• The term ‘birthday bash’ got a whole new meaning this weekend as the police arrested no less than 7 party goers for fighting.
• Londonist isn’t quite sure what an internet brothel is, but fifteen people have been arrested following raids therein this weekend
• The tube strike’s probably off. Can anyone remember if this is the same threatened strike as last week, or a different threatened strike?
• Cockup on the Eurostar front as it takes eleven hours to get from London to Paris.
• No more telling porkies in Lambeth: the benefits people are using lie detectors to conduct telephone interviews.

And here’s what we think we will have learned by this time next week:

• Following Prescott’s (um, actually rather brave) admission that he had bulimia, we can expect an epidemic of more parliamentary information than we really need.
  
• As National Welly Week fever sweeps the nation, you’ll be glad that you bought those bright floral numbers.

Have a jolly one.

Picture from Sifter’s flickr stream.