Extra, Extra

penguin classics, old street, london

  • The family of Jean Charles de Menezes are to challenge a request by prosecutors to postpone the inquest into his death.

  • Bits of Auckland, Cape Town, London, Mumbai, New York and Singapore are going to be projected onto the National Theatre’s flytower. Cool.

  • From the end of this year, cleanliness ratings for thousands of cafés, restaurants etc will be psoted online. We bet some of the posh London eateries are crapping it.

  • Our sister site LAist have responded to yesterday’s claims that their city is more polite than ours.

  • A pub landlady from Morden wanted to improve her pub, so she banned 208 of its punters.

Image of ‘Penguin Classics’ courtesy of wolf tickets via the Londonist flickr group.