- Ken’s inernational climate change meeting kicks off today. 300 metric tons of carbon-dioxide permits were bought on the mayor’s behalf so travel to the meeting doesn’t damage the environment further. – Police have spoken to a potential witness in the Sally Anne Bowman murder. …
Remember Rentaghost? That’s right, the kids show from the early ‘80s, in which spooks and ghouls and freaks and fools were available for hire, and proceeded to act very camply. Perhaps electronic artist/architect/handyman Usman Haque has a 21st Century version of the service in mind, …
Well, here we go again. Londonist’s not-inconsiderable powers of augur and haruspex (plus a machine-like publicity campaign) have alerted us to the imminent release of JK Rowling’s latest grimoire. Stores will be open long past the witching hour tonight as millions of children and special …
Having visited Glastonbury over the past few days Londonist already has a pretty good idea of what floods of biblical proportions look like. But anyone who gloated at the mud-splattered revellers over the weekend might soon be eating their words as, according to a new …
There are some parts of London that just don’t know when to stop. Greenwich has already got a shipload of interesting and beautiful things to visit such as the ruddy big Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, the Old Royal Naval College which is now the …
Ok, so ‘Superbridge’ is not the official name for the planned £455 million toll bridge that will link Newham and Greenwich. It’s actually called the ‘Thames Gateway bridge’, but we prefer ‘Superbridge’, so that’s what we’re going to call it. However Superbridge may never actually …
Did you know it’s London Sustainability Weeks? (The unexpected plural because it lasts two weeks.) Well, Londonist did and, ever game for some worthy fun, we went along to the opening event on Sunday in Greenwich Park. The London Green Lifestyle Show stretched right across …
A while back we mentioned what was going on with the other London Bridge and in a similar vein we also like keep an eye on developments in Londons that find themselves flung far away from this, their namesake. New London, Connecticut, caught our attention …
The treasures of the pharoah Tutankhamun are returning to London after more than 30 years, the BBC reports. And they’re going to be on show in the Millennium Dome. This is extremely good news. The horde is a priceless array of death-trappings that is as …
The New 7 Wonders Project is, as you might imagine, a project to find the Seven Wonders of the modern world. As with all things in ‘the modern world’ the winners of this exercise will be decided by an international public vote. The poll, which …
The supermarkets might go mad for pumpkins rather than fireworks; the TV programmes might be flooded with American imports mentioning Halloween rather than bonfire night; but in this dark quarter of South-East London, where electricity is still viewed with suspicion, if not seen as outright …
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