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News International Put Wapping HQ Up For Sale

‘Fortress Wapping’ no longer.

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Rounding Up The News About The News of The World

Fed up of reading about it? The Metro presents it in pictures for you.

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New Free Magazine To Launch

After the comical disaster that was the London Weekly, Londoners might be wary to learn that yet another free publication will be littering Tube carriages by the end of September. Called In-Debate, a title that makes it sound like a Liberal Democrat newsletter, the monthly …

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This Event Is Cancelled, Courtesy Of Tower Hamlets

Looks like bad news for all those into their funky house and dirty pop, if this poster on Old Ford Road is anything to judge by. The ‘new era of club culture’ in the East End, with “massive DJ’s/PA’s” (sic) every Friday night, has been …

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Standard Owner Buys The Independent

Alexander Lebedev, former KGB agent and proprietor of the Evening Standard, has bought the Independent and Independent on Sunday for the nominal price of £1. The purchase has been worked on for months, and has attracted a healthy crop of bizarre rumours, including one (swiftly …

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Debate: Has Google Got Too Big?

Is Google a benign, modern company that abides by its corporate motto of “don’t be evil” and enriches the sum of human knowledge by indexing and sharing the world’s information ? Or is it an avaricious power-crazed entity that wields a dangerous amount of power …

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Evening Standard No Longer Free In Some Parts

Photo / tezzer57 The Guardian has uncovered evidence that the Evening Standard is once again being sold in some parts of London. Newsagents in north-west London are being permitted to charge a discretionary fee for the paper, which dropped its cover price last October and …

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Early Verdict On The London Weekly: “A Shocker”

It exists! New freesheet The London Weekly has been spotted in the wild by eagle-eyed commuters this morning. And the early verdict is not promising… @jennferesque has a photo of the masthead, complete with poor spelling, acres of empty white space, and curious formatting decisions. …

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London Weekly: The Plot Thickens

This Friday, February 5th, is the launch date for The London Weekly, the latest freesheet to clog up Tube carriages from Epping to Ealing and all points inbetween. Yet just three days before commuters get their greedy mitts on the rag, there remain more questions …

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Launch Date Fixed For New London Freesheet

Image / edscoble The London Weekly, storming into the Bliztkrieged freesheet battlefield like a medieval knight at the Battle of Hamburger Hill, has been given a launch date of February 1st. The paper’s website is expected to go live later in December. According to the …

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New London Newspaper In The New Year?

Image by J_I_M__D Much like the War on Terror, the freesheet war keeps defying predictions that an end to hostilities is nigh. A new weekly London newspaper is on course for a launch in the New Year, according to The Guardian. Backed by unnamed investors …