- HSBC boss says the City should apologise to "real world". They could start by buying us all a beer.
- Baby P chief Sharon Shoesmith suicidal, financially ruined, and unemployable, Court hears.
- Police release CCTV images, seeking witnesses with information on the homophobic assault of a 62-year-old man in central London last month.
- Nine-week-old Coco the cocapoo has been snatched from the arms of her dogwalker along the Hertford Union Canal towpath. Would that we could snarl at the perp.
- A giant 1,200-patch knitted version of Dylan Thomas's In My Craft or Sullen Art has been unveiled at the British Library ahead of tomorrow's National Poetry Day celebrations.
Rainy day London pic courtesy of Where The Art Is via the Londonist Flickr pool. Sunshine owed us tomorrow, we hear.