The hard-working men and women of the Met deserve snazzy, comfortable outfits, and who better to help spruce up their uniforms than the fashion forward students at the London College of Fashion? Back in January, we told you about a contest for the fashion students to help redesign the uniforms for the Met. Well, the results are in. While most changes are small, practical adjustments -- for example, giving female officers the option of......

And we’re not just talking about the hills of the Chankly Bore. Londoners are being advised to batten down the hatches on Monday morning, when a rather ferocious weather front is predicted to romp across the UK. The Met Office has gotten all serious on us. After that weather forecast, they have of course been awfully careful, but this seems to be more than the normal, jovial ‘wrap-up-a-bit-warmer’ banter. And even our favourite meteorological website......

The Met’s Olympic security chief has plans and he’s been outlining them. In Abu Dhabi. The Chocolate Wrapper Killers have been put away. As has the First Date Murderer. The first sign of a financial hiccough, and and the non-doms will be off. Apparently. A man with an over-friendly doggy has been stabbed. Mesdames et Messieurs, le Tour de France est de retour. Well, maybe. Mostly sobering news this evening. Try not to let......

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......

The Met Police have been hacked. Well, at least the external company that manages its site has been. Someone "emblazoned" their home page with fuzzy, stripey, red-lipped, unibrowed monster Brobee from Yo Gabba Gabba, a kids' TV show. Called Officer Brobee on the site -- gotta stay in character, right? -- he said "Oh hai guys, do joo wanna bes a policeman lulz? I see that teh so15 anti-terrorism anti-lulz police are hiring more incompetent......

That burly fella on the tube looking a bit shifty? The diminutive woman with a suspiciously large rucksack giving you the heeby jeebies? Got a funny feeling about that couple walking along Oxford Street? The Met want you to report it. A new campaign is being launched to encourage Londoners to "trust their instincts" and contact the Anti-Terrorist Hotline if they see anything untoward. Adverts on the tube and on radio will exhort people......

This is what we have learned in between defrosting our typing fingers this weekend: The Met apparently wants more lady bikers. They claim macho stereotyping is putting the girls off: why don’t they realise that an endless run of bad hair days is just not that appealing. Ray ‘Sexy Beast’ Winstone is in the running for a remake of the Sweeney. Cor blimey guv. Residents of a block of flats in Lewisham have been......

The Met might not be happy about their pay right now but they should certainly be pleased to learn that their boring old uniforms are being reviewed by students at the London College of Fashion. Oh wait, fashion students? Actually, that's probably quite alarming. On their homepage at the moment there's a lime green catsuit, rows of sequins and some silver biker boots. Still, lime green cat suits aren't a million miles away from......

Guns don't kill people, bullets kill people. But bullets need guns to fire them and people to pull the triggers, so it's a bit of a joint effort all round. The technicalities of death aside, one thing we can probably all agree on, and speak up now if you don't, is that we don't need guns on the streets. Of any kind. We'd rather not even have them in the hands of the police......

Olympic budget continues to be a source of confusion if not merriment. The RMT plays about with figures: fly to the Caribbean or train it from London to Scotland – you tell us which is cheaper?! Kilburn’s Tricycle Theatre sees a charity screening of a film in aid of 7/7 memorial fund. The Met has appointed a new counter terrorism chief. 2012 building piccie courtesy of diamond geezer’s flickr photo stream.......

The Met is expanding its use of Tasers, now permitting non-firearms officers to carry the stun guns. Today is the first day in a trial of increased Taser use; the Met is looking to use them as an alternative in violent situations where guns are not needed. Tasers work by sending a charge of 50,000 volts through the body of the person they are used on (imagine a static electricity shock that could temporarily......

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend: Today is Remembrance Sunday which actually falls on 11th November - Armistice Day. The Queen and other Royals attended the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall last night. The Ceremony of Remembrance and Cenotaph Parade take place on Whitehall from 10.30am with Two Minute Silence at 11:00am. There was some pomp, circumstance and kids with strawberries on their heads at the Lord Mayor's Show yesterday. The......

More flak aimed at the police community support officer (PCSOs) as two community officers watched while a 55-year-old man was attacked by three teenage girls. The attack took place at Ravensbury Park near Morden. The pair of PCSOs allegedly hid behind a tree while passer-by Ann Ward, a 59-year-old great-grandmother, came to the man’s rescue. The officers, who radioed for help told Mrs Ward they were there to “report crimes and take notes". There's no......

Sir Ian Blair dismissed favouring non-white applicant recruits to the Met as "yesterday's solution" at a National Black Police Association debate yesterday. The recruitment bus rolls into Trafalgar Square's Diwali celebrations this weekend to demonstrate the Met's policy of targeting their recruitment at black and Asian communities. As they say, The better we reflect London's diverse communities, the better we're able to serve them. The Met is still struggling to represent London, however, and......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 6th August 1937: Barbara Windsor is born in Shoreditch in central London. She would achieve fame as an actress, notably as a ‘saucy strumpet’ in the Carry On films of the 60s and 70s and later as a major character in Eastenders. Tuesday – 7th August 2001: The Department of Health pays £27 million for a private Harley Street heart hospital, re-nationalising it and bringing it into......

