Posts Tagged ‘London’

And this little piggy went all the way to London

By Lydia Mossahebi • Jul 28th, 2008 • Category: News

Two men on a tandem bike have completed the cycle from Glasgow to London towing a giant blue piggy bank.
Steve Hunt and Gordon McKirdy began the journey on 6 July to raise money for Cancer Research UK, by inviting the public to fill the piggy bank with money.
By the time the pig reached [...]



Westminster’s bored of boards

By Chris Lo • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: News

The forests of neon sandwich boards that litter London’s busiest shopping districts are to be banned by Westminster City Council. The ban would mean no more tired-looking men holding signs in areas like Oxford Street and Covent Garden, a staple sight in London for the past hundred years or so. Except where they used to [...]



Get ogled by Google

By Kate Livesey • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: News

Internet giant Google plans to photograph, every building, on every street in London to enhance its Google Maps website.



Please mind the Tango dancers

By Lydia Mossahebi • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: News

It won’t just be fellow miserable commuters you will have to dodge your way past on the tubes at 6pm; but tonight you may find a couple dancing the Tango in front of you.
Between 6-7pm tonight Tangoing couples will take to seven bridges and seven stations to commemorate the July 7 bombings, and as part [...]



A breath of fetid air

By Kate Livesey • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: News

It was revealed today that the Government has failed to reduce the level of potentially lethal air pollution. A group of MP’s say the pollution levels in areas of central London exceed EU recommendations by 100 per cent.



Kate Livesey escapes God’s wrath

By Kate Livesey • Jun 19th, 2008 • Category: Blogs, Kate Livesey
“I was raised Catholic and was taught God has neurotic sex issues. He would smite me for having premarital sex…”


Kate Livesey gets down and dirty, but not before she cleans up

By Kate Livesey • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Blogs, Kate Livesey
“Bite me, scratch me,scar me, but never, ever pee on me…”


What’s that ticking sound?

By Lydia Mossahebi • Jun 8th, 2008 • Category: News

An army bomb disposal team exploded a 500-pound WWII German warhead on Friday, after discovering the bomb at the future Olympic site on Monday.
The bomb was discovered by construction workers while working on the site near Bethnal Green.
Simon Saunders, a spokesman for the British Army’s London district made the concise and accurate assertion that the [...]



Boris Moronicus

By Chris Lo • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: News

Boris Johnson, the elected official responsible for leading the fight against knife crime and gang-related murders in London, recently stated that teaching Latin in schools could have a major impact on youth violence. Oh, and ancient Greek too.
In a speech that seems like another example of how breathtakingly out of touch he is with London’s [...]



Kate Livesey’s sex and another city blog

By Kate Livesey • Jun 3rd, 2008 • Category: Blogs, Kate Livesey
“He invited me to his flat nearby. To my surprise I accepted. I never go home with strange men…”