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Sunset takeoff at City airport. Photo / O.F.E. More woe for commuters: the Waterloo & City line was closed this morning due to signal problems. Senior NHS staff claim they were suspended for whistle-blowing. One worker taken to hospital and roads closed around the City …

Lloyds TSB ‘top gay employer’ Every year gay campaign group/charity Stonewall publishes its list of top 100 gay-friendly employers. London has always done quite well on the lists, for three reasons: 1) Because of our city’s innate cosmopolitanism (is that a word?); 2) Because Mayor …

Help is on the way for those affected by the fire in Camden Market. Thus far, £750,000 has been allocated to help rebuild the charred Canal Market. This is great news for the 90 market stalls, six shops, and the Hawley Arms, which were all …

Londonist has learnt with relief that London’s Community Wardens are to be taught to smile. Well, they are at least to be taught

This Day In London’s History 1937: A Japanese aircraft lands at Croydon Airport, setting a world record for the fastest flight from Tokyo to London. In the 1930s there had been considerable interest in establishing records for long distance flights, and a prize had been …

Today was the day that the thriving community of East End gardening enthusiasts who’ve been cultivating the Manor Garden Allotments since 1924 were expecting to have to lie down in front of the bulldozers, a la Arthur Dent, in a last ditch attempt to avoid …

There’s a good little article in today’s Guardian on Ken’s recent comments regarding the London Development Agency‘s decision to use a compulsory purchase order to secure the property needed for the development of the Olympic Village. During his weekly press briefing yesterday Ken got a …

Here it is then: the first Olympic bid post of the week, and it’s not a very positive one either. It seems that if London does win the 2012 bid on Wednesday then the organisers will face not one, but two legal challenges from businesses …

What Paula Radcliffe paused to do in the streets of London, bid organisers are doing to the locals. It’s possibly the most contrived headline of the week, but it does head a pretty decent article on the damaging effects a London-based 2012 Olympics could have …

The call is out for new musicians and designers to take part in this year’s City Showcase from the 5th to the 9th September, which will be supported as ever by XFM. But hurry you only have 28 days to get your designs or demos …