Listen Up! Music Interview: Amelia Lily
On working with Xenomania, her first album and new single.
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Horniman Walrus Goes On Tour
Walrus koo koo ka chooses Margate for magical mystery tour.
Boswell’s Magic Lantern Show: Victorian Era Travel Photography
Another time, other places in this new Bexley exhibition.
Boris Considers Peninsula Airport Proposal
Like some latter-day Howard Hughes, Boris Johnson simply can’t stop thinking about planes. Having seen the Boris Island airport plan dismissed by the experts, the airlines, the local council, and his own party, the Mayor is reportedly considering a proposal to build an airport in …
Plans For Giant Horse Submitted To Council
Mark Wallinger’s ‘Angel of the South’, a gigantic horse 33 times life size, trotted a step closer today as plans were submitted to Gravesham Borough Council. If approved, the brobdingnagian steed will tower above the Kent countryside near the Eurostar tracks at Ebbsfleet, representing the …
London’s Newest Suburb: Ashford
37 minutes from Kings Cross St Pancras is London’s newest suburb: the Kentish Town of Ashford. South Eastern High Speed weekend services have now begun and we set off through Sunday’s drizzle to inspect the latest addition to the commuter belt. Ashford is a town …
Boris Island Turns Turtle
The mayor’s plans for an airport in the Thames estuary were sunk by the Shadow Transport Secretary today. Boris’s opposition to a third runway at Heathrow is fairly well documented, but simply moving it to another location doesn’t necessarily make it more environmentally friendly, not …
A Gift Of A Horse For Ebbsfleet
Image by Mick h 51 from the Londonist Flickr pool The Angel of the South has turned out to be… a great big white horse. The noble beast by Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger has been selected out of a shortlist of three by the …
Are We All Related to Big Bird?
Well, no, probably not in the biological sense. But Londonist was excited today to learn about what must surely be one of the first ever Londoners. German palaeornithologists (now there’s a good one for What’s My Line?) have produced a paper on the discovery of …
Sheepish Bridge-Crossing
Early this morning, a woman strode purposefully through the drizzle across London Bridge. No real news in that, except that she did this accompanied by six sheep (New Romney rams, for sheep-lovers amongst you). Amanda Cottrell, a Freeman of the City of London, took advantage …
Extra, Extra
The Heathrow near-disaster was apparently caused by ‘lack of thrust‘. Gordo sings the praises of the flight crew. ‘Metric martyr’ to be tried by jury for using Imperial weights. Busted by police from Scotland Yard 0.19444 metres. Did Ken break the rules at the last …
