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“Control” seems to be getting excellent reviews from everyone we know who has seen it, and if you’re a fan or the film has piqued your interest in Joy Division and Ian Curtis then you’re in for a treat. French fashion designer Agnes B is …

Aside from being crime-ridden, non-reversing, combustible, poorly-designed eyesores, we can sadly add another category to the list of faults with the bendy bus: potential deathtrap. 21-year old Lee Beckwith was exiting the N25 route in Ilford early on Tuesday morning, when he apparently fell under …

Man gets ‘stiff sentence’ for ‘accidentally’ sending people pictures of his penis. He thought it would never stand up in court. Great train robber Ronnie Biggs says his life has been wasted. Not at all. Without him, we wouldn’t have had that superlative ‘Buster’ film …

Don’t get all excited – this is not a steaming transport exposé. Britain’s favourite crook has surely dashed the hopes and aspirations of thousands of wannabe train robbers with his recent revelation that crime actually doesn’t pay, and that he thinks he should’ve done it …

Bored of eating your sandwich at your desk or trying to resist heading out to Oxford Street and spending more money than you have in your lunch hour? Well MINI may have the answer as over the last few weeks they’ve been instigating a series …

(Actually, they’re not. We’re feeling all pretentious this morning and wish to demonstrate our superior education in the Classics.) Turns out the 2012 Olympic venue for canoe slalom, Spitalbrook in Hertfordshire, is tainted with muck. Heavy pollution has forced the Olympic Delivery Authority to seek …

Giant crack in the Tate Modern. Half of those living near Heathrow would quite fancy a new runway. A pretty grim account of the Menezes shooting emerges in court. Newts get evicted from Olympic site. Croydon branches of Greggs are employing bouncers, claims local news …

No, it’s not some ‘attack of the giant cathedral eating spiders’ B-movie filmset but the return of Maman, the giant spider sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, which originally stalked the Turbine Hall when Tate Modern opened in 2000. Bourgeois herself is now 95 and, given that …

While most of us pride ourselves on our dutiful home recycling now that the Council comes and picks it up it seems that in the work place Londoners have less of a conscience. About half of us admitted to not thinking twice about chucking out …

Now that the improv jazz solo of Oxjam’s opening extravaganza is over, the country’s biggest music festival settles into a smooth 4/4 groove for the second week. The focus shifts away from the basement of Dalston’s Oxfam – where the likes of Norman Cook and …