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London On The Cheap

Four weeks till Christmas! Argh. Funds are all focused on present buying and getting through the party season but we still want to go out and about because the heating isn’t working properly at home. We can’t afford to go and see Gandalf drop his …

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Woo Woo for Greenwich!

& BOO for the City. The former has just come top of the class for the least amount of waste sent to landfill (just 7% – the lowest in the country), whilst the latter has apparently buried a whopping 93% of its refuse (which is …

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‘Four Weddings’: Bad for Grant, Good for Church?

Ever stop to wonder about the legacy of romantic comedy ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’? Every other minute of your work week? Well, you’re in luck, as today’s the day that Londonist tackles this very question. Sort of. Mild-mannered examination of love and marriage in …

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Lord Mayor’s Show: Part 794

Fans of pomp and circumstance will line the streets of the City tomorrow to watch one of London’s fine old traditions unfold. Each year, the City of London gets a new Lord Mayor (most certainly not to be confused with the more well-known mayor who …

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The No. 19: A “Nice Girl Shuttle”

Had TfL existed in his time, the great Samuel Johnson may well have amended his famous aphorism to read “a man who is bored of London needs to hop on the number 19 bus”. In its perambulation from Battersea to Finsbury Park, the 19 cuts …

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News on Four Legs

Well Londonist has run two animal stories into one here, on account of not wanting to look like we’ve gone soft. And to keep all parties happy, there’s a doggy one, and a kitty one. Although the cat one is actually rather sad: the business …

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Two Jobs Johnson?

He may be fond of lazy generalisations when it comes to Northern towns or foreign countries, but Boris Johnson can’t be accused of being idle himself. Beneath that languid public persona lies a hard-working, sleeves-rolled-up, can-do kinda guy, as demonstrated by his vow yesterday that …

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Review: Moonwalking In Chinatown

Months of research and workshops run by writer Justin Young and director Suzanne Gorman have created Moonwalking In Chinatown, an extraordinary walkabout performance which leads audiences through Chinatown in the dusk behind bobbing paper lanterns and a variety of actors and stewards. Four overlapping stories …

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Elsewhere In The Ist-a-verse

There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren’t many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to …

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Team Nice Gets Political

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 14. Poll-itics Well, I did a quick little poll this week amongst group of 26 professional people aged 20 – 35. Just to ask them what …

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Fire in the Sky

Clouds were billowing over Park Royal yesterday afternoon when a blaze broke out in a warehouse. The fire took hold quickly and spread to two neighbouring companies, triggering the widespread evacuation of the area. It took 20 fire engines and over 100 firefighters to bring …