Following on from our Do Me Bad Things competition last week (the lucky winner was Joanna Oakley), here’s a chance to win a pair of tickets to see Saint Etienne at Brighton’s Concorde 2, next Wednesday 15th June. The pop perfectionists will also be appearing …
With the violent death of 24-year-old bank manager, Saad Mohiuddin, still fresh in everyone’s minds, the Independent have been out on patrol with the man who caught the whole thing on video camera. Ian Wilder is 58-years-old accountant who has been out on the streets …
Lots of stuff in the press today about Alistair Darling’s idea for a carpool lane on the M25. Apparently Darling got the idea after a visit to LA last year where “some drivers have gone to extraordinary lengths to take advantage of faster journey times …
It’s been a while since we had a bit of outrageous property price news on Londonist, so where better to go for the latest bit of real estate ridiculousness than leafy Hampstead. The Hampstead and Highgate Express is reporting today that a studio flat in …
Transport For London has announced today that’s it’s planning to introduce an ‘e-money’ element to the Oyster card. The idea being that Oyster Card holders will be able to use them to “buy newspapers and milk and pay for car parking”. So far most of …
If you’re a London Motorist, you’re probably a very angry person. It seems that every recent initiative is designed to stop you being able to drive your car where you want, at what speed you want, and heaven forbid you should want to park anywhere …
According to the Association of London Government the capitals parking wardens are having a hard time of it lately with at least three being attacked on a daily basis. This is terrible, do we really think that three a day is enough? You see what …
Parking in London has always been somewhat of a touchy issue for most Londoners, with the general complaint being that the local councils use it primarily as a revenue gathering exercise and punish people excessively for minor infractions. The Londonist, in it’s benevolent and infinite …
And so the trend for protestors dressed in silly costumes continues into the new year. This time it’s not the Fathers4Justice (or even Mothers4Justice), but the Alliance Against Urban 4x4s. As you might imagine the Alliance feel that taking your kids to school in a …
Londonist came across this little story while browsing around Warren Ellis’s Die Puny Humans blog this morning. Warren pointed us in the direction of Mark Eris’ Live Journal where Mark recounts the story of a traffic accident outside his office, under the heading “It`s all …
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