We’ve tried to keep the bad bad news short and succinct today. Following the grizzly discovery of the dismembered body of a seventeen year old girl from South London in a suticase in Brazil, her boyfriend has now confessed to her murder. Overnight and nearer …
When we heard about the Battersea Power Station was to be open to the public (thanks Annie Mole!) over the past weekend, we rushed down with camera ready. And, yes indeed, the iconic landmark was there to be roamed around in all its massive glory. …
Have you any idea how hard it it to write a story about public urination without some sort of pun in the title? Have you? No, we didn’t think so. Ah, the trials of frivolous blogging. Anyway, news reaches us today of a brave and …
Since it finally shut up shop in 1983, Battersea Power Station has been reimagined by excitable developers as a theme park, circus, and luxury housing complex, whilst moonlighting as a cover star on iconic albums, surviving a hostile takeover by Cybermen, and finding time to …
Tooting has just been bestowed with a rather dubious title — the UK’s worst place for ID fraud. It’s not just a little more likely that your identity, credit and good name will be stolen from SW17, it’s a whole five times more likely than …
53. A Stone’s Throw… Unexplained cases pertaining to the sudden appearance of mystery objects from seemingly nowhere have, most certainly in the past, been blamed on the eerie aspect of the poltergeist, or ‘noisy ghost’ – an unseen phantom energy said to throw objects and …
Recommended to us by London girl gone global Estelle, today’s Listen! Up Tawiah made her mark on our pod with her smooth soulful grooves, and her excited performances during Mark Ronson’s live shows. Born in Battersea, she’s a former Brit School classmate of Kate, Amy …
Okay, confession time: Londonist hasn’t always been particularly supportive toward London’s police community support officers. In fact, judging by our generally disdainful tone, you might imagine that we think they’re nothing more than well-meaning but ineffectual quota-fillers with nary a backbone nor a shred of …
This is what we have learned while you were out bisto-ing the Spring air and foraging in the farmers’ markets this weekend: It’s the Baftas tonight, and as the Oscars are on ice, the paparazzi will be out for this in force. ‘Fraid the bloggerazzi …
Battersea Dogs and Cats Home are doing it again; tugging at our heartstrings with a soppy face, melting brown eyes, greying fur and eager to please expression… yes, it’s Neil Morrissey – him of Men Behaving Badly infamy – fronting the dogs home’s latest adopt …
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