Mr Stevens’ bedroom, yesterday. Wimbledon-based pensioner Christopher Stevens attracted police attention after placing a Wanted ad for an electrical component in the Radio Society of Great Britain’s members magazine. It may have been the small print that did it: I want see if I can …
Image by dartar from the Londonist Flickr pool Sheepishness is… being made queen of an African tribe while maintaining anti-royalist sentiment. Which is exactly what happened to Liz Busch from Wimbledon who has been made queen of the Ewe tribe in Ghana, as recognition for …
London is now the continent’s capital of 3D cinema as ODEON launched the first digital screens in Europe this week. It’s more than just getting to wear those funny glasses, as £1.5m has been spent on the cinemas in Greenwich and Wimbledon, allowing film-buffs to …
What do you want your local Firefighter to be doing right now? We’d want ours to be busily climbing ladders to save desperate families from 6th-floor smoke-billowing windows, or at least rescuing cute cats from tree branches. Last year Stephen-Remmell Coleman from Wimbledon fire station …
Olympic Delivery Authority criticised over construction emissions Attack on police in Croydon may have been gang retaliation Don’t read this if you ate strawberries at Wimbledon Notting Hill Carnival will be “Welcoming the World” “funkapolitan” style with Boris ululating on the side Image courtesy of …
Er, so OK, perhaps that should read ‘Briton wins Wimbledon’. But the fact is that after a summer of pretty dire sports news for the UK, we have our first British junior Wimbledon champion for 24 years. AND she’s from Wimbledon. Laura Robson, at 14, …
Whilst British ladies hopeful Elena Baltacha’s out on Court 2 today and homegrown Chris Eaton’s making tantalisingly promising progress into round 2 elsewhere, a dedicated police squad are cracking down on ticket touts outside the All England Club and removing obsessive fans to a safe …
We all know the Wombling song; that they’re tidy and clean and make good use of the things the everyday folks leave behind. A lesser known line in the full version of the popular Wimbledon Common song is Wombles are “incredibly, utterly devious” and hey …
It’s officially summer, and you know what that means – it’s time for Wimbledon and Glastonbury. There’s loads of coverage of both, and a few other things to watch if you’re not in the mood for tennis or festivals. On TV, Londonist likes: Monday, 23 …
If you’re reading this, then it’s already too late to get in line for a show court ticket to the opening of this year’s Championship at the All England Club, otherwise known as Wimbledon 2008. The good news is you still have eleven further chances …
58. Doomsday! For centuries mankind has been superstitious about certain happenings and signs, perceiving such anomalous symbols and events as omens of doom, or forewarnings of death and destruction. Of course we’ll never truly know if such fears are justified, but what we do know …
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