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Getting the remake treatment this week is the fondly remembered Magic Roundabout, recreated in a very European computer generated style, with the added draw of celebrity voices, such as Kylie Minogue, Joanna Lumley, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent and Robbie Williams. This doesn’t save the film …

The latest government figures on truancy were released today and it was bad news for London as the capital had the highest rate in the country, although this is probably good news for any retailer with a lax policy on selling cigarettes to kids. Given …

A twelve-year-old boy from Highgate has put himself right up there for the title of London’s nerdiest resident after he found five errors in the latest edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Lucian George (even his name is a bit nerdy) wrote to the editors of …

There are a lot of reasons to like Harold Pinter. He’s no fan of the Bush administration and thinks Tony Blair a “deluded idiot” for taking the UK forces into Iraq but the main one is that he isn’t Andrew Motion. Londonist would, however, like …

A few stories have popped up in the papers over the past few days which point to a bit of a cash injection in the capital’s cultural artery (did we just mix our metaphors then? Apologies if we did). Here’s a quick rundown of the …

Today Goldsmith’s College unveiled their brand spanking new chunk of seven-storey architectural goodness, otherwise known as the Ben Pimlott Building. The £10.2m building, which houses rooms for the visual arts, psychology and computing departments, was built by architects Alsop and Partners, who also designed the …

Time was when a visit by royalty to the official opening of a school would be accompanied by rows of white-shirted kids, smiling keenly and waving their union flags. Not any more. The Queen’s school-opening in Lambeth last week was met by placard-waving protesters and …