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Apology Not Accepted: Standard Circulation Drops 20%

By bltphoto in the Londonist Flickr pool. The Russian-backed Evening Standard relaunched last month in a vortex of orange and apology not seen since KIlroy was nixed by the BBC. The first monthly circulation figures will be announced today and are expected to show a …

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A Heart-Stopping Improvement

After last week’s news that our ambulances are the best in the country, Londoners should be pleased to hear that there’s now another reason why, if you’re going to have medical trouble, you may as well do it in the capital. Londoners’ chances of surviving …

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Monday Miscellanea

This Day In London’s History 1988: The Bank of England withdraws the £1 note from circulation. In 1797 the Bank of England started printing banknotes in denominations of one pound sterling on a regular basis. To quote their website: In 1759, gold shortages caused by …

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And in the stupid corner…

Because schools aren’t violent enough: Boxing is being reintroduced in several schools to help pupils develop their mental and physical skills. Of course! Nothing like the risk of a good old fashioned brain injury to increase fist to eye co-ordination. The director of sport at …

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Merry Christ! OMFG etc etc…

What was that we just said? Well, that mostly wraps things up for Londonist in ’06… Yeah right. What we should have said is that mostly wraps things up for London in ’06 because according to ABC we are ho ho ho fucked. Check out …

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Interview: Liz Akers of Team Nice

You may have seen Liz Akers smiling from the news pages lately. You may have even seen her smiling at you on the tube or bus. If you’re very lucky, and deserve it, she may have even handed a small ‘nicetie token’ to you on …

Newspaper Wars – Round 2

More details have emerged today about Associated Newspapers’ contender to thelondonpaper. It’s described as a “new free London paper”, and the biggest disappointment is that they haven’t chosen to call it thenewfreelondonpaper. In fact it’s going to go under the monumentally boring name of London …

Newspaper War Escalates

Forget the Middle East, the streets of London is where the real battle is. And the ammunition is newspaper ink… …at least, that’s what we’d possibly write if we were lazy, scaremongering Standard journalists who had been drafted in to write filler copy for a …

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My Rock Mag’s Bigger Than Your Rock Mag

With the oppulent car-crash that is the Brits lingering long in the memory like the stench of a shared student bathroom, it seems appropriate that the ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulation) average monthly circulation figures for the UK’s rock mags should just be released (courtesy …

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Rusbridger Lecture

Londonist was in Mile End last Thursday, attending Alan Rusbridger’s inaugral lecture as the new Hugo Young Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London. The subject of The Guardian editor’s lecture, organised by a group of history postgraduate students, was ‘Weblogs vs Journalism: The …

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Hello, Goodbye

Happy New Year to everyone from the Music Dungeonistas. We trust you found solace in some decent music while ‘Best ofs’ and Reality TV Rubbish polluted tweeters, woofers and sub-woofers over the break. In a bizarre collision of mainstream and alternative, we spent New Year’s …