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We were just browsing around YouTube, as we do from time to time, when we came across something with the following description “This picture was taken in 2000 in London. The building was abandoned and there was nothing in the window but a mysterious mist …

The Environment Agency has announced that our beloved Thames Water was, last year, fined for pollution more than any other firm in England and Wales. Well done Thames Water! In case you were wondering, the exact amount was £128,000 over four different incidents, that’s more …

At his press conference yesterday Ken agreed to back changes to the London transport and air quality strategies to allow the ‘low emission zone’ scheme to be established. A few people living near Battersea heliport are not too happy about the racket. There have been …

Time Out have announced the details of their ‘London on Screen’ season designed to celebrate “the very best of filmmaking in London from across the decades”: The streets, buildings and monuments of our city appear regularly in films from around the world, from big-budget Hollywood …

Next years’ Mayoral election should be quite interesting, what with the Conservative’s ‘Tory Idol’ style candidate selection process and all of Ken’s recent (ahem) ‘publicity’. But don’t expect Londonist to keep you up-to-date every step of the way, we’ve got out hands full writing about …

The 15-year-old girl who went missing last Wednesday after going to meet a man she met on an internet chatroom has been found safe and well in a park in Hammersmith. The cost of building the London 2012 Olympic Stadium might have just gone up …

Welcome to a new Londonist column: Hacking London. As you may have guessed by now, the idea behind Hacking London is to take a look at the more geeky, techy and gadgety aspects of life in the Capital. So to that end we’ll be looking …

Have you seen these yet? They’re all over the Tube platforms and the carriages themselves and they show some famous London landmarks such as Battersea Power Station and the Tower of London….except they’re filled with gallons and gallons of water, complete with sailboats and swimmers. …

The Times reported yesterday that there was a fifth man involved in the 7 July attacks, who pulled out just hours before the terrorists carried out the bombings. Meantime, the Met are still hunting for a cyanide bomb which they believe is in London somewhere …

We -ists are an eclectic bunch, but there’s a couple of things we all love: famous people, social causes, and wacky local facts. Join us as we starf**k, get virtuous, and learn across the -ist network! Austinist starts us off right by filling the famous …