animal cruelty

Walking along Quaker Street, Spitalfields yesterday we encountered this strange memorial attached to a tree. ‘Every hour, one abandoned dog disappears forever,’ claims the label, which hangs from a ghostly white dog lead. The message highlights the plight of abandoned animals, which (according to the …

Alexie Sayle is backing small shops in Bloomsbury. Yes, but is it art: there’s a new jock strap gallery in Camden. They may not be cute, but there’s no reason to mistreat them: sixteen staffies have been rescued from a Bow flat. It’s Traveller History …

Boris acknowledges Russian London with a Maslenitsa festival near his office. Sloane rangers reckon their pavement arrangements don’t pass muster. Laziness is…not removing a suicide noose before the next needy tenant moves into a house. The dearest of the dearest: London’s rail fares have been …

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been writing your Christmas cards: A Greenwich mother is making lots of blue ribbons for poor Baby P. Something about a protest march and an internet campaign. A woman who was mugged in Camden goes into premature …

Here at Londonist, we believe in being kind to animals, which is why it breaks our hearts to stories of animal abuse. There’s also little satisfaction in hearing of the conviction of Alexandra Zochios, 49, a teaching assistant who starved her mother’s shiatsu. The shiatsu, …

A circus skills face-off of super-sequinned proportions is hitting Hackney this Thursday in Circus Showdown, Hackney Empire. This first Television may have reached saturation point with the now very tired competition format – the squealing, the shrieking, the entirely fabricated tension as the irritating, deluded, …

It’s always nice to find out about new types of crime, especially ones that happen in the back room of East End boozers, so it was with interest that Londonist noted the recent crackdown on an illegal Finch breeding ring in Bethnal Green. Police and …