Crossrail as a concept seems to have been around for yonks yet this week, stuff actually starts happening around the crucial and much needed redevelopment of Tottenham Court Road station with bus diversions kicking in on Friday to make way for works to begin. A free exhibition at New London Architecture brings the ambitious plans to life with a computer generated 'fly through' of the transformed station, incorporating not only essential expansion of capacity......

Um, probably not the best time to tell you, but apparently 1 in 5 tube drivers are a bit dodgy. Never mind – you’ll probably get one of the other 4 in 5 to drive you to work tomorrow. Gazza’s in hospital. It’s hard not to like him: Londonist hopes he’s better soon. BNP berk Barnbrook moves to ban burkas. Things ain’t too peachy for Peaches. The mayor of New York is to pop......