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All today’s Extra, Extra headlines are taken from local London papers, just to prove we’re not as ‘metropolitan’ as it may sometimes appear. The Government is considering a M25 Congestion Charge in an attempt to cut queues. A man, sick of hearing music on public …

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Tonight Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award way back …

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Wednesday Based on his columns for McSweeny’s, Nick Hornby’s The Complete Polysyllabic Spree seems rather a lazy excuse for a “meta” book. Hornby (pictured) explores …

Like small children, tourists and big dogs, cars don’t really belong in London. Sure, they have their uses but they do take up a lot of space, are noisy and tend to move very slowly along the streets. creating bottlenecks at crucial points in the …

A particularly silly article entitled Is London the New New York? Or Is It the Other Way Around? appeared recently in the New York Sun. The main arguments for the immediate twinning of our two cities put forward by the hackette what wrote said article …

The calendar is littered with days assigned to celebrate and acknowledge certain things – World Aids Day, International Womens Day, National No Smoking Day and now… International Pole Dancing Day. There will be free classes throughout the UK and an attempt to set a World …

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Wednesday To eat or not to eat? Professor of Ethics Peter Singer, author of “Animal Liberation” and “How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an …

Friday 25 August For those who like their Friday nights to be a little bloody, the Texas Chainsaw Travelling Horror Show is in town this evening – more information (not for the faint-hearted) here. For a slightly less terrifying but no less fun and thought-provoking …

If you can dare to drag yourself away from the Big Brother final tonight and aren’t whisking yourself away to V, then these are our top recommendations for this week. Friday Stylish Riots Weekender Part I :If you’ve ever been down to Notting Hill Arts …

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Is it Booker Longlist season again? Drum roll please… Peter Carey Theft: A Love Story Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss Robert Edric Gathering the …