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Premiership: The Men They Should Have Bought II(b)

In part two of our follow up to last year’s article on which player’s our Premiership clubs should buy we cover Tottenham, West Ham and Fulham. Click here to see yesterday’s piece on Chelsea and Arsenal. TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR What was the problem position? Left wing. …

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Street Wars Hits London

Remember Derek? Our very own secret agent? Well he’s still roaming the capital with his water pistol. He’s not too happy with the pseudonym but appears to have forgiven us. And what a busy week he’s had. First, there was a stakeout at an embassy. …

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Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend’s annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what’s becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got to fly with one of the participants. Chicagoist’s decidedly opinionated readership was also appalled that one …

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How To Get Away With Shooting An Innocent Man, Mislead The Public And Keep Your Job

What we now know about the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes- * The stories that Jean Charles acted suspiciously by running away from the police and jumping the barriers at Stockwell tube are untrue. * He was not wearing a bulky jacket or a …

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Extra, Extra

Report: public ‘misled‘ over Menezes shooting. Murder, murder, murder, rape and murder. BBC London sure is a depressing place today. And their Crossrail story isn’t too optimistic either. Robbers use digger to raid cash machine. They fail. Our old friend Andrew Hudson-Smith has built some …

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Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton’s San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan’s cab must keep its (in)famous …

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Where There’s Smoke

How many weeks after a smoking ban is implemented does it take before the wrath of the smokers results in violence? The answer is three. A trio of men at a south-west London club were seen fleeing the scene after James Oyebola, a former British …

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Redemption For Ruth

The last woman ever to be hanged by the British government, Ruth Ellis, is back in the news 52 years after her execution. A petition to have the Ellis case reopened is being supported by Gordon Brown after new evidence possibly exonerating Ellis was brought …

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Look, Up In The Sky

Earlier this week we told you about Galaxy Zoo, where ordinary web users help astronomers by classifying the galaxies they capture in their telescopes. But Londoners are an exploratory bunch, and after sorting a few dozen of the Milky Way’s neighbours you might ask what …

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Extra, Extra

21/7 men found guilty. Academic couple killed in car crash on M11. Cavalry Museum opens in Whitehall. Prince Philip becomes a Doctor of Science while his wife opens a new department and grants new charter to Imperial College – which breaks away from the University …

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Extra, Extra

Hooha over very expensive council corporate suite at the O2. But Bon Jovi christens it with “hair rock”. Motorist hides gun between buttocks in Tooting. But local newspaper fails to spot ‘Shooting craps’ pun potential. At Wimbledon, if the rain doesn’t get you, the snipers …