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The Mandelson custardiser has been arrested. The Russians have resumed their property invasion of the capital. Leaky church roofs are to get some lottery dosh. The Excel Homebuyer Show has been cancelled owing to ‘current market conditions’. A Lambeth coffee taster’s tongue has been insured …

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been washing your nets and polishing your brass: And the next West End re-hash? Ghost – the musical. Council rents go up, but it’s marketed as a decrease. The bad bit of Kidbrooke is comng down. CNN …

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look great with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. Meet Lady Vervaine: Like many people on Flickr, I started taking …

Westminster councillors just don’t get Soho. Somebody explain it to them. The Science Museum has gotten all tangled up in West Bank politics, and now comes replete with picketing boffins. North Paddington is to be wiped off the face of the map…by *Maida Hill*. London …

Haringey Council further enhances its reputation: seems its environmental enforcement officers are pusillanimous jobsworths. London youngsters are helping to decide how a youth grant should be spent. The Lee Valley Athletics Centre has landed itself a Best Built award. And Burgess Park was also a …

Get on down to the Ritzy cafe/bar in Brixton, where Princes Amongst Men Garth Cartwright and Leon Parker (neither of whom are actually awfully prince-like) will be spinning “old-school, new-school and no-school Gypsy tunes”: a mixture of the best and the strangest wandering folk music …

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been eating leeks and picking daffs: A Man-U fanatic has recreated Wembley in his Didsbury front parlour. A handbag? Zara Phillips’ has been stolen. A disabled pensioner has been stabbed to death. A Bexley teenager has been …

Now it’s really rather rare for Londonist fulsomely to praise a government initiative. Lambast and satire is more our style. But something rather encouraging has caught our eye from the Local Government Association. They are today calling for the government to enable councils to intervene …

The Queen has opened Haig House, the new Borough HQ of the British Legion. For some reason, getting permission to film movies about terrorism in London isn’t very easy. Plans for the container port at London Gateway have been put on hold. Olympic policing is …

Paris’ Velib bike hire might have failed, but Boris is still looking at Autolib. Camden Market is doing better than ever. American style politics come to East London. A new band, The Coolness, found their latest gig rather less than cool as they were steamed …