Today’s Times carries a pretty lengthy article on London’s transport system and it’s influence on the bid for the 2012 Olympic games. Next month an IOC “evaluation commission” will be inspecting the capital’s transport systems looking for any improvements that have been made since last …
Out with the old and in with the err…old It’s the last night of 2004 and Channel 4 has a night of looking back on three of the most popular shows it has broadcast in the last few years – Frasier, Friends and Sex in …
Cargo is a lovely little venue perfect for sampling new bands. What luck it is, then, that they have a weekly unsigned bands showcase for you to enjoy. Tuesday night is Demo City night, which this week stars
Disastrous news for those of us you who use blank taxi receipts to give yourselves the occasional bonus, as The Evening Standard reports that Mayor Ken wants to halt blank taxi receipts. Instead, Kuddly Ken wants to install machines in every cab which will print …
If you are down at the snow slide today or over the weekend and you fancy warming your bum in a nice, cosy cinema afterwards then Londonist reccomends a walk down to City Hall where the International Manga & Anime Festival is taking place. The …
The restoration of the West Front of St Paul’s Cathedral is at last complete and the scaffolding has come down. This returns to the capital one of its most delightful prospects, the view down Ludgate Hill towards St Paul’s, and means that visitors will at …
News reports are coming in of a murder on Upper Cheyne Row in “plush” Chelsea. The Scotsman is reporting that “John Monckton…A wealthy City bond dealer has been murdered [during a burglary] at his home in one of Britain’s plushest neighbourhoods.” The Standard, meanwhile, are …
Londonist is always keen to hear amusing tales of our more highly paid, sharper dressed fellow Londoners working over in the city, which usually involve paying out an amount equivalent to the Gross Domestic Product of Chile ($156.1 billion, 2002 estimate) on a night out. …
Londonist was delighted to see that The GLA have been out and about interviewing 11 to 16 year olds on their “attitudes towards London”. The survey, organised in the lead up to International Children’s Day on Saturday, interviewed a total of 1,072 London residents aged …
Londonist can sometimes see why we journalists get a bad name. A quick surf of even today’s newspapers will see that Brian Drysdale, “48”, driver of the car involved in the rail crash in Berkshire last Saturday, drove onto the railway line, removed his clothes, …
Some of the capital’s more legendary buildings are going up against each other in a poll to see which is the “capital’s best-loved view”. The Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge, the Gherkin, St Paul’s Cathedral, the Millennium Eye, Battersea Power Station and…erm, Liverpool Street Station …
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