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If you were inspired by yesterday's interview with competitor Olivia Brown, you might want to go along to this weekend's Winter Swimming Championship at the Tooting Bec Lido, the largest fresh water swimming pool in Europe, to find out more about the joys of an outdoor dip. more ›

This weekend 670 swimmers from 21 countries will converge on the Tooting Bec Lido to take part in the international Winter Swimming Championships 2008. The event, which always takes place in an unheated outdoor pool, is being held outside Finland for the first time ever. Olivia Brown, a member of hosts the South London Swimming Club and entrant in three of this weekend's races, took time out from training to tell Londonist why she's looking forward to competing in near freezing temperatures. more ›

16. Strange Invaders more ›

Due to the crazy rain today, there have been mass closures around throughout London Underground. more ›

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Will the real Buster Crabbe please stand up? And put one of those flippers on each foot up? We were intrigued to discover that the South London Swimming Club will this Sunday morning be hosting a race for the "Buster Crabbe Memorial Cup". That name instantly transported us back to our school holiday mornings, transfixed in front of the televised black and white 1930s adventures of space hero Flash Gordon, embodied by one Clarence... more ›

Just as the weather remembers that it's already done Summer this year and ought to think about maybe raining a bit and turning a bit colder, Tooting Bec Lido is putting on some special events this coming weekend (16th and 17th September) as part of its ongoing centenary celebrations. PA tells us: As well free access to the pool, activities this weekend include an exhibition of lido-inspired paintings by members of the South London... more ›

Join the Village Fete at V & A - for tonight, the museum will be taken over by over 30 creative types who will be running stalls, activities and other village fete style stuff. Tombola, fish and chips, freaky vegetable competitions and body painting will abound. It's more family-oriented on Saturday if you're wanting to share the fun of the fete with the kids: you're encouraged to enter your little moppets in the V & A "Dress as a Design Icon" fancy dress competition. Anyone who spots a tiny tot looking like a Norman Foster building, please take a picture.V & A Village Fete, from 6.30pm tonight and all day Saturday, entry £1.00, children accompanied by an adult go free. more ›

• Looks like Ken has won his battle to stop the opening of a lap-dancing club at London Bridge.
• Apparently the London 2012 Olympics organising committee, is being 'hampered' in its attempts to drum up sponsorsship because of all the other organisations trying to sell Olympics-related sponsorship proposals, despite LOCOG being the sole entity able to sell official rights to the 2012 Games. How dare they!
• Divers have installed a 50m-long underwater mirror at the bottom of Tooting Bec Lido. We're not sure why, but that doesn't stop it being cool.
• Neil Hallows over at the BBC talks about how 7 July made him get on his bike...and then moans about it a lot.
• It's going to be a stormy one today. We expect near-apocalyptic lightning and thunder or we'll want our money back.

London always goes a bit loopy in the heat. Unlikely couplings and incredulous incidents occur once the mercury creeps past a certain point, people and places begin to melt and blur into one another... Outdoor swimming pools become cinemas, banking districts become beaches... more ›

Almost everyone who owns a mobile phone has either accidentally or very deliberately thrown their contraption across great distances - and if you haven't managed to do something destructive to your telecommunications gadget, then you're not using it properly. more ›

People swimming in ice cold English waters is one of those items that habitually pop up on local news bulletins in the deep midwinter. A smug reporter will have a few quick words with a local (and slighty crazed) individual who is usually wearing an inappropriate swimming costume and covered in lard, before standing back and watching with an amused air as said enthusiast launches themselves into the sea/lake/river. Meanwhile, you the viewer can sit back on you sofa, with the central heating turned up to '11' and roll your eyes as you proclaim..."hey, us British...we're CRAZY." more ›

- Police have 'thwarted' terrorist attempts over past few weeks and indentified continuing threats says Ian Blair (although what he actually said was that "the sky is dark", making him sound more like Michael Fish than Met Commissioner). All this on the same day that anti-terrorism laws go before the Commons. Coincidence? more ›

The tag was chosen by former Tooting resident Pete Mouginis-Mark, who works in the nascent field of Martian geology. No high-resolution pictures of the crater are currently available, but This Is Local London offer a wonderful Daily Mirror-style preconstruction of ‘what Tooting on Mars might look like’. more ›