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What tale could be darker than that of Jack the Ripper, the maniac who murdered five women in London in 1888? The darkened streets of Whitechapel. The flashing knife. The dismemberment. The taunting letters. The sinister hints of a masonic conspiracy with Royal connections. The …

It’s happening: the TV series of the book of the blog of the oldest profession. Channel Four is to dramatise Belle De Jour. Belle, the purported London call girl, thus becomes holder of a unique title: while many bloggers and webmasters have parlayed their efforts …

Talk about setting yourself up for a fall: rail passengers who use services between London Waterloo and the West Country are to be consulted on what they think of the South-West Trains franchise. This is to discover “what would encourage passengers to use the service …

5. Fathers 4 Justice’s Various Pranks. Whether you sympathise with their cause or not (or worry that they just give a paranoid administration more excuses to crank up security), you have to agree that the combination of barefaced cheek and pantomime eccentricity displayed by F4J …

The restoration of the West Front of St Paul’s Cathedral is at last complete and the scaffolding has come down. This returns to the capital one of its most delightful prospects, the view down Ludgate Hill towards St Paul’s, and means that visitors will at …

London has more corners, and secrets, than anyone could imagine; every now and then, visionaries latch onto one neglected aspect of it and bring it to general attention, in the process transforming our view of the city we thought we knew so well. Of late, …

Are the people of West Ham “tedious”? That’s what Tony Banks, their MP, thinks, and he wasn’t afraid to say it to the BBC. “I found it intellectually numbing, tedious in the extreme,” he said of constituency work. “It might sound a little disparaging to …

Do you live in London? Do you have a blog? Then rejoice, rejoice because The London Webloggers Party has set a date. The Great When: 11 December, from 8pm. The Great Where: The Green Man, Euston. Sign up now and start lining your stomach.

Conversations with cabbies may soon be a thing of the past, the BBC reports, thanks to an innovation by an Australian company. TouchTaxi allows you to surf the information superhighway while stuck in traffic on London’s not-so-super highways. And it sounds like a terrible idea. …

So, it turns out the ravens in the Tower have only been there since Victorian times and the story that the monarchy will fall if they leave is a 19th-century invention. Of course, there’s unlikely to be anyone over the age of eight who ever …