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Church Objects To Hire Bike Scheme

Image / pfog Churchmen at the Brompton Oratory in Kensington are taking a NIMBY-ish stance to the location of a docking station for TfL’s new hire bikes. They say putting the station, which holds 28 of the forthcoming bikes, outside the church will “disturb the …

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Double Blow For City Clubbers

Photo by colouredbox News from clubland guaranteed to make the ravers among you feel sicker than that time you spanked £60 on a pair of pills that contained paracetamol and little (e)lse: one of Shoreditch’s longest-running clubs is shutting down, while councillors in nearby Clerkenwell …

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Changes in stamp duty regs have rendered a lot more London properties affordable. A man is in a bad way after being beaten up in East London. London MP Frank Dobson is happy to proffer his accounts for public inspection. NIMBY Jarvis Cocker is fighting …