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'Moonlight Madness' is a Late at Guildhall Art Gallery on Thursday

Things To Do In London On The Cheap: 17-23 October

Moonlight madness, apples, talks, music, science, art and Bloomsbury Festival

Hold onto your wallets... crime rises in City of London

Living Conditions In Heart Of London ‘Not To Be Envied’

Fear and loathing in the City: new Atlas maps the rise of crime and anti-social behaviour in London’s wealthiest boroughs.

Watch a tribute to Bill Hicks at the Roxy on Sunday

London On The Cheap: 24 February – 2 March

Spring is in the air. Let cheap and free London keep the spring in your step.

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No Double Dose Of NFL Yet

Image by pfog Whilst the Wembley gridiron will be steamrollered by the San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos on Halloween, plans for a second match on UK turf this year have been shelved, basically because of the recession. We’ve taken the NFL’s annual flying …

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Cash Injection For Capital From Carey

The news was beginning to be good in the West End as Christmas shopping kicked in and the weak pound encouraged tourists to splurge a little. Now the capital’s economy has been further boosted by an upsurge in sales of butterfly confetti and Angel Champagne …

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Allotments On Abandoned Lots

Since the recession scuppered upmarket plans for the development of ‘Noho Square‘ on the site of the demolished Middlesex Hospital a desolate hole has gaped in Fitzrovia. A year long campaign by locals to make the space available to the community, however, looks finally to …

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Who Wants A Half Finished Hotel?

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Recession Encourages Culture Vultures

It’s been a boom summer for our museums and galleries. A survey by the Art Fund reports a rise in visitor numbers for two thirds of those surveyed. Seems our cultural icons have reaped the leisure benefits of ‘staycationers’ spurning the holiday abroad and the …

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Thriving Theatre In Recession London

West End audiences have increased 2.5% on this time last year, and box office takings have gone up accordingly. 61% of theatregoers went to musicals, but non-musical plays have also increased attendance. It’s heartening to know pop songs or warbling TV stars are requisite for …

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Extra, Extra

Another week, another knife murder, this time a popular teenage rapper. Trinity Cambridge to buy the O2? Nah, we don’t think so either. So Rachel Stevens got married. Who she? Harriet really doesn’t like men: now she’s blaming them for the recession. The Olympics has …

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Extra, Extra

A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Greenwich pensioner. Love it: a bunch of LSE economists have apologised to HM the Q for failing to predict the recession. Whilst their scientific counterparts have apparently being studying beautiful women. East End …