You will be ex-ter-min-a-ted. That’s what Southwark Council and various pressure groups would like to say to the proposed Berkeley Homes development ‘twixt City Hall and Tower Bridge. But John ‘Girth’ Prescott has decided, as is his wont, to grant planning permission anyway. The move …
Battersea Bridge has reopened today, four months after someone ran a barge into it. At one point it was thought that the bridge would be closed right up until the Spring, but thanks to the “careful planning, hard work and repair techniques of the engineers,” …
A couple of months ago we reported on the fact that Rockstar Games were opening a London office, and as part of the post we raised this question: So, could the new studio be a sign that a GTA: London is in the works? Well, …
Like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ken Livingstone’s ‘political death’ (when he got kicked out the Labour party we mean) seems only to have made him more powerful. First he became Mayor of London, then he went back to the ‘dark side’ (yes, we’re aware we’re stretching this …
Today, like many of the Sundays that will follow until Spring returns the leaves to the trees, has started off pretty perfectly already. Waking up to a gentle glow from the fire, it’s toasty enough to climb out of bed, stoke up the embers and …
The Proms are almost over, although the last week is something of a mixed bag. Of course the big ticket, the one you’ll need to get in line early in the afternoon for if you hope to get into the arena, is the Vienna Philharmonic …
We’ve been watching SFist‘s coverage of the Spring Asian Film Series with growing jealousy until we realised that we could put on our own best of Asia line-up on by simply harvesting the shops in Chinatown. Sometimes you just get tired of waiting for distributors …
The BBC reports that London Underground has placed vintage posters around the tube network to announce the arrival of Spring. The posters were selected form the archive of the London Transport Museum and were originally produced to “encourage Londoners to use the Tube as one …
Two years in development, three hours in length and entering stage right at a mere £11.5 million, The Lord Of The Rings the musical will finally raise curtain in February 2006. In Toronto. Producer Kevin Wallace has announced that none of the three London theatres …
Update: first sighting of snow on Oxford Street reported. Stock up on canned goods and bottled water now people – the end is nigh! Did you really think that just because we had the “warmest January for 15 years” that Spring was just around the …
Did you know that softball is an Olympic Sport? Londonist had no idea. We must have missed the coverage of the nail biting US v Australia final in Athens earlier this year (America won 5-1 apparently). And if it’s an Olympic sport you can bet …
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