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Just a quick update on the whole Jerry Springer the Opera debacle we reported on at the end of last week. There’s a report in today’s Times which shows just how out-of-hand this whole thing has got: “Yesterday security guards continued to monitor the North …

(Apologies for the punny headline, we think the Xmas cracker jokes we were subjected to over the weekend may have influenced our subconscious.) So the London Met wants to moor a prison ship on the Thames. The ship in question is HMP Weare, originally a …

On 15th December we wrote up a post with the title: The Last Pete Doherty Story Of The Year? With another 16 days to go to the end of the year, we all knew there was easily time for at least one other story, especially …

You don’t have to live in London long before you get offered a pair of bargain “high spec” speakers out of the back of a white van. It’s like a coming-of-age ritual…once you’ve been offered some dodgy stereo equipment you can truly call yourself A …

Londonist hasn’t had any interest in the word of pro-wrestling since we were about eight (and we only watched it then because all our mates did). But this story of an American wrestling ‘star’ who was convicted of “causing unnecessary suffering to a 12-foot python” …

Apart from a short fad in the 1970s, for most of the past 100 years the crime of choice for the petty thief has been burglary. But the increase in the general level of house security has forced Jimmy Window-Jammer to diversify, and street robbery …

London is waking up this morning to the news that, last night, a member of the Metropolitan police force was arrested for drunkenly climbing on to the tracks at Tottenham Court Road tube before walking into the westbound tunnel. According to eye witnesses, a group …

Well the Evening Standard are calling it a raid. What actually happened is a man “posing as a visitor” broke into a locked cabinet, picked up some Chinese jewellery and then…walked out. Not exactly the Thomas Crown Affair is it? The Times’ report (which is …