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Bye Bye Union Chapel

Sad news reaches us that the Union Chapel in Islington is to close. The Union Chapel Project (UCP) said that: …a recent vote by the Church membership to ban the consumption of alcohol in main auditorium, with immediate effect, was carried by a small majority. …

Wrong Kind Of Police On The Line

London is waking up this morning to the news that, last night, a member of the Metropolitan police force was arrested for drunkenly climbing on to the tracks at Tottenham Court Road tube before walking into the westbound tunnel. According to eye witnesses, a group …

Democracy, Yes, But There Are Limits

It can’t be often that the action of a single protestor has brought about a change in the law of the land, but 55-year-old Brian Haw looks likely to achieve it. Mr Haw has spent three years in Parliament Square voicing anti-war protests through a …

Fag Bags

Every so often something enters the public consciousness so quickly that you forget what life was like before it was introduced. Think Pret a Manger; think bendy buses; think automatic ticket barriers at Charing Cross station. The lastest candidate for the “Remember the time that …