"Ashton Kutcher hits London", scream the headlines. If London knows what's good for it, we'll wallop the wearily handsome waster back just as hard. To what do we owe the pleasure of Demi Moore's toyboy's visit? Yes, it's the premiere of What Happens In Vegas, yet another rom-com vehicle designed by the overlords in Hollywood to whet our grimy little lives with a touch of romantic intrigue. You know the sort of thing -......

Cynicism seems to be the order of the day when it comes to Londoners’ attitude to the Olympic legacy. It seems that the faith schools of London are raking it in. Oh we of little faith…. The bridge bashing bus driver of Croydon has quit his job. Mariah Carey’s in town and everyone wants a piece of her. This Londonista just doesn’t get it. Olympic pylon from Nicobobinus’ flickr stream.......

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 29. Bystander Eageration… After being made redundant the other week, I was offered some work by a friend who runs a market stall selling Christmas gifts. It’s chilly work but my silly dance moves to keep warm have amused the customers, and their weird behaviour has kept me very interested in them. Weirdly, the less......

It seems like The Whale may have been part of an exchange program. While the seven-ton monster made its fatal commute into central London, a Borehamwood resident took a record-breaking decent into the great blue abyss. Leigh Cunningham, with co-diver Mark Andrews, has broken the record for deepest wreck dive after flippering his way down to 205 m in the Red Sea. According to his mother: It is a dice with death. Nobody's ever......

Well if there is one thing guaranteed to drive the final nail into Old Street's credibility coffin then this would be it. According to the ever-reliable 3am girls over at the Mirror Mariah Carey is on the look out for a London living space, and has "instructed her people to look for places in Ladbroke Grove and around Old Street. She loves the warehouses as they remind her of the lofts in New York.......

Yes it's another of those 'US celebrity flies over to London and does something outstandingly bizarre' stories, and amazingly enough this one doesn't feature Mariah Carey. This time it's badger-faced starlet Tara Reid who's casuing all the ruckus. According to reports, Ms Reid is in town filming her reality TV show Wild on Tara (we can't wait either). While checked in to the Baglioni Hotel Reid apparently "booked herself into one of the most......

Ok, so you've had time to digest all the messages behind Saturday's Live 8 concert, you've signed up to support Make Poverty History and you may even be on your way up to Edinburgh tomorrow. So isn't it about time the national media started printing some fluffy, meaningless celebrity-centered stories to give our poor brains a rest? And the question everyone's asking about Live 8 is: what the hell was going on with Pete......

Shrill deranged songstress Mariah Carey arrived in London this weekend but promptly ran into problems as she was unable to enter the Kensington branch of plush Italian hotel chain Baglionis as they had not met her specific entry criteria, namely a red carpet lined with white candles. Luckily, as you would expect from a £2000 a night hotel they managed to quickly rectify the situation while Mariah was driven around the block, probably using......