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Weekend Round-Up

Other stuff from around town.

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Monday Miscellanea

London’s bus services have come a long way in the last 182 years.

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Wimbledon 2011: How To Queue (Standing & Surfing)

Everything you need to know to secure your place at the tennis.

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London Literary Locations: The Borribles

We’ve followed, photographed and mapped the Great Rumble Hunt route through south-west London, as described in Michael de Larrabeiti’s children’s adventure.

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Hand-Drawn Maps Of London: Wimbledon Branch Of The District Line

An utterly gorgeous hand-drawn map of the area between Earl’s Court and Wimbledon, along the District Line.

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Parking Enforcement Gets Inventive

Traffic wardens appear to be resorting to ever-increasing measures of ingenuity to zap the unwary. Yesterday, a disabled woman in Wimbledon who found her parking space blocked by a car belonging to traffic wardens had her car ticketed by the very same wardens, while over …

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Itinerary For Papal Visit Released

Photo / Tadeusz Górny Those fiending for a glimpse of Pope Benedict XVI when he tours the country in mid-September, rejoice: the itinerary for his UK trip has been released. After spending a couple of days north of the border, he’ll wing his way toward …

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LTM Launch Wimbledon Designs

Wimbledon frenzy will be at its height today as Andy Murray takes on Rafael Nadal, but if the tennis fortnight is too short for you then we’re loving the new range of products launched by the London Transport Museum Shop. The All England Lawn Club …

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Epic Tennis Match Covered By Epic Liveblog

Xan Brooks of The Guardian can’t have put too much thought into being given the job of liveblogging the record book-shredding Isner-Mahut match yesterday. Yet as the game stretched out into the evening, Brooks, obliged to report on every single bit of action, was forced …

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Queen In Rare Wimbledon Visit

33 years ago, in her Silver Jubilee year, the Queen visited Wimbledon to watch Virginia Wade become the last British tennis player to win the tournament. Her Maj can’t have been impressed, because she hasn’t been back since, until today: she’s in SW19 to take …

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Wimbledon 2010: How To Queue (Standing & Surfing)

Caroline’s queue card from 2009 What with all the palaver about the underperformance of Rooney and co in the southern hemisphere you may find that this year’s Wimbledon tennis championships has crept up on you unawares. It starts on Monday morning and doubtless by the …