Edmonton

Middle of the week news. With lots of outdoorsy stuff.

A slightly off the wall news round-up, offering gay dogs, old trains and water rockets.

Fourth victim this year according to Scotland Yard.

Bad taste stunt of the Autumn? Fireworks organisers at Victoria Park planning to recreate the Blitz. Cricket Australia are in a spot of bother after defacing Big Ben with an unscheduled light show. The owners of Centre Point have gone into administration. A South London …

An Edmonton primary school just became one of the first in the country to graduate to an Academy. Islington council is to call time on alcohol abuse in the area by refusing to grant any more off licences. Mrs. Thatcher is “chirpy” after spending the …

Photo / Homemade Student art comes to Kennington Tube station. Plans for the 2012 triathlon and marathon swim released. Thought the banks were humbled? Think again: HSBC threatens to quit London if the Government breaks up big banks. MI6 worker sentenced for attempting to sell …

The older we get the more we think that Ikea just won’t do for anything except meatballs. We want to go to Heal’s and splurge every penny we’ve ever saved. That still would probably only buy us half a chair. Alarms are thus set for …

Lea Valley cyclist by Tyla’75 from the Londonist Flickr pool We enjoy a good bonkers transport scheme here at Londonist Towers. So we were mightily heartened by the sight of Andrew Charalambous, Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Edmonton, announcing plans to strike out and build …

Image by Simon Crubellier Boris gives himself six and a half out of ten for his first year in charge. Do you agree? Kate Moss is in a tiff with tradesman Swine flu: two new cases in London Roman glass bowl excavated from east London …

It’s been a less than stellar year for London as far as knife crime is concerned and yesterday was particularly upsetting as four fatal stabbings took place in different parts of the city. A 19-year-old was stabbed in Edmonton, becoming the 20th teenager to die …