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London Overground Closure

Like a schoolboy clutching a scrap of dog-chewed homework after he's already flunked the course, the London Overground, which despite a change of name and snazzy new livery has failed to improve much, will for the remainder of 2008 have a convenient excuse for its habitual awfulness. Parts of th...

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Londonist — 21 hours ago

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Queen Of The Gypsies in London

Madonna's new tour has an exciting gypsy section, making her the Gyspy Queen of Pop. All very good, but how about seeing the real Queen of the Gypsies? Legendary Macedonian singer Esma Redzepova - crowned Queen of the Gypsies in 1976 - will play a small intimate concert at a club in Ealing on ...

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Londonist — 22 hours ago

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Preview: Offset Festival

We are all familiar with the overwhelming sense of disappointment when you disembark at Belsize Park for the first time and realise there is no lush green space as the name suggests; that White City is not complete with its eponymous promise is a source of frequent consternation; let's not even...

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Londonist — Yesterday

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Hindley Portrait Horror At Olympic Hand-Over

There was a bit of an awkward silence at London House in Beijing when the image of Myra Hindley flashed up during a video meant to promote London. A six-minute video by Visit London was playing on a loop at London House for a private audience. Unfortunately, while panning through an art galler...

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Possible Panda Pregnancy

In news that would get our cousins in DC supremely jealous, we've got a pregnancy alert at London Zoo. Ching-Ching, who was artificially inseminated with panda sperm from her apparently too lazy to mate mate, Chia-Chia, is showing signs of being pregnant. But DCist knows all about the public hea...

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Be Beckoned Out To Lanes In Beechy Bucks

Fed up of inner city weekends, packed tube trains and tourist filled streets? The London Transport Museum is offering you a flavour of gentler, more graceful travelling times with a "Heritage Day Out in Metro-Land". On Sunday 14 September, 2 historic trains will be shuttling the subu...

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