Articles by Dean Nicholas
By Dean Nicholas

Extra, Extra

Thursday news clips, including a memorial plaque for three police officers killed in the Siege of Sidney Street 100 years ago.
By Dean Nicholas

Preview: Free Christmas Film Screenings @ Broadgate Circle

Bethnal Green's Rich Mix is hosting a series of free Christmassy film screenings at Broadgate Circus next week.
By Dean Nicholas

Santa's Lap: RMT Christmas Cards

The RMT, those loveable rogues partly responsible for many of London's Tube strikes, are offering special Christmas cards on their website. The perfect gift, perhaps?
By Dean Nicholas

Tube Passengers Let Off At Closed Station

For the second time during the industrial action of recent months, passengers were mistakenly let off at Canada Water station during November's Tube strike.
By Dean Nicholas

New Architect Appointed For Middlesex Hospital Site

The site of Fitzrovia's Middlesex hospital has been taken over by a new architect, which is planning an entirely new scheme for what is one of central London's largest projects.
By Dean Nicholas

Artist's Impression Shows New London Bridge Station Concourse

This ethereal sketch is an artist's impression of how the all-new concourse at London Bridge station will look.
By Dean Nicholas

Extra, Extra

Today's news round-up, including details of a new fleet of electric taxicabs scheduled to hit the streets of London in 2020.
By Dean Nicholas

Tacita Dean Takes Turbine Hall Commission

Young British Art alumnus Tacita Dean has been named as the next artist to fill the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, in the gallery's annual Unilever Series.

By Dean Nicholas

London's Largest Cycle Hire Docking Station Opens

An all-new, 126-bay Cycle Hire docking station at Waterloo station was opened this morning.
By Dean Nicholas

Mapped: How The Cuts Will Hit London's Councils

This colour-coded map above shows the estimated change in revenue spending power for each council in 2011/12. As the cluster of red segments show, the East End seems to be hit particularly hard.
By Dean Nicholas

Tweets Of Snow: Model Village Covered By Twitter Snowfall

A splendid model Spitalfields and a Twitter hashtag combine in this fun snow-based idea.
By Dean Nicholas

Love Your Lido: Campaign To Extend London Fields Opening Times

A group of London Fields lido regulars are petitioning Hackney council to install a lighting system, so that the pool can be open into the evening.

By Dean Nicholas

Extra, Extra

Friday news nibbles, including the surprising identity of that idiot who was caught swinging from the Union Jack on the Cenotaph yesterday.
By Dean Nicholas

Alternative Tube Maps: London In 2100

The charity Practical Action has hit upon an interesting way of demonstrating how a rise in ocean levels would impact on London: they've created an alternative Tube map which shows the areas of the capital that would be flooded.
By Dean Nicholas

Climate Change Protestors Use Boris Bikes As Billboards

A group of protestors, who are calling on the Japanese to reverse their decision to oppose an extension to the Koyto treaty, have turned the Cycle Hire bikes into mobile billboards.
By Dean Nicholas

"An Inverted Pyramid Of Piffle!": Mayor Wins Award For Language Misuse

Boris Johnson has been honoured with the Golden Bull award, a prize handed out annually by the Plain English Campaign, that highlights the "worst example of written tripe" from the past year.
By Dean Nicholas

Santa's Lap: Crumpled City By Palomar

Everybody loves a good map, but what's not so fun is trying to fold the thing back into place once you're done with it. Crumpled City has the solution.
By Dean Nicholas

Huge New Broadgate Office Block Revealed

UBS are planning to build one of the City's largest office buildings, on the Broadgate Estate. Here's what it will look like.