Weekend Round-Up

Here's what we've learned this weekend whilst you've been gently defrosting:

• There's a bit of a hou-ha on Hampstead Heath over vehicular access.
  
• Thunderbirds away: there's a load of memorabilia coming up for sale.
  
• 2013: a company is set up to deal with the aftermath.
  
• Boris has waded into the golliwog row.
  
• A man has been shot dead in North London.
  
• Tower Hamlets have paid out £20,000 to a man distressed over parking tickets.
  
• Balham residents were evacuated over night owing to a gas leak.
  
• This is a bitch: they're fiddling with the A2 at Blackheath and there will be diversions for eight weeks.
  
• Proof that fried chicken is bad for you: meet the Chicken Cottage Crew gang.

Tornado by routemaster fan via the Londonist flickr pool.