On the self-titled first "fat-finding" mission across Europe, Londoner Andy Pag will lead a team of 30 cars -- powered by chip fat and other cooking oils -- to Greece. We can only think he chose the destination for the grease-Greece puns. To add an extra element of challenge, they'll be heading out from a 1950's style greasy spoon in south London with a full tank of English breakfast runoff, but will be scrounging from......

Just the tonic we needed after walking to work on a cold, blustery March morn: Richard Branson is mulling over introducing a direct service between London and Kerala. Pressed during a holiday to the south Indian region about whether a connecting flight is on the cards, the Virgin Atlantic boss offered this gnomic reply: "It could be, but there is no immediate plan". Okay, it's hardly a ringing endorsement, but it has got Londonist......

This is what we have learned this weekend whilst you’ve been indulging those spring-time DIY pangs: LU has become very censorious of late. What’s to offend about a photo of a fat, pink-boxer-shorted Christ on the cross? A couple of shoppers were so worried about being caught for card fraud that they ran out of a Bromley store leaving their baby behind. High jinx in High Wycombe. Actually a bit more serious than that......