Vindication finally came to Avram Grant last night. The lugubrious Chelsea manager (and sometime Dangermouse nemesis) achieved what his beloved predecessor never could: he smuggled his side into a European cup final. Long derided by fans, and perennially in danger of being chopped by Chelsea paterfamilias Roman Abramovich, Grant suddenly finds himself with the chance of snatching a historic Prem and Champions League double from under the whiskers of Manchester United. And in a......

One year since Alexander Litvinenko's murder, yet our Russian friends haven't been dissuaded from moving here. Good for them! Superbug victims to get their own ward in hospital. A green London is affordable - especially if we follow Greenwich's lead. Bus careers off road. Perhaps the driver was in training for the London Grand Prix? Tube cleaners score pay rise Image courtesy of dartar via the Londonist flickr group.......

More fatal gun crime: Officers were called to reports of a shooting in Scrubs Lane at 1615 GMT on Sunday afternoon. The victim, a 21-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene. A post-mortem examination is due to take place on Monday. In a separate incident a policer officer was shot in South London: The officer, from Southwark, was unhurt in the shooting in Beaton Close, Peckham, in the early hours of Sunday. No-one......

Panorama covers the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko. Previously: Ghosts of the Underground.......

Now that Scotland Yard have handed their files on the Litvinenko investigation over to the Crown Prosecution Service, the BBC are hazarding a guess at who done it - former KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi in the Mayfair hotel with the radioactive teapot. Mr Lugovoi met Mr Litvinenko on the day he fell ill, and radioactive polonium-210 has been found in a string of places he had visited in London. But Mr Lugovoi has said......

On Saturday The Times reported that police may have worked out who was responsible for the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko: The suspected killer was captured on cameras at Heathrow as he flew into Britain to carry out the murder. Friends of the ex-spy say that the man was a hired killer, sent by the Kremlin, who vanished hours after administering a deadly dose of radioactive polonium-210 to Litvinenko. He arrived in London on a......

Richmond council are hitting 4x4 drivers hard. Seamus Heaney has won the 2006 TS Eliot Prize with his District and Circle collection. A London poker club owner has been convicted of violating gambling laws. Michael Mann and Johnny Depp are having a beef over a film version of Alexander Litvinenko's demise. And this ridiculously written article tells the story of a woman chucked off a bus for being too tall. Photo taken from pfig's......

More Russian intrigue in London as authorities in Moscow ask our police to have a good nose into the death of a Russian businessman: Authorities in Moscow plan to ask British police to 'carefully look into all the circumstances of the death of Yury Golubev, insofar as there are reasons to assume he died as a result of violent actions,' the news agency cited an unidentified official as saying. Golubev, 65, was found dead......

The radioactive saga continues with news bouncing all over the Internet this evening, but none of it seeming to get us any closer to who done it. One person not spilling his guts (this side of Christmas at least) is Litvinenko himself according to the Russian News & Information Agency: The autopsy results of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko cannot be expected before Christmas Will an autopsy help to explain how the radioactive......

More thrilling info on the silliest assassination in post-Cold War history: Apparently the very difficult-to-acquire (unless you're an evil research scientist, like in the movies), and very easy-to-trace (why not drown the fellow in Smart Water™?) Polonium 210, used to kill ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, is also extremely expensive. The Times declares the value of the Polonium used to poison Litvinenko at around $10 million. Why The Times does not give the value in......

Themanwhofellasleep is on an outing this month - a virtual book tour in which he'll spend twenty days jumping around the blogosphere doing interviews and talking to people about his book. Thinking we'd leave the Q&A's and reviews for other legs of the trip we asked Themanwhofellasleep instead to talk a little about what's been going on in the press of late... Hello, this is Greg aka Themanwhofellasleep. You may know me from my......

A bunch of old bastards want to be rich forever - they'll charge us to dance on their graves at this rate. Which leads us to Alexander Litvinenko's funeral - where there was an argument. And then there was Alan "Fluff" Freeman's funeral as well. Sticking with the departed, Princess Di's driver appears to have been drunk Meanwhile the ones that are still alive have Christmas cards.......

The tragic tale of poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko continues to take many twists and turns. At the latest count, 12 London locations have tested positive for polonium, and are known to have been visited by Litvinenko and his associates. We've mapped the 11 that have been disclosed, plus Mr Litvinenko's final resting place, below.......

It's times like this that make it especially scary to be a black-out drinker. According to The Guardian, hundreds of customers who visited the Pine Bar at London's Millenium Hotel on November 1 will be tested for exposure to radiation from the polonium-210 which killed Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. The Health Protection Agency radiation protection division (who knew they had a radiation detection division!) has asked those who were at the bar anytime between October......

BBC Italian Mario Scaramella, a contact of dead ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, has tested positive for polonium-210. Mr Scaramella is not thought to be suffering symptoms but significant amounts of the substance are understood to have been found in the academic. He met Mr Litvinenko at sushi restaurant Itsu in central London on the day he fell ill. Meanwhile it turns out that both Tessa Jowell and Seb Coe travelled on one of the 'contaminated'......

The radiation poisoning story certainly has a long half-life and shows no signs of slowing down. Now BA have had to ground aircraft after finding traces of radiation on board: British Airways discovered traces of radiation on two of its aircraft flying to Moscow when police told them to check aircraft visiting the Russian capital after the death of Alexander Litvinenko. Three of BA’s Boeing 767s were tested, but the airline said today that......