In an effort to ease overcrowding, railway companies and government ministers have vowed to add an additional 1000 carriages to Britain’s trains by 2014. Ministers will announce that carriages will be used to lengthen trains on the most congested parts of the network. Much of …
Again we hear that the 21 July bombs were intentional fakes. A gang of modern day Robin Hoods (who forgot about the giving to the poor bit) were jailed today. Meanwhile another gang who threw cable drums, weighing more than a ton, at chasing police …
The stuff you find on the tube: An unpublished novel by renowned author Jeanette Winterson has been found at an Underground station in south London. The Stone Gods, by the writer of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, is not due to be published until …
Usually calls to aid the police in their inquiries are a bit grim, but we’re kicking off with this one because it’s the best part of the story: Anyone who sees three foot Power Rangers, boxed Star Wars memorabilia or anything suspicious call Detective Constable …
More fatal gun crime: Officers were called to reports of a shooting in Scrubs Lane at 1615 GMT on Sunday afternoon. The victim, a 21-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene. A post-mortem examination is due to take place on Monday. In a separate …
A guy attempts to drug his dinner date and is caught: in June last year when the head waiter saw Spall putting a pill in the red wine of his companion while she was in the toilet. Officers searched his pockets and found a blister …
No London connection (yet), but this story caught our eye this morning: Scientists in eastern China say they have succeeded in controlling the flight of pigeons with micro electrodes planted in their brains, state media reported on Tuesday. Scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research …
Every once in a while a rock band comes along that thinks they’re something special and tries to stir things up. Lord knows the Towers of London have tried their best, but unlike The Horrors they don’t have the have the songs to boot. The …
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted rape after attacking a woman involved in a car accident: She was driving in Enfield, north London, on Wednesday night, when she collided with a traffic island. Two men offered to help but took her to …
So the police have a suspect in custody for the recent spate of letter bombs: A primary school caretaker has been arrested in connection with the recent spate of letter bomb attacks. Miles Cooper, who is in his 20s, was arrested at a house in …
Things have moved on since 1977 when Spielberg got the world in a tiz over close encounters of the third kind. These days we can go all the way up to five: First kind: A sighting of one or more unidentified flying objects Second kind: …
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