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East is the new West. You read it here second. The battle begins. To save our post offices that is. Londonist is certainly not going to walk further or queue longer. Porsche versus Ken. This should be...
View ArticleRecessionist: The Londondome
Since time immemorial people have cried out – ‘what we really need is a 23,000 seat multi purpose arena somewhere near Woolwich’. Of course this dream was finally attained last year with the reopening...
View ArticleRun To The (Soggy) Beat
Tomorrow sees London’s first proper half-marathon, and this Londonista will be plodding around the new route in the east of our fair city. The capital has of course always boasted a world-beating...
View ArticlePossible Homophobic Murder – Did You See Anything?
We hate hate crimes at the best of times. This last Tuesday, 28-year old David Cooper drank with friends in several of our favourite haunts on Old Compton Street, in Soho. He finished off with a drink...
View ArticleThe Saturday Strangeness
89. The Freak Storm of 1925 It was like a scene from a blockbuster disaster movie in the end, but how it all began was a mystery, like so many freakish weather shows. The Kentish Mercury and Kentish...
View ArticleDLR: Now With Added Woolwich
On a misty, moisty, freezing morning – this morning, in other words – the new DLR extension to Woolwich Arsenal opened, creating a new way of getting across the Thames. Trains run every ten minutes,...
View ArticleIn Pictures: Boris Opens The Woolwich DLR
Yesterday, Mayor Boris Johnson officially opened Woolwich DLR station. Photographer Mike King was on hand to capture every gurn and scrunch of the Johnsonian countenance, and sends us these impressive...
View ArticleThe Saturday Strangeness
101. Why did the catfish cross the road? If recent stirrings are anything to go by, then the invasion of snakehead fish into British waters could prove tragic. This Asian predator has such a voracious...
View ArticlePhoto of the Day: Pontoon Dock
Like a white cruise ship sailing blissfully along on the Mediterranean, no wait, along the Thames? Not a cruise ship but a crisp white apartment block in Pontoon Dock, Woolwich. Photo by Piers Marsh...
View ArticleRiver Thames Flash Mob To Help Clean River
Flash mobs. We’ve all grown sick of them by now, haven’t we? Well here’s one with a worthy purpose. Thames21 are organising a series of mass participations with the aim of cleaning up Old Father...
View ArticleWoman Wages Crusade Against Army Homosexuality
An incensed Canadian boxer and martial arts instructor flew into a rage and gave a solid pasting to a pair of soldiers after becoming angered at their faux-mosexual antics, a court has heard. Ashley...
View ArticleThames Clippers Woolwich Service Gets Four More Years
A press release from TfL dropped into our inbox yesterday afternoon stating that, thanks to the munificence of Mayor Boris Johnson and Greenwich Council, the Thames Clipper river service that plies...
View ArticleWe All Live In A Tesco Wonderland
Rejected plan for Tesco ‘supermarket-led development’ in Bromley-by-Bow A sobering report in The Times illustrates the immense ambition that Tesco harbours of weaving itself into the fabric of society...
View ArticlePreview: Greenwich & Docklands International Festival 2010
Dancing City, 3 July, Canary Wharf Continuing its exploration of the elements, GDIF returns this Thursday on the theme of Earth, stretching to 10 glorious days of free arts festival. Bowled over by...
View ArticleStudent Designs Floating Thames Bridge
University of Westminster architecture student James Gardener has designed a series of interlinked islands that join together to form an inhabitable bridge across the River Thames between Woolwich and...
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Like, duh!-headline of the day: ‘Too Much Snow’ Grounded Heathrow Airport Flights Judge rugby-tackled fleeing defendant in Woolwich Crown Court. Are London’s libraries worth saving?, asks John Bird....
View ArticleWork Begins On 2012 Shooting Venue @ Royal Artillery Barracks
The final Olympic venue to start construction is the shooting venue at Woolwich’s Royal Artillery Barracks. These artist impressions released today show an undulating white box seemingly splattered by...
View ArticleWeekend Round-Up
Here’s what we’ve learned whilst you’ve been poring over that last ever edition: Stabbing in Woolwich on Friday night. Charity Pennies for Life go for record breaking coin line-up in Chiswick....
View ArticleWeekend Round-Up
Here’s what we’ve learned about whilst you’ve been up the amphitheatre: 13 year old stabbed in Islington last night. Dagenham and Rainham MP mentioned in Breivik’s ‘manifesto’. Firemen rescue seven...
