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Capital Lions

The squad for this year’s British Lions tour to New Zealand has just been announced , and five London-based players have made the cut. Josh Lewesy, Matt Dawson and Lawrence Dallaglio of Wasps, Richard Hill of Saracens and Will Greenwood of Harlequins will all be …

Peckham To Get “London’s Most Amazing Loo”

Will Alsop made his mark in London with the prize-winning Peckham library, a nicely style bit of architecture in an area that sorely needed it. Now, according to Building Design magazine (registration required, but it’s free), he is set to return to south London with …

Fly Titanic

If you’re thinking of traveling to Australia next summer you could be one of the first passengers on the new gargantuan Airbus A380. It seems that London is set to be one of the first cities to play host to the world’s largest passenger aircraft …

What The Inspectors Did Next

We know you’re sick of reading about what the IOC inspection have been up to over the past few days. For example, the most perilous stage of yesterday’s tour was when the special, shiny IOC train was held up for four minutes (yes, four whole …

Friday Film News

The big release this week is raging smug-fest Oceans Twelve, a sequel to the remake of Oceans Eleven, and it’s not fairing well with the critics. Bradshaw in the Guardian maintains his always high standard of vitriol with probably the harshest line directed towards welsh …

Standard In Trouble

Newspaper sales figures for the end of 2004 are out and it’s critical news for The Standard (if you listen very carefully you can hear us chuckling and rubbing our hands in glee). The Standard’s circulation went down by more than 6% from November. That’s …

Flying Cars

“Carrying on with our ‘the future is here’ theme for today, may we point you in the direction of this report, which examines the possibility that the skies above London will soon be filled with flying cars (or ‘jetpods’ as they’re called). The report profiles …