It’s tall and ungainly, of uncertain worth, and will look slightly out of place in its surroundings. No, we’re not talking about the signing of Peter Crouch to augment the Liverpool forward line-up, but the nascent Vauxhall Tower, which has just been given the green …
It’s been a while since we had an Olympics story (we’re going to be doing this for the next seven years so we need to pace ourselves) but this is a good one becasue it involves the Thames and massive cruise liners. The Port of …
A quick rundown of all the latest news stories connected to the London bombings: As you’ve probably read by now Pakistan security forces have arrested a British Muslim in connection with the bombings. This was part of a sweep of arrests across the country during …
Despite yesterday’s round of headshaking regarding the idea that our involvement in Iraq may have provided just a little motivation for guys from Leeds to blow up parts of London, the New York Times is painting quite a different picture. It seems that an assessment …
Paris Hilton will not be getting married at St Paul’s Cathedral. The hotel heiress, ‘unwitting’ porn actress, reality TV staple and archetypal daddy’s girl had been dreaming of the ultimate ‘fairy tale marriage’ at St Paul’s and even went as far as writing to Prince …
Imagine for a moment that you’re Ivan Basso. If anyone’s going to beat Lance Armstrong it’s going to be you. And if you’re going to do it at any point it’s going to have to be on the toughest part of the toughest stage of …
The idea that somehow by running away from the school bully, then the bully will not come after you is… known to be completely untrue by every kid in the playground Ahh good to see that the government is finally cracking down on bullying in …
Just a quick post to mention that, as of this morning, King’s Cross tube station is open for the Metropolitan, Northern and Victoria lines. The Circle, District and Hammersmith and City lines won’t be up an running “for a number of days” however, and service …
Long before there was a Londonist there was a city called London and on the whole it was a great place to live and work (although it desperately needed a dedicated blog). Those of us that embraced its multicultural heart rejoiced that we had found …
Londonist was concerned to learn that two bus drivers working for Centra buses were suspended without pay on Wednesday of this week. The reason? For refusing to take buses out without working radios. For those of you who don’t know, bus radios connect to Centrecom …
As you’d imagine there’s already quite a few images from yesterday’s Trafalgar Square vigil up on Flickr, so we thought we might point you in the direction of a few that caught our eye this morning. The image at the top of the post is …
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