The Winston Churchill Memorial Screen (it’s actually a gate) was unveiled today (the 30th anniversary of Churchill’s birth) at St Paul’s. The monument cost £26,000, weighs 3 tonnes, took 7,000 hours and 10 assistants to make, and, we have to admit it, the pictures of …
Calling all budding Torvilles and Deans: today is the opening day of the ice rink at Somerset House. Probably the city’s classiest Christmas venue, the rink is open from 10am to 10pm every day up until Christmas Eve when times start to vary a bit …
Science has finally managed to catch up with the adverts in the back of comics from about 20 years ago with the introduction of an X-Ray machine that makes people look naked. Admittedly it’s not in the handy spectacle format all perverts in training have …
Over the past few weeks staff at Ken Livingstone’s HQ (also known as the ‘glass testicle’) have noticed cracks in some of the building’s huge floor-to ceiling glass panels. The building, designed by Sir Norman Foster opened in 2002 and cost £43 million. But now …
The XFM site has exclusive pictures of GLC’s London ‘rally’, which took place this afternoon. The band had asked fans to congregate in Leicester Square at 1.00pm for what they called “a little jaunt around Soho” to celebrate the release of their new single Your …
Islington Council has installed specially constructed benches for its resident hardcore street drinkers. The benches have been designed so “the eight to 10 men who frequent the area can drink and chat in peace,” and lean inwards as this is apparently the best position for …
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