Entries from Londonist tagged with 'andymurray'
July 5, 2008
Er, so OK, perhaps that should read 'Briton wins Wimbledon'. But the fact is that after a summer of pretty dire sports news for the UK, we have our first British junior Wimbledon champion for 24 years. AND she’s from Wimbledon. Laura Robson, at 14, is the youngest winner for 14 years, and her victory will surely fill diehard British tennis fans with hope for years to come. With even our Andy (Murray) still just......
Continue Reading "Britain wins Wimbledon"July 1, 2008
Kew is going placcie bagless. A man has been stabbed to death near the Elephant and Castle. A measles epidemic is predicted unless more kiddies get jabbed. London did the honours for the world premiere of Mamma Mia last night. 75% of London pubs are suffering ‘cos of the smoking ban. Tickets to see our Andy win tomorrow are fetching up to £1,500 a piece. Messing about on our river photo taken from abovebelowh2o’s......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"June 29, 2008
Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been cavorting at this festival or that: RIBA have commended the Terminal 5 building and Wembley Stadium. As if they could get away without praising Wembley…. A new report on gun crime fails to report anything that’s particularly new. The police seem to have misplaced a bailed terrorist. Pleasure cruises that are a bit too pleasurable: police raids net some dodgy substances. The BBC have admitted......
Continue Reading "Weekend Round-Up"June 27, 2008
Kate Hoey, former Labour sports minister and controversial aide to our new Conservative mayor, has admitted that Boris is not certain where some fairly large and important things are. That in itself might not be much of a revelation, but according to her interview with the Metro he's not the only one searching behind the sofa: Some boroughs cannot even tell you what [sports] facilities they have...We haven't even got a proper absolute plan......
Continue Reading "Boris: Some Of Our Swimming Pools Are Missing"