Archive for January, 2010

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Weekend Round-Up

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been New Year Resolving: The Lady with the Lamp meets a geezer with a conductor’s baton at Kings College Hospital. A woman was raped near Canada Water station on Friday. Five people have been arrested over the …

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Camden Fringe Open To Applications Now!

Summer seems a long way away right now but if you’ve a yearning to find the finest fringe audience in town for your play, cabaret, comedy or other kind of performance then now is the time to get your act together – the Camden Fringe …

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Last Chance To See: Seizure (Take Two)

Dedicated readers will remember we announced the last chance to see Seizure, the Turner Prize nominated work by Roger Hiorns in November 2008. A touch early as it turns out: it subsequently reopened six months ago and will close for the final time (so we’re …

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The Saturday Strangeness

135. The Lincoln’s Inn apparition As ghost stories go, the phantom of Lincoln’s Inn Fields remains one of London’s most bizarre. On February 25th 1913 a group of men standing and chatting near the lodge of the local legal offices were alarmed by a terrifying …

Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant in Did You Hear About the Morgans? / image courtesy of Sony PIctures

Saturday Cinema Summary

Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant in Did You Hear About the Morgans? / image courtesy of Sony PIctures Our weekly round-up of cinema reviews “Gene Siskel, the late American film critic, once asked of a certain rom-com: ‘Is this more entertaining than a documentary …

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London Celebrates The New Year

It’s a new dawn, a new day, a new year, and a new decade (and any wiseacre who quips that the ‘Teens’ don’t really begin until 2011 can go to the back of the class). Happy New Year, folks — let’s hope it’s a good …

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New Year Extra Extra

Bad new year: a man has died after a double shooting in Thornton Heath. Honourable new year: arise Sir Patrick Stewart. And there are mentions for the RIver Cafe founders too… Strange new year: fancy adopting a homeless snake or spider? Sustainable new year: on …

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Time To Get A Travelcard: Fares Go Up Tomorrow

By Route79 If you don’t want to be immediately hit by the Mayor’s fare hikes then get down your Oyster Point pronto – fare increases kick in tomorrow. Gen up on exactly how this affects you over at London Reconnections or the TFL website. Whilst …

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Anyone Got Six Acres of Central London Spare for HS2?

A huge new ‘London Central’ station for High Speed 2 is reportedly going to be announced in the Government’s Rail Programme. Yes, we also have no idea where they plan to put it… The proposed station would have eight platforms and be able to handle …

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O2 Boss Blames iPhone For Crappy Coverage

Photo / Takuya Murata In a rare example of corporate confession, the director of phone company O2 has admitted that the service provided to London has been shoddy in recent months. During an interview for the Financial Times, CEO Robert Dunne confirmed that customers were …