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Just a quick bit of news to cheer you up on this grey, drizzly morning: Pete Doherty has had his car towed! Apparently the junkie knobhead hadn’t paid £170 road tax on his Jaguar (although we read somewhere else that he’d got unpaid fines for …

It’s time for the Thames Festival again. Previous festivals have opened with a high-wire walk across the width of the Thames and closed with a “river of fire” fireworks show. This year’s two days of street theatre, fireworks, art installations, food, drink, music and circus …

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. It’s a busy old week, so let’s get on: Tonight May Contain Graphic Content poses the question “Are graphic novels a complex and creative new …

Ooo, our eyes are starting to glaze over. It must be the seemingly monthly news that Tube and bus fares are to go up again. On the definitive list of things inevitable, transport price hikes can now join death, taxes, and daily Diana exclusives in …

This day in London’s History 1978: Man executed with brolly. Unless you live in Chile, the date September 11 will only ever be remembered for the one, obvious historical event. Of course, plenty of other stuff can claim today as its anniversary, including the remarkable …

Even though we are way way past school age, we still get a little melancholy at the close of summer. Fortunately, our friends across the -ist network know that the shenanigans don’t need to end just because the big yellow buses are back on the …

I think that’s the closest we’ve ever come to an Evening Standard-style headline here on Londonist! Anyway, thanks to reader Rich, who emailed us with a whole set of photographs which he took of the number 43 bus that caught fire on the Archway Road …

Scotland Yard is hunting a knife-attack suspect after a mother was brutally stabbed to death on Wickham Street in Vauxhall while on her way to work this morning. According to a new poll “One in six Londoners admits moving seats on the bus or Tube …

If you cast your mind back to the middle of August you might remember we reported on the upcoming Strip Poker Championships at the Cafe Royal. To be honest we were a little cynical about it, but we heard from a couple of people afterwards …

A leaked memo from Thames Water would seem to suggest that they’re going to cut their workforce by 25% over the next four years. In London last year 6.16 million Penalty Charge Notices were handed out for illegal parking, improper use of bus lanes, moving …