The Mayoral race has been quiet recently. Londonist suspects that it is the calm before the shitstorm. According to a recent poll, Boris is only one point behind Ken. A sign that campaigning is going to start making a dent on the Winehouse news in the London Lite is that Boris, from the blue corner, has launched a new Back Boris website. The photo gallery shows us that recently the campaign trail has taken......

If the daily freesheets just aren’t filling that void in your commute, perhaps something a bit more creative will suit you better. Notes From The Underground, a new free paper, will be launched 17 December at 30 commuter hot spots. The tabloid-size literary magazine will be hand distributed, and showcase short stories, non-fiction and illustrations. If you accidentally dodge the NFTU guy while evading London Lite/Paper distributors, you can pick the litmag up at libraries,......

Londonist doesn't care about London Fashion Week. Not really. But we're a blog about London and it's pretty big so we thought we'd write something about it. Here's some of the things that might happen over the next week: Mobile phone shops will see a rise in profits as Supermodels break them in fits of rage. The lettuce leaf and grape diet will be born. People we don't know and whose name we can't......

When Westminster City Council took on the free newspapers London Lite and The London Paper, Londonist was fully supportive. Tired of the masses of papers scattered around the city at the end of each day, the Council asked that Associated Newspapers (owners of London Lite) and Rupert Murdoch's News International (owners of The London Paper) take responsibility for the amount of rubbish they were creating and install 150 newspaper recycling bins around Westminster and......

Westminster City Council is making a stand against free London newspapers London Lite (owned by Associated Newspapers) and The London Paper (owned by Rupert Murdoch) not because the City Council is tired of the two types of non-news offered in the many, many copies distributed each day, nor are they taking an official stand against the irritating assault course of newspaper distributors outside each major tube and bus station but because there is just......

If you’ve ever boarded a Tube train after it has reached the end of its line and is preparing to make the return journey, you will have had the experience of wading knee-deep in London’s best cat tray liners – the freesheets. Folded neatly on every seat, splayed across every square inch of floor space and perched haphazardly on every ledge are those peons of journalistic greatness, the Metro, thelondonpaper and London Lite. Together......

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world created, like all the best things, by amateur enthusiasts. Farting in the general direction of professional mappers, these collaborative cartographers prowl the streets collecting GPS data and building up their wiki-based map. We caught up with charter-in-chief Steve Coast, to find out why they're bothering. So what's it all about? OpenStreetMap exists because map data is very expensive in the UK. It's owned by a monopoly provider......

We're drowning in paper: Up to 12 tons of newspapers a day are being abandoned by commuters on London Underground stations and trains, new figures show. The statistics were revealed by Ken Livingstone following a question raised by the London Assembly Conservatives at Mayor's question time in January. They have asked Transport for London to install more newspaper recycling points on the network to tackle the problem. Sure recycling is one way forward, but......

The soon-to-be-constructed 'Cheesegrater' building seems to have attracted a little murine attention. Could it be the same family of mice we previously encountered at Newham Hospital, and Asda? Could it...could it? Papa Mouse: [to his 8 starving children] My little mouslings, now that we have been driven out of both Newham General Hospital and the Lavender Hill branch of Asda and we are hungry and homeless, we must concentrate all our efforts on finding......

Evening Standard Headline Fridge Magnets. Once the day's joyless toil in the belly of the unforgiving city is done, and we trundle back to our Barrett Boxes in travelling conditions that make the Bataan Death March look like a limo ride, what diverts you and gives you comfort? Thinking about fridges, of course, because the Evening Standard is full of frankly terrifying reports about how total social meltdown is only a tiny step away.......

Remember, remember the fifth of November, as that will be your last chance to see the entrails of Battersea Power Station, and the exhibition on contemporary Chinese art. If, like us, you're really poor at organising your life, and missed the opportunity, then you might be interested in a short video tour online. TheLondonPaper seem to be good at filming spaces, even if they're not so hot at using them typographically. They've put together......

Evening freesheets TheLondonPaper (what happened to the space bar?) and London Lite (never heard of spellcheck?) continue to battle it out for the hearts and minds of commuters. The more cynical would say they’re better off targeting the lower organs of the body. Still, both rags appear to be shifting some. Associated Newspapers claim to have transfected the Lite to over a third of a million people, representing 97% of their print run. News......

If you're wondering who won the 'battle of the freesheets' that kicked off yesterday between London Lite and thelondonpaper then Media Bulletin.com seems to have the answer: News International has won the early battle with its fresh-looking thelondonpaper, which debuted on the streets of the capital last night. Having beaten News International to the punch last Wednesday with its rushed-looking London Lite, Associated paid the price as thelondonpaper appeared looking more bright and modern......

A leaked memo from Thames Water would seem to suggest that they're going to cut their workforce by 25% over the next four years. In London last year 6.16 million Penalty Charge Notices were handed out for illegal parking, improper use of bus lanes, moving traffic offences and contraventions under the London Lorry Control Scheme. Looks like the planned 200mph North-South rail link might be abandoned as it will be too expensive. London Lite......

Gavin Grant, a 22-year-old Milwall striker has appeared before the Old Bailey accused of conspiracy to murder 24-year-old Jahmall Moore who died last year after being hit by four bullets as he sat in his car in Harlesden. In the early hours of Monday morning a motorcyclist and a pedestrian both died when the bike ploughed into the man as he was crossing a main road in Golders Green. Apparently the "London-inspired property mini-boom"......

A 14-year-old boy is being questioned after 22-year-old Peter Woodhams was shot dead outside his home in Canning Town on Monday. A first person account of the continuing check-in debacle at Heathrow courtesy of the CNN news blog. Owen Wilson got flashed at the You, Me, And Dupree premiere, and yes, there's a picture. It's now been decided that the baby found dead at Heathrow died of natural causes. Scotland Yard's deputy commissioner got......

The bank holiday Gatwick Express strike is off as is the Stansted baggage handlers strike. News International are going to launch the London Paper a fortnight early to get it out ahead of Associated Newspapers' London Lite. Does anyone still care about this? Computer games design guru Will Wright will be making an appearance at a special event in London next week to talk about the future of gaming. Click here for details of......

More details have emerged today about Associated Newspapers' contender to thelondonpaper. It's described as a "new free London paper”, and the biggest disappointment is that they haven't chosen to call it thenewfreelondonpaper. In fact it's going to go under the monumentally boring name of London Lite, a ridiculous suffix that AN seem to have stolen from the diet drinks industry and got stuck on. For a start, it's spelled L I G H T.......

Forget the Middle East, the streets of London is where the real battle is. And the ammunition is newspaper ink... ...at least, that's what we'd possibly write if we were lazy, scaremongering Standard journalists who had been drafted in to write filler copy for a new free afternoon newspaper. The possibility of an Associated Newspapers afternoon freesheet has been reported today as their response to News International's September launch of thelondonpaper (also known as......