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The Oubliette Collective have moved into Interim Base 7 on Shaftesbury Avenue at Cambridge Circus, in the building formerly home to the Limelight nightclub and until last year, a Walkabout.

Those beautifully expensive City Hall windows. Photo / Tom Kondrat. The woman who stabbed MP Stephen Timms told police she did it in “revenge for Iraq“, a court in the Old Bailey hears. Margaret Thatcher returns home after being discharged from hospital. The cost of …

Photo by Maggsinho The public perception of squatters is getting a bit of an overhaul again after residents in Herne Hill, south London, started a petition to get Lambeth council to allow four squatters to stay in a house they took over a year ago. …

Three people have been arrested in connection with the murder of the Handbag Thief Hero. A Bow teenager was seriously injured in a gang fight last night. We haven’t heard the last of Gary McKinnon, as a judicial review is granted. The Blackwall Tunnel is …

By Amanda Farah Last year our perceptions about squatters really began to be challenged as the Temporary School of Thought took up residence in a Mayfair mansion and opened a 3 week long, truly open, free to access university-city, running courses in everything from philosophy …

Homeless shelters might be even more packed than usual this Christmas as around 300 squatters are due to be evicted from a block of flats that have stood empty for 3 years in Poplar today. Tower Hamlets say that the squatters, which include families, have …

A four year old Southwark boy has been stabbed to death: police suspect his father. An anti-gay Islamic preacher is to make a highly unpopular visit to UCL next week. The Met have agreed to pay compensation to the de Menezes family. Belgravia’s resident domestic …

The formidably artsy and sophisticated ‘squatters’ the Oubliette today announce their new ‘interim base’ at 42 Leicester Square. The building has been empty for 20 years since the last tenants – ironically, a wealth management company, moved out. To celebrate a remarkable 6 months which …

Last week’s Londonist numbers and the corresponding picture that might be a Da Vinci Code-style clue to something: 5 shortlisted designs for the defunct gas holder in Kings Cross, of which the playground appeals to us the most 43 marathons completed in 52 days by …