This is the story of a very strange Sunday that started with eight audience members sitting in shop doorways and concluded at a dining table set up on the busy St John’s Road near Clapham Junction. We went through a lot together – a phonebox, …
Yesterday saw St Martin-in-the-Fields reopen its revamped and expanded crypt cafe hot on the heels of Sunday’s first church service for 90 weeks following a multi-million pound renewal and restoration project. The 18th century landmark church, which opens onto Trafalgar Square, is dearly loved in …
Happy first weekend of September – and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let’s take a look at what’s been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston’s firefighters bent over backwards all week long – …
This weekend, a man was found dead in Orpington High Street. Apparently his death is being treated as ‘sudden’. What’s surprising about this is that although his death was sudden, no one spotted him for 13 hours. Think about this for a second. A whole …
We are the people who live in London. Some of us are born here and some of us will die here. Some of us have been here forever and some came here yesterday. Some of us will stay forever, like it or not. We have …
Sickening news today of the case of a homeless man who was “happy slapped” to death for “a right laugh” in Stratford last September. The three men charged with Gary Turner’s murder, all in their early twenties, apparently went on a violent spree that night …
Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore,
Deirdre and Maria, the Mormon chilli-wielding child dislikers, are jailed. 60,000 of our citizens are missing. Mourinho falls in love with the Olympics. One bedroom flat in Belgravia costs £3 million. But it does have a high ceiling, so plenty of space. If you’re Spiderman. …
London’s running schedule is hotting up next month. Alongside the capital’s tussle with Liverpool and Glasgow on the morning of Sunday 3 June, workers in The City and Docklands have their own chances to nip out, buy some emergency trainers and get some kilometres under …
A few weeks back we brought you the tale of a man who, out of the kindness of his own heart, takes people’s broken iPods, fixes them for free and passes them on to others. Could there be a nicer man in the whole kingdom? …
The soon-to-be-constructed ‘Cheesegrater’ building seems to have attracted a little murine attention. Could it be the same family of mice we previously encountered at Newham Hospital, and Asda? Could it…could it? Papa Mouse: [to his 8 starving children] My little mouslings, now that we have …
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