Trolley Spotting.co.uk is a fantastic little website (found via Linkbunnies.org so thanks Bunnies), which aims to document abandonded shopping trolleys in three cities: Nottingham, Portsmouth and, of course, London. The site’s creator explains: Trolley Spotting started when I lived in Islington, north London and became …
UPDATE: Ok, the lucky ticket has been chosen and it’s a hearty ‘well done’ to… Tim Anderson of Reading! Well done Tim, you win the tickets and the camera. Now make sure you send the image to the Londonist Flickr Group so we can all …
Well the weather was great for the Notting Hill Carnival this weekend so we figured that some people must have braved their hangovers to get up and upload all their pictures on to Flickr already. And we were right, The image above is by Colin …
We mentioned Danny Boyle’s new Sci Fi movie a while back after chatting to him at Raindance East, but we now have a press release stating that principle photography on the now Untitled Sunshine Project has just begun. It also reveals some pretty interesting casting …
Banksy’s work scattered across London tends to divide people somewhat, but not as much as great big fuck off illegal wall does. Packing his stencils and spray cans, he went to the Middle East to share his vision with those living on the Palestinian side. …
As you’d imagine there’s already quite a few images from yesterday’s Trafalgar Square vigil up on Flickr, so we thought we might point you in the direction of a few that caught our eye this morning. The image at the top of the post is …
Londonist hopes you all had a great weekend. What about that weather eh? Sheesh. Following the example set by the rest of the city we’re very much back to business as usual here on the site. Thanks again for all the email, comments and general …
You would have thought that today it would be hard to find any interesting news stories that aren’t about the 2012 Olympic bid, and then along comes this story about a 15-year-old girl sleepwalking to the top of a 130ft crane. Ok, so this actually …
Radio station LBC 93.7 has launched a commuter survey to see what habits they find most offensive on their journeys. The survey (which is basically what PR people call an interactive marketing campaign) gives you five basic ‘gripes’ to choose from: – people who sit …
Ever since we set up the Londonist personals service we’ve been keeping a close eye on the portraits people have been uploading to their profiles. That’s not because we’re weird stalkers or anything, it’s because we have to feature a new face on the front …
Parliament’s website was given a bit of a kicking today by the Hansard Society. The society, which exists to promote effective parliamentary democracy, declared that a parliamentary internet should be for the public, not the people who work there. The BBC quote the report: It …
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