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Photos doing the rounds of Twitter of the cat on the 73 bus are of Bob and his owner, Big Issue seller James Bowen.

128. Putting the ‘cat’ in Catford! The recent ‘Palace puma’ and ‘Sydenham beast’ fiascos had kind of given reports of large, exotic cats a bad name. Firstly there were the media inaccuracies of the former – there was no puma – meanwhile the latter saw …

117. The Disembodied Roar When Mrs Laursen moved in to her central London flat with her husband and six domestic cats, never in her wildest imaginings could she have been prepared for the strangeness to come. For the next year the abode provided the couple, …

Great, now try it with a real one / image and cat author’s own As we mentioned yesterday, theatre cats may be about to make a comeback. Time was there were moggies living in theatres across London but increasingly, as they died or retired to …

What is it with East End cats at the moment? Firefighters were called to help their third kitty in a month when a mog got ‘stuck’ on a raft in the Limehouse Cut canal on Monday. Hot on the paws on Louis, who fell in …

Should you feel in need of a respite from the Christmas bustle or a dose of the warm ‘n’ fuzzies to thaw your frozen ears, a new exhibition at the Subway Gallery in – or rather, under – Edgware Road should do the trick. We …

70. The Thamesmead Prowler During the early hours of Saturday 10th August at Goldfinch Road, west Thamesmead, a man awoke and peered around his curtain into the blackness of the night. A small animal startled him in the distance as it scurried around a corner …

The unfeasibly appropriately named Phillip Catt is in line to pay court costs of around £25,000 after his second appeal to keep a special Savannah Cat breeding enclosure in his back garden was lost. The Finchley feline fanatic built the first of four 10m by …

48. The Phantom Cat Whilst searching through my archives, like a gleeful grave-digger shoveling out the mounds of soil on a moonlit night, I literally stumbled across a text from a pamphlet dated 1674, in reference to a peculiar haunting, if it was indeed a …

Following the Oscars this weekend there are free film screenings all over town this week. Edify thyself and make new friends running across 5 different genres of movie for no expenditure whatsoever. Monday: The Duke Mitchell Film Club is holding heist night at the Cross …