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TV Tactics Saves Baby’s Life

While we always encourage you to get out and about to enjoy all the great things in London that we hear about – talking in toilets, the stars, graffiti, cool clubs, groovy gigs and nice parks in one week alone – we also like to …

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Interview: Mark Howell of TfL on the Tour de France

Only a fortnight to go now before central London is engulfed by the two-wheeled juggernaut of the world’s most celebrated race. “Le Grand Depart” is the title given to the weekend of sport and festivities from 6th – 8th July that marks the first visit …

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In Transit: Artist Led Walks In Kensington And Chelsea

There are plenty of nice places to walk around in the posh Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC): Kensington Palace, Kings Road, Harvey Nichols… Streets, parks, palaces and shops are all a shade nicer than the rest of town but only a very select …

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Camberwell Arts Festival: This Weekend

Camberwell Arts, Camberwell College of Arts and South London Gallery are marshalling local talent and mounting the annual Camberwell Arts Festival which runs from tomorrow to next Sunday, 24 June. Camberwell Arts Festival is all about the artistic activity in the area – and judging …

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Extra, Extra

Elvis lookalike caught selling guns. Presumably will soon be doing the jailhouse rock. Choose the ‘first record’ to be played at Wembley. Damien Hirst and others design new deckchairs for Royal Parks. They’re dead good. Police building database of dogging/cruising spots around London. Would you …

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Global London

We all know that London is one of the largest, most exciting, cosmopolitan, multi-cultural cities in the world. What other city combines huge amounts of history, taxi drivers who actually know where they’re going, a pub every ten metres, fantastic parks for lazy Sundays, and …

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South Bank Skyscraper Cut Down To Size

This is the latest version of the Doon Street Tower, a skyscraper proposed by Coin Street Community Builders to sit on the South Bank near the OXO Tower. Designed by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, the scheme had previously proven controversial thanks to its loftiness, which would …

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London Smells

Londonist read with interest over at the fine Meme Huffer that a cosmetics company has decided to capture the very aroma of London. Now, we all know that London is a singular and unique, living, breathing entity that conjures up great thoughts of architectural beauty …

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Monday Miscellanea

This Week In London’s History Monday – 21st May 1853: The Aquatic Vivarium, the world’s first public aquarium, is opened in Regent’s Park. Tuesday – 22nd May 1897: The Blackwall Tunnel is officially opened by the Prince of Wales, becoming the longest underwater tunnel in …

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Go And See This Film

The blanket of damp that’s been thrown over London this week can’t stop the senses from believing that another long hot summer is just around the corner. Surely April was just a taster for the main event: sweltering offices, ice creams in parks, long cold …

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Clissold Park’s Big Lottery Win

See that bunny, there? We call him Cedric. He lives in Clissold Park. It’s a nice place to live. His neighbours are a group of fallow deer and some pygmy goats. When he’s not eating celery Cedric enjoys watching the children splishing about in the …