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If You Could / December Print Release — Detail of screen print Detail of original artwork - The screen print of my image for this year’s If You Could series is now available. It will be on sale for the duration of December alongside this month’s contribution from Mr Ian Wright. Once the month has finished the total sales will be the edition in which the print is released. - If you fancy getting your hands on something a little more special the B2 original drawing will also be available for sale from the Kemistry gallery in East London for the duration of the exhibition. - LINKS /... [Tags: activecollab, artwork, current show, drawing, duration]

Indy moves in with the Mail, but insists they are just friends — Gavin O'Reilly, chief operating officer of Independent owner Independent News & Media, was spotted in the Daily Mail's opulent offices in West London last Tuesday. Now the reason for his visit has become clear. The 42-year-old Irishman, son of IN&M chief executive Sir Tony, was putting the final touches to a deal he believes will safeguard the paper's future, which will see the Independent titles move out of their east London offices and into the luxurious environs of Northcliffe House in Kensington, the home of Daily Mail owner DMGT and its sister titles. That is part of a cost-sharing deal... [Tags: budget cuts, clutches, daily mail, dmgt, east london]

Olympic site takes shape as skyline is transformed — London This aerial image, released yesterday, shows the transformation of part of East London in preparation for the 2012 Olympics, with the shape of the stadium bowl and steel seating frame clearly visible. Doubt continues over private sector backing for the media centre but a site has already been cleared.... [Tags: 2012 olympics, aerial image, doubt, east london, olympic]

Last.fm Asks UK "Hackers" To Help Extend Reach — Offers  £1000 Prize Last.fm will host “Hack Day” on December 14th at Corbet Place Bar, East London.  At the event which is hosted in partnership with CodePlex, Microsoft's open source project hosting web site, developers will be invited to utilize Last.fm’s free open source web services in a one-day competition to build a new Last.fm application.  The winning developer will receive a grand prize of £1000, with additional prizes for the competition’s runners-up including Xbox 360s.Available since the site’s inception in 2002, Last.fm’s web services, which developers can use to extend the Last.fm experience beyond the site, have been utilized... [Tags: co founder, codeplex, east london, fm experience, free open source]

Hack Day — Back in June when we announced our new API, we were bowled over with the positive response. Hundreds of developers have been engaged in discussions over in our Web Services Group, building API bindings for Python, PHP, Actionscript, Java and other languages along the way. Some of my favourite apps built on the Last.fm platform include Andrew Godwin’s Lastgraph, Chris Mear and James Darling’s Vinyl Scrobbler and Jorge Diaz’s One Hit Wonders. That’s just a small sample of the apps available at our gallery. We thought it was about time to bring some of the dev community together in... [Tags: actionscript, api, developers, east london, fly]

BNP: By all means name us, but you won’t shame us, says the ‘ordinary’ face of the far Right — It is Thursday night in Dagenham & Barking, the East London stronghold of the far-right British National Party, and half a dozen activists are pushing petitions against knife crime through the letter boxes of a nondescript housing estate.... [Tags: amp, british national party, dozen activists, east london, half a dozen]

Drunken captain gets two months — London A tanker captain was jailed after being found drunk at the wheel of a ship laden with thousands of tonnes of potentially explosive chemicals. Captain Gonchar Volodymyr, 53, was sailing the Elousa Trikoukiotisa up the Thames when it was noticed that he appeared drunk. Police boarded the vessel at Dagenham Dock and found the Ukrainian to be over the legal limit of alcohol for seafarers. At Snaresbrook Crown Court, East London, Volodymyr was sentenced to two months in jail after admitting being the master of a ship while being over the alcohol limit.... [Tags: alcohol limit, east london, explosive chemicals, gonchar, seafarers]

