An inspirational Croydon rapper is raising money for Alzheimer’s Society with a musical project. Ragz-CV, aka Ryan Junior Matthews-Robinson, 25, began making the EP ‘Paying Homage to the King’ as a tribute to his Granddad Robbie ‘King’ Robinson’s musical background. But the cause soon became even greater when he saw how his Nan, Maureen Robinson, was suffering from dementia.

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It’s easy to get sucked in to the conversation of the people behind you at the pub. This is an idea that the Croydon-based Breakfast Cat Theatre Company has latched onto with three short plays at The Ship. The first play, Time, Gentlemen , by Ben Parker, follows the conversation of three men in a Croydon pub.

This Christmas The New Wimbledon Theatre’s panto offering is an all-singing all-dancing production of Aladdin to start the festive season in style. No Christmas pantomime is complete without celebrity guests and Aladdin is no exception, with Brand making her pantomime debut as a sarcastic Genie of the Ring, Matthew Kelly as a camp Widow Twankey and stars of Britain’s Got Talent, Flawless, as the street-dancing Peking Police Force.

A gorilla voiced by Brian Blessed, circus tricks and flamenco dancing are all on offer in The Snow Gorilla at Kingston's Rose Theatre. The story follows Sunny (Ciaran Joyce), an orphan who runs away to join the circus where he befriends a talking gorilla. It's a musical, circus and pantomime rolled into one; an inventive combination of genres.

Illicit drinking, adultery and alcoholism-and that was just my bus ride over to see Baz Lurhmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. I was apprehensive about a favourite writer being given the film treatment, but if anybody knows how to do opulence, it’s the Aussie director of Moulin Rouge.

The Kingston Pound, a local currency, will go for trial in the borough next year. Brixton, Bristol, Totnes, Lewis and Stroud all have a local currency working alongside sterling, while people in Hackney are also creating their own version. Andrew Connolly, a Chartered Financial Planner and co-founder of the Kingston Pound, said local currencies have social as well as economic implications.

Commuters at Wimbledon Station got a surprise yesterday when greeted by the sound of bagpipes as the country began gearing up for Remembrance Day. Thousands will wear poppies on coats, bags and alternative headgear on Sunday, but an ex-serviceman says the government does not help veterans enough. Billy White, Ex-Royal Marine Division Commander, and Secretary of the Wimbledon branch of the Royal British Legion, criticised the government’s attitude.