With all the news of bomb plots and terrorist alerts over the past week, it’s easy to forget that there are some innocent, vulnerable, mildly famous people out there who just aren’t equipped to deal with all the stress. Take Bob Hoskins for example: Bob …
Those who maintain that South London really isn’t a bit shit have a new and unexpected ally. Aliens. They can’t get enough of the place. Gobsmacked witnesses watched on in amazement as two sets of bright orange lights flew eerily in formation through the skies …
Bonuses in the City have jumped16% this year to a record £19bn. And from the overpaid of London to…hospital workers. Doctors are warning that our hospitals are not ready to cope with a terrorist attack. A former member of the radical group Hizb ut Tahrir …
4pm: BBC: A flight from London to Washington DC has been diverted to Boston after the pilot declared an emergency because of a “passenger disturbance”. United Flight 923, with 182 passengers, left Heathrow Airport and landed at Boston’s Logan International Airport, an airline spokesman said. …
The situation in the Middle East has settled down for a minute, terrorist attacks in Britain are ‘highly likely’ rather than ‘imminent’, the Premiership season is yet to start, and we’re still in August. Must be time for more silly season filler. Today, Reuters has …
Latest airport news: Air France yesterday cancelled four flights to London due to congestion, but generally it looks like things are getting better. The Daily Mail meanwhile gets right to the heart of the issue…by slagging off John Prescott. The hearing against the Met over …
News has been coming in this morning that a major (and we mean planes blowing up mid-flight) terrorist attack has been foiled by the UK intelligence services. The threat concerns an attempt to smuggle explosives onto multiple US-bound planes via hand luggage. Although the plot …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. August is a quiet month for book launches and the like, so lucky there’s a good old fashioned book brawl to hot things up! Yes, …
Well we finally got our own American style terrorist threat level and it’s already gone all the way up to 4: The government today made public its official assessment of the threat of a terrorist attack, warning that it is “severe” – meaning an attack …
A murder of crows. A shrewdness of apes. A tower of giraffes. A grosvenor of idiots. Residents living near the US embassy in London on Thursday accused British authorities of leaving them vulnerable to a terrorist attack by failing to provide adequate security measures. An …
Police searching for former Harrods shop assistant Egeli Rasta have found a body on Mitcham Common, where she was last seen jogging. Ahead of the Crown prosecutor’s report into the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, a couple of the weekend papers profile the man …
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