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Extra, Extra
Extremist literature in our libraries. Filed under 9/11 in the Dewey Decimal system? Man makes 15,000 nuisance phone calls. By way of community service, he’s been given Bob Crow’s number and unlimited...
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Harrods + Fashion Shoe Launch = Cobra
Most of our male readers won’t really comprehend this, but the launch event for new posh shoes can be a big deal. A really big deal. So when Harrods yesterday hosted a launch event for some...
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Sporting Weekend: Betfair Turbo Tennis @ The O2 Arena
Tired of watching the cohort of British heroes cast rudely aside at the world’s premier tennis event each year, London has finally given our boys a fighting chance by creating a tournament that surely...
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London’s Nooks And Crannies: Berry Brothers & Rudd
St James wine merchant Berry Brothers and Rudd could be considered as a family-run community corner shop. But when you consider that the family are eighth generation owners, their local community...
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London’s waxy export
As befits a truly global capital, London has established itself as a hub in the important international trade of tourist-attracting human reproductions, importing Chinese warriors and exporting...
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The Saturday Strangeness
19. Freakish Falls! During the August of 1920 in Woodford, stones poured from the sky for three consecutive days without explanation. Four years later at Eltham, Plumstead, Woolwich and Shooters Hill...
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Flickin’ Hell
The judicial system never ceases to astonish us. We learned this week of the tale of a South London boy of twelve who has been slapped with a rap for Grievous Bodily Harm following improper use of an...
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Monday Miscellanea
This Week In London’s History Monday – 1st October 1868: St. Pancras Station is officially opened as the London terminus for the Midland Railway, despite its construction being incomplete. Part of the...
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Panto Preview #1
We were hoping Bobby Davro would get a plum lead in a seasonal favourite this year and had early bets on a Dick Whittington. Or at least his cat. However, we can now reveal that in fact he’ll be...
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Extra, Extra
Doherty in court AGAIN. No one doing a double take. Around the world in 13 years. By pedal power. Gathering in Battersea Park to support Burmese cause Inquest finally opens into Diana crash. Poor...
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Nelson’s New Neighbour
Oh dear! There’ll be trouble in the Square tonight. Trafalgar, that is, not Albert. There’s a new kid on the block – and he’s (er, literally) dead creepy. Anubis, ancient Egyptian god of all things...
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The Saturday Strangeness
21. The Beast Of Barnet For ten years the so-called Barnet ‘big cat’ caused confusion in the London suburbs – a few years before the ‘beast’ of Bexley reared its head, even though both were possibly...
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Extra, Extra
Giant crack in the Tate Modern. Half of those living near Heathrow would quite fancy a new runway. A pretty grim account of the Menezes shooting emerges in court. Newts get evicted from Olympic site....
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Extra, Extra
Man gets ‘stiff sentence’ for ‘accidentally’ sending people pictures of his penis. He thought it would never stand up in court. Great train robber Ronnie Biggs says his life has been wasted. Not at...
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Monday Miscellanea
This Week In London’s History Monday – 15th October 1881: The Royal Comedy Theatre (now simply known as the Comedy Theatre) opens in the West End. Tuesday – 16th October 1987: In the early hours of...
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Will The House Of Commons Close Down?
Those bloody Victorians could never build anything properly. The House of Commons chamber is leaking, and may have to be closed down for three years while the roof is repaired. This means one of four...
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Movie Dogs Immortalised In Battersea Park
Think Battersea and think Dogs Home. Or Power Station. Well, the Kennel Club and Sky Movies are about to change that by making Battersea Park home of the world’s first Dog Walk of Fame. We’re not...
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Preview: Free Halloween Party at Black Pearl Boutique
Black Pearl Boutique, Carnaby Street’s “haven of rockabilly jewellery, vintage 1950’s clothing, burlesque corsets, and accessories”, is having a free Halloween party this Friday from 6.30 to 10pm....
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Beatles In Elvis’s Basement Avoid Exterminator
Music, as Bono, Geldof, Martin or any of the members of Screwdriver will tell you, is a tool for peace and harmony. Selling memorabilia, on the other hand, would seem to be the domain of scrapping...
