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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has announced that new controls will be put in place to “tighten up the procedures under which the Government uses secret intelligence“. This comes of course after the intelligence suggesting that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was proved to be …

Thanks to the excellent Rat & Mouse blog for pointing us in the direction of this story on Damon Dash being evicted from his “Chelsea mansion”. We’re going to risk damaging our hip hop credentials and admit that we didn’t even know the “music mogul” …

We just got a news release from the London Assembly Conservatives: Tower Bridge failure causes chaos Tower Bridge got stuck today forcing traffic tail backs and vehicles to be diverted into the congestion charge zone. The incident occurred as the bridge tried to lower itself …

How long have we been hearing the ‘mobile phones will work on tubes’ story? Well it finally it looks like Ken is taking some definite steps to getting the Underground totally wired up. According to the press we should see mobile phone transmitters on the …

There’s a darts match going on in the House of Commons this afternoon. We know this because we heard someone being interviewed about it on Radio 4 as we were leaving the house this morning. But now we can’t seem to find anything about it …

To be honest we think people who provide free London news on a daily basis must be insane (ahem) but if you fancy setting up a little newspaper business all of your own in order to serve your fellow Londoners then now’s your chance. Today …

South London is shaping up to be an extremely dangerous place to be – first there was the gunplay in Brixton, and now there are reports that a big cat has attacked a man in Sydenham. The Beast is described as being the size of …

If you haven’t seen this yet, it seems someone fired two shots during the Nas gig at the Academy last night. Whichever news source you go to all the reports are the same: – Two shots were fired towards the ceiling. – Two bullets and …

Today sees the launch of a competition to design a ‘mobile memorial’ for hanged writer, Ken Saro-Wiwa. Ken Livingstone, Anita ‘Bodyshop’ Roddick, and Saro-Wiwa’s son Ken Wiwa will present the competition to the public today and ask for ideas ahead of the 10th anniversary of …

As we have a personal interest in this year’s London Marathon we were interested to read today that bonkers ex-priest, Cornelius Horan, has been banned from “any London borough along the route of next month’s race”. Horan, you will remeber, is the Irish guy who …