and, when these surface, they trigger Ria’s own buried trauma.

With music, book and lyrics by Memon, this poignant piece of gig theatre explores the emotional fallout of mental illness on those closest to it.

Between songs, Memon narrates her experience and demonstrates the healing power of music.

She must navigate her partner’s behaviour as he attempts to manage his suicidal impulses with medication, while also confronting the ways her absent father continues to influence how she deals with relationships and the giving and receiving of love.

Assuredly directed by Kirsty Patrick Ward on Libby Watson’s versatile set – a recording-studio-cum-flat evocatively lit by Jessica Hung Han Yung – the production is technically impressive, with high-calibre audio engineering from Sound Quiet Time.

In 2025, Memon won an Olivier Award for her role as Sonya in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 and was nominated for the same award for her role in Standing at the Sky’s Edge in 2023.

One can see why. She has a remarkable voice, and the show perfectly complements her style and range. It’s cleverly conceived and beautifully executed by this tight musician-actor cast.

Warmly recommended.

Until March 28

Monica Williams

FROM the meditations of Emperor Marcus Aurelius to The Gruffalo translated into Latin, there is no bookshop in the world like the Hellenic Book Service.

Celebrating its 60th anniversary, proprietor Monica Williams set up the shop with her mother in Charing Cross Road in 1966. Aged 86, she is still running the service today in a two-floor venue in Tufnell Park.

Brought up in the West End, she told Extra about her childhood in post-war London. “My father, Stelios Constantina, came from Cyprus to study the violin at the Guildhall in 1938,” she said. “We lived in Shaftesbury Avenue. He joined the RAF during the war and worked as an electrician. My mother, Photini, joined him. She was very bright, self-educated.”

Monica went to the St Clement Danes CE Primary School, Drury Lane, before heading to Paddington and Maida Vale High, Elgin Avenue.

“I used to walk through the Covent Garden flower market on my own, aged five, to school,” she remembers. Growing up in the West End meant she had a rich cultural upbringing.

The specialist service ran from a bookshop in Charing Cross Road

“I was an only child and I lived in theatres, museums and the National Gallery. I’d walk along Old Compton Street and see Tommy Steele. Cat Stevens lived around the corner – his father had a Greek restaurant – and we used to play together. I learnt tap and ballet at the Italia Conti school in Windmill Street, partly because my mother wanted me to learn how to speak the Queen’s English.”

Hellenic Book Service began as a mother-and-daughter partnership.

“My mother ran a Greek bookshop in Denmark Street called Zeno,” she said. “It was owned by a Greek Orthodox priest. We would see the stars going by to sell their music in Tin Pan Alley.”

After Zeno closed, mother and daughter decided to set up their own business. “I had trained at the City Poly as a secretary, shorthand, touch-typing, which was handy for the shop. We decided to have a go. It was a big risk.”

They found a place for the service on London’s premier book stretch, Charing Cross Road. Neighbours included Russian specialists Collets, counterculture shop Better Books, dance-related Beaumonts, art book sellers Zwemmers and the antiquarian Henry Pordes.

“Our shop was specialist, and it attracted plenty of authors. We started with modern Greek works. I would come across the odd book in Latin and so we branched out,” she says. “Choosing stock was really a matter of intuition. We stocked English books on Greece and I’d have titles sent over from Greece. It is more difficult today, because of Brexit, we have to pay customs duty.”

After 24 years in the West End, the landlord took back the premises – today it is home to TK Maxx – and Monica moved to Tufnell Park. Customers draw on her expertise earnt through a life in the book trade.

“We stock lots of classical Greek authors, of course, but also contemporary works and translations too,” she said. These include Julia Donaldson’s seminal children’s book, The Gruffalo, in Latin!

On her shelves you can find translations of The Hobbit, Harry Potter, Pat Barker, Agatha Christie, Philip Pullman and Stieg Larsson alongside contemporary Greek writers, too.

Greek and Roman philosophy takes up shelf space, as well as the original works by the likes of Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus, a new wave of authors writing about the ancient Stoics has captured a zeitgeist. “We saw that during the Covid-19 lockdown there was a real spike in people buying books on Stoicism,” she said. “There is much to learn from these ancient writers.”

Monica has seen how classics have been sidelined in curriculums, and says we do so at our peril.

“Classical civilisation is a gateway. It brings pupils to life, Roman armies, gladiators, Pompeii. It is a really good way to inspire. Learning Latin also helps with other languages, but there is more to it than that. Latin is a major element of our shared past. It reminds us where English comes from. It reminds us of our shared, immigrant, story on this island, and so much English literature is inspired by Greek writers.

“It really does not feel like 60 years, and I still have customers who first shopped at the Service back in Charing Cross Road.”

Some areas across the state got more than a foot of fresh powder

Denver saw its first snow in weeks March 6, and some areas across the state got more than a foot of fresh powder.

Totals varied across the metro area, ranging from around 3" in communities like Englewood and Westminster to more than 9" in Aurora. Head to the bottom of this story for ski resort totals.

Here are some 24-hour snow totals reported by the National Weather Service (NWS).

