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City Vs City Run

After the football, London now takes on Liverpool and Glasgow in June for a City v City 10km race with a distinctly silly videolink set-up. Our runners will start at 9.30am in Greenwich. The winner crossing the finish line will appear on a big screen …

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What A Load of Ballots

This week the whole world outside of London heads to the polling booths to settle crucial issues once and for all. In France they will set the future direction of Europe. Scotland may move to end the UK – rather rudely just after its 300th …

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The Ambassador, The House Doctor and Some Ferrero Rocher?

The US Embassy is up for sale. At somewhere between 130,000 and 280,000 square feet depending on which reports you read, the place would make a lovely Mayfair residence for a large family (space for about 750 people, at the last count). And all this …

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Gays Aloud

This weekend the police raided FIRE, London’s biggest gay club – and closed it under the Misue of Drugs Act. The threat of kicking off a Stonewall Riot in the Vauxhall area seemed to have been averted by police tactics of, er, handing out small …