Archive for March, 2005

Moving seamlessly on from the tube adverts post below, here’s some more ads-based news, this time involving the continuously ill-fated Standard Lite. You see, advertisers who pay to go into the proper, grown up, Evening Standard have never had to pay to be included in …

The press are currently having a field day with some comments that Prince Charles muttered under his breath at a photocall at Swiss ski resort with the Heir and the Spare today. When asked how Charles was feeling about his wedding he joked: “I’m glad …

It’s been a busy week for London’s admen. First, there’s the Standard Shite Lite advertising story (which Rob is writing about, so I won’t go into here). Second, Media Week reports the “beginning of the end” for flyposting after Camden council won its battle to …

Local councils are apparently not above hiring private detectives to keep tabs on the coming and goings of certain gentleman’s clubs. It was revealed today that two London lapdancing venues were investigated last year by a council-hired PI after claims that sex was for sale …

Lots of stuff in the press today about Alistair Darling’s idea for a carpool lane on the M25. Apparently Darling got the idea after a visit to LA last year where “some drivers have gone to extraordinary lengths to take advantage of faster journey times …

Has Christopher Eccleston really quit Doctor Who? Londonist awoke to this: Actor Christopher Eccleston has quit as Doctor Who after just one episode of the new series has been screened, the BBC has confirmed. We are gutted at the thought of this being true, but …

Think And Wonder, Wonder And Think… sounds like one of those schools’ television programmes you used to get in the Eighties doesn’t it? You can almost imagine an overly-enthusiastic man and woman wearing brightly-patterned jumpers, erecting a wobbly structure made of pipe cleaners which is …

It’s still two days to April Fools, but tell that to the staff at Victoria Tube Station. This roving Londonist correspondent was in the station – the network’s busiest – at 8.45pm this evening and was both astonished and entertained to hear the following announcement …

Guy Ritchie, that Jamie Oliver of the film world and current Mr. Madonna, has fallen foul of the Catholic Church. It seems that last Thursday Guy and Madge (now known as Esther) were out in London celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim. Catholics are not …

Anyone off to the Old Vic tomorrow evening will be greeted by Canary Wharf’s cleaners as part of a delegation from the Transport and General Workers Union in an attempt to raise public awareness of their campaign for a living wage. Morgan Stanley who are …