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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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