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A NEW theatre production on the life of Labour pioneer Keir Hardie will be staged across libraries in Newham for free.
The site-specific play, dubbed A Splotch of Red: Keir Hardie in West Ham, will be performed across the borough’s libraries and community links in Canning Town.
Newham has strong links with Labour’s first MP when he stood as an independent candidate for the West Ham South constituency in the 1892 general election.
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