We don't like to start the week off with a horrifying headline like this. Another tragic teen stabbing story (time to step up those new gory anti-knife ads?) marks this year's 16th violent teen death in the city. We don't have much information, but a 15-year-old girl wearing her school uniform was found in the lift of Matheson Lang House on Baylis Road in Lambeth with at least 10 knife wounds to her front, neck......

So, it seems that Steven Bigby who was just 22, was killed over a drink being thrown outside McDonald's on Oxford Street yesterday. Steven died in hospital from a stab wound to the chest. The police are not treating the incident as gang related or premeditated, but are looking for "Four men, who were black and aged between 20 and 30, [who] fled the scene after the attack." Anyone who took photographs of the scene......

A man in his 20s was fatally stabbed yesterday evening, in broad daylight, outside McDonalds on Oxford Street. The incident happened at the beginning of rush hour, around 17.00, when the area must have been packed with hot, shoppy people who could have witnessed the incident. Police are talking to those on the scene and examining CCTV footage. It seems the young man had been in McDonalds and was subsequently involved in an altercation outside.......

Here’s what we’ve learned whilst you’ve been either packing your bags or celebrating this weekend: On his first day in office, Boris is aiming for unity. In the weekend crime round-up, a teenager received fatal stab wounds in Borough, whilst another man was fatally stabbed in Willesden. Costumes worn by the Supremes are to go on show at the V & A. The first Hindu school in Britain is to open in Edgware in......

The BBC have been busy analysing the Mayoral marketing campaigns, slogans and dress sense. S'pose tomorrow it will be diet and diction. St-Martins-in-the-Fields-in-the-middle-of-the-city has reopened following its refurbishment. Statue round-up: whilst plans are already afoot for a memorial to London’s wartime evacuees, the RAF are lobbying for a Trafalgar Square statue in honour of WWII hero Sir Keith Park. Tube drivers will be glad to know that bad-taste-film-of-the-year Three and Out has flopped at......

Here’s what we’ve learned whilst you’ve been trying to dodge the Respect Bus this weekend (gotta give Galloway credit – he’s tireless on the old campaign trail): Bureaucracy threatens next year’s Chelsea Flower Show. Actually, bureaucracy is threatening civilisation as we know it, but Londonist frowns upon melodrama so forget we said that. Three public health workers have been bitten by a rabid puppy. In the weekend crime round-up, we can tell you that......

A real fancy dagger goes under the hammer… …as does a really really old Koranic manuscript. Just as BA gets a hammering…from its own pilots The reputation of one London suburb also took a hammering today with a vicious robbery in Mitcham. ..whilst the NHS staff of neighbouring Sutton and Merton complain they get a regular hammering at the hands of their patients. Damilola Taylor’s mother has died of a heart attack. Suburban sunrise......

We've been known to hit the clubs on occasion to take a little tipple, do a little dancing and mingle with our friends, neighbours and hopefully a few attractive strangers. But a fun night can quickly turn ugly when an insult is lobbed, someone's pride is shot and the drinks shout "Fight!" Still, it's most often a case of the bark being worse than the bite, not usually escalating past a few heated words or......