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First TransPennine Express rocks when it comes to buying train tickets

17 August 2010
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Despite the name, you can buy train tickets for any of the UK train routes via the First TransPennine Express site. What's so great about it? No credit card or booking fees. Simple, clean website design. Clever auto-complete (e.g. trying getting a ticket to or from Bristol and the pop up list of stations tells [...] »

Alert! Alert! Deploy the PR and branding experts!

14 August 2010
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Quick, send in the comms and marketing troops: there's a big project which has clearly escaped the modern branding and presentational needs which drive the names of products and give them names with evoke the senses, move emotions and, er..., don't tell you what they're actually about. How else to explain the very prosaic name [...] »

Park Theatre, Clifton Terrace – latest news

6 July 2010
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A quick update on my previous posts about the plans to open a theatre just next to Finsbury Park station, on Clifton Terrace. The team behind the plans has just issued a newsletter with latest progress: The Park Theatre Newsletter July 2010 »

Improve pedestrian safety now!

1 July 2010
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What can I say about this? »

Northern Line closures axed

29 June 2010
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Hooray: Planned closures on the Northern Line, which would have seen Tube trains stopping early on weekday evenings through the summer, have been cancelled by Transport for London (TfL). The Bank and High Barnet branches were due to shut at about 2130 BST on Mondays to Thursdays from next week. More at the BBC. »

Over-sized receipts: Pret replies

27 June 2010
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An impressively quick and direct response to my message. First the auto-reply: You’ve shared your idea with us, thank you.  Was it a food idea?  The food team meet every Wednesday afternoon to discuss our food and everything our customers have suggested.  If you’ve suggested a new shop, we are growing, but slowly (one at [...] »

Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet

26 June 2010
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To warm up before the current season's finale, I've just finished watched The Pirate Planet, from the Tom Baker years and available as part of The Key To Time box set. It's one of Douglas Adams's stories and flashes of his comedic genius come through often enough to entertain but not so frequently as to [...] »

Ward’s Corner market saved

24 June 2010
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Excellent news that the popular Tottenham market at Ward's Corner has been saved (despite Boris Johnson going back on his promise to help). »

Dear Pret A Manger

24 June 2010
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Dear Pret, I could be all eco-conscious about how your amazingly large till receipts mean paper is wasted. I could be all customer service focused about how your amazingly large till receipts result in people standing there fiddling with them trying to make them fit in a wallet or purse, so slowing down the service [...] »

Got a bike? Here’s a good reason to register it

21 June 2010
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Ross Lydall's account of how a wave of bike thefts was curtailed is a good reminder of the benefits of registering your bike at www.immobilise.com. The service is not just for bikes, but also for a range of other goods which can be hard to trace to their owner if stolen and recovered. I do [...] »
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