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A slice of sponge cake and a hearty round of “Happy Birthday” to the Rotherhithe Tunnel! Not the nearby Brunel-designed Thames Tunnel, (the world’s first underwater tunnel, lest we forget) but its quieter, lesser-celebrated neighbour that ferries road traffic underneath the Thames from Southwark to …

Despite the slow waterwheel turn of time and the thickening of cataracts, Londonist remembers school well. Oh what fun we had; and did it really turn out bad? All we learned at school was how to bend not break the rules. Yup, school did by …

A tale here of two local councils and their contrasting approaches to the pressing issue of water usage. Following a government campaign announced earlier this year, Westminster council have binned bottled water from their offices in favour of glugging straight from the tap (via a …

So the worst has happened. You’ve got yourself in a spot of drug-related bother (possibly after following Croydon’s cut-out-and-keep guide) and been sent down to do a bid. Worse still, that pill-popping has left you with a fiendish habit, all cold sweats and shaky hands …

Wethinks the Livingstone doth protest too much. Our former mayor is upset at the suggestion, made by Boris Johnson, that Ken kept a secret stash of liquor with which to get merry with the wives of Windsor and who knows whom else. A comedy of …

So, the smack-down that was Indy v SATC was officially won by Indy (presumably with one of his famed punches to the face). While those two films continue to soak up every last ton of box office cash we have a blockbuster free week of …

Turns out Gordon Brown had bigger things to worry about than that silly waxwork distraction of a few weeks ago, where an online poll of Tussauds fans gave the PM a big clunking thumbs down. Yet it must be galling to see other world leaders …

Colonel Harland David Sanders always vowed to take his ultra-secret family recipe of 11 herbs and spices for making his legendary chicken, fried in the Kentucky way, to his grave, a resting place he reached back in 1980. The recipe remains a trade secret, one …

A sign of this country’s creeping Torification, with Britain’s top two Blues boasting their two-wheels-better philosophy at any opportunity (never mind the traffic signals)? Or merely a sensible policy that could help get more people on their bikes? Kensington and Chelsea are to trial a …

Rats have taken over Muswell Hill. And we’re not just talking about the clowns from Haringey Council who dumped those confidential documents a few months back. No, these are the genuine deal, the scurrying little beggars themselves, all brown of fur and sharp of claw. …