Prior to Mohamad al-Fayed's sensational appearance at the Royal Courts of Justice this week, with his sober critiques and totally non-insane, honest-to-Gawd guaranteed truthful claims of murder most foul, the hitherto dull proceedings of the Diana Inquiry have been enlivened by John Loughrey. Mr. Loughrey describes himself as "Diana's Number One fan", and in living proof of his dedication to what is clearly a hotly contested title, he has attended every single sodding day......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 3rd September 1878: Passenger steamer Princess Alice collides with cargo ship Bywell Castle on the Thames near Woolwich Pier. All of the 700 passengers of the Princess Alice are either thrown into the heavily polluted river or trapped below the decks of the sinking vessel. Fewer than 100 passengers survive. Tuesday – 4th September 1899: Moorfields Eye Hospital (known at the time as the Royal London Ophthalmic......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 13th August 1977: Hundreds of protesters clash with police at a National Front march in Lewisham, south-east London. About 400 Socialist Worker Party members had gathered to try to prevent the National Front march, but had been prevented by police, leading to attacks on the police themselves and over 200 arrests. Tuesday – 14th August 1821: The funeral procession of Queen Caroline, wife of George IV, makes......

Like Michael Myers in skiing goggles the Princess of Hearts just won't rest in peace. And al-Fayed isn't a bad choice to replace Donald Pleasence - similar build and no one believed his ramblings in Halloween... until dead teenagers started turning up. Jon Snow summed it up rather well in last night's Ch4 News email: The Diana inquest goes from the bizarre to the very bizarre. The linguistically florid Mike Mansfield QC has gone......

The results of the official investigation into just what happened to Princess Diana were released today. They make for depressingly mundane reading. No assassination, no fake death, no pregnany, no secret engagement, no plot full stop. Setting out the results of his three-year, high-profile report into Diana's fatal car crash in Paris, Lord Stevens bluntly told reporters at a packed central London news conference: "This was a tragic accident." If you buy the official......

One, two, princes plan before you (thats what we said, wow) Princes, princes who will scar you (too late to stop it, now) One has Elton's number in his pocket (don't look back, run now!) It's really happening, damn and cock it! (they've booked Duran Duran now) You know we're serious when we play the Sing-a-long-a-Spin Doctors card. A little like Charlton Heston sobbing on the beach at the end of Planet of the......

German. Art. Controversial. Diana. London. Do you know how long we've been waiting for an article to come along that contains all of those words? And, finally, today our prayers have been answered: An art show based on a controversial German stage work about the death of Britain's Princess Diana has found a home in London. Christoph Schlingensief's "The Last Hour" was originally scheduled to be part of the Frieze Art Fair, which runs......

Perhaps in an alternate universe Diana never got to Paris and is alive and well, but serving time at her mother in law's pleasure after stabbing Camilla in the chest 17 times with the royal cutlery. That's what sprang to mind while reading about this messy little triangle: A wife referred to Prince Charles's affair with Camilla before stabbing her husband's former lover, a court heard. Alethea Foster, 61, quoted Princess Diana's "there are......

Computer equipment belonging to the man investigating the death of Princess Diana has been stolen The stuff that conspiracy filled dreams are made of. The Met are on the case. A teenage girl arrested on suspicion of murdering a young man by stabbing him in the heart has been released on bail. Police appeal for witnesses. A 45-year-old man has been arrested following a raid on a "sophisticated" cannabis factory... police community support officers......

So let's get right into this week with the first real UK broadsheet review of Star Wars courtesy of (who else?) Pete Bradshaw. (No spoilers here by the way: Londonist policy). Maybe not surprisingly, Pete gives the film just one star, and that's pretty generous coming from someone who feels they've just sat through "what seems like seven hours of CGI action as dramatically weightless as the movement of tropical fish in an aquarium".......

Nothing quite says "tragic beauty" like a spot of aggregate, and no colour is quite so regal as "greygreen". Yes folks, the Princess Diana Memorial Storm Sewer is in the headlines again. You may remember the fountain; it's been "troubled", as sub-editors say when asked to euphemise around the word "a relentless disaster". It was criticised from the start by royalists and polo-necked Clerkenwell types alike for being, basically, a circular ditch. However, it......

The Mail began serialising Piers Morgan's 'secret diary' yesterday (couldn't they have called it something other than a 'secret diary' it makes Morgan sound like a nine-year-old schoolgirl), so we thought we'd take a look and see what the broadhseets are saying about the book, the man and his 'victims'. Starting off with the Telegraph, Matt Born writes: "Over six pages of the tabloid, Morgan detailed a series of intimate encounters with the Blairs......

5. Fathers 4 Justice's Various Pranks. Whether you sympathise with their cause or not (or worry that they just give a paranoid administration more excuses to crank up security), you have to agree that the combination of barefaced cheek and pantomime eccentricity displayed by F4J in their various stunts this year takes some beating. 4. The opening of the Swiss Re Tower. No, Londonist isn't still sniggering about the fact that it looks a......