This Week In London’s History Monday – 9th February 1996: The IRA detonates a massive bomb near South Quay DLR station, just south of Canary Wharf. The explosion kills two men working in a nearby newsagents shop and causes £85 million worth of damage to …
Lebedev Junior has been interrogating chatting to ES staff. “Hands off our hacker!”, Bojo tells Obama. It’s not just Londonist what loves London: Pascal Chimbonda has taken a pay cut to get back here. Gordon Brown has been grasping at oratorical straws. How Croydon Took …
On a misty, moisty, freezing morning – this morning, in other words – the new DLR extension to Woolwich Arsenal opened, creating a new way of getting across the Thames. Trains run every ten minutes, take 28 minutes to Bank and a mere six to …
Yesterday we were so bemused by the prolix perambulations in Boris’ Way To Go transport document that we neglected to consider the very real probability of significant cuts to long-planned transport schemes. After the laughter, come the tears: today, in their 10-year business plan, TfL …
Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been having an extra hour’s lie in: The perils of Facebook and the price of fame: a woman TV presenter was tracked down, befriended, threatened and then attacked with acid. The vicar who ‘married’ two gay clergy …
It’s amazing what a lick of paint and better lighting can do. Apparently, the redesigned entrance to Shadwell DLR station, countering its previous dark and dingy reputation, has made 75% of local residents feel safer using it and there has been “just one crime at …
The DLR has come a long way since its birth almost 21 years ago. What started off as a relatively modest initiative for getting commuters into and out of the newly regenerated Docklands area has blossomed into a major transport backbone for parts of East …
Hundreds of commuters were stuck underground for nearly 3 hours last night, their hometime ruined by a power failure on the Jubilee Line. As usual, such bad news doesn’t make it onto TfL’s website but the BBC report that Blitz spirit prevailed with resigned passengers …
Who doesn’t love the DLR? OK, missing a train by the smallest of margins then having to wait 10 minutes on a windswept platform on a Sunday night for the next one is no fun whatsoever, and one Londonist writer had a rather hair-raising experience …
Heathrow panic over rucksack man, running onto runway. He removed his shoes first though as per airport protocol. Woman charged over drug mule children with illegal leg loads. Environmentally aware, double-barrelled teen to ski to North Pole. The Royals are checking out their sugar suppliers …
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