Entries from Londonist tagged with 'theft'
July 27, 2008
APB – All Poems Bulletin: we often spends hours at Londonist Towers carefully preparing a story for your further reading pleasure, only to have it mangled at the last minute by the vagaries of our software (or more often through rank carelessness, if we are really honest). The experience hurts. And so our literary heart goes out to the South London poet, Sohan Rahi, who got lost in the normally uneventful Surbiton neighbourhood. As he......
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Reports from northwest London suggest a strange kind of vandalism is afoot. According to Harrow Council, £15,000 worth of drain covers have been pinched from Pinner and South Harrow over the past fortnight. Some kind of performance art, you might speculate? Could be, although the cast-iron gully grates (which often date back to the time the roads were built) are highly sought-after by unscrupulous metal merchants. With scrap iron fetching a pretty price of......
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