Yesterday comes the news that a shiny new medical centre is to be built on wasteland somewhere behind the British Library….and today sees the start of the more-or-less obligatory protests therein. The idea is to build the £500 million ‘UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation’ as a partnership project – the key players are the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK and University College Hospital. All very exciting. London could do......

Advent is upon us. Hanukkah starts on Wednesday. Office parties are already everywhere. Tis the season to be jolly, jolly, jolly but we know this can be draining, emotionally and financially. Don't let the state of your wallet throw you over the edge. We can't afford to buy tickets to the BFI IMAX all-nighter next weekend and we're not allowed to enter our own competition. But we can do the following splendid things for......

File this one under 'what the f*ck'. Hello. Please introduce yourselves, and your cause. We're the London Urban Ironing Collective. Our parents were diagnosed with Cancer in December 2006, so we decided to raise money for Cancer Research UK using the medium of ironing. We're asking Londoners to suggest well known locations where they'd like to see us carrying out Textile Crease Management (TCM). They donate money to Cancer Research UK on our website. make......

As mentioned on Friday the No Limit Texas Hold´em Strip Poker championships were held over the weekend. Congratulations to John Young, a 32-year-old freelance writer from Slough who stared down all comers and then gave his own money-maker a shake for yet another good cause: "We said we would give 10,000 pounds to Cancer Research if John dropped his trousers at the end of the match and he duly obliged," a spokesman for the......

Just because Liverpool have won their last 11 games, beaten West Ham twice this season, not lost to them at all for seven years, finished 27 points ahead of them in the league and have kept 33 clean sheets in the last nine months some people think they’ll win the FA Cup final in Cardiff tomorrow. However, Londonist is undaunted in our belief that the spirit of Sir Trevor’s head will see the Hammers......

Everyone drinks on a Saturday -- it's practically required. Drinking on, say, a Tuesday afternoon probably means that you're an alcoholic. But drinking on a Sunday afternoon? It manages to be both decadent and civilised, just louche enough without being irresponsible. You can pretend, for a day, that you are privileged enough to get drunk when those around you are not, while resting secure in the knowledge that, twenty-four hours later you will be......

After a week off, London's friendliest alternative Friday night club, Popstarz, reopens tonight with a night in honour of its founder, Simon Hobart, who died last week. Entry will be £5, all of which will be going to Simon's favourite charity, Macmillan Cancer Research. We're hoping for good weather though, as with no queue jumps avaliable, we think the queue round the Scala is going to be one of the biggest seen in a......