You wait ages for a story about Transport for London (TfL), and then loads come along at once. After the earth-shattering news that TfL staff sometimes use taxis (*clutch at pearls*), and heaps of other problems, today they lost a case in court as a customer successfully had his fare evasion conviction quashed. He argued that customers should have been instructed to hear the correct beep and see the green LED light flash in......

Thames Water chase quick buck with luxury flats over super sewer Penny pinching Boris takes early break from Transys, the original Oyster operators, to find cheaper alternative Stop and search at Climate Camp causes consternation The Evening Standard unreservedly apologises to Prince Phillip over prostate cancer story Yum, yum: there's a Thai food festival in Greenwich Park this weekend Image courtesy of Stu_Egan via the Londonist flickr group.......

For the second time in a fortnight, a major fault has crippled the Oyster system. A "technical problem" is currently afflicting Pay As You Go cards on the Tube, say TfL, who have wisely decided to leave all Underground station barriers open until the problem is solved. Coming barely two weeks after a fault left tens of thousands of cards corrupted, and mere days after it was confirmed Dutch researchers would be allowed to publish......

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been shivering at a summer garden party: Last cat standing: Blackjack, the last of 186 stray moggies at the Olympic site, is rescued by the Celia Hammond Trust. It’s really not OK to run people over, no matter how provocative they are: the prison van driver who mowed down a woman in Brixton is to be charged with murder. The Oyster system was down for 5......

Oyster cards will soon be accepted on all mainline trains, or at least they will if Boris gets his way. This first steps were taken yesterday when the mayor signed an agreement with First Great Western, who will implement Oyster on all of their London trains as of September. It will certainly be more convenient, but the real bonus comes in the fact that the reduce rates offered on buses and the Tube will......

The BBC have been busy analysing the Mayoral marketing campaigns, slogans and dress sense. S'pose tomorrow it will be diet and diction. St-Martins-in-the-Fields-in-the-middle-of-the-city has reopened following its refurbishment. Statue round-up: whilst plans are already afoot for a memorial to London’s wartime evacuees, the RAF are lobbying for a Trafalgar Square statue in honour of WWII hero Sir Keith Park. Tube drivers will be glad to know that bad-taste-film-of-the-year Three and Out has flopped at......