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Cow Killed – For Good Or For Bad?

While the turkeys are getting nervous and the butchers are doing a roaring trade in this crucial last week before Christmas, a very unwelcome slaughter has taken place in Letchmore Heath, Herts. Gangotri was a sacred cow at the Bhaktivedanta Manor Hindu temple; she had …

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London Elects Update 1: Everyone’s A Little Bit Racist

We’ve not lately delved into what’s been bubbling away in the run-up to London’s elections next year. So Wilkommen, Bienvenu, Welcome to this new and possibly occasional feature to catch up with what’s going on out there. Let’s have a rummage and see who’s up …

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Review: Hostage/ Bleach / Burn – Camden Fringe

Having seen and enjoyed Room 110 in the Camden Fringe Festival yesterday, we continue with our non-Scottish fringe theatre foray with some more new writing. Consisting of three consecutive monologues, Hostage/ Bleach / Burn has only half as many scripts as Room 110 but is …

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Tour de France Prologue: Five Lessons To Learn

We think everybody who attended Saturday’s sun-soaked Tour de France Prologue would agree that, on the whole, it was a well-organised, popular success. However, with the shadow of the Olympics hanging over every large scale sporting happening in London between now and 2012 our experiences …

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A Comedian Blogs

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A Life in the Front of a Black Cab

If you could release a spoken word album of cabbie stories you would have to advertise it in a K-Tel Hit Parade LP style. It would sound something like this: New from K-Tel, it’s the 100 best Cabbie stories coming to all good record stores! …

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Couldn’t Escape If We Wanted To: Helsinki-ist

Helsinki has gone Eurovision bonkers over the past week, in advance of tonight’s semi-final. Helsinki’s Esplanadi park has become a European Market for the duration of Eurovision. Participating countries are displaying their culture, tourism and food. Helsinki’s best karaoke club has been holding a massive …

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Sporting Weekend: Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race

Assuming the crews are able to make it past the semi-final, Cambridge and Oxford University’s mens’ eights will take to the Thames on Saturday at 4:30pm for just under 20 minutes’ worth of water borne endeavour that will be watched by between 15 and 100 …

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Photo of the Day

Thanks to the keen eye of readers like jollyness an awful lot of interesting London commentary, that would otherwise be lost, is digitally preserved for future generations. The above THEY WANT YOUR POD! displays the trusted form of the yellow post-it note to leave fleeting …

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A Blog Of Olympic Standards

The Olympics. Tired of all the naysaying and doom-mongery? Here’s a site that’s sure to include more positive spin than a world-class discus throw: the official 2012 Olympics blog. No half-baked observations about office life or photos of cute kittens here. Oh no. This is …

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Go, Go Go! Maggot Racing!

What with drug scandal undermining athletics and horse racing being, well, a bit posh, could maggot racing be the next big thing? Visitors to the Three Horseshoes Pub in Flackwell Heath have been gathering around a big screen to watch maggots wriggle their way around …