Weekend Round-Up
Featuring rare birds, less rare actresses, defecting priests, and shiny new buildings. Amongst other things. Now, anyone seen the cat?
Edgware Road
Circle Line Not So “New” or “Improved” (A Passenger’s Lament)
Dear Circle Line, You promised you’d change, you did. You told us you’d be ‘new’ and ‘improved’, that we wouldn’t have to wait so long between trains, and that we could rely on you from now on. But here we are, stuck at Edgware Road, …
Sandwichist – Lamb Shawarma from Café Helen, Edgware Road
In search of London’s best sandwich since sliced bread The Sandwichist is now a year old. So what better way to mark this seminal milestone, than to guzzle beer and then head to the Edgware Road for a kebab. Given that Eid fell on the …
Former Pakistani President Makes Home In London
Pervez Musharraf, the former Pakistani president, Bush administration pal in The War Against Terror (TWAT for short), and the youngest member of 2004′s Death List, has found himself a new home: he’s taken up residence in a house just off the Edgware Road. With life …
Circle Line “Teacup” Trials
Image by deluxis An eagle-eyed spotter at London Reconnections has noticed that TfL is running trials over this weekend for the proposed “teacupping” of the Circle line. The idea, knocked about for some months, involves running Circle line trains out of Hammersmith and into the …
Freesheet’s Circle Line Fantasy
Those perusing The London Paper (we’ll not kowtow to their lowercase shenanigans) yesterday will have seen an interesting report on proposed changes to the Circle line, augmented with a picture that indicated the orbital network would be extended westwards via the Hammersmith & City line …
Star Glocks
Foreign visitors may be bemused by our relatively toothless bobbies with their funny hats and ineffectual truncheons, but the truth is they can’t always be trusted when packing heat. A female officer has been removed from operational duty after she left her firearm in an …
Fire In Edgware Road Flats
Fire broke out in mansion flats on Edgware Road this morning just before 6am. Residents were evacuated and the road closed while 40 firefighters rescued people from the 8th floor and the roof and got the blaze under control. Thankfully, no one else was involved …
Edgware Road Waterworld
It was a delightfully dry and bright, crisp and chilly weekend in London… except for a sudden bit of flooding along Edgware Road on Sunday morning. Not from the heavens opening in a repeat of the 2007 deluges but from what has been reported as …
Extra, Extra
Fake holy water seized! By God! Fake fags seized! By dog! Calls for Edgware Road station to change its name to Chapel Street Market. Which has the surreal advantage of being an anagram of The Spectral Meerkat. UPDATE: Seems it’s actually Church Street Market. Whoever …
Londonist Stays In
It looks like summer might actually have arrived in London this week, but if you’re determined to stay inside, here are a few things to help you bide the time. On TV, Londonist likes: Monday, 3 September – Wednesday, 5 September Dumped (Channel 4, 21:00-22:00) …
