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This weekend saw the Europe’s first RumFest at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Victoria. One very unremarkable looking bottle went on display: one of the four remaining unopened bottles of Wray and Nephew rum, distilled in Jamaica, whose contents may date back as far as 1915. …

Think Battersea and think Dogs Home. Or Power Station. Well, the Kennel Club and Sky Movies are about to change that by making Battersea Park home of the world’s first Dog Walk of Fame. We’re not quite sure why. The Kennel Club secretary says that …

Even with the spectre of hazardous drinking looming over us, pubs are still our favourite places to be, so we were delighted to be invited along to the Fancyapint.com London pub awards 2007. Fancyapint has awards in 2 categories. The reviewers’ awards are based on …

This weekend Bloomsbury erupts with the Bloomsbury Festival celebrating this famous area. Well known for its literary and historical significance it is also a thriving haven for arts and artists and packed full of beautiful, quirky, intriguing buildings and organisations and the chockerblock programme reflects …

Swimming pools are dangerous places. That’s why they have all those rules. You know: – No bombing – No ducking – No heavy petting Etcetera, etcetera. Keep it safe. Don’t drown. Well, it seems that drowning may be the least of your worries at a …

Up to 600 punters crammed into the Cabbage Patch in Twickenham on Saturday night to see England beat France in the semi-final of the Rugby World Cup. Londonist couldn’t bear to go out and stayed in front of the telly hugging a cushion while the …

Londonist knows at least 2 people who’ve admitted they’ve started their Christmas shopping. We’re not even thinking about it until we at least get past our birthday but, hot on the heels of Davro’s Dick, here’s our second slice of upcoming panto season. The Barbican’s …

Next week our beleaguered government will be announcing innovative new policies aimed at tackling the public health time bomb of increasingly fat and lazy Londoners. GPs will be prescribing – wait for it – exercise, of all things, and dishing out maps of local parks …

In the early hours of this morning a burst water main on Maida Vale caused chaos as roads, homes and businesses were flooded with rushing brown floods. 40 firefighters were called to the scene to evacuate people, divert and pump out the water. Evacuees were …

It’s a bad news day for the Met as the unfortunate Det Sgt Gurpal Virdi publicly advises potential ethnic minority recruits to London’s police force