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One Bag, Two Bags, Three Bags Hell

Hallelujah! Heathrow, Stansted and London City airports are lifting the one bag restriction from today! The era of squashing what you can into a carefully measured single piece of hand luggage or resigning yourself to checking in your bags and the inevitable lengthy scramble at …

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Extra, Extra

From the government department for investigating blatantly obvious things – a public consultation into whether learning English helps immigrants feel more at home. Spend the money on the courses, you twonks. BBC names rising music stars for 2008. Don’t get too excited. Watch out for …

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Berbatov Staying Put?

Imagine, if you will, the ‘real-life’ equivalent of the footballer’s ‘come and get me’ plea to the media….. You’re doing very well in your current job, but you can’t help but think that you’d be doing even better working for this other organisation, in a …

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Update: Liverpool Street Station

The BBC are reporting that Liverpool Street station may be open this afternoon for mainline services, although it looks like local trains won’t be running until Thursday morning. As we posted earlier, the station missed it’s scheduled re-opening this morning. A “shortage of specialist engineers” …

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2007′s Gigs of the year

We already knew London was capital of the world, but 2007 has firmly cemented us as the best city by far musically. The Millennium Dome reopened as the O2 Arena, hosting not only 21 nights of Prince, the Rolling Stones, Take That, and the Spice …

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Londonomics: Hoping For A Moderate New Year

When this small bit of Londonist launched its IPO this summer, we had no inkling that the economy would soon be in very choppy waters. Since then we’ve seen a bank run, huge corporate losses, and grim warnings across the board. And yet somehow, bankers …

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A Comedian Blogs: Christmas Violence

Week Around the -Ists

Torontoist discovered their city’s most ridiculous holiday lights setup, with 80,000 lights and two––two!––synchronized music routines. Naturally, they snagged a video. Chicago tragically loses one of its most recognizable neighborhood icons, the pigeon man of Lincoln Square. LAPD leaves

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Take The Special Bus: East London Line Closure

Heads up people: the East London Line closes this Saturday. It will undergo a magical transformation that will take rather a long time but the line will reemerge from a 3 year chrysalis as a beautiful section of the newly tangerine London Overground network, linking …

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Pigeon Vigil In Trafalgar Square

Remember the pigeon feeding turf wars of 2006? Well, the Pigeon Action Group are back in the news. A candlelit vigil was held at midday today on Trafalgar Square’s north terrace (in daylight?) to highlight the plight of the poor starving birds. Westminster City Council …

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What’s for Lunch? Betjeman’s

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Betjeman’s 44 Cloth Fair EC1A 7JQ Nearest Tube: Farringdon 0207 600 7778 12pm-3pm for Lunch(Monday-Friday) 6pm-9pm for Dinner (Monday-Friday) 12pm-11pm for drinks (Monday-Friday) Map Expect to Pay: £10 or more …