Londonist goes to church and gets stuck up a ladder covered in pigeon shit. Before we start, we’d just like to say something to the Russians. Oy! Stop nicking our church designs, and repurposing them into spacecraft. Only we’re allowed to do that. Thank you. Right, on with business. We’ve all seen St Anne’s, Soho. It’s pretty much the only tall churchy thing in Soho, sitting behind a junkie-proof fence to the South of Wardour......

A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways. 27. Cobb's Court Where? Northern strand in a City cavalcade of passages. This one's located in the snickety heaven south-west of St Paul's. What? Cobb's Court was a new, if modest, addition to the City after the Great Fire, built on ground formerly occupied by St Anne, Blackfriars. Passage-master Ivor Hoole suggests the name may come from Paul Cobb, Mayor of Bedford, who had documented liason's......

A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways 25. Meard Street Where? Part-pedestrianised route in the heart of Soho, linking Wardour and Dean Streets. Sounds like a sack of French excrement. Isn't. What? Meard Street is a street of two halves, with a western end closed to traffic and an eastern cul-de-sac. This reflects the origins of the street, which started life as a pair of courtyards. The unified route was built in the......

About 35 stations have closed due to the tube strike which is due to go on until 6:30 tonight.The worst hit line is the Northern Line. And talking of trains, four companies have each submitted £100m bids to supply trains for the East London Line extension. TfL will pick a winner next week. On Saturday a mugging was stopped in east London by friends of Jean Charles de Menezes who'd gathered at St Anne's Church......