Image / Photomish Dan The cold weather (including the snow that suddenly went ‘whump’ over London in the last couple of hours) is having a knock-on effect on the trains. Southeastern are running a Saturday service tomorrow; Southern are running a ‘revised’ service this evening …
Image courtesy of Phillie Casablanca from the Londonist Flickr pool Get out the birch twigs and the cat-o-nine-tails – after yesterday’s (and today’s) snow chaos and general city-wide collapse, it seems to be time to stop making snowmen and start the recriminations and flagellations. So …
Right, so we all know it’s cold. They keep telling us. And Londonist’s toes, tiddly pom (there’s a university course on the hums of Pooh?), are very everso cold. Eastern England gets to share in the fun this time, as the cold stuff is coming …
… and it might be cold tomorrow, too. And so the national obsession with the weather continues, with papers reporting that, astonishingly, it can sometimes get a bit chilly in January. As we reported yesterday (well, if the newspapers can run a story every single …
Cyclist in Hackney this morning Ten hurt in bus, van, shop collision incident in Westbourne Grove this morning. Songwriting Baby P campaigner stands in Seven Sisters by-election, although she lives in Muswell Hill. Linguistic maverick Boris uses word “dosh” in TfL press release. Fearne Cotton …
London was thrown into a mass panic this morning when plummeting temperatures caused a dusting of ice-like crystals to drift from the sky. A hurried press release from the Meterological Office confirmed that the substance was in fact ‘snow’, which apparently falls every year in …
82. A Christmas Ghost Story: Curse of the Nurse! One night in 1943, the air raids had been particularly severe over London, and so the following day it wasn’t unusual for workman Charles Bide to be sent off to various crumbling and damaged abodes to …
We haven’t got outside today but from this Londonist perch it’s looking and sounding like the harbingers of Armageddon are wreaking their dirty havoc on us. Yet, whilst one old lady just walked past with an inside-out umbrella held defiantly above her rain-bonnetted, anoraked, stumbling …
Last full week before Christmas, we expect your bank account’s feeling the strain. All that Christmas shopping and partying taking its toll? If you want to make the most of being out and about before Christmas cabin fever and complete exhaustion set in then we’re …
