Image courtesy of Phillie Casablanca from the Londonist Flickr pool Get out the birch twigs and the cat-o-nine-tails – after yesterday’s (and today’s) snow chaos and general city-wide collapse, it seems to be time to stop making snowmen and start the recriminations and flagellations. So …
The big freeze continues. With little snow fall overnight, transport should make more handsome progress today. As trains and tubes start running again, here’s the latest travel information: Tube/DLR: Most lines report a ‘good service’ as of 5.45am. The sole exception is the Bakerloo, which …
So London’s transport systems ground to a sadly predictable halt whilst the anticipated hysteria arrived on schedule. But what of the snow itself? It’s been several years since central London experienced a snowfall of more than a casual couple of inches, so we’ve been getting …
Image by kind permission of Tim*A When the first giddy rush of all that snow had subsided, and we were back inside warming our toes after all the frolicking, we sat down to play the game of London Snow Madness. You know the one: spotting …
At 08.30 this morning TfL issued a winter weather travel advisory email probably way too late for any commuter presumably already standing in snow and swearing at bus stops or getting turned away from suspended tube services. Here’s the latest: all buses were suspended last …
Right, so we all know it’s cold. They keep telling us. And Londonist’s toes, tiddly pom (there’s a university course on the hums of Pooh?), are very everso cold. Eastern England gets to share in the fun this time, as the cold stuff is coming …
Who needs fancy forensics or shoeprint databases? Two Sutton burglars who did a spot of breaking and entering on Monday night were caught – because they left tracks in the snow. Police heard a car alarm, saw an open garage door and a pair of …
… and it might be cold tomorrow, too. And so the national obsession with the weather continues, with papers reporting that, astonishingly, it can sometimes get a bit chilly in January. As we reported yesterday (well, if the newspapers can run a story every single …
London was thrown into a mass panic this morning when plummeting temperatures caused a dusting of ice-like crystals to drift from the sky. A hurried press release from the Meterological Office confirmed that the substance was in fact ‘snow’, which apparently falls every year in …
The morning commute was hindered by the wrong kind of snow yesterday—the kind that is five metres wide and made of aluminium. Richard the cabbie (excellent blog, by the way) sends us these photos of a bus-sized ice crystal cordoned off in Knightsbridge. He attributes …
There was some talk of it snowing on the weekend and if you managed a nice lazy lie-in on Sunday then chances are you missed it as it didn’t hang around for long. Lucky some of our Londonist Flickrpool members are up nice and early. …
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