News broke before Christmas that the Office of National Statistics have revised their figures for July to September to show a tiny fall in GDP. Come the next announcement Britain looks likely to climb out of recession. Even as you read this the recession might …
The Yuletide and New Year period is a traditional time for newspaper folk to kick back and regurgitate some of the most interesting, controversial, or just plain memorable content from the past twelve months into a year-end best-of feature. In that solipsistic spirit, may we …
London has the largest litter of lions in the world. A magnificent pride their history goes back 120,000 years. There are colossal, legendary and living lions. Lions from one of the seven wonders of the world, from the cradle of liberty and there’s a lion …
Here’s what we’ve learned whilst you’ve been up the sales: Ladies – fancy a bit of New Year exhibitionism? Here’s your chance… Peacemakers aren’t always blessed: 3 people are arrested for murdering a man who tried to stop them fighting. The Met New Year resolves …
London Freecycle, the online forum for Londoners to pass on unwanted or unneeded items to others who can use them, will be no more come the new year. The gargantuan, London-wide, eco-friendly beast is being killed off to be replaced by the many-headed hydra of …
By Marie Harimoto Considering some learning for self improvement amongst those new year’s resolutions? If the Medicine Man galleries at Wellcome Collection enthral you this could be right up your street: an 11 week course on the history of the human body in Europe using …
Perfectly in tune with the austerity and chill of January after the lush indigestion of an all consuming Christmas, a site specific theatre company are presenting a new stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic novel, “Crime and Punishment” at the Oubliette Collective Mayfair Squat – …
Sad news: Peter Moore, town crier to the City, Westminster, Southwark, GLA and Mayor and basically de facto town crier of the whole of London, died at his home in Wandsworth on 20 December. He’d been in the job for over 30 years and was …
North London really isn’t having fun when it comes to Christmas power. In addition to the 1,000 homes in East Barnet who lost gas (and later, electricity) on 20 December – around 100 of which are still cut off – 2,715 homes in West Finchley …
And so, finally, to Southwark, where one of Europe’s tallest buildings is beginning to rise. The Shard may not be more than a handful of steel beams at this stage, but it’s already a firm fixture in the London psyche. The tower was first mooted …
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