HMS Belfast gains a frigate-shaped friend. From warships to parsnips, as a floating vegetable garden is announced. Complaints about buses have risen. TfL puts it down to ‘improved complaints procedure’. One-legged fugitive on the hop. Carsten Holler nightclub opens tonight. Image by M@.
The police have their work cut out investigating knife crime and youth violence these days so we imagine they’re not best pleased at having to track down the gang of 3 teens who eschewed blades in their pursuit of cheap and mindless ‘entertainment’ and instead …
Tonight the area between London Bridge and Tower Bridge is going to look a little different. HMS Belfast will be camouflaged and the old London Bridge post office building on Borough High St will look like a post box. You won’t be tripping out but …
No, Helen Mirren’s academy award hasn’t been thrown overboard, but London’s favourite battleship, HMS Belfast, has lost Oscar – one of its two cats. We’re keeping our hopes alive that the ginger moggy hasn’t drowned as he apparently tried in vain to find the other …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 3rd September 1878: Passenger steamer Princess Alice collides with cargo ship Bywell Castle on the Thames near Woolwich Pier. All of the 700 passengers of the Princess Alice are either thrown into the heavily polluted river or trapped …
No, this is not a Touch Up London entry involving a giant root vegetable or a cross-looking Stefan Edberg (whimper). The magnificent Swede in question is the rather stunning Götheborg, a full-scale replica of an 18th century merchant trading ship that this weekend popped to …
The Pool of London gets turned on today as Switched ON London kicks off: A seven night celebration of the relationship between light, architecture and the city consisting of temporary lighting installations and a series of light related events with an overall concept theme of …
Following last week’s successful attempt to look at a bit of London from the perspective of a tourist, we thought we would have another go at visiting a ‘tourist attraction’ that we’d not yet encountered. A friend had recommended HMS Belfast, and we didn’t think …
Ken is facing up to the US Government in yet another battle of wills. Cheapskate American diplomats who have been refusing to pay the congestion zone have up until now claimed diplomatic immunity from their daily £8 charge. Ken has now vowed to hunt them …
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