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Midweek news, including the world’s biggest McDonalds…
Midweek news, including the world’s biggest McDonalds…
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The McDonald’s sign amid the iconic lights at Piccadilly Circus has gone festively interactive. Watch this video to see what’s going on.
Image / Craig Richardson One of the two students who went on hunger strike during the Tamil protest outside Parliament last year has won a legal case against newspapers that claimed that he was secretly scoffing burgers. Parameswaran Subramanyam’s 23-day hunger strike, aimed at pressuring …
Borders ain’t the only ones jumping ship. McDonald’s today announced that they’re moving their European headquarters from London to Geneva, Switzerland. Nothing to do with corporate tax rates, claims spokesman Ed Petter. The move apparently allows them to ‘align matters connected with intellectual property’. We’re …
Picture by M@. This Week In London’s History Monday – 15th June 1215: King John puts his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede (about half-way between Heathrow Airport and Windsor). Tuesday – 16th June 1838: The London Working Men’s Association is formed, marking the …
Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Fuzzy’s Grub Fleet Street 62 Fleet Street London EC4Y 1JU Tel & Fax: 020 7583 6060 Monday to Friday 7:30am till 3:30pm Map St James’s 6 Crown Passage London SW1Y …
The first zero-emission home is unveiled. It looks not a little like an overhead luggage compartment. McDonald’s employee of the year is Olympic hopeful. Who would credit it? At a London conference, the Second Sea Lord says the Navy is ‘now accommodating gays and lesbians’. …
If you’re hiking, consider charging up your iPod, as Seattlest finds out that a man lost during a hike was found by the glow of his iPod. That cleverness seems to be devoid in cops who were using police cruiser instant messaging clients – although …
Something which we were unable to post on yesterday (we were at a pub quiz,more of which later) was the arrest of ‘two youths’ over the shooting last week of two teenage boys in a McDonald’s in Brixton: A police spokesman has said that “Both …
At about 3.22 am on Sunday morning officers were informed of a stationary vehicle with a driver inside causing an obstruction in north London… And so the newly created George Michael Response Unit was despatched to recover the singer who was apparently “found once again …