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Damian Aspinall is trying to make gambling a 2012 event.

Monet news: yet another lily is to be auctioned, whilst researchers have worked out exactly where he was standing when he painted Waterloo Bridge.

'Bout that wind turbine in the Olympic Park: it's been scrapped.

Ill advised Londoners of the week i) probably best not to post your crimes on YouTube: 8 Lewisham lads are sentenced; & ii) probably best not to buy a laptop off a man in the street...

City heat, by Stuart Lee via the Londonist pool.