Snoopy, nosey or just plain curious Londoners will be relieved: the Metropolitan Archive Office is to reopen after a revamp. David Hockney has donated some very big trees to the Tate Modern. A senior BNP official plonker would seem to endorse rape. Hold us back, hold us back…. TV presenter Mark Speight is missing. Not all teenagers are bad. Two of them thwarted a pair of granny bashers. A church in Newington Green has......

Damien Hirst has made the Tate's Christmas by gifting them 4 of his art works. The infamous cow and calf bisected and suspended in formaldehyde, "Mother and Child Divided" is the Turner Prize winning crowning glory. This is a high profile donation, timed for maximum festivity and goodwill but Hirst's generosity is not spontaneous or even his own idea. He pledged works to the Tate back in 2004 as part of the Building the......

This Day In London’s History 1991: A packed rush hour train carrying over one thousand commuters collides with the buffers at Cannon Street station. At 8:44am on 8th January 1991, the 07:58 train from Sevenoaks failed to stop when pulling into Cannon Street station and hit the buffers at the central London terminus at about 5 miles per hour. Despite the relatively low speed, the impact caused the infrastructure of some of the carriages......

Can a great artist be a great curator? That's the question they seem to be asking over at the Alison Jacques Gallery, where David Hockney is about ready to unveil his exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs. Hockney and Mapplethorpe go way back to the early 70s, when they bumped into each other at the infamous Chelsea Hotel (Mapplethorpe was living there with Patti Smith at the time, so we can assume he was a......