Downing Street

More London-oriented trivia for a Monday morning.

Excruciatingly named ‘plebgate’ row resurrected.

More historical trivia for a Monday morning.

Rats in Downing Street. The campaign grows to get a new cat. Yes, it’s a slow news day.

Traffic wardens appear to be resorting to ever-increasing measures of ingenuity to zap the unwary. Yesterday, a disabled woman in Wimbledon who found her parking space blocked by a car belonging to traffic wardens had her car ticketed by the very same wardens, while over …

Photo / dartar A sign of the Big Society? Shoppers foil jewellery store raid and detain robber until the cops arrive. The Queen’s annual Christmas party for Royal Household staff at Buckingham Palace has been cancelled. Walking cliché Arnold Schwarzenegger vows to “terminate deficit” as …

Coming to a used bookshop (if not landfill site) near you soon, it’s Sarah ‘n Gordon: The Downing Street Years. The recently dethroned Prime Minister’s better half has inked a deal with Ebury to pen a tome about her decade at Numbers 10 and 11. …

London has the largest litter of lions in the world. A magnificent pride their history goes back 120,000 years. There are colossal, legendary and living lions. Lions from one of the seven wonders of the world, from the cradle of liberty and there’s a lion …

If you’re queuing up for one of the many Westminster venues during Open House tomorrow, keep an eye out for Caroline Anns-Baldock. The 62-year-old former flat jockey will ride ‘naked’ along Whitehall on her way to Downing Street. Those inverted commas are needed because this …

Was it nerves at performing in front of the Prime Minister? Or merely another sign that anything in the vicinty of Gordon Brown is doomed to fail? Whichever, the normally flawless Diversity, winners of Britain’s Got Talent, blew a spot during a performance in Downing …