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, called Zoe, weighed a mere 2kg when she died. The RSPCA intervened on 6 November and took the dog for treatment, however after Zoe went into cardiac arrest, the......

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, talentless contestants wait for the results of the already fixed results of the totally bogus phone-in votes from the audience. The world of live performance is yet to turn......

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 RSPCA officers raided the Fountain pub on Saturday lunchtime seizing over a hundred birds and arresting 14 men on charges of animal cruelty in what they had dubbed "Operation......