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Cheapskate Choons

He’s done acting, he’s done hanging on the arms of pretty girls, and now the Welsh wonder that is Rhys Ifans is turning to music. Teaming up with Daf Ieuen from the mighty Super Furry Animals to create The Peth, the band have just released …

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TfL: Together For London?

If you were out and about on the Underground this weekend you might have caught sight of one of these guys on TfL’s latest ‘don’t be a selfish bastard’ campaign. Together for London employs a gang of unthreateningly rounded cartoon figures, The Londoners, each promising …

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Zip Around Town For Zip

Ken and TfL launched a new, united scheme for 11-18 year olds who qualify for free travel today. From June, they’ll need a snappily titled Zip card which is a free Oyster photocard that must be beeped – a la ‘pay as you go’ – …

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Santa’s Lap: London Soundmaps

Dusting off the snow from last year, every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and …

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Londonist Interviews: Mayoral Hopeful Fiyaz Mughal

The fifth in our series of interviews with potential candidates for next year’s Mayoral election. Previously: Victoria Borwick (Tory), Andrew Boff (Tory) and Warwick Lightfoot (Tory), Sian Berry (Green). Today: Liberal Democrat candidate Fiyaz Mughal. He’s competing with fellow LDs Brian Paddick and Chamali Fernando …

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Turn It Off

Good news from the groundswell Music Free Buses… and Trains Campaign which has been lobbying Transport for London to impose a blanket ban on the use of mobile phone MP3 players without headphones on buses. TfL recently incorporated a modest “Keep your music down” sign …

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We’re Number One!

After coming a lowly third in the danger-to-hearing stakes we are happy to report that we came first in the holy-crap-we’re-all-going-to-die-and-die-horribly stakes (or maybe just get mugged): London is the most dangerous capital in the European Union in which to live, a survey of crime …

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DeathBoy – The Interview

Londonist stumbled across DeathBoy a while ago now through numerous mentions over on Warren Ellis dot com (you can read our interview with Warren here) and have been meaning to sit down and have a natter with the band for ages. We finally got the …

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Notes From The Undersound

A Napster-style music sharing service for the London Underground is reported to be in development, aiming to increase social interaction down below by encouraging commuters to swap music files on their way around the city. The cleverly named Undersound project is accompanied by a very …

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Eco-Terrorism a Success

If our coverage of the latest terror-alertage has seemed a little light the reasons are two-fold. 1) We got the nod from Downing Street early last week that this would be a good time to get out of the country so a small percentage of …

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F.ist – This week in feminist London

In debates about abortion, there is one voice that usually goes unheard – the women who have their pregnancies terminated. Tomorrow evening, Abortion Rights is hosting a screening of excerpts from a new documentary that tells the stories of women who’ve exercised their right to …