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Lindsey Clarke

Managing Editor, Londonist

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Extra, Extra

Divorced, male lawyer? Man, you must be shattered. Sir Ian Blair’s probably feeling it too. 12 naked ladies coming to the West End stage Sinking to new lows; dodgy mortgage brokers exploit illegal immigrants Bikers hit by new Westminster parking fees Unsolved – Jill Dando, …

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Bring Back Junior Kickstart

“Junior Kickstart” was one of our favourite BBC shows with an awesome bumpy theme tune and kids on Honda 50ccs squealing through muddy courses and over unfeasibly challenging obstacles. Twenty years later, in a sad twist of fate, off-road motorbikes are to be employed by …

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Populist: 27 July – 2 August

Populist brings you a bite sized round up of the best of Londonist this week. Catch up on the coolest, quirkiest, most recommended and talked about stories and find out what’s hot and what’s happening for the week ahead. In the news: The East End …

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“Scary” Attractions Head To Head In Court Case

Perhaps piqued that attraction upstart the London Bridge Experience is based in actual catacombs with genuine claims to hauntings and macabre discoveries – we know, we’ve spent the night there – the company behind the more established but less plague pit authentic London Dungeon across …

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Last Minute Innocent Village Fete Ticket Giveaway

If you’re thinking about going to Regents Park tomorrow for smoothie based summer fun you could bag yourself some free tickets by entering the very simple competition over at the Liberation Nuts Facebook page. Hurry, now.

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Free Tonight?

Ever been in a position of directing your Black Cab driver to your destination? Now’s your change to test your true knowledge tonight at the London Transport Museum’s Knowledge Quiz. Quizmaster Derek O’Reilly from the Knowledge Point School will pose four sets of six questions …

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Cry Of Civil Liberties Violated In Islington Bins Rifle

In order to arrive at its current policy of green box and brown box recycling collections alongside normal rubbish, Islington Council had to do its homework and weigh the options. What more sensible way of doing this than sifting through samples of household rubbish to …

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Kids Unaware Of Olympic Games Coming To London

A tedious survey from a government department we’d barely heard of has concluded that kids in the UK know little to nothing about the 2012 Olympic Games coming their way. The Olympic bad news yawnarama continues. Considering it’s 4 years off, the whole Beijing thing’s …

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Water Fight Wrangles

There were tears before bedtime yesterday when a Facebook “splashmob” got a little out of hand and resulted in 9 people being arrested. The ES pictures show a jolly group of plastic bazooka armed lovelies frolicking in the evening sun enjoying a refreshing water fight …

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Prostitutes U-Turn Through Photography

An exhibition of photographs taken by London prostitutes is currently running at the rather swish Baltic Restaurant in SE1. In an innovative attempt to give a voice to these vulnerable and marginalised women, stuck in the cycle of prostitution, drug addiction, abuse and homelessness, the …