- Power control room workers' strike could bring the tube to a standstill over the weekend.
- A murder investigation is under way in Barnet after a man's body, found after a fire, was also stabbed.
- A man has been arrested following a stabbing in Dagenham.
- Police unhappy about plans to stop them conferring as they write up statements following a shooting.
- Fantastic, comprehensive and depressing article on what gentrification means for original residents.
- Dave Hill on Hammersmith and Fulham's council home sell-off.
- Map of Britain, colour coded by which London station serves it.
- New tube map: includes 23% more daggers.
- Beautiful drawings of 18th and 19th century London.
- Lower Thames Street: then and now.
- The rise and rise of King's Cross.
- Phew, what a scorcher!
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