Entries from Londonist tagged with 'canadawater'
December 19, 2007
Heads up people: the East London Line closes this Saturday. It will undergo a magical transformation that will take rather a long time but the line will reemerge from a 3 year chrysalis as a beautiful section of the newly tangerine London Overground network, linking the North and East London railways. You'll eventually be able to travel from Richmond in the West all the way round in a massive arterial horseshoe via the existing......
Continue Reading "Take The Special Bus: East London Line Closure"September 14, 2007
Finding venues for Friday and Saturday's fixtures was a piece of cake compared to this! But no nation should be left out - what with the world being in union and all that. Fiji v Canada Sunday 16, 13.00 UK time from the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. Canadians! Seek the Maple Leaf. Drink Molson. Forget hockey. Fijians - listen up. We have important news for you and your Polynesian rivals below. Meet us one paragraph down.........
Continue Reading "Where To Watch The Rugby World Cup"January 26, 2007
Today is Australia Day. Tonight there will be a huge amount of drunken Australians celebrating in this city. Here are three stereotypes about Australians living in London: 1. They see their homeland as some kind of utopia. If home is so perfect, then why are they HERE?? 2. They have a collective gang mentality that sees them mix only with their own and contribute nothing to the wider community, adopting the very worst aspects......
Continue Reading "Australians In London"March 10, 2006
The South London Press has laid its hands on some figures detailing the number of crimes reported across the rail and Tube network in South London over the past few years. In one year 8,776 crimes were reported across the network, and once you take out the major stations like Waterloo, Clapham Junction and London Bridge, the Victoria Line comes out as the 'danger line': "In 2004/05 there were 844 reported crimes at Brixton......
Continue Reading "South London's Danger Stations"