Libraries and whores are not natural bedfellows. Yet in the Wellcome Library on Euston Road you can work your way though more loose women than Genghis Khan on his gap year. The centre holds the world's foremost collection of tart cards -- those colourful adverts that decorate London's phone boxes. Stephen Lowther is in charge of the smutty stash, which forms part of the library's medical ephemera collection. The holdings comprise single sheet publications......

What's this? London's famous red street furniture turning blue with the cold? Closer inspection reveals that some pillock with a paint pot has been busy in Bloomsbury. The crude vandalism is almost redeemed by the impractically barbed pavement cock. But this is still the work of a pillock.......