theft

Smash-and-grab raid on Covent Garden store in the early hours of the morning.

Jonathan Franzen, wearing his glasses / image © Greg Martin Continuing perhaps the best week of publicity for a book ever, Jonathan Franzen had his specs nicked off his face at the Serpentine Gallery last night. During the launch party, a gatecrasher grabbed the author’s …

A clutch of Vivienne Westwood bags were stolen overnight from a store on Conduit Street, W1. Shortly before midnight, a group of four men ram-raided the shop with a pair of “Vespa-style mopeds” (seriously) and helped themselves to around 30 of the bags, worth up …

Commuters struggled to get home last night after signal problems all but closed down the rail lines out of Paddington. The faults were caused by the theft of signal cabling from the West Drayton area (not an uncommon problem, it seems). Engineers worked through the …

Catsuits at the ready, people, there’s an arty party you can go to for enacting your Zeta Jones Entrapment fantasy. There’s a genuine laser maze and alarm bells with no actual danger of being arrested for theft. The loot? A free shot. Yes, the handy …

Chislehurst in Bromley is famous for its man-made cave system, but now has other connections to the underworld. According to new ‘research’, the town rules the UK for car crime. 3.8% of local motorists made insurance claims for break-ins or theft over the past year …

Image of V&A by Matt From London Many of our beloved readers are back in the office, post-Christmas today and perhaps thinking ‘Grrr… but at least I can grab a handful of paperclips and Post-It notes as I’m running out at home.’ Take note of …

APB – All Poems Bulletin: we often spends hours at Londonist Towers carefully preparing a story for your further reading pleasure, only to have it mangled at the last minute by the vagaries of our software (or more often through rank carelessness, if we are …

Reports from northwest London suggest a strange kind of vandalism is afoot. According to Harrow Council, £15,000 worth of drain covers have been pinched from Pinner and South Harrow over the past fortnight. Some kind of performance art, you might speculate? Could be, although the …