There was a lot of clanging outside Londonist Towers this morning. We mean, more clanging than usual. And banging. So we went to investigate. Turns out some little men from the council had come to remove all the street railings: our corner today, the other …
Image by Simon Crubellier Baby Peter lodger Jason Owen wins appeal over jail sentence; he’ll serve six years Think the Tube’s bad now? It’ll be truly grim in 2026 if improvement work is cancelled A girl died after falling from a window whilst fleeing from …
Congratulations, Alfie Dennen and Paula Le Dieu! Their dead simple yet brilliant concept for putting art on the tops of bus stops was selected from a shortlist of 5 to win the London region commission for the Cultural Olympiad project, Artists Taking the Lead. Spiky …
Hackney already experimented with wind power this past summer, and the council is now contemplating a bigger project: a public consultation is underway asking residents their opinion on a 120-metre high wind turbine for Hackney Marshes. The proposal comes via the Olympic Delivery Authority, who …
By secretlondon123 Ghoulishly, Halloween happens to mark 1,000 days until the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. LOCOG are taking this as no kind of walking dead portent and Lord Coe and his team are, in fact, ebullient. Thomas Cook have signed …
The final of the Women’s Floor competition at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships yesterday afternoon at the O2 was gripping for many reasons. Even watching on telly you could sense the crowd inside the 12,000 seater arena were going mental in anticipation of seeing home …
Image of Diane Arbus -inspired graffito by Herschell Hershey Latest crime figures make grim reading: a 17% rise in gun crime and a 20% rise in rapes over the past year In not unrelated news, police today arrested 140 people in a crackdown on youth …
Our tour last week of the Olympics site showed the box-ticking eye candy of the Stadium, Velodrome and Aquatic Centre coming into view, but over the weekend a less exciting edifice had the modest distinction of being the first 2012 building to be completed. The …
The Olympic Park may be coming along nicely, but the International Olympic Committee is exasperated by dithering over where to hold badminton and rhythmic gymnastics. The two sports still don’t have a definite home after organisers mooted scrapping temporary venue North Greenwich 2 in an …
Tony Hall with young DJs from The BLT Crew DJ Tony Hall (AKA CEO of the Royal Opera House AKA Chair of the Cultural Olympiad board) took to the decks at the Southbank Centre yesterday morning, to announce the launch of the UK’s largest ever …
Sizing up the Olympics as your chance to shine in a non-athletic way? Help is at hand if you’re career minded enough to be thinking ahead. A new website Podium Skills London offers information on the key industries involved in 2012 and ‘employment forecasts’ indicating …
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