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Hay Bales Coming To Battersea

Get Covered In Mud With Survival London @ Battersea Power Station

Power through mud, water, ice, Walls, hay bales, monkey bars – and darkness

2010 marathon trainers looking a bit knackered already

7 Days To Go – Counting Down To The London Marathon

2010 marathon trainers looking a bit knackered already It may not feel like a year since the last ever Flora London Marathon ran through our streets, however, it must be – for this coming Sunday the Virgin London Marathon will take over the capital. The …

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London 2012 Tickets: Londoners Urged To ‘Sign Up’

This morning various current sporting celebs congregated at Trafalgar Square together with some 1948 Olympians (from the last time London hosted the Olympic Games). They were there to invite sports fans from across London and around the UK to ‘sign up’ for ticketing information for …

Doing this for finely-tuned thighs of steel and wondrous shapely calfs (calves?!), all the time hoping that childhood asthma doesn't return in the process. Her last physical challenge since the Venture Scouts Downsman overnight hike in the early nineties, so she's both excited and appalled in equal measure at the prospect of the 42 floors.

One Week To Go – Team Londonist Storms Tower 42

Training is now well under way, so with one week to go it’s time to get to know the intrepid Londonist team that will be representing you next Thursday (25th) at Tower 42. And what a competitive hotbed the team is turning out to be …

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Team Londonist Begins Gruelling Training Programme

Beautiful. We wager it won’t feel as nice as it looks when we reach Floor 30 and our lungs burst all over the walls. Five intrepid Londonistas have just entered serious training mode ready for Vertical Rush next month, when we will snarl at and …

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Environment. Ilford. Boris. Monday. What Else Do You Need To Know?

bojo environmental wotsit On Monday night Bo-jo will be jumping a-top his trusty Marin Fairfax and peddling his way up to Ilford for an open question-and-answer session on all things environmental. It may be worth heading up there for 7pm, for three reasons: 1) To …

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What Is A Kidnapping Hot Spot Not?

glamour, grit and shiny shiny cars Now then, the capital’s Kidnapping Statistics – one area that this Londonista doesn’t normally bone up about at the kitchen table on a Sunday morning. The headline figure is that, so far this year, 315 cases of kidnapping have …

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In Pictures: BT Tower Fireworks Mark 1,000 Days To Go To The Olympics

Photos from Saturday Evening’s firework moment Pictures provided courtesy of London 2012, with the exception of No.5, which is the contributor’s own

Greenwich Park, pre 2012

Calling All Greenwich Park Users

Greenwich Park As previously reported, there’s a lot of confusing nonsense spread about Greenwich Park, one of the venues where the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be taking place in 1,000 days’ time. But there are also concerns that need to be allayed, and plans …

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Our Four To Follow At London’s Paralympic Games

Dervis Konuralp, Tom Aggar, Andy Barrow & Sophie Christiansen Time flies by when you have the world’s two greatest sporting events – the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games – heading your way. It seems only yesterday that London knocked out Paris to win the …