It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend… Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. …
“Whole crew… from backstops… full pressure… GO!!!” It’s our first journey to the Thames of the series and we start with 286 crews of women rowing the wrong way up the river. Well, in fairness to the majority of oarspersons it’s really the right way, …
No, seriously. We NEED them: A shortage of donor bodies is putting medical teaching at risk, the Royal College of Surgeons has warned. About 1,000 bodies are needed every year to teach anatomy to medical students, it is estimated. But the college predicted a 30% …
BBC: Police are investigating the death of a baby boy who suffered a cardiac arrest shortly after he was circumcised. The boy began having breathing problems at Golders Green United Synagogue, in north London, on 1 February. He was taken to a hospital nearby but …
As the squads for next month’s cricket world cup in the Caribbean are announced news reaches us of an intriguing public gathering of some of the game’s cognoscenti in London on the eve of the tournament. From Thursday 1st to Saturday 3rd March the Institute …
Anyone walking past Holborn Tube is sure to have all kinds of leaflet thrust upon them. But if you were passing by last Friday, you might have ended up with something worthwhile. A group of postgrads from St Martin’s have put together a handy map …
York Way, that dusty street alongside King’s Cross, is abuzz with construction and redevelopment. Nowhere more so than Kings Place (they’re not big on apostrophes in these parts), next to the Regent’s Canal. Come 2008, and a new arts and music venue will be open …
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 …
On Saturday The Times reported that police may have worked out who was responsible for the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko: The suspected killer was captured on cameras at Heathrow as he flew into Britain to carry out the murder. Friends of the ex-spy say that …
Kind of. The Tricycle theatre is set to follow its stagings of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, the Bloody Sunday hearings and the Hutton inquiry with a staged indictment of Tony Blair for a crime of aggression against Iraq. The real PM won’t be present of …
The war over intellectual property rights has opened up a new front as London scientists kick off the new year with a shot across the bow of Big Pharma: Two UK-based academics have devised a way to invent new medicines and get them to market …
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