suburbs

“Beast” Foxes Eltham

Has the Beast of Sydenham struck again? Yes, according to a slightly breathless local newspaper – this time in Eltham. Laura Downes, 47, of Westmount Road, Eltham, discovered a dead fox in her back garden and thought there was nothing sinister involved. But when she …

Network Southeast: Britain’s Serengeti

Commuters on the Brighton to Victoria line are being encouraged to raise their weary heads from The Da Vinci Code and look for wildlife instead. According to the Telegraph, the train operators are to give out free wildlife guides on 10 of the country’s busiest …

La Londonisation

So it looks like “London” is a four-letter word in a certain rival European capital. The mayor of Paris has begun a campaign against “La Londonisation“, his term for the rubber-stamp commoditising of the High Street, destruction of small businesses, and the driving out of …

Derren Brown Comes Home

The Croydon Yoda, Derren Brown, has announced a 44 date UK tour, in anticipation of a West End run in the summer. Interestingly, the star of Mind Control, Trick of the Mind, Séance and Messiah eschews any dates in the London suburbs, apart from one, …

Sex And The City

(Well, we had to use that headline eventually) It seems Londonist just can’t avoid sex today. The BBC has been telling us what a hotbed of raunchy activity Hyde Park was in the Sixties (“In 1962, 61 cases of prostitution, 181 of indecent behaviour and …