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Zimbabwe Protestors Storm Embassy

The tense stalemate following last month’s election in Zimbabwe spilled over into the streets of London yesterday. Frustrated by the insistence of Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party to hold a recount, activists from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) – which claims their candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, …

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What’s for Lunch? Gourmet Burger Kitchen

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Gourmet Burger Kitchen Locations throughout London Contact specific locations for hours Expect to Pay: Around £10 Rating: 8 out of 10 Burgers of Scooby Doo proportions; milkshakes from another era; …

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Notes From The Flora London Marathon

And so the big day arrives with a bang! I’m up early and cycling through quiet city streets already dappled with sunlight, cameras slung around my shoulders. I switch to public transport to make my way over to the Red Start in Greenwich Park and …

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Another lucky escape

More news of a plot intended to strike terror into our hearts that seems to have been thwarted at the last possible moment: Plans for a Doctor Who spin-off show starring Billie Piper were scrapped at the last minute, series producer Russell T Davies has …

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Pottering About Town

Well, here we go again. Londonist’s not-inconsiderable powers of augur and haruspex (plus a machine-like publicity campaign) have alerted us to the imminent release of JK Rowling’s latest grimoire. Stores will be open long past the witching hour tonight as millions of children and special …

Stars And Their Homes

Don’t worry we’re not going to go all Hello magazine on you. This isn’t about “stunning interiors” and “fabulous hallways”, it’s about the curse of Chelsea football club. First up, Sven-Goran Eriksson, who has had a few ‘connections’ with the west London club, to say …