You may have noticed that not every element of London's media was truly fair and balanced in their coverage of the Race for City Hall. Chickens, you may commence roosting: one of Boris' bandwagon-jumpers has been given his marching orders for encouraging people to vote for our new Conservative chieftain. Talksport's James Whale has been sacked after breaching Ofcom rules that ban presenters from showing bias towards a political party prior to an election.......

When Westminster City Council took on the free newspapers London Lite and The London Paper, Londonist was fully supportive. Tired of the masses of papers scattered around the city at the end of each day, the Council asked that Associated Newspapers (owners of London Lite) and Rupert Murdoch's News International (owners of The London Paper) take responsibility for the amount of rubbish they were creating and install 150 newspaper recycling bins around Westminster and......

Westminster City Council is making a stand against free London newspapers London Lite (owned by Associated Newspapers) and The London Paper (owned by Rupert Murdoch) not because the City Council is tired of the two types of non-news offered in the many, many copies distributed each day, nor are they taking an official stand against the irritating assault course of newspaper distributors outside each major tube and bus station but because there is just......

Lots of stuff to get through today, but we're starting small (sort of) with the immortalisation (sort of) of old favourite Tox as pictured above. Cheers to dr seagate for the link and photo. It's not quite the Tate Modern, but it's a (small) step in the right direction. More small wonders here and the press page features our favourite headline; Canaray Dwarf. Onto bigger things. Sherlock Holmes is making yet another comeback according......

Evening freesheets TheLondonPaper (what happened to the space bar?) and London Lite (never heard of spellcheck?) continue to battle it out for the hearts and minds of commuters. The more cynical would say they’re better off targeting the lower organs of the body. Still, both rags appear to be shifting some. Associated Newspapers claim to have transfected the Lite to over a third of a million people, representing 97% of their print run. News......

Gavin Grant, a 22-year-old Milwall striker has appeared before the Old Bailey accused of conspiracy to murder 24-year-old Jahmall Moore who died last year after being hit by four bullets as he sat in his car in Harlesden. In the early hours of Monday morning a motorcyclist and a pedestrian both died when the bike ploughed into the man as he was crossing a main road in Golders Green. Apparently the "London-inspired property mini-boom"......

The bank holiday Gatwick Express strike is off as is the Stansted baggage handlers strike. News International are going to launch the London Paper a fortnight early to get it out ahead of Associated Newspapers' London Lite. Does anyone still care about this? Computer games design guru Will Wright will be making an appearance at a special event in London next week to talk about the future of gaming. Click here for details of......

More details have emerged today about Associated Newspapers' contender to thelondonpaper. It's described as a "new free London paper”, and the biggest disappointment is that they haven't chosen to call it thenewfreelondonpaper. In fact it's going to go under the monumentally boring name of London Lite, a ridiculous suffix that AN seem to have stolen from the diet drinks industry and got stuck on. For a start, it's spelled L I G H T.......

Forget the Middle East, the streets of London is where the real battle is. And the ammunition is newspaper ink... ...at least, that's what we'd possibly write if we were lazy, scaremongering Standard journalists who had been drafted in to write filler copy for a new free afternoon newspaper. The possibility of an Associated Newspapers afternoon freesheet has been reported today as their response to News International's September launch of thelondonpaper (also known as......

No, it's the Standard Lite! Londonist was very jealous to read today that the retarded little brother of the Evening Standard (see how bitter and twisted we are?) is to transform into the Daily Planet this Thursday. The entire print run of the 'newspaper' will come wrapped in a spoof cover featuring Supes himself, and there'll be an extra 1,500 copies handed out at the premiere of Superman Returns, where "one person waving a......

Gordon Ramsay has 'accepted' £75,000 from the Evening Standard over false claims made in the paper that he and the makers of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares 'cynically faked scenes'. And just when you thought this story couldn't get any better, it turns out the offending member of the Standard staff was....Victor Lewis Smith. Hurray! We hope they make him pay the fine out of his overinflated paypacket. Apparently the double barreled arsewipe and sometime TV......

A year after Associated Newspapers promised to share its afternoon newspaper distribution rights the owners of the Metro freesheet have "unconditionally and irrevocably" given up its exclusive right to distribute on the rail networks. The top 10 areas in the UK with the highest reported instances of ID theft are all in London. David Cameron has been asking whether the 2012 developments will benefit all of London. London Underground has won Train Operator of the......

That headline may sound like the title of one of Richard Desmond's more 'downmarket' publications, but we're actually talking about his impending free London paper: the London-i, which seems to have been 'impending' for quite a while now. To be fair Des' does have a pretty good excuse: he's been awaiting the result of the Office of Fair Trading's investigation into Metro's distribution on the tube. But it seems he's got bored of waiting......

It looks like the Guardian Newspapers group might be about to wade in to the free London paper market, if recent reports are anything to go by. Apparently the group has "registered its interest in bidding for the upcoming London Underground distribution contract" but this does not necessarily mean they will bid for the spot...which we guess makes them 'media window shoppers'. If they do decide to launch something they will be going up......

Well it really does seem to be 'Free London papers day' today. First of all there's all the London Line news (did we mention what a great alternative paper that is yet?). Then there's the announcement by the Office of Fair Trading confirming that Associated Newspapers, has agreed to give up its exclusive rights to the afternoon and evening 'tube slots'. And now Ken has said that he wants to go one step further......

To be honest we think people who provide free London news on a daily basis must be insane (ahem) but if you fancy setting up a little newspaper business all of your own in order to serve your fellow Londoners then now's your chance. Today Ken officially opened the bidding for the free afternoon paper to be distributed on the Tube. As we all know, Richard Desmond is mad keen on the idea and......

First it was Ken Livingstone with a touch of the 'Nazi Tourettes'. Then we had the related story a few days ago which claimed that the then Associated Newspapers owner Lord Rothermere had written "to Adolf Hitler congratulating Germany on its annexation of Czechoslovakia, and urging the Führer to march into Romania." Now it's the turn of Mohamed Al Fayed to jump on the Nazi bandwagon, thanks to a new fly-on-the-wall documentary to be......

You know what we're talking about here, so let's get right down to it: as thorough a roundup as we can of what Ken said to Finegold and what the papers are making of it all. The actual conversation: Oliver Finegold: Mr Livingstone, Evening Standard. How did tonight go? Livingstone: How awful for you. Have you thought of having treatment? Finegold: How did tonight go? Livingstone: Have you thought of having treatment? Finegold: Was......

It pains us to bring you news of an attack on a venerable London institution like the Standard but we couldn't let this one go: an article on Media Guardian headlined Livingstone Attacks 'Scumbag' Standard. Sheriff Ken apparently laid into a Standard journalist at a party on Tuesday night, which had been held to mark the 20th anniversary of Chris Smith becoming the first MP to come out as gay. The exchange makes for......

London looks set to receive a new evening paper soon, and a free one at that. Porn magnate and owner of Express Newspapers Richard Desmond recently stepped up his long gestating plans to launch a free paper to rival both the Metro and the Evening Standard, by trademarking the name London-i and its masthead logo. It has a lower case "i" in it, so we automatically know that this will be no ordinary paper but......

The Standard is thought to be planning a free version of the daily newspaper. The slimmed down version will most likely be called Standard-lite and will only be available between the hours of 12pm and 2pm, so as not to step on the toes of the Evening Standard or the Metro. The first two questions that spring to mind are: can the Standard really get any lighter? And, what will happen to the newspaper after......