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Image / Stuart Pinfold Last month’s announcement that the BBC Television Centre in White City had been listed didn’t answer the thorny question of what would happen to the Blue Peter garden, locus of many a cherished childhood memory. Rumours arose over the weekend that …

How the coin should look Aged 6 to 12? Enjoy designing national currencies? Then do we have the perfect competition for you. The Royal Mint seeks imaginative designs for commemorative Olympic coins and wants the country’s youngsters to lead the way. (Presumably, the logic runs: …

Far be it from us to snigger at someone else’s misfortune… …but we are amused at the cack-handed incident in Trafalgar Square yesterday, when a Blue Peter presenter managed to drop the star from the top of the iconic Christmas tree from Norway, causing light …

Amidst the costumes and curried goat, the floats and feathers, the ubiquitous bobbie boogieing awkwardly against a spry Bacchanalian beauty, visitors to this year’s Notting Hill Carnival may spot a new attraction: the begging bowl. Global credit woes may have crunched the ambition of this …

O2, it seems, are cornering the market in progressive mobile gadegtry, already having the monopoly on the shiny smart iPhone and now the pilot phase OyPhone. Sorry, “Oyster Wallet” is the much more sensible and meaningless name for TfL’s latest technology wheeze which puts your …

Except they’ve moved to a tip in Croydon and are decidedly less furry than their 1970s incarnation. When Channel 4 advertised for volunteers to participate in a prize eco-challenge, most of the respondents were anticipating the jungle, or polar icecaps perhaps. What they actually ended …

Being huge fans of David Mamet’s House of Games and other great con stories (have you seen Eddie Izzard in The Riches yet? Great stuff) we’ve been following the Blue Peter grift very carefully. It’s a classic con that we think scam artists the world …

Farmers’ markets are great. In London, they fulfil all our inner-city fantasies of organic fruit and vegetables grown lovingly by beefy, ruddy-cheeked country-dwellers with comedy Somerset accents. It’s all about getting back to roots via root vegetables. Really dirty potatoes are always popular but Dulwich …

Here at Londonist, we like Eat Your Own Ears – a promotions company who always seem to put together really good lineups. And their gig this week featuring King Creosote, Larrikin Love, Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, and

Tony Blair has made politics interesting again by comparing Number Ten to a time travelling space craft. When asked by an 11-year-old Blue Peter viewer called Christopher if the place was bigger on the inside than it looked, he replied: “Yes, I mean a lot …