Last week on Londonist, in numbers, translated into an image...
2 years and a bit until the Spice Girls reform for the 2012 Olympics
3 from the top of the list of Bloomberg's financial powerhouses for London
250 people voted in Sutton council's appeal for a public decision on what to do with a Banksy
236 people have been shot in the last year, an increase in the number shot last year
20 days until the new ticket hall at Kings Cross opens!
6 per cent of tube and bus users passing through that new ticket hall and onto the transport system who will fare dodge
2 + 3 X 250 + 236 X 20 + 6 = 29,726 which is a very beautiful woman as snapped by Tiki Chris and shared for our delight in the Londonist Flickr pool.This Week In London’s History
London Quote Of The Week
It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend