Archive for November, 2005

According to today’s Times a ‘suspect sample’ of the avian flu virus “went missing” for a day or two at Heathrow airport recently. The sample, which was taken from “dead Romanian birds” was flown into the airport by BA but when security couriers arrived to …

Ever wondered what the Koran would sound like if it were read in an East London accent? Well, if you head over to the always interesting Audio Books For Free site then you can download exactly that: an “audio recording of English translation of the …

- The average price for a house in London has now exceeded the £300,000 mark. – Or, for the same price, you can get a 20ft by 9ft freehold garage in Chelsea. – Andrew lloyd Webber buys out his investors in order to begin his …

This is just so fucked up. Like a Dario Argento movie starring Rowan Atkinson… Man pays for sex with prostitute from King’s Cross (£20) then they share some crack. He kills her (now claiming self defense). He leaves the body in his brother’s flat here …

Unless you’ve boarded up the windows, stopped leaving the house, sealed your mailbox, kicked the tv in, unplugged the phone, dismantled the radio and used your Doc Martins to reboot your Mac/PC back to Scilicon Valley you’ll probably have a slight inkling that it’s going …

Just a quick follow up to the Lambeth ‘Christmas’ lights story everyone was talking about last week. If you remember, the council had begun to refer to the the festive displays as ”Winter Lights’ or ‘Celebrity lights’ in adverts for the switch-on event, the assumption …

If you attended any of the events which made up the Rise Festival (renamed the ‘ London United free festival’ after the bombings) back in July, you might like to know that today is the first day of the Rise Student Week. As you would …

Over the weekend the Telegraph broke the news that the levels of cocaine use in London are 15 times higher than official estimates would have us believe. And how do they know this? Well, the Thames told them. Yes people that’s right: Old Man River …

‘There’s more of gravy than of grave about you,’ punned Ebenezer Scrooge at the ghost of Jacob Marley. His subject might just as aptly have been Café in the Crypt , the vaulted dining space beneath St Martin-in-the-Fields. Thick sauces and hearty stodge await you …

- A police officer ‘accidentally’ fired his sub-machine gun while on guard outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square last Friday morning. He’s been suspended from firearms duties while an investigation is carried out, – An ‘informal’ meeting of WTO bigwigs kicks off in London …