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While the crowds were enjoying the many splendid fireworks around London on New Year’s Eve, there were some people not looking at the sky exploding with colour and going ‘Ooooh!’ but instead looking at wounds, blood pressure monitors and puddles of sick. The London Ambulance …

Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …

There have been big changes at Londonist this year – we’ve had new staff, a new commenting system and a brand new tagging system installed so we had a lot to celebrate at the Christmas party. And as we’re not keen on making trouble for …

Boris Johnson is backing a plan to bring Routemasters back into action, with electric motors and no emissions, and the reintroduction of drivers and conductors on each bus. With characteristic swiftness, Ken Livingstone has taken opposition to the plan and Londoners are once again torn …

While pigeons are getting a bit of stick today, heartwarming news of sparrows getting new homes at London Zoo courtesy of prisoners in Spring Hill prison balances the scale somewhat. After a long absence, sparrows have come back to London and are being housed in …

While the turkeys are getting nervous and the butchers are doing a roaring trade in this crucial last week before Christmas, a very unwelcome slaughter has taken place in Letchmore Heath, Herts. Gangotri was a sacred cow at the Bhaktivedanta Manor Hindu temple; she had …

Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …

Dear readers, you may have noticed something different about Londonist. Do not be alarmed, we have introduced two new things to enhance your enjoyment of Londonist and they are… … Tags! Instead of being confined to narrow categories, every post is now tagged with specific …

Alexis Lemaire saw to it that ‘mathlete’ irrevocably entered our vernacular when he broke the record he set for mental calculation at London’s Science Museum. He correctly determined the 13th root of a randomly generated two hundred-digit number to the 13th root (now consider that …