Centre Point

Deaf from Above

The London Assembly has a new report showing that there’s a lot more helicopters hovering over the city than there used to be: The study highlights Londoners’ growing concern about helicopters adding to the “misery” of airplane noise. It wants to introduce a charge for …

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Terrifying 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act to be Invoked

First it looked like it was going to be a farce, then we had a report that maybe charges would be brought against the police for the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes. The Guardian now reckons that we’re back to health and safety violations: …

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Londonist Stalks…Colonel Richard Seifert

Like so many of our stalks, you may or may not have heard of the fellow, but you’ll certainly know his handiwork. Richard Seifert has made more of a mark, some would say stain, on London’s modern skyline than any other individual. His most famous …

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London Rubbish Not Rubbish

To be honest we should have added the London Rubbish photoblog to our list of links a long time ago. Although (from what we can tell) Mark Sheldon has only been posting since mid-2005 he’s already made quite a name for himself in the overcrowded …

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Newgate Calendar

A man who stabbed City banker John Monckton to death during a robbery at his home has been jailed for a minimum of 36 years. Damien Hanson gets three life sentences. “I shall now be going to have a glass of champagne and then I’m …