Articles tagged ‘Random Stuff’
London swimmer
By Chris | September 19th, 2007 |
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If you’re walking around the south bank of the Thames between Tower Bridge and City Hall in the next few days you’ll see this giant sculpture of a man swimming through the grass.
Its 35 feet long and will be on display until the 23 September to promote a new tv series on the Discovery [...]
When WC=Art
By Chris | September 14th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
One of the most unique public toilets in London is set to have its grand opening at 2pm today, 14 September. The ARTSHED is a £52,000 bespoke toilet jointly funded by Westminster Council and the charity Soho Green that will be used by children, the disabled and the elderly.
Its was craned into position in [...]
Led Zeppelin at the O2 Arena
By Chris | September 12th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Legendary rock band Led Zeppelin have announced they’re reforming for a one off concert at London’s O2 Arena as a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records who signed the band in 1968 and who died late last year. (He also co-founded the New York Cosmos football team, see the film Once In [...]
Ups and downs of London this week
By Chris | September 6th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
If you’re on a trip to London in the next week or so there’s some good and bad things that might effect your stay. Good, the weather has picked up after a pretty crappy August, its been warm with bright sunshine for the last couple of days and the forecast for the coming week is [...]
I Love London film competition
By Chris | August 31st, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Filmaka.com, an online network for undiscovered filmmakers, and LoveFiLM.com the online dvd rental service are holding a short film competition under the title I Love London that’s open to anyone to enter.
Films in the competition must be a maximum of five minutes long and on the theme of I Love London. They say as long [...]
Universities in London
By Chris | August 30th, 2007 | 10 Comments »
University of London
Switchboard Tel:+44 (0)20 7862 8000
Information Centre Tel:+44 (0)20 7862 8360 / 8361 / 8362
Address: University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU - Map
email:enquiries@london.ac.uk
web:www.lon.ac.uk
Number of students:115,000
Subjects studied
Architecture, Building and Planning, Creative Arts, Business, Biological and Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology,
The Yanks maybe coming
By Chris | August 21st, 2007 | Add a Comment »
A survey by the Travelocity website in the US has found that despite rising international airfares London is still in the top four destination choices for single people over the upcoming US Labor Day holiday on 3 September.
The other cities in the singles top four where Atlanta, Minneapolis and Detroit (lots of out of state [...]
Heathrow a little behind schedule
By Chris | August 16th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Ah, Heathrow Airport you have to love it. Crowded, chaotic, baggage being lost left, right and centre, climate change protesters camped out of the perimeter and planning to disrupt operations this weekend and a story in the Evening Standard today that every flight leaving this past Wednesday morning went out late. Amazingly British Airways own [...]
Review into travel to London’s sports stadiums
By Chris | August 15th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The London Assembly has launched an investigation and consultation into the travel arrangements in place for sports fans travelling to events in London. According to the Assembly around 250,000 people go to sports stadiums in London on an average autumn weekend but there’s no one in charge of actually making sure that adequate transport is [...]
New cycle scheme for London?
By Chris | August 10th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Transport for London(TfL) is looking at options for starting a bicycle hire scheme similar to the one that Paris began this year called Velib (Freedom bike).
Velib has 10,000 bicycles at 750 dedicated hire points every 300 metres around Paris, with plans for 20,000 bikes at 1,400 hire points by the end of the year. The [...]
