South Bank Centre rent for the London Eye for one year? £65,000. Proposed SBC rent for the London Eye for one year? £1 million. Lord Hollick? £fucking minted. Resulting scandal? £noisy and noisome. Mayor Ken’s intervention, slapping down the French, displaying the usual tact bypass, …
The BBC is today reporting that the London Eye is no longer under imminent danger. However, this may prove to be weasel words if we look at the detail of what has transpired. In short, the South Bank Centre has said that it is not …
On 21st June, the ratcheted-rental-threatened London Eye shames its greedy landlords (the South Bank Centre) by hosting a special event to raise awareness of Third World Debt and its attendant trade issues. Flight 5065 aims to promote Cafedirect‘s Fairtrade range and to raise awareness of …
Landlords… the rent’s extortionate to begin with, then they screw you six months down the line by raising it and seem to have a knack of calling round uninvited and unannounced at just the wrong moment. Londonist then sympathises with The London Eye (as much …
The Guardian News Blog today has some more details on the new editions of Monopoly which we reported on back in January. Apparently the new 70th Edition version of the game will do away with the water works, Oxford Street, Bow Street and Angel and …
Who is that man? Why is he sitting in the middle of a stream? Doesn’t he know that he could catch a nasty chill if he’s not careful? Perhaps he’s got a lot on his mind. Perhaps he’s wondering how he’s going to stop Wayne …
Olympic games…giant ferris wheel…it must be a story about London right? Well, you might want to shift your focus slightly to the east, as this story is actually about Shanghai’s plans to build their own giant wheel in time for the Beijing Olympics. According to …
In Los Angeles, tourists are regularly accosted by street-corner vendors selling “maps of stars’ homes”. These should really be called “maps of stars’ gates” since that’s all you’re likely to see – no peeks of Robert De Niro putting out the rubbish, alas. Now, it …
Celebrities and “leading figures from the worlds of culture, tourism and the media” are flocking to support the plans to install a beach by the London Eye this summer, the Standard gushes. Of course, you heard it here first, but now that the likes of …
We want! We want! We want! London is often at its prettiest under snow – that way you can’t see the grime, BNP stickers and occasional axe wound. But now we don’t need to freeze to see London as it should be thanks to Eboy! …
Londonist are pleased to note that yesterday was officially warm in London and today will be even warmer. Temperatures reached a balmy 19 degrees on Wednesday and “Any day from now to the weekend could see temperatures going up to the late teens,” said forecaster …
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