By warriorgrrl Showing impressive creativity when it comes to their green credentials, the Met are recycling a lot more than their Christmas trees. Guns and knives siezed by the force are being melted down and turned into girders to be used on the 2012 Olympic …
After the MPA’s meeting yesterday the Met Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has come out apologising saying that someone used the “wrong language” in a TV interview about the apparent change in tactics increasing armed patrols on problem estates. The doubling of armed patrols is in …
.DOYLE. On Friday we reported that the Met was doubling its armed police presence on certain gun and gang crime hotspots north and south of the river. Today, the ES reports that Scotland Yard is apparently in ‘disarray‘ over the plans, having been accused by …
Unscary armed police via jo’nas’ Flickrstream under a CC licence Gang warfare and gun crime are getting so bad in parts of south London and patches of Turkish north London the Met are ramping up the presence of armed police. In June, a team of …
The ring-necked parakeet, whose green plumage is frequently spotted in south-west London (and, er, Kenley), could be threatened by changes to wildlife protection laws by Natural England, which will make it legal for anybody with a rifle or shotgun to blast the birds out of …
Image by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid A new scam on Facebook is using London as the locus of its fictional narrative. A security strategist has posted a report of how a Facebook friend’s account was hacked, and then used in a 419-style attempt at …
Fake goldies Another grim story of kids, guns, graf, violence and hoodies? Not this time. Just a tale of a wandering Flickrpool photographer’s good fortune in stumbling onto the set of Harry Brown, a vigilante flick or “modern, urban Western” in the making starring the …
Late-night lash lovers in Clerkenwell will have one less option for the next month at least: Dust nightclub has had its license revoked after a shooting last weekend. Gunshots were heard in the vicinity of the Farringdon Road nightspot early Saturday morning, and a 28-year …
Foreign visitors may be bemused by our relatively toothless bobbies with their funny hats and ineffectual truncheons, but the truth is they can’t always be trusted when packing heat. A female officer has been removed from operational duty after she left her firearm in an …
Last night was another in a series of fatal instances of being in the wrong place at the wrong time as London struggles with its youth crime. 18-year old Ryan Bravo was shopping in Costcutter with two family members last night when several men on …
Sheltered, London 2008 There have been shootings in New Cross and Peckham this afternoon. Two men are seriously injured. It’s not just youths who are dangerous with knives, a pensioner has been sectioned after attacking an 11 year old girl in Feltham with a bladed …
