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A hoard of gold coins has been unearthed in a Hackney garden (a month too late for Talk Like A Pirate Day, alas). There’s an unusual twist. The coins are not some Roman or Anglo Saxon treasure, but booty from the USA. The currency was …

Photo / Bob Weinstein Former vice-presidential candidate, future presidential nominee, and easily lampooned, Russia-spotting hockey mom, Sarah Palin, has promised to visit London in the near future. The former governor of Alaska wishes to meet with the original Iron Lady herself, Margaret Thatcher, and today …

E Wood, Patriotic Butcher by Herschell Hershey Loins girded, beer fridge stocked, red and white lucky pants lined up: Saturday sees the much hyped first World Cup match for England against Team USA. If things weren’t tense enough already, aides to the men charged with …

Jesse Owens played by Rolan Bell Arcola programming delivers another timely slice of topical theatre in Studio 1 with 1936, a play about the controversial run up to the Berlin Olympics in Nazi Germany. It’s difficult to think about the performance separate from the issues …

The Journal is to end its 18-month experiment of selling the US edition on London newstands. The project was rolled out in April 2008, with a 3,500-copy print run allowing British readers to scoop the day’s paper ahead of their American cousins; given what happened …

A statue of actor-president Ronald Reagan will be erected in Grosvenor Square after a neat dodge of planning rules. Westminster Council waived its usual policy, which restricts statuary to those with more than 10 years experience of the grave. Reagan died only five years ago. …

Celebrating the US presidential inauguration in London tomorrow? We want your photos to post on Wednesday. Just upload ‘em to Flickr, send ‘em to our Flickr pool and make sure to tag ‘em Londonist and, oh let’s see … Obama. Thanks! Photo by Simon-K via …

Having successfully exported cholera, colonialism and the Cross to the New World, Blighty is now making an attempt at sending hooliganism Stateside, too: a friendly match between West Ham United and Major League Soccer side Columbus Crew was marred by a scuffle between supporters on …

Those pesky OAPs just keep getting into trouble. This time it’s drug smuggling Artists take stand against Shoreditch high rises Tube film upsets train drivers. Well it doesn’t take much Bozza waves treehugging card While TfL send Congestion Charge payer 3000 receipts “Urban Chameleon” image …

Richard Scudamore of the Premier League has not been the most popular footballing figure of the last few weeks. The executives overseeing football in favoured destinations for his plan of playing Premier League matches abroad, such as China, Thailand and the USA, have lined up …