- Confirmed: Crossrail is coming to Woolwich.
- Police launch crackdown on mobile phone thefts; we get email warning of a spate of robberies in Fitzrovia today.
- Housebuilding in London needs to speed up (well, yeah).
- Here's a start: 661 new homes approved for old Ram Brewery in Wandsworth.
- And a 200m+ residential tower planned for Canary Wharf.
- An armed man's been arrested in Borough.
- A different man shot in the leg at a children's birthday party.
- This is what it might look like if London was the starting point of a global bioterrorism attack.
- All over Twitter, but in case you didn't see: photos from the tube in the 80s.
- Unfortunate Royal baby decision of the day? 5,000 baby girl plates going cheap (might not be true).
Photo of the cardboard tube train in Holland Park.