News Corp Pulls Back On London Media Campus; Blames Economy — After spending hundreds of hours deliberating and thousands of pounds on consultants' fees in the search for a new London home only to decide to stay put in its Wapping HQ, News International has now declared it cannot afford to upgrade the east London site. The plan had been to improve the sprawling complex next summer and eventually move in News Corp (NYSE: NWS) family members like Dow Jones, MySpace and Harper Collins. But those plans have been shelved because of the adverse economic conditions, according to an internal memo by James Murdoch, CEO of News Corp Europe and Asia,... [Tags: breakfast meeting, ceo, dow jones, east london, economic conditions]

Streetwise young people give police a lesson in how to command respect — The last time Kayla interacted with a police officer she was being pushed against the wall of a railway station in East London and patted down in a knife search.... [Tags: east london, last time, police officer, railway station]

Prince Charles celebrates 60th with the youth of East London — Pictures: Prince Charles at 60... [Tags: east london, prince charles]

INQ1Watch: The first ever Facebook phone is here — Launched at a design studio in Shoreditch East London, 3’s social networking mobile phone arrives on the scene. It’s packed to rafters with instant access to the likes of Facebook, Skype, instant messaging and all for a remarkably low, low cost. Kevin Russell, the chief executive of 3 UK led the presentation and introduced more of a business focus and background surrounding 3. Which we’ll come back to in a later post as it’s still of interest we believe. What you’ve all tuned in for is the low down on the INQ 1, and we’re not one to disappoint.... [Tags: business focus, chief executive, crux, east london, facebook]

2012 Games will leave 250-acre park for London — Almost 250 acres of once contaminated industrial wasteland in East London are to be transformed into the biggest park built in the capital since the 19th century under a £200 million scheme.... [Tags: 19th century, acre park, east london, games, industrial wasteland]

Investigators prepare to enter studio where drum-maker died of anthrax — An East London studio was in quarantine today as investigators prepared to scour the workshop of a drum-maker who died yesterday after inhaling anthrax.... [Tags: anthrax, drum maker, east london, investigators, london studio]

Star escapes sack, but his future remains in doubt — As the scandal at the BBC escalated this week, Jonathan Ross feared it would lead to his expulsion from the corporation. Last night he was spared the ultimate sanction, instead being suspended without pay for 12 weeks, but the question mark over his future remains.In little more than two decades, he has moved from Leytonstone, east London, to Hampstead, and from anonymity to stardom, winning fame and notoriety as the BBC's biggest, most expensive star.The peak of his career - and inescapable proof of his broadcasting clout - came in 2006 when he signed a three-year deal with the corporation... [Tags: bbc journalists, bravado, british comedy, chappy, comedy awards]

Man shot dead by police on suburban street in Romford — A man was shot dead in the street by police after they were called to a domestic violence incident in east London.... [Tags: domestic violence incident, east london, suburban street]

Gamers get very much in character to break world record — Hundreds of video game fans dress as characters from their favourite games to set a new record in east London.... [Tags: east london, favourite games, record hundreds, video game fans, world record]

Man in Phantom of the Opera mask and wig stabs ex-girlfriend to death — A man in a Phantom of the Opera-style mask and wig has stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death, injured her best friend and turned his knife on himself in a gruesome attack in East London.... [Tags: best friend, east london, ex girlfriend, opera style, phantom of the opera]

The Times to stay at revamped Wapping site — The Times’s home in East London is to be redeveloped as a multimillion-pound scheme designed by the architect behind the distinctive media centre at Lord’s cricket ground.... [Tags: architect, cricket, east london, multimillion pound]

News International to stay at Wapping — News International, publisher of titles including the Sun, the Times and the News of the World, has confirmed it will stay at its historic site in Wapping, east London. By Stephen Brook... [Tags: east london, international publisher, news international, news of the world, stephen brook]

Dan Hillier's new tentacle horrors — Last weekend I stopped by artist Dan Hillier's stall at the Brick Lane Upmarket in east London and was treated to these four eye-popping new prints. I've got the serpent man up in my office and he get cooler every time I look at him. New Dan Hillier prints See also: * Engraved Victorian tentacle-horrors from Dan Hillier * Dan Hillier's tentacle horrors -- now on moleskine notebooks!... [Tags: brick lane, east london, moleskine notebooks, prints, serpent]