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In Pictures – Skirting The Olympic Park
Most of us won’t get a peek inside the Olympic Park until 2012 (although they do host ‘open days’ and there will be test events before then – and have a gander at the webcams up here). Once a month,...
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West End Retail Bucks National Trend
sale in a sale-sign shop For once, it looks like our sense was spot on. The December ‘VIP’ shopping day in the West End appears to have worked well – together with stores starting their January sales...
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Bo-Jo Calls For Bankers To Hand Over Cash (To His Charity)
Boris Johnson Chews The Cud At Davos With The Mayor Of Buenos Aires And A Long Tie Boris Johnson used a radio interview broadcast from Davos to call for bankers to give up their bonuses (or part of...
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Changes At The Helm Of The Evening Standard
Evening Standard – Never Knowingly Understating Ah, the Evening Standard. It’s so very ‘London’, isn’t it? As ‘London’ as… a red bus stuck in its depot, the Standard’s paper sellers love to shout on...
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Londonist’s Fetishism For Maps Infects London 2012
2012 map Those who read us regularly will already know that we LOVE maps. Basically, stick anything on a map – and it’s likely that we will somehow find a way to write about it. We suffer a chronic...
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Celebrity Mayors?
Voting For Arnie It’s hard to believe that Bo-Jo has only a short while to go before he finishes his first year in office. 2010 will see the half-way point in his four-year team, and after the General...
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Wave Of Recession-Beating Gluttony Hits London
londoners choc-ful of unnecessary cherry and chocolate We all know the articles that appear in the press in early December predicting a horrific calorie intake over Christmas. We certainly have hazy...
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First Run To The Olympic Park Tomorrow Morning
running to the cupcake If the today’s morning sunshine continues into Sunday, you might want to know about the Newham Classic 10k race taking place around Stratford, leading to the Olympic Park. It’s...
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Sarko Hatches Plan For French London MP
Petit Nicholas Sarkosy Plus ça change! In 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy came to London just before the people swept him to the French Presidency. He trumpeted the capital as “one of the great French cities”....
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Kindival – First Ever Annual Kindness Festival Hits London
kindival Last autumn Londonist interviewed Tom Robbins about his eye-catching campaign to encourage Random Acts of Kindness. Since then we’ve seen the campaign accelerate with Tom taking over a...
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When Will I – Will I Be Famous?
FAMOUS launches 3 May Remember that old Bros track? Oh yes, WE saw you bopping away there so you clearly do. Well, if the pre-chatter about new upcoming clubnights is true, the question posed by Bros...
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Where To Watch The Marathon Tomorrow
Considering it’s 26.2 miles long and will have 35,000 people pounding along it, it’s going to be hard not to fall across the marathon tomorrow. But the secret to having an enjoyable marathon spectator...
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Join Europe’s Largest Charity Walk Against HIV and AIDS
Dannii Minogue walking for life (possibly walking at speed from the gawky kids) You may have seen the London Marathon last weekend and thought “I can’t do that”. Well, setting aside the fact that we...
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Combat Obesity With Free Food!
this lunchbox is a thing of the past. should all lunchboxes join it? It’s a crazy plan, but it just might work. The London Borough of Newham is one of 3 areas in the country piloting a new scheme to...
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So, Go – To The Lido
brockwell lido opens on Monday (brrr) One of our favourite places in London is Brockwell Lido, down in Brockwell Park. Monday is a big day as the huge outdoor pool will open at 10am for the Summer...
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London Gay Pride Comes Out (With A Webcam)
London Pride 2009 Pride marchs/celebrations are hugely important to the LGBT community. We like to think that London hosts the country’s best Pride each year. Hundreds of thousands of gay, lesbian,...
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Win Posh MINI UNITED Tickets For Next Weekend
London’s always had a bit of a soft spot for the MINI. In the 1960s, the car was an innovation, and a global icon at a time when exciting, stylish London was indisputably the centre of the world. This...
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Smoking Stops Plane
We all know how busy Heathrow is – congested skies, 2 clogged runways, full capacity, yada yada. So when we turn up with our luggage at T5, we know we won’t collapse in shock if there’s a delay due to...
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2012 Open Weekend – Fancy Organising Something?
London 2012 Open Weekend Last September everyone was still a-gog looking at the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games. The huge fireworks, the big spectacular – plus the sport and the drama, of course...
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Morning, Stadium
2012 stadium Yesterday crowds flocked to nibble a Giant Cupcake in Covent Garden. At about the same time over in East London the Olympic Stadium – known fondly by some as the ‘cupcake’ – had its final...
