Archive for July, 2009

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Extra, Extra

Hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his appeal against extradition. Signs of the economic times: there’s been an increase in the sale of home-office furniture. Procul Harum’s organist has won a court battle for a share of the Whiter Shade of Pale royalties. A 2,500 year …

Video: The Challenges Of Escaping From A Peckham Multistorey

While we’re talking about views from that Peckham car park, here’s the situation inside. Various artists have set up camp in the upper storeys of the structure as part of the Bold Tendencies III show. As if negotiating the dimly lit concrete concourses were not …

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In Pictures: Sunset From The Rooftops Of Peckham Rye

Londonist drinks last night were of a somewhat unusual persuasion. We assembled in Frank’s Bar on the roof of a Peckham multistorey car park to watch (a) the sun go down and (b) intimidatingly cool art students swaggering around the rooftop sculpture park as though …

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Former Railway Station To Become Café

A proposal to build a modern café in the former entranceway to Blackfriars Road station, across the road from Southwark tube, has won planning permission. Glas Architects knocked up this design, which encases a three-metre wide section underneath the archway in glulam frame and etched …

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Weekend Bike Rides, Brought To You By Sky

By Mr November via the Londonist Flickrpool First Ken gave us the Hovis London Freewheel, but their dough didn’t rise to the levels of Sky (*groan*), so under Boris it was rebranded the Sky Sports Freewheel. This year it gets another facelift and will be …

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Video: London On Speed

London Day from urbanTick on Vimeo. Our friend Andy Hudson-Smith at UCL points us towards this impressive bit of timelapse from UrbanTick. Much of it is shot from the top of St Paul’s. We see swarms of tourists and stockbrokers scurrying across Paternoster Square, the …

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Football Rumour: Patrick Vieira Heading Back To Arsenal?

Image / titlap When Gooners implore Arsene Wenger to strengthen his squad with the windfall cash from the sale of Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Touré, this probably isn’t what they mean: reports suggest Patrick Vieira might be heading back to Arsenal. The former Highbury legend, …

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Photo of the Day: Caption Required #20

Captions in the comments please. Photo by illuminant voyager via the Londonist Flickrpool. Check out the clever and amusing captions from last week’s PoTD: Caption Required #19

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TfL Looking Into Holes Fine

Fed up with the disruption caused by utility companies digging up London’s streets? TfL are considering fining companies who don’t complete work on time. Boris Johnson kicked off a war on holes as part of his Way To Go! initiative earlier this year by insisting …

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Boris Versus The United States Of America

It seems that the US embassy is once again in trouble with a London Mayor. Nothing to do with the Congestion Charge this time. Well, not much. No, the problem is mostly with the American government’s plans to build itself a brand new embassy complex …