The BBC are reporting that a 15-year old boy was killed just after midnight after two armed men forced their way into his house and shot him in his bed. “This does not appear to have been a botched burglary,” said Det Supt Gary Richardson …
BBC: A woman has been taken to hospital after police were called to deal with a suspect package at premises in central London. Bomb disposal experts are at the scene in Victoria Street in Victoria after police received a call at 0940 GMT. London Ambulance …
This Day In London’s History 1924: The Greenwich Time Signal pips are broadcast on BBC Radio for the first time. This one is quite pleasingly geeky. Shortly after the formation of the BBC in 1922, it was suggested that it might be a nice idea …
Time was Eurovision was just one day in May. Not anymore, as the internet allows us to follow the very hectic season of national finals from all around Europe. We say hectic, because there’s 42 countries in Eurovision this year – sometimes even Londonist can’t …
Now that Scotland Yard have handed their files on the Litvinenko investigation over to the Crown Prosecution Service, the BBC are hazarding a guess at who done it – former KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi in the Mayfair hotel with the radioactive teapot. Mr Lugovoi met …
Nothing much on the old London terrorist radar today so let’s have a quick gander at the rest of the country. Oh look, they’ve arrested nine people in Birmingham: The “significant” operation involved police and the security service MI5. Security sources said a terror plot …
a completely dead red-barbed ant BBC.com tell us that a team of scientists from the Zoological Society of London are beginning an ambitious project to save one of Britain’s most endangered species… … the red-barbed ant (Formica rufibarbus) … … also known as the ‘St. …
The TV licence fee is going up by £20. Boo. Will 2007 be the year of the London BnB? A two year old boy died in Kentish Town in yesterday’s storms. The full London Lord of the Rings cast has been announced. And a Vietnamese …
King’s Cross train station has been closed and evacuated, the National Rail Enquiries woman tells us – due to bits falling off the roof. All mainline rail services from King’s Cross have been cancelled. London Bridge is partially closed. Apparently – according to a forwarded …
Crushed at our cricketing walloping from the Wallabies? Numbed at our humbling on the international soccer stage? Tempted to down cratefuls of the sponsor’s product to submerge the memory of the autumn rugby fiascos? Then why not treat yourself to a few hours of a …
Eurovision Song Contest. Those three words have garnered so much undeserved scorn. And all because a bunch of singers representing countries come together on a big stage somewhere in Europe to sing some songs with poppy, up-beat melodies and sugary lyrics. What could be more …
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