Is our Mayor a Londonist reader? Perhaps: he’s embraced the need for city-wide wifi coverage, something we’ve been helping out with for years with our wifi map. But Boris wants to go one bigger: he’s demanding the whole city, from Stratford to Southall and all …
If you don’t already welcome Diamond Geezer into your RSS reader, stick him there now. One of the foremost chroniclers of our fair city, the Geezer should be permanently on the required-reading list of anyone who loves London. This month, he’s surpassing even his own …
We may not have a freaky medal machine like Michael Phelps up our sleeves, but there is one activity the English will never be bettered at: moaning. While China explodes in a really quite over-the-top performance of national pride, a new survey shows that Brits …
As you might expect, excavation work at the 2012 Games site in Stratford is yielding all manner of buried treasures: a cobbled street, graves of early eastenders (though Reg Cox has yet to be disinterred), even radioactive doohickies. Here’s the latest haul: a collection of …
If you went through Stratford Station this morning you might have found the Stratford Grapevine thrust into your paw, in place of the usual news lite freesheets. What you might not have realised is that it was art. You probably thought it looks more like …
Hammersmith and City (Whitechapel to Barking) and District line (Whitechapel to Plaistow) trains are again suspended this morning while the Royal Engineers’ bomb experts detonate and defuse the ticking World War II UXB. This is all happening on Diamond Geezer’s doorstep and he points out …
Unexploded World War II bombs and London buses: you wait for ages for one, then two show up at once. A day after the Hammersmith & City, District and Circle lines were disrupted by a UXB found in Bromley By-Bow, another one has been unearthed, …
An unexploded WWII bomb disrupted tube services on the District and Hammersmith and City Lines last night when it was discovered near Bromley-by-Bow Station in a river by Sugar House Lane yesterday. The Army went in to investigate and the area was evacuated immediately after …
Another day, another thunderclap of hand-wringing and dire Nostradamus warnings about the 2012 Games. Organisers have been accused of “spending money like water” as costs for the event rise like floodwaters threatening the ageing Thames Barrier. This is the charge made by the Culture, Media …
2008 is Beijing’s Olympic year so we’re expecting plenty of 2012 related news, rumblings and international comparisons bouncing round the internet. On the last day of January, our Games have already made the headlines 3 times this week: When overall costs trebled at the end …
After smoke billowed across London for most of the afternoon, tonight we can at least be thankful that it was ‘only’ a fire, and that no-one was injured. As upon seeing the dark clouds spreading across Canary Wharf this lunchtime, many people thought it may …
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