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Alice would be pleased. The Band of the Coldstream Guards has gotten itself a recording contract. Decca have conscripted the troops, and all parties concerned seem jolly excited about it. Marching bands and brass may not be your thing, but for patriotic Londoners this has …

English Heritage is worried about many of London’s old bits. Pigs might fly: swine flu has hit London City Airport. More Londoners owe more. Bogus diplomas for bogus students = potential deportation. It’s not a good time to open a business in London. God is …

ATMs that act as Wi-Fi receivers? There’s a joke in there somewhere. If you know there’s a potential £100 fine, you won’t throw stuff out of your car window, right? Ian Clements has gone. A man has been stabbed to death in Kensington. Four people …

A tale of splendid Britishness and bungling bureaucracy for you. We were drawn by this tale of unfinished, er, bridgeness in Colliers Wood. The bridge, which spans the Wandle and was proposed originally to connect a housing development with a nature park on the opposite …

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve all been midsummer revelling: Welcoming banners have been unfurled all over London as part of Refugee Week. Jerry Hall seems to like getting her kit off. Deer stalker: Croydon allotmentees have an unwanted visitor. The West End …

More of a penultimate minute listing, really. Just wanted to give you the heads up about this,as it sounds like a bit of fun. The Royal Park Keepers have ‘commissioned’ a stack of stories by a chapter of writers. Well, eight of them to be …

Not quite as supple as you were when you were thirteen? Feeling out of kilter, off balance and in need of some restorative me-time? Here’s an alternative fitness option that rolls three disciplines into one and will have you sorted by the end of your …

Graffiti. Tough old conker to crack, that. The ethics and all that – Banksy may have made it painfully fashionable, but it’s still not really socially acceptable. There’s a very fine line between vandalism and art. Just this week a London judge was clearly troubled …

Ealing council are considering a £50 council tax rebate to help residents through the recession. Security concerns have been raised over London’s open air space. Mariah Carey, the West End show? There’s been a double stabbing in East Dulwich. And to finish, a heartwarming tale …

It’s not been a good week for asthmatics. A teenager has been arrested over the stabbing of another teenager in Isleworth yesterday. What do we want? Information! Londoners need to gen up on 2012. The design for a statue of Mary Seacole at St. Thomas’ …