This is our favourite assault on police story ever. The headline: Woman accused of spraying cop with breast milk The details: It is alleged she was detained for trying to steal shoes from Lizard, in Hill Street, Richmond. After being arrested for theft she sprayed …
We don’t know about where you are, but it seems like spring can’t decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren’t sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still …
Primark opened on Oxford Street yesterday in a spectacular graduation from scummy high street obscurity to the mainstream tourist trap . Opening time was always going to be popular but in scenes reminiscent of the Ikea Edmonton crush chaos of ’05, Primark security were forced …
One of the 21 July bomb suspects has admitted A lying to the police. Meanwhile the police are keeping an open mind regarding another fatal shooting. An answer to violent death? Better trained doctors. Kirsten Dunst is in London because she’s so “loved-up”. And would …
Well. What can we say? TFL say this: “This is a dangerous, stupid and irresponsible act that could have resulted in serious injury or death to not only the individual concerned, but other passengers.” British Transport Police are urging the skier to get in touch …
The BBC informs us that police will now be available round the clock in west London. To tell you the truth, we had assumed they already were available round the clock. But apparently not. That explains why there’s that answering machine message we keep getting …
< Battersea Power Station’s future remains in doubt as the fantastic hulk of the art-deco building itself remains in sorry dereliction. Yesterday, the Guardian reported that the new owners of the £400m prime 36+ acre riverside site, Treasury Holdings, had scrapped development plans approved by ...
Last night/early this morning was the official launch of the Playstation 3 and eager gamers set off on a midnight excursion to try and beat the crowds. This in itself has been the subject of much hand wringing over the worry that muggers would descend …
Fed up of being forced to listen to tinny Akon played through a mobile phone loudspeaker by a loud and frankly intimidating group of school children, more than likely packing knives, high on drugs or, simply, astonishingly mouthy on the bus? Well fear no more. …
The Beast of Bexley has been spotted again… … this time carrying off a bloodied, wailing infant in its foul, be-slavered jaws. Not really. But that would be really cool, wouldn’t it? Or rather, no, that would be terrible and tragic and cause for sorrow. …
Ah, a tabloid headline-writer’s dream. The police want to outsource their powers of custody to well-known retailers. Talks are under way to open the first of these short-term holding cells in Selfridges department store on Oxford Street in London. The five purpose-built rooms would be …
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