In Pictures: Ladyboy Beauty Pageant at Mango Tree
Photos from this year’s ladyboy beauty pageant at Mango Tree Thai restaurant
Victoria
Calling All Ladyboys: The Mango Tree Annual Beauty Pageant
Have you got what it takes to be Princess (or Prince) of Mango Tree?
TfL Moots New DLR Routes, Including Victoria And St Pancras
A mouthwatering glimpse of the future from Transport for London.
Victoria Tube Closed Due To ‘Unusual Smell’
Victoria underground station – one of the busiest on the network – has been evacuated and closed following complaints of nausea and an unusual smell. Up to eight people have taken themselves to hospital for checkups after an unpleasant odour was detected ‘near a temporary …
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Happy ending of the day: the 2 year old that fell two floors – and escaped without injury. Wembley’s Premier Inn ain’t quite so prime today after X Factor contestants trashed it. Driving near Victoria? Mind the greedy traffic camera that has netted £2m from …
Victoria Tube Station To Get Huge Revamp
TfL has selected a contractor for the much-needed (and much delayed) reworking of Victoria underground station. The rebuilding, to be undertaken by Vinci BAM Nuttall Limited, will see a new northern ticket hall under Bressenden Place, with work beginning next year. Further improvements include new …
Victoria Screeches
Get the WD40 out, Westminster. Residents in housing developments looking onto the 10 mainline tracks of Victoria Station are fed up of trains “screeching” on dry tracks at all hours. If we hadn’t been at Willesden Junction yesterday afternoon, subjected to a sustained screeching from …
No More Bendy Buses On Number 38 From Saturday
Image of a maligned bendy by steve_w from the Londonist Flickr pool The un-bendification of London’s buses will face its biggest hurdle next week, as the 38 bus reverts to double-decker vehicles, barely four years after first going bendy. The switchover will happen this Saturday, …
The Saturday Strangeness
128. Putting the ‘cat’ in Catford! The recent ‘Palace puma’ and ‘Sydenham beast’ fiascos had kind of given reports of large, exotic cats a bad name. Firstly there were the media inaccuracies of the former – there was no puma – meanwhile the latter saw …
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A baby girl has been found abandoned at Victoria Station. Reckon they should call her Fenchurch. Croydon copper comes a cropper as he’s caught parking illegally for a trip to the cash machine. Andrew Lloyd Webber hearts Susan Boyle, with predictable consequences. The economics of …
Review: Royal Warrants Specialty Food and Drink Market
Londonist made it over to the Royal Warrants Specialty Food and Drink Market (read our preview here) this afternoon and we were generally pleased with our experience. In particular, we liked all the free samples available (sausages, omlettes, chocolates, spirits, cocktails and more) and were …