The Met aren't happy at having to guess Critical Mass routes. Our Ken vs the mayor of New York? You'll have to get them in the same room first. Diana's fountain has turned from shallow but pretty to zombie coloured brown and green. More flights for our cutest airport. Lowest common denominator entertainment reaches for new low with plans for a Take That west end musical.......

Yesterday, Metropolitan police arrested eight people on charges of illegally distributing pornographic material. The Met have yet to reveal exactly what the pornographic material was, but I bet it was disgusting. Truly awful. Can you imagine what it might have been? I bet it probably had people in it … doing … things. Terrible things. What do you reckon it was? In our dedicated efforts to learn what kind of wretched, filthy, disgusting material......

The Met's attempts to remove Brian Haw from outside Parliament have reached new lows by playing on people's fear of terrorism. The anti-war protester Brian Haw could be exploited by terrorists wanting to bomb Westminster, a court heard. Mr Haw's banners outside the Houses of Parliament could be used to conceal a device by extremists, Marylebone Magistrates' Court was told. Well yes they could. But so could a backpack. Or a shopping trolley. Or......

The Met have moved fast on a burglary that took place last Thursday, arresting a man the following day. The speedy result could have something to do with the fact that the crime took place right under their noses and that they themselves were the victims: Burglars have stolen laptop computers containing the payroll details of half of the Metropolitan Police staff, Scotland Yard has said. There's a worry now that the staff whose......

In case you missed it earlier: The Met have pleaded not guilty to health and safety charges relating to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. It's a 'test case' apparently. Police patrols at churches and mosques in London have been stepped up following the protests over Pope Benedict's remarks about Islam. A survivor of July 7 has criticised TerrorBull Games of Cambridge for creating War on Terror: The Board Game. The game includes......

The case against the Metropolitan Police over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes reopens in court today. The first hearing, which was scheduled for last month, had to be adjourned until today after the Met's lawyers requested extra time to consider their plea. Incredible really when you consider that they're being prosecuted under health and safety laws (as a result of the Crown Prosecution Service deciding that there was no evidence to charge......

The Met's handling of a harassment complaint from 22-year-old Peter Woodham, who was later shot dead near his home, was "unacceptable", a senior officer said today. Tories have accused the Government of not acting quickly enough to introduce new security scanners at airports and on the Tube. Police have arrested seven people in connection with a scam in which Mercedes cars are stolen to order before being stripped down in a yard in Stratford......

The Met have announced that they have foiled (wow, the Met love the word foiled) three terrorist plots since the suicide attacks on July 7. While a new survey has found that sixteen per cent of British Muslims believe that while the 7 July attacks were wrong, the cause was right. Yesterday afternoon two adults and a child died in a fire above a newsagent's shop near the All England Club in Wimbledon. Network......

The Met freed 19 Malaysian women, suspected victims of sex trafficking, in dawn raids on five premises yesterday. Thirteen of the women were found in a six-bedroom house near Hyde Park. An eleven-year-old girl has given birth to a baby boy at Hillingdon Hospital, in Uxbridge. A man, who traveled with the girl from Africa has been arrested. You'll soon be able to use your Oyster cards at mainline starions (finally). Now all we......

Met Widens 'Cash for Honours' Inquiry The Met Police have widened their inquiry into the cash for honours scandal across all political parties. The inquiry started with the Labour Party and their now-famous 'secret loans' from wealthy businessmen. But, the Police tell us, other parties are now being investigated, and although they won't divulge which parties these are, it's almost certain the Conservatives feature, as they, like Labour, received loans to fund their 2005......

The Met have blocked access to 'sensitive files' which contain details of the role that Ian Blair played after the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. Police investigating the Tonbridge raid have 'made a significant cash seizure' in the last 24 hours. Over 40 companies from around the world are bidding to become the 2012 'delivery partner' i.e the people who build the venue. It's safe to say that Multiplex didn't bother asking. Half of......

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Al Jarreau (sort of): We'll walk by night, we'll shoot you by day! Moonlighting strangers... who just worked for the met on the way. Ahh, Maddie and David - slamming doors, getting stuck on top of hot air balloons, miscarrying babies... What. A. Show. Of course it completely overshadowed 1984's Cover Up to the point that most of you won't remember it at all. Think Remington Steele with a little......

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......

The Met are being questioned over why no arrests were made during protests outside the Danish Embassy on Friday after threatening slogans were chanted and some protestors dressed as suicide bombers. An incredible article from yesterday's Sunday Times, by Richard Hoskins, lecturer in African religions at King’s College, describing how he tracked down a 12-year-old boy who had been taken to the Democratic Republic of Congo to be cured of being a witch. The Thames......

Over the weekend fresh claims have arisen regarding The Met's 'covering up' of evidence related to the death of Jean Charles de Menezes. And as for the 'real bombers', MI5 have admitted that they've got no leads on the July bombings. Condoleeza Rice is in town to attend the international conference on Afghanistan. Prepare for some bad Wembley news this Tuesday when Multiplex outlines it's 'progress'. New guidelines issued by the Met says that policemen......