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Lunchtime in Barking by pallab seth

Photos From The Weekend: Signs of Spring

Signs of spring, snapped this weekend around town and shared in the Londonist Flickrpool.

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Coo ‘Eck Kew!

Splendid news for the last few days of Kew Gardens’ 250th anniversary year. Despite being wrongly identified as home of the Millennium Seedbank in the original BoJo backed ‘Only in London‘ campaign earlier this year (corrected, thanks to Diamond Geezer), the Royal Botanical Gardens at …

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Where To Watch The Marathon Tomorrow

Considering it’s 26.2 miles long and will have 35,000 people pounding along it, it’s going to be hard not to fall across the marathon tomorrow. But the secret to having an enjoyable marathon spectator experience is to avoid the ultra-crowded bits, and work out how …

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Virgin to Sponsor London Marathon

The London Marathon’s got itself a new sugar daddy. After a highly public breakup back in December (“it’s not you, it’s us” was Flora’s graceless exit strategy), the London Marathon has been wandering adrift, at sea, not quite sure what the future would bring after …