Populist: August 9-15

Dean Nicholas
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Last Updated 15 August 2009

Dean Nicholas Populist: August 9-15

A round-up of our most popular posts from the past seven days, and what made the news in London this week.

  • Police revealed details of Britain's largest jewel heist and the latex-wearing perps who did it
  • A naked plinther got bum rushed from the stage Shock as tabloids discovered that some London kids speak foreign A gas explosion in Hammersmith led to a storm in a Twittercup
  • Open House prebooking featured an unexpected new location
  • The history of London worst disasters was mapped Time Out's Big Smoke belched its last Londonist reluctantly swapped spats for sneakers and went on a jogging tour of the city Queueing for the London Eye got a whole new dimension Pictures of the proposed new Terminal East at Heathrow were unveiled Dalston came alive as the home of abominable fiction Know your Mexican food? Submit your recipe