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Review: Free Halloween Party at Black Pearl Boutique
Last Friday’s Halloween Party at Black Pearl Boutique was a spooky retro blast. Jack-o-Lantern orange cocktails were served by a dead cheerleader and (what Londonist reckons was) a zombie prom queen....
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Spooky Goings On
Hooray! It’s nearly Halloween! Jack-o-lanterns a plenty, scary masks and annoying trick or treaters who get hyped up on way too many e-numbers (and probably a few cans of cider nowadays). Still,...
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Gunpowder, Treason and Placards
With bonfire night just around the corner, Parliament must be getting a little nervous. Unblinking beady eyes will no doubt be focused on Southwark Crown Court today where Brian Haw takes on Sir Ian...
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Extra, Extra: Alliterative Edition
Forged fares by father of four finds him a fine as “foot soldier” Huffy homeowners hate hump (Ealing established as the effluvium of Extra, Extra) Court keeps killer in UK Resignations as Respect...
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“Hell Of A Good Fellow”
The National Archives show that back in 1967 there was a “grave security breach” when a diplomat, Mr Murray MacLehose, left the details of correspondence between Prime Minister Wilson and US President...
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Week Around the -Ists
Londonist got the big scoop of the week with what may be the first images of notorious street artist Banksy in action. They also got on a runaway train without an operator provoking a response from...
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More flak aimed at the police community support officer (PCSOs) as two community officers watched while a 55-year-old man was attacked by three teenage girls. The attack took place at Ravensbury Park...
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Forget Paris – Sunderland’s The Place To Go
With the opening of St Pancras and its high-speed line to the continent, the approval of Crossrail, and glimpses of the futuristic bullet trains that will soon call London home, there are plenty of...
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A Play, A Pie And A Pint
New writing theatre company Paines Plough are presenting an absolutely cracking new way to see plays this autumn and making us think that there should be more theatre programmed like this. New...
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Fake Four Tops Foiled
Motown legends The Four Tops won a victory in court last Friday, as they successfully prevented a rival band from touring with their name. Apparently singer Viscount Oliver Miller had been touring...
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Londonist Stalks: Sir George Gilbert Scott
St Pancras International has reopened after years of restoration. The sumptious Euston Road frontage to the station was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, one of London’s most important architects....
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Seasonal Skating: Ice Rink Round Up
For many of us ice-skating is a terrifying experience, bringing back memories of clinging to the edge of the rink, cold feet and humiliating wipeouts. We all know it’s never as serene an experience as...
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More Winehouse News
Hey you there! Pay attention at the back! The latest episode of the sub-EastEnders drama that is Amy Winehouse’s life is here, and you don’t want to miss out, do you? Ready? Okay, well, the plot...
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Week Around the -Ists
In Los Angeles, LAist most definitely celebrated Thanksgiving like no other. After all, one has to keep up all the energy to keep on walking the line at the Writers Strike and fighting the unfortunate...
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Lagerfeld Paris-Londres Look
The fashion world has been in a glitzy hooha this week as Karl Lagerfeld, AKA The Count (cue: one, one supermodel; AH HA HA HA HA!”) jetted in to much celebrity fawning for a posh nosh ding dong at...
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Team Nice Gets Political
This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 28. Corporate People I watched the documentary ‘The Corporation’ the other day. It’s something that...
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Music Choice: Monday 10 – Friday 15th
To be honest the rain and coldness is kind of making us not want to go to gigs at the moment, preferring instead to wrap ourselves up warmly at home. But if we did, this is what we’d be bouncing at....
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Weekend Round-Up
This is what we have learned this weekend while you were out looking for snow… Brent Council are gonna get tough on non-recyclers. Fake voddy hits the home counties. Our Kate is battling to save...
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Catt Man Don’t
The unfeasibly appropriately named Phillip Catt is in line to pay court costs of around £25,000 after his second appeal to keep a special Savannah Cat breeding enclosure in his back garden was lost....
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Campbell to go to Court (Looking Fabulous)
Everyone’s favourite and fabulous phone-throwing supermodel, Naomi Campbell, was “bitterly disappointed” to lean that she’ll be called to court June 20 and charged with assaulting two police officers...
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Royal Court Show Reflects On Dignity In Death
For the longest time, before playwright Nick Payne emerges for his own one-man play, there is just a lone chair staring back at you from the stage with a clinical glass of water next to it. Oh dear....
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