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I'm running another free comedy show at The Glitch on Lower Marsh. This show is totally free, just turn up. If you find me (just ask for Sal), a pint of the usual for anybody who tells me that they found out about the night via this post.

2:30pm - midnight

All day punk/stoner/doom/art rock fun.

The campaign is aimed at businesses looking to launch their first store or physical space, and the chosen firms will be given a prime store location for an initial six-month period. These opportunities will be 100% rent-free for brands, with a minimum reduction of business rates of 70%. Stores will either be available for single occupancy or as a themed concept store shared between multiple brands.

Asked about his view of the controversy surrounding Mr Khan’s proposal to expand the ULEZ, Mr Livingstone said: “I would have started it - if I hadn’t lost to Boris, it would have been in operation for a decade. It’s going to save tens of thousands of lives.

“So many people die from air pollution in London. Boris, when he beat me, scrapped all my plans to tackle this because I was already working on it.

“And then in his eight years as Mayor, 76,000 Londoners died from air pollution. Fortunately, Sadiq Khan has taken that up now, and it’ll get better. But, that is our problem.”

He said: “I would be doing it if I was there. I just want a car free London, and everyone on the Tube and bus and the train.”

Drama over at Islington where the council has all but made a decision to replace the Sobell Leisure Centre ice rink with a soft play area.

Of course we need to go ahead with the soft play option, but we need to at least make it look as though we are listening.

Can we have some love for London's longest alley?

I took this photo at BST Hyde Park today. Lana did eventually perform and she wasn't cut off like at Glastonbury.

And the second is much harder to achieve

I enjoyed this video because vast sections of London, are easily recognizable from this 60 year old video:

"A Journey from Castrol House in Marylebone Road London, to the City of Bath in a MKII Jaguar in 1963. Advanced motorist George Eyles takes us through London, out over the Hammersmith Flyover (an area which has really changed a lot) and follows the A4 West onto Reading and a newly built section of the M4. Later he passes through Newbury, Hungerford, Chippenham, Malborough, Calne, and ends at Bath. It is fascinating to see how all these towns and roads looked back then"

Some friends of mine are running a free evening of improv comedy at The Cavendish Arms, near Stockwell.

Cavendish Arms is best known as a stand-up comedy venue, but they’ve opened their stage to this bunch of scriptless weirdos. Please come along for an evening of free entertainment. We've booked some of London's best teams of improvisers.

I’m going to be there, and I will personally buy a pint for anyone (up to 5 people) who tells me that they saw this ad on Lemmy!

I've been living here for a few years now and it strikes me as so bizarre not to acknowledge someone's presence as they come into the office. Is it the norm here? I am a Northerner so this could be a reason it is so jarring to me.

"New research from the London School of Economics (LSE) and property firm Savills shows why that search has become even more difficult since Covid, with a 41% reduction in the number of homes available for private rent."

Since starting this community I created a RSS feed to find news that would be worth posting here and I'm interested in if there is any London focused news sites that would make a good addition to my list.

So far I have:

• BBC News London
• The Guardian London
• Metro
• MyLondon
• The Independent - London
• Londonist
• timeout.com

Do you have any suggestions to add to this list? I'm interested in any news site that would have good content that would be great to post to this community.

the display only turns on when it's braking, like huh why?

Reports suggest the company is in talks over its future, with one option being temporary re-nationalisation.

Rough sleeping is soaring in London, with over 1,700 more people on the streets than last year – a 21% rise, according to figures from the Greater London Authority (GLA).

The increase from 8,329 people seen sleeping rough in 2021-22 to 10,053 in 2022-23 was described as “categorically terrible” by Rick Henderson, the chief executive of the Homeless Link frontline charity, and “extremely alarming” by Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London.