The doors of the first brand new Metro Bank branch “store” finally swished open at 8am this morning. Opening hours are 7 days a week, early and late, to suit the 9-5er and the ability to print debit and credit cards on the spot are …
It’s the end of the week, the Bank Holiday looms, three days of spending beckons… and you haven’t a penny to spare. Or have you? According to the BBC, you or someone you know has an Oyster card with unused money on it, loaded up …
Image by forzagaribaldi via the Londonist Flickrpool Closed in November due to over popularity, the New Shunt Lounge opening on Thursday night is not so much a change of location* as a change of focus. Returning to the collective’s roots, this will be a more …
Our final post about our March museum of the month looks at a few of the documents, paper artifacts and banknotes lodged in the Bank of England Museum’s collection. We couldn’t get you a shot of the million pound note, unfortunately, but go and gaze …
Tinchy Stryder has been cooking up knowledge in the cauldron of a south London comp, teaching the kids the nu-skool version of the three Rs: rapping, raking in cash, and running your finances. The musician, better known to the taxman as Kwasi Danquah, demonstrated business …
Optimism at One Southampton Row by JudyGR Moving your banking is a tedious faff, even though your destination depository tends to do all the donkey work for you these days. It seems most stick with what they know or wherever their parents first told them …
“Bananaman” set a new record in 2009 for fastest runner dressed as a cartoon character. Photo by Jamie MacDonald Cole Marathon runners and fundraisers amassed a whopping £47.2 million off the back of the 2009 race, setting this year’s London Marathon fair to see the …
Thanks to a hefty cash injection from Visa’s sponsorship of umbrella organisation Team 2012 it now looks like Team GB will be able to field competitors in every possible sport at the 2012 Olympics. Things were looking ropey not long ago but now every marginal …
Chislehurst in Bromley is famous for its man-made cave system, but now has other connections to the underworld. According to new ‘research’, the town rules the UK for car crime. 3.8% of local motorists made insurance claims for break-ins or theft over the past year …
The ten-man production team Shunt is back with another mind-boggling but nonetheless spectactularly alternative show: Money. Like its other productions Tropicana and Amato Saltone, emphasis is on location and impressive sets rather than strong narrative making the show more of an enhanced visual experience than …
Image / vanouxe A man nearly died after being stabbed in the heart by two men after he responded to an ad for a used car on the online classifieds site Gumtree. The 42-year old was in Barking to buy the car, and had taken …
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