Visitors to the London Eye yesterday were treated to an extended journey courtesy of a tyre which required repair mid-ride. Whilst a normal trip flies by in roughly half an hour, this fateful trip left sightseers watching nearly 60 minutes tick past on Big Ben …
Londonist likes chocolate. And children. (Especially other people’s). And good charitable causes. So we were more than happy to hop on the London Eye last night to see the premier of Lindt’s Easter Light Show, in aid of ChildLine. And to take part in the …
A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. Tower Bridge – Although I have done quite a lot of …
Londonist pondered who might be the next sponsors of the London Eye and whether or not readers would be willing to donate £1,000 each for a Londonist Eye. Shanghaiist was shocked to find a cameltoe in the city’s only English-language paper. Gothamist believed that a …
BA are to withdraw sponsorship of the London Eye from next month. The airline says its ‘sponsorship priorities have changed’, and it no longer wishes to support the attraction, which it has sponsored since the wheel’s inception. So who’s going to take over? Well, it …
Right, so you’re either saving up to blow the last of the December salary on one helluva NYE out or you’re just stony broke after Christmas/sales shopping. Either way, unless you’re happy to simply hibernate for the week here are some ideas for New Year …
The Christmas turkey is cold and in sandwiches. A few of us have struggled back to work, carrying surplus chocolate to the office in a desperate attempt to stop our expanding waistlines. Which must mean it’s about time to start panicking about what to do …
Time Out recently presented St Pancras Station as their inaugural ‘Wonder of London’. Profile Books goes a couple of stages further by including the terminus in its ‘wonders of the world’ series – buildings and monuments, such as the Colosseum, Stonehenge and the Forbidden City, …
This chesty old hoare-nut comes round time and again. What’s the most emblematic edifice in the capital? To end all debate, Londonist went in for a more scientific approach than petty arguing on a forum. We visited all the London web sites we could think …
The Telegraph talks about our foreign rich people and how they’d look on Booth’s poverty map. Including this wanted Russian oligarch. The London Eye – who would now dare pull it down? Memorial service marks 10th anniversary of the death of The People’s Princess. Gawd …
Another random killing by knife-wielding teens. National Express win GNER route. Free wifi for all passengers. Woo-hoo! Growing tension at the Heathrow climate change demo. Is the London Eye going to be renamed the McCartney Eye? We prefer the Ringo Wheel. Image courtesy of DICKSDAILY …
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