Old Bailey

More Londony trivia for a Monday morning.

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Wednesday shaped news, with a dusting of frost.

Those beautifully expensive City Hall windows. Photo / Tom Kondrat. The woman who stabbed MP Stephen Timms told police she did it in “revenge for Iraq“, a court in the Old Bailey hears. Margaret Thatcher returns home after being discharged from hospital. The cost of …

Photo / D1v1d Mentally ill detainee dodges minders on Stratford shopping trip and goes on the run Eurostar trains are up and running again Electrical fault causes the Royal Free Hospital to cancel all non-emergency surgery Olympic traffic lanes in the Blackwall tunnel would lead …

A teenager is recovering after being stabbed in the East End yesterday afternoon. Brace yourselves for a 24 hour bus driver strike on Friday. Empty your piggy banks – you’ve gotta pay for tube improvements. Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur has been relieved of duty: he’s …

Tickled is what we are today. Gleeful even. Let us explain. To the Old Bailey, where one Judge Paget has taken it upon himself to set something in motion. Something which Londonist feels might grow to be rather big. Which might even indicate the beginning …

On the same day that a gunman was shot dead in the King’s Road, the story of Magda Pniewska’s senseless death in a skirmish between armed teenagers last October was relayed by prosecutors at the Old Bailey. Ms. Pniewska was caught in a “Wild West”-style …

Time to get your placards out: Camden’s famous snooker hall is threatened with closure, as is Docklands’ City Pride pub. The Old Bailey has learned some new tricks: all sorts of extra goodies and historical trials are now available on-line. The people at Moorfields really …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 14th January 1437: The Great Stone Gate at the south side of London Bridge collapses, taking down two bridge arches and several houses with it. Tuesday – 15th January 1867: The ice on Regent’s Park Lake gives way …