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Thursday news, featuring stag beetles, mayoral candidates and much much more.

Shock separation after 50 years together? Actually a Greenpeace stunt.

Midweek tales from around town, including the third bit of semi-good-Olympic-news of the day.

Olympic competitors are to get their own bus depot. Seems posh hotels are being inundated with bookings for 2012. Ken has picked Val Shawcross as his running mate. A Stradivarius has been lifted from a passenger at Euston. A food bank has been set up …

Looks as if Manchester and Birmingham are about to get a bit closer: high speed rail gets the thumbs up. Ken is looking at rent capping as an electoral carrot. There was a stabbing in Homerton yesterday. Property prices in the Olympic boroughs are soaring. …

It’s not the first time he’s said it, but it may be the clearest. On today’s Daily Politics show, Andrew Neill asked Ken Livingstone whether he’d run for Mayor again in 2012. “God willing,” Ken replied, with a surprisingly coy smile, “Yes.” This will come …

He is, you know Regular Londonistas may recall our coverage of the wit and wisdom of “Sarah, London”, the Mayor’s Number One Fan and official Best Friend FOREVAH! This week, she’s at it again, offering her thoughts on the plight of Soho businesses losing their …

Photo courtesy of Annie Mole via the Londonist Flickr Pool We have a crush; a haunting, inexplicable, impossible love. We shouldn’t, we know it’s wrong – we know that she’s wrong, about everything – but none the less we are but flotsam to the tides …

Londoners will soon be able to visit the Walk of Fame. In Tower Hamlets. Ken isn’t best pleased about Boris’ East Enders appearance. A Hirst collage from his student days has sold for £32,000. London is experiencing a new wave of Irish immigration. Got your …

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been making mince pies: Dizzee Rascal’s been apprehended in connection with a baseball bat. Ken seems to support Cressida Dick. Very odd, no? Twinkle lights as 30 houses in one Croydon street get dressed up. Are there …