• Bureaucracy threatens next year’s Chelsea Flower Show. Actually, bureaucracy is threatening civilisation as we know it, but Londonist frowns upon melodrama so forget we said that.
• Three public health workers have been bitten by a rabid puppy.
• In the weekend crime round-up, we can tell you that there was a minor outbreak of stabbing at a Battersea school on Friday, a fatal shooting at a Harlesden barbers’ shop, and a nasty brawl in a Holloweay nightclub.
• And then there were the celebs behaving badly: Winehouse has been cautioned for common assault, whilst Rio Ferdinand is in hot water for kicking a female Chelsea steward. Temper management all round we say.
• Councils are using CCTV to stop dog fouling. Are we really paying them for this shit?

And by this time next week? Actually, Londonist is going to take a rain check on mayoral predictions. Suffice it to say that by this time next week we’ll all be politicked out.

Have a stress-less week.

This-time-next-week… photo from MSH*’s flickr stream.