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Swine Flu Across London…Mapped
and swine flu comes It’s nice that the news media seems to have finally moved on from MPs’ expenses. But it’s not such a jump from MPs ‘in the trough’ to bigging up the latest scare story of the...
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In Pictures – Olympic Stadium Opened For London 2012 Open Weekend
Photos from the London 2012 Open Weekend Event at the Olympic Stadium – the first public let inside the ‘cupcake’ which had its external structure completed 10 days beforehand. Monday marks ’3 Years...
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Paralympic Talent Search Comes To London
ParalympicsGB grapple with China at Beijing 2008 Sod Britain’s Got Talent, we’re bored of Ant and Dec. Are you disabled? Are you sporty? If so, do you fancy a go at seeing if you’ve got what it takes...
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Our Four To Follow At London’s Paralympic Games
Dervis Konuralp, Tom Aggar, Andy Barrow & Sophie Christiansen Time flies by when you have the world’s two greatest sporting events – the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games – heading your way....
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Calling All Greenwich Park Users
Greenwich Park As previously reported, there’s a lot of confusing nonsense spread about Greenwich Park, one of the venues where the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be taking place in 1,000 days’...
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In Pictures: BT Tower Fireworks Mark 1,000 Days To Go To The Olympics
Photos from Saturday Evening’s firework moment Pictures provided courtesy of London 2012, with the exception of No.5, which is the contributor’s own
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What Is A Kidnapping Hot Spot Not?
glamour, grit and shiny shiny cars Now then, the capital’s Kidnapping Statistics – one area that this Londonista doesn’t normally bone up about at the kitchen table on a Sunday morning. The headline...
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Environment. Ilford. Boris. Monday. What Else Do You Need To Know?
bojo environmental wotsit On Monday night Bo-jo will be jumping a-top his trusty Marin Fairfax and peddling his way up to Ilford for an open question-and-answer session on all things environmental. It...
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Team Londonist Begins Gruelling Training Programme
Beautiful. We wager it won’t feel as nice as it looks when we reach Floor 30 and our lungs burst all over the walls. Five intrepid Londonistas have just entered serious training mode ready for...
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One Week To Go – Team Londonist Storms Tower 42
Training is now well under way, so with one week to go it’s time to get to know the intrepid Londonist team that will be representing you next Thursday (25th) at Tower 42. And what a competitive...
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London 2012 Tickets: Londoners Urged To ‘Sign Up’
This morning various current sporting celebs congregated at Trafalgar Square together with some 1948 Olympians (from the last time London hosted the Olympic Games). They were there to invite sports...
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7 Days To Go – Counting Down To The London Marathon
2010 marathon trainers looking a bit knackered already It may not feel like a year since the last ever Flora London Marathon ran through our streets, however, it must be – for this coming Sunday the...
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Get Covered In Mud With Survival London @ Battersea Power Station
Hands up who fancies getting completely smothered in mud? Hay Bales Coming To BatterseaThis Londonista trekked beyond Zone 2 to Nottingham last year for the grandly-titled ‘Survival Of The Fittest’...
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Damehood For London MP Tessa Jowell
The MP for Dulwich & West Norwood and the woman credited with securing the Olympic and Paralympic Games for London was yesterday made a Dame Commander at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. This...
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The Sun Backs Sports Legacy Campaign: What’s In It For London?
This week The Sun launched its Choose Sport campaign across Britain. The tabloid’s research suggests that while the London 2012 Games were spectacular, there has not yet been a huge nationwide take-up...
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Nature Takes Back London – In Pencil Drawings
Oskar Laffont Mexican artist Oskar Laffont is exhibiting his work at a gallery in the centre of town, and Londonist popped in last night to meet him as part of the impressive Fitzrovia Lates series of...
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A Tour Of Paul Raymond’s Soho
Behind the doors of Soho -- 57 Greek St This Friday, the Steve Coogan/Michael Winterbottom film ‘The Look of Love’ opens across London. It tells the controversial rags-to-riches story of porn baron...
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Tonight: Laughing For Evelina Children’s Hospital
Laugh for Evelina Children's HospitalAre you: At a loose end tonight? Within reach of Ministry of Sound? Fond of Shazia Mirza? Peckish? Then you’re in luck. Tonight we’ve discovered an excellent little...
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Back The Bid! Bring The 2018 Gay Games To London
London 2018. It’s got a bit of a ring to it, doesn’t it? Last summer, we pretty much all got wrapped up in the excitement and pride of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. And now some of us...
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Does Your Sports Club Need Cash For Some New Changing Rooms?
Boris Johnson at some old Greek facilities. If you’ve tried different sports clubs around London, you’ll know how some facilities can be a bit dilapidated. It can be a struggle to fix the fundamental...
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