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Extra, Extra

All today’s Extra, Extra headlines are taken from local London papers, just to prove we’re not as ‘metropolitan’ as it may sometimes appear. The Government is considering a M25 Congestion Charge in an attempt to cut queues. A man, sick of hearing music on public …

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Something For The Weekend?

Need some pointless Friday afternoon fun? Inspired by Stephen Reed Industrial Design’s rather fabulous Scrabble-tile benches, installed in the Bloomberg London offices, we did a little bit of research in to the game responsible for family rows nationwide. Did you know…? Scrabble was created a …

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Londonist Gets Off Its Arse: The Theatre Museum

Believe it or not, this Londonista has never been to the V&A Museum in Kensington. So this was definitely on our list of London attractions to explore. In fact, we were getting ready to go there last weekend – looking up directions on their website …

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Photo of the Day

GavinBell‘s Cheerful Stuff has an important message for everyone but Londonist readers. You guys rock and could have as much sex with President Kennedy as you like.

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Lara’s back

Lara Croft has always been ripe for a thorough going over – Douglas Coupland got there first with Lara’s Book: Once I realised how big the Lara cult was I said, “d’oh!”. I felt like I did years after leaving high school when I learned …

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The Tube Of The Future

Want to know what Ken Livingstone’s definitive statement about the future of the capital’s transport system was earlier this week? We are all breeding like rabbits and you have to build the trains. That Ken Livingstone…sex mad. Honestly though, is that it? That sounds like …

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Sex Party ends in Tragedy

This story has everything: German aristocracy Sex Cocaine An orgy Death Count von Bismarck What started as a small gathering of friends soon turned into a police investigation: A man fell to his death from a flat belonging to a German aristocrat during a cocaine-fuelled, …

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GTA: BHS

This little virtual recreation of Borough High Street is in the immortal words of Kevin Coster, neat. We had fun just wandering around getting in the way of the traffic, but by designing your own street you can: choose the nature and extent of traffic …

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LFF Preview: Reprise

Note: ‘Fingerfucked by the Prime Minister’ is now our favourite song. Of course the Times London Film Festival is yet to start and there’s a kabillion and one screenings ahead of us but Joachim Trier’s Reprise is going to be hard to top for sheer …

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Thai PM update: he’s here on a private visit as a private citizen (although that didn’t stop him using the VIP reception suite at the Thai Embassy). The Lib Dems are demanding that bus deregulation must be reversed and councils given greater powers over services …

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Muslim protesters disrupted a speech by John Reid in Leytonstone today after he urged Muslim parents to monitor their children for signs of ‘radicalisation’. Several protesters were led from the room after describing Reid as an “enemy of Islam.” Best local story of the day: …