Weekend Round-Up
We spend the weekend scouring the internet for news…so that you can spend it out and about. So what’s happening where you are today?
7/7
Free Olympics Tickets For London Bomb Survivors
364 free tickets for victims and their families.
Royal Oak Taxis Drug And Money Laundering Gang Smashed
Operation Eaglewood has convicted 33 gang members involved in drug smuggling and money laundering run out of Royal Oak Taxis in West London.
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The day the (street-specific) music died: farewell to Gerry Rafferty. And other London stories.
7 July Inquest Begins
Inquests into the deaths of the 52 people killed on 7th July 2005 starts at the Royal Courts of Justice today. Presided over by Lady Justice Hallett, and expected to last until March, the inquest will look in detail at how the emergency services responded …
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Heygate Estate Monster by Liamatom 40 residents are still living on the Heygate Estate, one of them an amputee Oona King picks up backing for her Mayoral bid from some tainted sources: Peter Mandelson and Idris Elba, best known for playing suave gangster Stringer Bell …
Ceremony Remembers 7/7 Bombings
Five years ago today, 52 people lost their lives during London’s worst terrorist incident. At midday, a ceremony and minute’s silence will be held at the Hyde Park memorial (right). A separate service will take place at Chatham House in St James Square followed by …
Monday Miscellanea
We run the numbers from last week through the picture-selecting machine… 3,000 Great British pounds for a table made of London Bridge 69 holes in the road per mile in London – watch where you’re going! 143 years old: happy birthday Canada 40 tonnes of …
Fake Bomb Alert Closes Aldgate East Station
Photo / Simon Wrigglesworth A pair of security men sparked a major operation yesterday when they left a pair of fake bombs on the back seat of their car. The twin devices, made of “artillery shell casings, mobile phones and Plasticine”, were spotted in a …
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Yet another lady cyclist has died on London’s roads. This is getting very serious. Labour are in trouble for giving out balloons to school kids. They’re not really having a very good day, are they? There’s more than one election going on at the mo: …
Interview: Tom Chivers, How To Build A City
Since coming across our radar a few years back, London poet, editor and live literature promoter Tom Chivers has frequently given us good cause to perk up and pay attention – whether by co-founding the award-winning London Word Festival, bringing us a cracking (and frequently …
