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Seven people have been arrested outside the Old Bailey today where a man is facing race hate charges connected to the Danish cartoon demonstrations earlier this year. Talking of protests: Thousands of doctors, nurses and other hospital workers turned up in uniform at Parliament today …

The trial of the City lawyer who was stabbed outside Kensal Green underground starts today and already we’ve learned his attackers used his phone to call their girlfriends. Also on trial today: Three 17-year-olds and a 15-year-old, accused of murdering Zainab Kalokoh during a christening …

One for the diary: Masked Mexican Wrestlers attend book signing in Borders, Oxford Circus: Thursday 2nd November, 12 – 2PM. And why are masked Mexican wrestlers coming to Borders? Well, it’s to mark the publication of photographer Malcolm Venville’s new book Lucha Loco, which documents …

Heart warming animal story of the week: A dove that became extinct in the wild more than 30 years ago has been successfully bred at London Zoo. Planning on going to the 2012 Olympics? Then you will be expected to use public transport. Oh joy. …

The Guardian’s website unveiled its new arts and entertainment blog today and their first big article is on top 20 works of art to see before you die. So of course the first question we asked was ‘how many are in London’? What do you …

Halloween is Tuesday, which means this weekend is really the time for all of the –ists to celebrate. And whether they’re designing super-spooky costumes or talking about the super-spooky upcoming elections, we’d say that they’re doing a fine job of it. Austinist knows that few …

London’s ‘most prolific burglar’ has been locked up for seven years. How prolific you ask? 2,646 burglaries. London’s allotments are being misplaced at an alarming rate. London is the most expensive city in Europe when it comes to hotel internet access. Jamie Hewlett’s huge murals …

We had high hopes for the Electric proms. It’s a great idea, they’ve got some brilliant musicians and bands involved and there’s some really exciting stuff happening… …but someone always has to go and ruin it for everyone else don’t they: This article has the …

Preparations for 2012 are ‘substantially’ ahead of schedule reckons Tessa Jowell. London is the ‘perfect place’ to start the Tour de France says Ken. really? Because we would have thought France would have been top of that list. Bob Marley’s heritage plaque was unveiled today, …

We have… na na na na naaa! And we’re in love with it already. We love the handy maps (Tube and A-Z, all in colour), we love the fact you get three bookmarks, we love the tabbed ‘city file’ section, we love the stickers, and …