1 SSE St Marys Glacier, CO — 20.5"

3 SW Ward, CO — 18.8"

3 S Brainard Lake, CO — 17.5"

3 NNE Mount Audubon, CO — 16.2"

1 NNW Berthoud Pass, CO — 15"

3 W Jamestown, CO — 13.4"

1 N Genesee, CO — 12.6"

4 S Longs Peak, CO — 12.5"

1 NE Echo Lake, CO — 12.5"

4 ENE Nederland, CO — 12.2"

5 SSW Blue River, CO — 11.3"

5 W Berthoud Falls, CO — 11.3"

1 SW Eldora, CO — 11.2"

9 SE Weston Pass, CO — 11.2"

2 WSW Lone Tree, CO — 11.1"

Ouray, CO — 11"

1 N Castle Rock, CO — 10.4"

2 E Parker, CO — 10"

9 SSE Gould, CO — 10"

1 S Crescent Village, CO — 10"

6 W Arapahoe Peak, CO — 10"

3 SW Meeker Park, CO — 10"

5 WSW Winter Park, CO — 10"

1 WNW Loveland Pass, CO — 10"

3 SW Aurora, CO — 9.4"

8 SSE Rand, CO — 8.8"

Ridgway, CO — 8.8"

4 NNW Longs Peak, CO — 8.7"

9 NE Ponderosa Park, CO — 8.5"

1 SE Kassler, CO — 8.5"

Denver Intl Airport, CO — 8.5"

1 WSW Rye, CO — 8.4"

1 E Ken Caryl, CO — 8.3"

1 SE Littleton, CO — 8.2"

3 WSW The Pinery, CO — 8"

Poudre Park, CO — 8"

2 SE Breckenridge, CO — 7.9"

3 NNE Bailey, CO — 7.7"

1 NE Evergreen, CO — 7.6"

5 S Manila Village, CO — 7.5"

2 WSW Colorado Springs, CO — 7.5"

3 WNW Pingree Park, CO — 7.5"

9 SSE Spicer, CO — 7.5"

2 SW Rocky Flats, CO — 7.5"

6 NW Peyton, CO — 7.1"

1 W Woodland Park, CO — 7"

7 NW Red Feather Lakes, CO — 6.2"

11 S Rabbit Ears Pass, CO — 6.2"

1 W Copper Mountain, CO — 6.2"

1 SSE Loveland Pass, CO — 6.2"

2 N Black Forest, CO — 6"

2 SSW Telluride, CO — 6"

2 N Lakewood, CO — 5.1"

1 SW Thornton, CO — 5.1"

Fairplay, CO — 5.1"

2 SSW Wetmore, CO — 5"

2 NE Leadville, CO — 5"

3 WNW Alma, CO — 5"

1 NW Climax, CO — 5"

5 WSW Guanella Pass, CO — 5"

1 SE Crestone, CO — 4.3"

7 ENE Montrose, CO — 4.2"

8 SW Madrid, NE — 4"

1 E Arvada, CO — 4"

10 NNE Silverthorne, CO — 3.7"

4 NW Peterson Afb, CO — 3.6"

1 W Northglenn, CO — 3.6"

1 ENE Westminster, CO — 3.5"

1 W Wheat Ridge, CO — 3.1"

3 NE Englewood, CO — 3"

2 N Superior, CO — 3"

1 NW Eagle, CO — 2.7"

4 SE Mount Zirkel, CO — 2.5"

2 NNW Louisville, CO — 2.5"

3 SSE Glenwood Springs, CO — 2.5"

5 WSW Grand Lake, CO — 2.4"

2 ENE Vail, CO — 2.3"

2 SE Penrose, CO — 2"

7 WNW Crested Butte, CO — 2"

1 NNE Fountain, CO — 1.8"

Yampa, CO — 1.8"

1 W Westcliffe, CO — 1.8"

Creede, CO — 1.8"

4 NNE Wray, CO — 1.5"

1 WNW Gypsum, CO — 1.1"

6 ESE Cedaredge, CO — 1.1"

Hayden, CO — 1"

5 W Pagosa Springs, CO — 1"

Carbondale, CO — 1"

4 W Paonia, CO — 1"

2 N Longmont, CO — 0.5"

COLORADO SKI AREA SNOW REPORTS

Here's how much powder ski areas say they got in the last 24 hours.

Monarch — 16"

Eldora — 15"

Winter Park — 13"

Keystone — 13"

A-Basin — 12"

Breckenridge — 11"

Copper Mountain — 9"

Loveland Ski Area — 8"

Aspen Mountain — 7"

Steamboat — 6"

Telluride — 6"

Vail — 6"

Crested Butte — 4"

Beaver Creek — 4"

Wolf Creek Ski Area — 4"

Purgatory — 1"

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The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment says a Broomfield child with a confirmed case of measles recently visited multiple locations across the metro area while they were contagious.

The child, who had not received the MMR vaccine, had no known exposure to recent cases in the state, and health officials suspect that unidentified measles cases may be occurring among people traveling through the area. CDPHE said the child visited locations in Broomfield, Lafayette, Louisville and Westminster. They advised anyone who may have been exposed to watch for symptoms for 21 days after the exposure.

Measles symptoms start with a fever, cough, runny nose, and red eyes, said CDPHE. Those are followed by a rash that starts on the face several days later and then spreads.

"If symptoms develop, call your health care provider, urgent care, or emergency department before going in, and tell them you may have been exposed to measles," they advised. "This helps prevent further spread. Monitoring for symptoms is especially critical for people who have not been vaccinated with the MMR vaccine, particularly infants under one year of age who are not routinely recommended for the vaccine."

Health officials said the best way to prevent the disease is to get vaccinated. They added that immunoglobulin given within six days may help prevent or lessen the illness.