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St Giles in negative by Michael Ambjorn in the Londonist Flickr pool. Riot and looting arrests stand at around 3,300, including a 70-year-old man. Could the Olympics jeopardise the Edinburgh Festival...
View ArticleWoolwich Foot Tunnel Reopens After Revamp
The Thames foot tunnel linking Woolwich and North Woolwich has reopened following an £11.5 million refurbishment. The 99-year-old structure has been closed for well over a year while the council shored...
View ArticleGreenwich Becomes A Royal Borough
The Borough of Greenwich is dead. Long live the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Today, Greenwich gets a regal promotion. The Borough will adopt a Royal appellation as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee...
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A teenager falls to her death in Woolwich as police raid flat. The fifth cycling death in London this year. 40 firms near the Olympic Park consider legal action over Games disruption. Meanwhile,...
View ArticleOlympic Sport Lowdown: Shooting
Unlike the Olympic shooting venue at the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, the presence of shooting sports in London is relatively discreet. However,with over 65,000 legally held firearms in London,...
View ArticleNike Statue To Be Unveiled In Woolwich
It says something about the all-pervasiveness of branding that we immediately thought of training-shoes when this particular press release tickled our inbox. But the placing of a statue to Nike in...
View ArticleSerious Incident Reported In Woolwich
Shot of the scene from above Evening Summary: A man has been killed, and two others injured, in an incident in Woolwich this afternoon, in what appears to be a terrorist attack. It’s believed that the...
View ArticleWoolwich Update: Victim To Be Named
Update 12.45pm: Police have raided addresses in Greenwich and Lincolnshire. The BBC has named one of the suspects as 28-year-old Michael Adebolajo. Questions had been raised about the police response...
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Response to Woolwich from David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Sadiq Khan and Ken Livingstone. Early fuel economy and emissions figures for the New Bus for London. Strike at Wembley school over academy...
View ArticleEDL Anti-Islam March Results In 13 Arrests
Never ones to avoid a potential ruck, the English Defence League (EDL) marched on Downing Street yesterday in an anti-Muslim protest following last week’s brutal attack on a soldier in Woolwich. The...
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Woolwich suspect Michael Adebowale has been charged with murder. Heathrow will rank airlines according to which are the noisiest. The death of a woman in a fire in Deptford is being treated as murder....
View ArticleSpectacular, Free & Alfresco: Greenwich & Docklands International Festival
One of the capital’s most inventive free festivals begins this weekend with a beached whale, an epic arial disaster movie, and fairs full of fun on both sides of the Thames. Greenwich and Docklands...
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A risky way to cool down! By cath dupuy from the Londonist Flickr pool The Olympic Stadium has seen athletics again – well, the National Lottery Anniversary Run. It was actress Briony McRoberts who...
View ArticleCrossrail Dig Uncovers Bedlam Burial Site
The latest discoveries from workers on the Crossrail project include the remains of the Bedlam asylum, and evidence of people living on the River Thames some 9,000 years ago. Archaeologists have been...
View ArticleGuilty Verdicts In Fusilier Rigby Murder Trial
The two men accused of killing Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich earlier this year have been found guilty. The jury took 90 minutes to find Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale guilty of murdering...
View ArticleLondon Walks: Erith To Greenwich
An all-day walk following the Thames Path upriver. Approximately 12 miles. No matter how grand it might have become, London is a city that has clambered out of the slurry and the silt of the Thames...
View ArticleSee The Horror Of War In An Arsenal
Mother Courage (Denise Orita) and the Army Cook (Michael Wagg) (Photo: Doug Southall) Mother Courage and Her Children is one of German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s most famous anti-war plays, written in...
View ArticleVideo: Britain’s Worst Transport Disaster
For some reason, the worst tragedy in British transport history — the sinking of the paddle steamship the Princess Alice with the loss of over 600 lives — is largely forgotten. Photographer and...
View ArticleSneak Peek: Under The Thames With Crossrail
The former NBA basketballer Charles Barkley once said “sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a train”. We did see a light at the end of the Crossrail tunnels this weekend; however it wasn’t...
View ArticleShow Your Support On Armed Forces Day
Photo: Corporal Daniel Wiepen This Saturday venues across the country will be marking Armed Forces Day, when communities can show their support for the men and women who make up the Armed Forces...
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