The scourge of polite society, and a garment guaranteed to strike fear into the hearts of houseproud folk across London, the hoodie is nothing if not an adaptable form of clothing. In the wake of the bulletproof edition sold by a Romford firm, another variant ready for urban warfare has arrived: gas mask hoodies are now available at Walthamstow Market. Costing twenty quid, the nylon jacket is available in brown and grey camoflauge, and......

When they're not being re-imagined as metaphorical objects in overrated films, plastic bags are unsightly things. A familiar bane of London's landscape, the "urban tumbleweed" is an ecological nightmare. We all know that we're supposed to ditch them in favour of reusables; yet 13 billion bags are issued each year in the UK alone. That's 220 per person. Only one in 200 bags is recycled, while the rest are doomed to landfill sites where......

One, two, princes plan before you (thats what we said, wow) Princes, princes who will scar you (too late to stop it, now) One has Elton's number in his pocket (don't look back, run now!) It's really happening, damn and cock it! (they've booked Duran Duran now) You know we're serious when we play the Sing-a-long-a-Spin Doctors card. A little like Charlton Heston sobbing on the beach at the end of Planet of the......

Lovely quote this one: "There was no announcement because there was nobody there." This is from the story of a train that became decoupled out of King's Cross yesterday: Hundreds of passengers found themselves stuck on the tracks on Thursday night after their train split in two. About 700 people are thought to have been on the 1707 from King's Cross to Peterborough when it came to a sudden halt eight minutes into the......

5. Fathers 4 Justice's Various Pranks. Whether you sympathise with their cause or not (or worry that they just give a paranoid administration more excuses to crank up security), you have to agree that the combination of barefaced cheek and pantomime eccentricity displayed by F4J in their various stunts this year takes some beating. 4. The opening of the Swiss Re Tower. No, Londonist isn't still sniggering about the fact that it looks a......