You don’t get much for free in London… maybe the occasional bag of crisps or can of coke at Victoria station if there’s a promotion of some kind going on or the Standard Lite if you need something to clean your shoe with after treading …
Commuters on the Brighton to Victoria line are being encouraged to raise their weary heads from The Da Vinci Code and look for wildlife instead. According to the Telegraph, the train operators are to give out free wildlife guides on 10 of the country’s busiest …
It’s still two days to April Fools, but tell that to the staff at Victoria Tube Station. This roving Londonist correspondent was in the station – the network’s busiest – at 8.45pm this evening and was both astonished and entertained to hear the following announcement …
The Mail began serialising Piers Morgan’s ‘secret diary’ yesterday (couldn’t they have called it something other than a ‘secret diary’ it makes Morgan sound like a nine-year-old schoolgirl), so we thought we’d take a look and see what the broadhseets are saying about the book, …
New tube trains are on the way for the Victoria line courtesy of Metronet Rail who are one of the private companies tasked with maintaining and upgrading sections of the tube. They are looking to introduce 47 new higher spec trains that they claim “will …
It’s time for the ugly issue of pedestrianisation to rear its ugly head once more. Remember the furore surrounding the Public Spaces Report and the report in the Independent that Ken was set on pedestrianising “significant portions of the city centre in a ten year …
As Londonist gets older, toys seem to get stranger. Of course, there was nothing inherently “normal” about the space hopper, but the hot toy for 2005 is apparently going to be … edible insects. No, not insect-shaped sweets or anything sane like that. Real insects. …
Could this be the funniest bit of CCTV footage we’ll never get to see? Yesterday afternoon a “a man in his 20s” violently attacked Madame Tussaud’s ‘controversial’ nativity scene before running off down the road. According to press reports, the enraged young man “charged at …
Not literally, you understand, and actually not really that figuratively either, it’s just that the excitable folks at the British Airports Authority (who actually have a really good online photo library thing going on) are upset at plans by the Strategic Rail Authority to change …
A statue has been erected at Brook Gate in Park Lane to honour the animals that have served and died with British and Allied forces. Unveiled by Princess Anne the memorial sculpture consists of two mules a horse and a dog, and whilst recognising all …
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