The unfeasibly appropriately named Phillip Catt is in line to pay court costs of around £25,000 after his second appeal to keep a special Savannah Cat breeding enclosure in his back garden was lost. The Finchley feline fanatic built the first of four 10m by 8.6m cages at his home in Finchley Garden Village Conservation Area in 2006 much to the annoyance of his neighbours. Mr Catt now has 1 month to take down......

In terms of childish prank-playing, this one is an odd inversion of the usual willies, tits and bums that get drawn in marker pen on posters and text books. Instead of adding extra rude bits to a bit of public art, there has been an amusing bit of covering up on the statue La Delivrance that stands on Henley Corner in Finchley. The sculpture was unveiled in 1927 and is basically a 16 foot......

One Rabbi and his dog should be completing a week long round London ramble to raise money for the New North London Synagogue in time for Kabbalat Shabbat back at the Shul at 6.30 tonight (we've been brushing up on our Judaism - can you tell?). The 100 mile trek started in Finchley last Saturday and has taken Rabbi Wittenberg and Mitzpah the dog to 28 stops around town including hospitals, schools, the Houses......