Home time. But can you guess the station? Photo by Dave Gorman Would-be jet bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was radicalised in London, according to the Yemeni government In a related (and belated) development, university leaders are to discuss how to tackle on-campus extremism Medway Council …
By josh is here As if in the business of bestowing New Year’s Honours himself, yesterday Lord Mandelson of Mayoral Ambitions magisterially declared that as of 2012, Greenwich shall henceforth be known as The Royal Borough of Greenwich. The “honour” is to be conferred as …
By warriorgrrl Showing impressive creativity when it comes to their green credentials, the Met are recycling a lot more than their Christmas trees. Guns and knives siezed by the force are being melted down and turned into girders to be used on the 2012 Olympic …
Photo / Ari Levinson The best gift Barack Obama will get this Christmas is a successful healthcare reform vote, but second in the list is surely the special edition West Ham United shirt that was presented to him (via a White House official) at the …
Photo / D1v1d Mentally ill detainee dodges minders on Stratford shopping trip and goes on the run Eurostar trains are up and running again Electrical fault causes the Royal Free Hospital to cancel all non-emergency surgery Olympic traffic lanes in the Blackwall tunnel would lead …
By Gary8345 We’d love to say they’re pledging to get their super fast broadband rolled out to 10 million UK homes in time for 2012 purely as part of their commitment to the London Games and the Olympic value of excellence. Since they lit up …
Thanks to a hefty cash injection from Visa’s sponsorship of umbrella organisation Team 2012 it now looks like Team GB will be able to field competitors in every possible sport at the 2012 Olympics. Things were looking ropey not long ago but now every marginal …
Redbridge Council have denied reports from last weekend that League One strugglers Leyton Orient are set to move to a new ground in Fairlop Waters. The Sun had reported on “secret talks” between club and council, but a spokesperson has refuted the suggestion that the …
Photo / Matthew Gidley Olympic officials have declared that, “wherever possible”, food served during the 2012 Games will be British. That doesn’t mean you can give your tastebuds the fortnight off and tuck in to a miserly meal of toad-in-the-hole or spotted dick; merely that …
Being one of the key routes toward the Stratford site, Victoria Park is due for a £12 million refurbishment ahead of the 2012 Olympics. As revealed earlier in the year, the plans include giving the current facilities a bit of a spruce-up, while some of …
Photo / ColBacco Pair jailed for plotting murder of pregnant teen Illegal workers on the Olympic site have been arrested Sarkozy snubbed by Brown for bad-mouthing the City Skinny house for sale at half a million Mitcham’s Remembrance Sunday event was apparently hijacked by the …
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