By Buckaroo Kid via the Londonist Flickrpool Deputy Mayor, Kit Malthouse, has been on a crusade to ban prostitute sex cards since the turn of the millennium. Today he called on the major mobile phone companies to cut off vice line numbers as soon as …
Lu Corfield (Poppy) and Debbie Chazen (Tessa) In the 70′s, before sunbed parlours became a feature of every high street, there was a particularly cheap one behind a shopfront in the Caledonian Road. Possibly the first clue to its true purpose was that the receptionist …
The post-2012 Olympic Park chats go on: today’s suggestion involves Formula 1 racing. Michael Jackson fans held a vigil last night outside the O2: it would have been the first of his concerts. Meet the perspicacious teen with the City at his feet. Police are …
The Madames of Mayfair are celebrating a minor victory this weekend, having forced Westminster Council on to the retreat over the latter’s efforts to stop prostitutes working from flats in and around Shepherd Market. The English Collective of Prostitutes say that forcing their members to …
Image courtesy of sweens308 under a Creative Commons Attribution licence Here’s an effect of the 2012 Olympics that wasn’t trumpeted by Lord Coe in the bid: mega-brothels. They were sanctioned in Athens 2004 and Germany for the World Cup, Beijing had a crackdown and Vancouver …
Bored and lonely gentlemen, put your phones down – it ain’t what you think. Quite the opposite, actually. Mark Clarke of Bedford Hill, a Tory parliamentary candidate, is waging what he describes as a one-man war against vice in his neighbourhood. Fed up with ladies …
Honestly, what is it about properties being mistaken for sin-ridden dens of iniquity? Weeks after a Staines house was confused with a nearby bordello, police have now stepped in and closed down a Kilburn naturist club. The Soho Beach House on Kilburn High Road, promoted …
If you’re bothered, of a dull evening, by a drunk, leering man giggling and gurning at you with a suspicious (if meagre) bulge protruding from his pocket region, you’d be forgiven for force-feeding him a knuckle sandwich and sending him on his way. Yet this …
A conflict of interest has forced a Walthamstow police officer to resign. Manjit Johal, formerly a sergeant, was found guilty of sampling the wares of a brothel he was investigating in December 2005. Johal had originally gone to the establishment to determine whether or not …
