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Latest news in play
- It's G-g-g-GO at Go Kart Grand Prix
- Is crowd funding the future for play in London?
- Islington Play plans big improvements to adventure play
- Landmark moment for children's right to play
- Battersea no more
- Report reveals dramatic decline in children's independence
- Battersea Park Adventure Playground occupied
- Glamis glee at playground awards
- London SPG on play and informal recreation
- Low cost play is high value
- Lambeth adventure playgrounds closed
- Wandsworth approves playing field sell off
- Free play trumps paid for excursions for summer fun
- Sedentary children display poorer motor skills
- Children's screen addiction creating couch potatoes of the future
- Which mayor would be best for play?
- Recession leads to resurgence in outdoor play
- Out of the ashes - Home Park is reborn
- Cardboard boxes promote active play
- Adventure playground falls victim to cuts
- Playgrounds keep children from sliding into crime, say stars
- Council to take 'adventure' out of Battersea playground
- Triangle lights up in time for Christmas
- Let children play in the street to prevent them getting fat
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- London kids keep it wheel at Go Kart Grand Prix
- London Play survey: play takes a slide down councils' priority list
- Chief executive Dr Ute Navidi to leave London Play
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