The four-year battle to stop the construction of a 22-storey tower outside Tate Modern has finally got personal. Residents of nearby flats on Bankside have now launched a legal action against the the developers and John Prescott who backed the plan. The history of the …
What Paula Radcliffe paused to do in the streets of London, bid organisers are doing to the locals. It’s possibly the most contrived headline of the week, but it does head a pretty decent article on the damaging effects a London-based 2012 Olympics could have …
With construction well under way at Arsenal’s new Ashburton Grove stadium, everything looks set for it to become one of the best stadiums in the country to watch football. That’s of course assuming you’ll actually be able to get there to watch a game of …
How do you think bats have sex? In the dark we presume, with their little, inbuilt sonar going like the clappers. However, if said bats reside in Highgate Wood then they’re unlikely to be getting any hot, nocturnal action thanks to the proposed construction of …
Earlier this year Londonist contacted the parenting pressure group Fathers 4 Justice to see if we could get an interview with them. We wanted to talk to them because it seems that many of their ‘stunts’ take place in the capital and Londoners tend to …
As far as running into problems on a film set go its no Apocalypse Now, but amateur film makers Vincent Tempest and Adam Young managed to at least bring the local constabulary out in force in search of a dumped body. Members of the Finchley …
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