- "Rats, toilet troubles and faulty kitchens are among renters’ biggest whinges in London, a new survey reveals." Er, those aren't "whinges".
- A man has been arrested after a woman was raped and robbed in Poplar last week.
- Government says a cycling and pedestrian bridge between Canary Wharf and Rotherhithe is 'worth looking at it more detail'.
- And Wandsworth has launched a design competition for a new cycling and pedestrian bridge between Nine Elms and Pimlico.
- Boris Johnson seems to think the police's water cannon won't be licensed any time soon.
- Have you seen Kiahmarah Nwagwu? The 16-year-old has been missing from west London since last week — it's "out of character".
- Suspected drink driver crashes into a mansion in Hampstead, flips his car... and is unhurt. (And arrested).
- Paris vows to ban diesel cars by 2020; campaigners think London will have no choice but to follow.
- Islington council tackles 'buy to leave' homes.
- Find 17 New Routemaster bus sculptures on a trail round Croydon.
- New York Times reports snipers shooting urban foxes. Is this a thing, or has someone been winding up the Americans?
- Toast this Christmas by shouting "I’m the Bishop of Southwark. It’s what I do".
- Brrr: it's about to get chilly.
