Archive for July, 2005

Londonist has been showing relativists around London so we missed the latest news on the terrorists… Thank the gods for Jon Snow: Well amazing scenes in West London. In a way we’ve entered a new media age let alone a new age of capturing people …

The Houses of Parliament are a familiar London sight: visitors and regulars alike gaze wonderingly at the seat of power, steeped in history, majesty… and protest. Parliament Square has seen its fair share of protest by those who have exercised their right to speak out …

The IRA’s renunciation of violence has already been splashed over the press, and it is effectively national (indeed, international) news. But it is also London news, so we make no apologies for marking it here. It’s also a Birmingham and Guildford and Enniskillen and Warrington …

It’s always nice to round off the week with a good ‘…and finally’ type story, and if it involves Barnet, massage parlours and take away food, then so much the better as far as we’re concerned. So here it is then: Watford Borough Council’s development …

There’s a lot of pressure ridign on Depp, Burton and their adaptation of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. After all it’s a remake of a pretty good film based on a near-legendary book by the greatest (?) children’s writer of all time (none of that …

Well, it’s the Blog Roundup, so it must be Thursday. The pulse of the London Blogtinuum has gently been returning to normal over the past week, with the exception of the continued discussion and analysis of the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian …

The Independent Police Complaints Commission inquiry into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes is appealing for witnesses to the incident. At the same time the police have also released a statement saying that the 27-year-old’s visa had expired two years ago, and the passport …

At 5:05am this morning Edgware Road station opened for the first time since July 7. Although there were apparently just two commuters on the 7.05 District line train from Edgware Road to Wimbledon this morning. As for the other effected lines, the Piccadilly Line still …

At the same time that Channel 4 are trailering The House Of Obsessive Compulsives (Mon 9.00 C4), ITV announce that they will show a “one-off documentary” about a group of teenagers with Tourette’s Syndrome who go away to a camp for teenage Tourette’s sufferers. C4 …

How often do people praise their local council for something? Probably about as seldom as they commend traffic wardens or applaud the work of Steve Penk. But Londonist salutes forward-thinking Camden Council, as it reveals plans to install wind turbines atop its town hall in …