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Man With ‘Gun’ Arrested Outside Victoria Station

Photo / wallyg Passengers on a 73 bendy bus were evacuated earlier this afternoon after a man on board brandished what was thought to be a gun. The bus was brought to a stop near Victoria station at around 1pm and parts of Terminus place …

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London Gun Crime Increases

Photo by Herschell Hershey from the Londonist Flickr pool The number of ‘shooting incidents’ in London has almost doubled over the past year. The number of people actually being shot over the last six months has increased to 236, as opposed to 123 in the …

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Extra, Extra

Appalling tragedy in Croydon today as a young father is murdered on his way to visit his new born son. Amy’s been burgled. Let’s face it: Paris isn’t entirely of this world, now is she? The Origins of Darwin look set to evolve as a …

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Police Getting A Taste For Tasers

The Taser may have turned a Flordia student into an unwitting celebrity earlier in the year, but on the streets of London it’s a serious business. As we reported a few weeks ago, the Met has recently increased Taser deployment for a trial period. Barely …

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St Trinians Premiere

The legendary girls from St Trinians had their premiere last night in Leicester Square. St Trinian’s is the 2007 film of the 1950s film series is getting certain bits of the press excited, with a cast that features Rupert Everett in drag, Russell Brand twatting …

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Extra Extra: Humbug Edition

The nation’s favourite supermarket (not) plays Scrooge with its staff. Police everywhere would like us to party carefully this season. Quite right too. The food police go to work on a hedgehog. The regular police get to play with tasers, even tho’ it is against …

Week Around the -Ists

In Los Angeles, LAist most definitely celebrated Thanksgiving like no other. After all, one has to keep up all the energy to keep on walking the line at the Writers Strike and fighting the unfortunate return of the wildfires in Malibu, which single handedly destroyed …

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Londonist Live: The Duke Spirit, 229 Club, Wednesday 21st November

Whilst many, last night, were labouring under the somewhat unreasonable expectations that our national football side might do something a little old school, like win, there was a group of us who went home late with a collective smile on our faces. The aforementioned happy …

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A Play, A Pie And A Pint

New writing theatre company Paines Plough are presenting an absolutely cracking new way to see plays this autumn and making us think that there should be more theatre programmed like this. New writing, an exciting theatre space, a sensible time slot, a hot snack and …

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Extra, Extra

London Ambulance Service is the best. And it has the best blogger, too. Just as well, because gun crime has risen 10%. Free wifi on London to Milton Keynes bus route. At last, a reason to go to the new town. Securitas robbers sported ‘false …

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Treemendous Efforts

We love a play on words at Londonist so we’re delighted to tell you that the third Tree-athlon hits Battersea Park tomorrow. Taking it’s etymology from the triathlon but spinning it towards the event’s beneficiaries – the trees – charity Trees for Cities will be …