The Light Bar, the threatened with demolition Shoreditch pub, has been saved from the developer thanks to a revised plan. More likely, the market for developments has changed a mite. (I wrote about the Light Bar last year when they made an attempt to escape from London planning authority by claiming their patch of land was still part of a medieval jurisdiction, the Liberty of Norton Folgate.)
The London Paper faces the axe
I believe that it’s not newspapers that are in trouble, it’s paid newspapers. If it wasn’t for a terrible economy muddying the waters, I think that we would see that free newspapers have been taking up the slack. On the other hand, Rupert Murdoch’s News International may be shuttering thelondonpaper, the biggest and glossiest of the free dailies.
Urban Outfitters on Oxford street selling deadstock of Polaroid cameras today
The three key parts of news stories you usually don’t get
Time to stop breaking the news, and start fixing it.
Greyhound has arrived in London
Brits can ride the dog to Portsmouth starting in September. The individual American and Canadian Greyhound Bus Lines were purchased by Aberdeen-based transit company First Group a few years back.
Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs
Slideshow of 100 amazing photos.
CoverItLive, which is the live group blog programme of choice for Only, has a new minority investor.
It’s a great system. And free.
Lazy Journalists Love Pictures of Abandoned Stuff
Detroit edition