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Croydon Councillors Make Grave Mistakes
It’s the last thing you want. Sitting down to your cornflakes one morning and suddenly the angry corpses of the long dead come swarming out the ground having been disturbed by some council yahoo...
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Does Anyone Know How to Sail This Boat?
If you’ve ever taken a river taxi or party boat you’d probably like to think you’re in as safe hands as you were boarding a 747. Today the Transport Select Committee urged that the current...
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Stalk On The Wild Side
When we finally get around to learning about life from the movies then perhaps the residents of Osterly wouldn’t be so much scared, as they are now, as utterly shitting themselves. Somewhere down in a...
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Message In A Puzzle
We’ll do anything to dull the pain of a long commute these days, even reading the free rags that have been forcibly thrust into our hands by over achieving paper persons on every street corner between...
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Itchycoo Plaque
Being referred to as the father of TV celebrity Sharon Osbourne would no doubt cause Don Arden to throw one of his legendary tantrums from beyond the grave and hang the hapless BBC hack who penned...
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Southall Signpost Scrap
Our Lord Ken’s marketing team might like to think that we all speak with ONe voice but we certainly do so in many different tongues. And whilst celebrating our cultural diversity is one of London’s...
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Been A Long Time…
Just in case you haven’t yet turned on the tv, a radio, glanced at a newspaper and this is the first internet page you’ve opened since yesterday, it’s true. The might Led Zeppelin are reforming for a...
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A Hot Curry And A Marmalade Sandwich
London, a melting pot of immigrant cultures and strange beasts. Amongst other things of course. But none of this is anything new. Way back in October 1958 a bear arrived on a lifeboat from Darkest...
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Honduran Herps’ Happy Hatching
So congratulations to the keepers at London Zoo’s reptile house who have just become the proud parents to nine Utila Iguanas (Ctenosaura bakeri). These critically endangered critters, a rare species...
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Bear Bites Back
Since we announced to the world that all round top London icon and friendly bear, Paddington, is headed for Hollywood, there’s been a resurgence of interest in our marmalade munching mate. What with...
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Are We Committing Avian Genocide?
We Brits love our birds and animals. We love to shrinkwrap their body parts and burn them on bbqs on a Sunday afternoon, we love to take them for long walks in the park and we love to watch their...
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Londonist Live: Adam Green at Union Chapel on 25/09/07
Ex Mouldy Peaches man, Adam Green, is defending his use of some particularly bad language in a church by claiming his Jewishness lets him off any divine retribution. He’s casually sprawled in his...
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Bad Boy Boy Band Blast Brixton (One More Time)
Anarchists, nihilists, thorns in the establishment’s side, punks, poets, property developers, reality tv stars, radio show hosts; if nothing else the Sex Pistols are a contrary bunch. So whether the...
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Londonist Live, Maximo Park at Brixton Academy (11/10)
Paul Smith certainly knows what a stage is for. From the moment he kicks into tonight’s opener, The Coast Is Always Changing, he’s hopping, bouncing, climbing, leaping and shadow boxing around his...
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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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F*** It Up And Start Again
It’s possible that some of you, dear readers, may occasionally travel upon our world famous London Underground. And possible that you may have experienced some discomfort while doing so, maybe a...
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A Grave Crime
Sometimes it’s the little ones that grab ya. Man breaks into cemetery, steals ten grand’s worth of grave digging kit, then wheelbarrows it out to his car. That’s it. No more. No word on whether the...
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Are Royals Losing The (Blackmail) Plot?
Looks like HRH is having a bit of a Blair old time right now (either Blair will do). There’s that pesky enquiry and now this latest plot to blackmail a minor member of the royal family over some man...
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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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You’re A Flyer Not A Lover
Here’s a word of advice if you’re thinking of using one of the 12 private suites on the new A380 super jumbo to indulge in some carnal activities: KEEP THE NOISE DOWN! Or use the toilets like everyone...
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