The Silver Horse against financial crimes at London Bridge / image author’s own Accompanied by a brass band, the Silver Horse against financial crimes left London Bridge about 11.15am heading for the Bank of England. Apparently the Moorgate march also left without incident but according …
London Bridge by Jason Webber via the Londonist Flickrpool. This year Metro is 10 and Big Ben is 150 but Old London Bridge is an ancient 800 years old. It doesn’t still exist, of course. But that’s not going to stop The Lord Mayor’s Appeal …
The Telegraph reckons that our Head of State will make her Twitter debut today – or, as they put it, her updates ‘will appear live on the blogging website Twitter’. You’ll be able to follow her every move at the Commonwealth Observance ceremony, which today …
The flagship London event in the first global 24 hour charity Twestival was held last night in Shoreditch, and by all accounts – snow permitting – was a great night. As we reported yesterday, Twestival is a fundraising event born of micro-blogging site Twitter.com, which …
Tonight sees the London chapter of a new kind of volunteer, charity event which hopes to raise $1million in 24 hours. Twestival is a fundraising event born of micro-blogging site Twitter.com, which has captured the imagination of 185 cities around the world, after being dreamt …
Image courtesy of FoxyCoxy under a Creative Commons licence The film world shivered and huddled under brollies on the red carpet outside the Royal Opera House for last night’s BAFTAs, presumably reciting a mantra about the Oscars and sunny LA not being far away. But …
Londonist arrived at Harvest Twestival a little late last night but was, nonetheless, overwhelmed by the party atmosphere and by the sheer number of attendees. The event was gleeful, tipsy and (we can only imagine) the first of many more high profile Twitter-inspired events in …
We mentioned this in passing last month, but it took until now for the sheer silliness of this “news” to truly sink into Londonist’s brain. An anthropomorphized Tower Bridge has taken to Twittering – you know, that little micro-blogging tool whereby folks can share with …
Tower Bridge will be treated to a £4 million facelift over the next four years. Beginning in the summer, the Victorian landmark will be stripped of paint and redaubed with blue and white. At the same time, ugly sister Southwark Bridge will receive a fresh …
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