Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been shivering at a summer garden party: Last cat standing: Blackjack, the last of 186 stray moggies at the Olympic site, is rescued by the Celia Hammond Trust. It’s really not OK to run people over, no matter how provocative they are: the prison van driver who mowed down a woman in Brixton is to be charged with murder. The Oyster system was down for 5......

Reports that hate crime is on the rise don't really surprise us. In the wake of the earlier shocking news about the murdered French students and the relentless wave of violent crime we seem to be riding at the moment, we're not really feeling the love at all. However, Barnet is specifically reporting a 20% increase in reported race crime, whilst other boroughs report a decline. Statistics, of course, can be wonderfully open to......