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Superbowl is on its way over here. A virtual South London street is being built in Sutton to teach kids street wisdom. Meet the Met officer who picked the wrong time to chant rude footie songs. The Arsenal ladies have done very well. London’s getting …

Meanwhile…Michelle and Sarah have been visiting Maggie’s (Cancer Care) Centre. Sustainable Boris: now he’s cutting back on his, er, environmental team. Croydon is looking for a new name. Suggestions below please. Sutton youngsters have been busy making films about the effects of binge drinking. Spurs …

Yes: there is some other news today. Cold case: a man is sentenced for a murder committed 11 years ago. Vicious case: 3 men have been jailed for raping and attacking a girl with caustic soda. Suspicious case: police are puzzling over a mystery death …

Here at Londonist we simply cannot resist the lure of putting up a dodgy headline like that. Indulge us. A London Pharmacist was this week apparently sentenced for buying fake Viagra online (which is not in itself a crime) and passing it off to his …

Not content with tracking the every move of its errant young, a London borough is bribing its youths to behave themselves – or lose their privileges. The Positive Citizen photocard being trialled in Sutton works on the premise that young people engaging in ‘positive behaviour’ …

This is what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been chucking down the Pimms: Of course we can’t win Wimbledon. Can we? Two boys, aged 10 and 12, have been stabbed in Walworth. A homeless man is to be charged in connection with the murder …

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 …

Following the slabs of human shit exhibited by artist Santiago Sierra at the Lisson Gallery, bodily waste seems to be cropping up in unusual places with distressing (pardon the pun) regularity. Now we hear that a shed in Sutton has been obliterated by a block …

Amidst calls for their boss’ resignation, it’s reassuring to know that some London cops haven’t lost sight of the big issues facing modern policing – namely, getting “ethnically diverse” mascots on our streets. “PCSO Steve”, whose beat covers primary schools in and around Sutton, has …