Archive for November, 2004

Londonist’s favourite assembly, The London Assembly, today began looking at the impact of London’s night-time economy on local residents. The phrase night-time economy just reeks of illegality but unfortunately we’re not talking about back alley share deals or currency trading done down the docks, this …

Londonist was drawn to an article in The Guardian today with the Ronseal-esque headline Want to feel less stress? Become a fighter pilot, not a commuter. Viewers of the BBC’s The Stress Test will be familiar with the measurement of cortisol as an indicator of …

As promotional gimmicks go it’s a little contrived, but you have give them full marks for imagination: the Travelodge in Covent Garden is offering couples called Mary and Joseph a free night’s stay over the Christmas period. According to the report there is some professional …

The Winston Churchill Memorial Screen (it’s actually a gate) was unveiled today (the 30th anniversary of Churchill’s birth) at St Paul’s. The monument cost £26,000, weighs 3 tonnes, took 7,000 hours and 10 assistants to make, and, we have to admit it, the pictures of …

Tonight at 6 o clock, a Norwegian Spruce about 23 metres high, donated by the people of Norway will be illuminated in Trafalgar Square. The tree, presented by the Mayor of Oslo, Per Ditlev-Simonsen, is a bit of thank you gift for the hand we …

News reports are coming in of a murder on Upper Cheyne Row in “plush” Chelsea. The Scotsman is reporting that “John Monckton…A wealthy City bond dealer has been murdered [during a burglary] at his home in one of Britain’s plushest neighbourhoods.” The Standard, meanwhile, are …

Last week we looked at the opening of the Somerset House ice rink, and received a comment from James letting us know about the ‘rival’ rink in Kew. Now we read that there’s an ice rink as close as the West End – Marble Arch …

Seems like lately it’s getting harder and harder for Londoner’s to pay for their print media. Even if we wanted to hand over reddies for, say, a daily newspaper, we wouldn’t be able to. And now there’s talk of a free “London-focused style magazine” in …

Londonist is always keen to hear amusing tales of our more highly paid, sharper dressed fellow Londoners working over in the city, which usually involve paying out an amount equivalent to the Gross Domestic Product of Chile ($156.1 billion, 2002 estimate) on a night out. …

Despite the terror ‘scares’ and the escalating cost of real estate in the UK, London seems hell bent on building taller and taller buildings. But in recent weeks the trend seems to have stalled with numerous architectural hard luck stories in the press. Everyone knows …