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Birds Of A Feather Flocking Together

Seems like the American Robin isn’t the only non-native bird to be settling in town these days. The results of the RSPB’s Big Garden Survey are in and the Hendon and Finchley Times is proud to announce the increase in the numbers of rare species …

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Extra, Extra

After the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes was reopened yesterday, his family have asked that a High Court judge investigate the shooting. But according to the Met, since July 7 three major terror attacks on London have been foiled and each …

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Romantic Love-Nest For Sale

That’s “Romantic” with a capital “R”, by the way. Paris has had its fair share – more than, even – of starving writers and poets living in garrets and subsisting on raw pigeon and the certainty that they are writing Deathless Prose that will Echo …

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Attack Of The Flying Rats

A fiendish plan to breed a hideous army of winged rodents to terrorise South East London has been foiled after years of preparation. For more than ten years, ‘Mrs Hughes’ (if that is her real name) has been patiently nurturing an elite strike-force of airborne …

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Top London Film Locations

Did you see the Top 20 Film Locations list that was put together by Film London last week? It was pretty rubbish. We know these kind of things are designed to provoke dicussion and argument, but one company counting up which of the locations on …

Network Southeast: Britain’s Serengeti

Commuters on the Brighton to Victoria line are being encouraged to raise their weary heads from The Da Vinci Code and look for wildlife instead. According to the Telegraph, the train operators are to give out free wildlife guides on 10 of the country’s busiest …

Good For Nothing

Seems like lately it’s getting harder and harder for Londoner’s to pay for their print media. Even if we wanted to hand over reddies for, say, a daily newspaper, we wouldn’t be able to. And now there’s talk of a free “London-focused style magazine” in …

When Animals Attack!

A statue has been erected at Brook Gate in Park Lane to honour the animals that have served and died with British and Allied forces. Unveiled by Princess Anne the memorial sculpture consists of two mules a horse and a dog, and whilst recognising all …