At first glance, this looks like a rather pleasant alternative to the Millennium Bridge - a verdant, undulating span like nothing else in London. But look at what's written along the side and you may feel your gorge begin to rise. The Diana Memorial Bridge is one of dozens of abandoned London schemes in a long-running thread on skyscrapercity forums. These include an X-rated erotic gherkin, a bulbous colander for Trafalgar Square and, our......

London Lit Plus?...Plus what? No, you misunderstand. It's like the London Literature Festival. With knobs on. What, you mean your line-up's full of Daily Express columnists? No, you misunderstand again. This time for weak comedy effect, I should wager. So what is London Lit Plus? It's an open literary festival running from 29 June to 13 July. Hang on. Those are the same dates as the London Literature Festival. Are you sure you're not......

It was reported over the weekend that the IOC have been busy putting together "a timetable of deadlines" to meet over the next seven years in the run-up to the Olympics. There isn't much detail on this "timetable of milestones" except for something about sponsorship plans and budgets. However Londonist can reveal that a section of the plan was leaked to us earlier today and we can now give you a sneak peek at......

Did you see the Top 20 Film Locations list that was put together by Film London last week? It was pretty rubbish. We know these kind of things are designed to provoke dicussion and argument, but one company counting up which of the locations on their books have been used the most over the past year really isn't that great a read. Potters Field Park (as used in Little Britain)? Bethnal Green Town Hall......

After M@'s tribute to one of London's largest patches of green space on Monday, it's time to pay homage to a tiny, undistinguished garden. Rennie Garden nestles in a scrap of land not much larger than a squash court, sandwiched between Blackfriars Road, the old Daily Express building (the "Grey Lubyanka" of Private Eye fame) and the steps that connect the southern end of Blackfriars bridge with the South Bank. All it consists of......

The Independent Police Complaints Commission inquiry into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes is appealing for witnesses to the incident. At the same time the police have also released a statement saying that the 27-year-old's visa had expired two years ago, and the passport stamp giving him indefinite leave to remain "was not in use" on that date. It's a very obtuse statement, but the Home Office did add that they just "wished......

There's a theory that a murderer will always return to the scene of a crime so we shouldn't be too surprised to hear that Rupert Murdoch was back on Fleet Street yesterday. The fact that he was there to preside over a ceremony mourning the loss of London's famous journalistic home though is not just adding insult to injury, it's not even rubbing salt in the wound... it's a little like Harold Shipman turning......

It's one of those stories that, if the Daily Mail ever get wind of, we'll never hear the end of it. A Greenwich-based theatre company are currently staging Shakespeare classics in their own "unique" way. That's "unique" as in gay. The Melmoth Theatre Company's adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream is currently playing to audiences at the Greenwich Playhouse and, according to the producers, "schools and colleges" were keen to see the show. Did you......

No newspaper is happier than when it is at the forefront of a campaign. When that campaign entails what looks like bureaucratic idiocy, you can be sure that one of the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail or the Daily Express will be the loudest in exposing another example of “red tape gone mad”. This week it’s the Daily Telegraph’s turn to campaign for another persecuted species — the window-box in east London. Norwich Union has......