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Ganja Gangs Growing in West London

Though landlords are a difficult lot to summon sympathy for – sorry, you want us to pay how much for our itty-bitty windowless flat? – our heart (nearly) bleeds to learn of this role reversal: landlords gouged by tenants. Truly? So it would seem. Cannabis …

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Cannabis Cop Faces Charges

Looks like Paul Smith, a constable at Holborn police station, caught a case of reefer madness. He’s been charged with 15 counts of cannabis theft — from the station. While securing his stash from the evidence locker, the pothead policeman must have slipped up. Details …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

Happy first weekend of September – and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let’s take a look at what’s been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston’s firefighters bent over backwards all week long – …

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Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton’s San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan’s cab must keep its (in)famous …

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Elsewhere in the Ist-a-Verse

Happy Father’s Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one’s for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge …

Extra, Extra

Preparations for 2012 are ‘substantially’ ahead of schedule reckons Tessa Jowell. London is the ‘perfect place’ to start the Tour de France says Ken. really? Because we would have thought France would have been top of that list. Bob Marley’s heritage plaque was unveiled today, …

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Wembley ‘Filtered’

Like the majority of people we like looking at buildings but, if we’re honest, we don’t really know the first thing about architecture. Every now and again though a magazine, tv programme or website manages to cut through the smokescreen of architectural jargon and actually …

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This Week’s Kitten News

You know what Londonist loves? Londonist loves those free newspapers that appear unbidden through our letter slot every now and then. Although most of the pages are filled with real estate ads, the half-dozen pages of local news thrown in to make the publication look …

Cannabis House Closed Down

Not content with driving around in their annoying little cars with urban-inspired street graphics, London’s real estate agents are now finding time in their busy schedule of fleecing renters and pushing the envelope of bad shirt-tie combinations