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And the rest of the day’s news, including an odd fib from the Evening Standard.

Be careful with your cigarette butts today: some of our firemen are missing. The C-Charge extension really isn’t very popular: 2 out of 3 Londoners say no. The return of Amy Winehouse? She popped up at a charity gig at the Hawley Arms last night. …

A teenager was stabbed to death in Bow yesterday. Beat this for seasonal romance: an on-stage proposal by the lead of the Nutcracker. Aww.. Stamps commemorating the abolition of slavery go on show at the Museum of Docklands in January to mark the beginning of …

Blimey. This isn’t quite what we expected from the brave new Standard when it was taken over by Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev. London’s “quality” evening paper will be free from 12 October, more than doubling its distribution from 250,000 to 600,000 copies a day. Is …

Image by Joep R. A “cheerleader” for London. A “life-affirming, aspirational newspaper”. Not words you’d normally use to describe the Evening Standard, which during its years as the plaything of Associated Newspapers would regularly splash with sub-Mail shockers about illegal Moroccan migrants and the danger …

Lebedev Junior has been interrogating chatting to ES staff. “Hands off our hacker!”, Bojo tells Obama. It’s not just Londonist what loves London: Pascal Chimbonda has taken a pay cut to get back here. Gordon Brown has been grasping at oratorical straws. How Croydon Took …

Gang mediation? Believe it when we see it. Pawnbroking is prospering in these penurious times. Petticoat Lane: over-crowded or quaint? Rotherhithe Picture Library is to get a shiny new blue plaque. FishWorks, er, don’t work anymore: the mostly London chain has gone into administration. Would …