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Bus Overturns, Serious Injuries Reported

Sky News are reporting that a double-decker bus overturned during rush hour this morning in Clapham. The bus, on route C3, was felled after hitting a lorry at the junction of Plough Road and St John’s Hill. Reports say that twenty people have been taken …

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Theatre Review: Zombie Prom @ Landor Theatre

“What is it? What? Is it my hair?” So what do you get when you marry Grease with the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and add in a little nuclear action? Zombie Prom, the latest production from the Landor Theatre in Clapham. The story centres around …

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Biblio-Text: Clapham Books

Continuing our amble around London’s independent bookshops The tale of Clapham Books is one of triumph over adversity. In 2006, a team of plucky bibliophiles bought a failing bookshop on the site of the current store, changed its name, spruced it up and – despite …

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Railside Memorial ‘Neglected’ By Network Rail

by Ronski Only weeks after the 7/7 sculpture in Hyde Park was unveiled, it has been claimed that a memorial garden built to honour the dead in a previous tragedy on the transport network has been left neglected. A garden near Spencer Park in Battersea, …

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Extra Extra

Police are investigating a double shooting in Clapham. Britain’s most senior police horse, Raleigh, has retired at the age of 23. Those rumours about Jimi Hendrix’s untimely death just won’t go away. Miss London’s really in the running: she’s Linford Christie’s niece. London’s 2012 efforts …

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Extra, Extra

Teens are to be involved in a new anti-knife poster campaign in London and other target areas. A new NHS computer system which was due to be installed at Tooting’s St. Georges has fallen prey to gremlins. London is to get bomb-proof bins. This is …

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Bread (tick), Ariel Colour Liquitabs (tick), Acapella Marriage Proposal (tick)

Clapham Sainsbury’s is a nice enough place to do your weekend grocery shop. On Sunday, Clapham resident Neil took his girlfriend there to get a few bits. In their trolley they picked up a nice jar of cooking sauce, some bread, a small chicken and …

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Weekend Round-Up

Here’s what we’ve learned whilst you’ve been out enjoying this glorious sunshine: The Artful Dodger won’t be happy: fare evaders are to be fined a couple of ponies from now on. A rather wonderful playground just for disabled kids has opened in Hillingdon. Frieze in …

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The Saturday Strangeness

74. A Gaggle Of Ghosts: Part Four – Ghostly Women Red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue… black, white and grey too! Not just the colours of the rainbow but also the many varying types of spectral woman seen around …