- London overtakes Hong Kong as world's most expensive city (yay, first!)
- Human rights watchdog to probe Met Police over racism and sexism.
- Labour's proposed mansion tax targets London rich.
- Blaze in Battersea flats — 18 people rescued.
- Mothers occupy Stratford flats to protest homelessness.
- London's largest minicab company Addison Lee goes on sale.
- Mayors united — would bringing city leaders together create a Jedi council or a feast of fools?
- Cycle Superhighway: two promised lanes dropped, but new upgrades between Bow-Whitechapel.
- A pedestrian has been hit by a bus in Clapham Junction.
- Smoke at Manor House tube station causes evacuation.
- Dead fish mystery in East London lake.
- Man arrested for leaving four-year-old girl in car on hottest day of the year.
- Greenwich planners accused of 'social cleansing' with £5bn housing scheme.
- £4.5 million extension for Theatre Royal Stratford East.
- Mind-bending artist Alex Chinneck is set to make a block in Covent Garden levitate (related picture above).
Drive-by pizza snatch caught on video.