suburbs

Unemployment in the burbs is soaring. London bobbies are living in suburban ghettoes, claims the deputy mayor. A development at Kew Bridge continues to cause controversy. The Thames has won an international conservation prize. Go, Father. go. A London teacher has become an on-line spelling …

Transport Museum Lates return this Friday focused on the new exhibition, Suburbia. If you haven’t been yet, take advantage of a child-free Friday night look at the Museum’s superb collection and gnome laced exhibition with the adult friendly additions of live urban illustration, an urban …

21. The Beast Of Barnet For ten years the so-called Barnet ‘big cat’ caused confusion in the London suburbs – a few years before the ‘beast’ of Bexley reared its head, even though both were possibly the same animal, or at least part of the …

Mannequins clothed in rubbish to encourage recycling. The ultimate in trashy models. Barnet (who?) claims the suburbs are being ignored. Fergie gets pummeled in the scruttocks. Thames Water launch two new boats to skim off river litter. Watch out for mangled cormorant burgers, on sale …

16. Strange Invaders Whilst residing at his terraced house in Kentish Town, during the 1980s, Christopher Fowler began to notice glimpses of unusual whitish creatures in his back garden. After finally finding the time to fully investigate, and to dismiss such possible hallucinations on his …

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 …

Banner week for SFist as the site’s new editor introduced himself — hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF’s mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into cheek) hard-hitting latest on candidate/activist Josh Wolf. Coverage of a protest vs. …

We don’t know about where you are, but it seems like spring can’t decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren’t sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still …

Seven men are currently in custody after a football-related pub brawl in at the Cutty Sark pub in Thamesmead over the weekend resulted in the death of a 52-year-old man. Diane Abbott and Mayor Ken have warned that London needs more black teachers in order …

It’s something every Londoner wonders about: which of these filthy, crime-ridden streets is more crime-ridden than all the others? Well, now we have our answer (and it’s completely unsurprising): New ward-by-ward police data show more than 20,000 crimes were committed in the West End in …