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Strange, doggy deeds are afoot in Regents Park. Leave us a caption to describe the scene. Image taken from p2wy’s Flickr photostream. If you’ve got an unusual image of the capital that you’d like us to consider for this slot, either upload to Flickr and …

File this one under ‘what the f*ck’. Hello. Please introduce yourselves, and your cause. We’re the London Urban Ironing Collective. Our parents were diagnosed with Cancer in December 2006, so we decided to raise money for Cancer Research UK using the medium of ironing. We’re …

#Codefc. An unlikely tag for a graffiti writer. Nonetheless, some chap has been spraying this (or, as here, just ‘code’) onto London’s walls for several years, usually accompanied by the image of an old-fashioned video camera. The camera logo is often seen around the Shoreditch …

Go visit the newly reopened Potters Fields, beside Tower Bridge. The space itself is neatly landscaped (at a cost of £3 million) and offers impressive views. But the reason we commend it with all our heart(s) is the entertainment. Specifically, ‘Get Lost’ – a walk …

Wembley FA cup stamps – will your mail be subject to a two-year delay? Satellite towns get 18, 20-year old councillors. While Richmond has its first openly gay mayor. Soon, the whole city? Poison gas over Marylebone!!!! Colourful image of Embankment Gardens courtesy of nevermorepro …

“My god. Run. A giant ant is attacking London!” Ho, ho, don’t you worry, gentle readers. It’s not real. But this image from Sparticus is crying out for a witty caption. Which is where you come in… If you’ve got an unusual image of the …

Back to St Paul’s again this week. The modern image was taken by Joao Mario along Bankside last week; the other is 100 years old. The foreground is utterly recast. This area took one hell of a blitzing, while the cathedral, symbolically, remained seemingly unscathed. …

Cops shoot to kill in Ealing. Woman’s body closes Barkingside Station. The City gets a terror alert system. A driver is knocked downr by his own van. It’s fricking scary out there. Image courtesy of Orhan via the Londonist flickr group.

Cakehole calls this a ‘South Bank tourist attack’. But what’s really going on? Your captions please. If you’ve got an unusual image of the capital that you’d like us to consider for this slot, either upload to Flickr and tag it Londonist, or email to …

A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways. 36. Marble Arch Underpass Where? It’s an underpass. It passes under Marble Arch. Like, dur. What? This haphazard collection of tunnels was constructed in the early 1960s, to improve pedestrian access to Hyde Park. Ha! It’s …