Remember the pigeon feeding turf wars of 2006? Well, the Pigeon Action Group are back in the news. A candlelit vigil was held at midday today on Trafalgar Square's north terrace (in daylight?) to highlight the plight of the poor starving birds. Westminster City Council closed the loophole that had allowed certain pigeon protestors to feed the birds on a daily basis back in September to make the public square more hygenic and pleasant.......

It happens at the worst of times, always. You'll be in that changing room of Topshop, jeans straddled around your hips, or on that tube platform, waiting for a train with a requisite five minute delay and then it strikes you - the urge to pee. Out of your comfort zone (the zone of knowing where the nearest cubicle is), the fear magnifies tenfold. You could surreptitiously enter that local restaurant, and negotiate the humiliation......

When Westminster City Council took on the free newspapers London Lite and The London Paper, Londonist was fully supportive. Tired of the masses of papers scattered around the city at the end of each day, the Council asked that Associated Newspapers (owners of London Lite) and Rupert Murdoch's News International (owners of The London Paper) take responsibility for the amount of rubbish they were creating and install 150 newspaper recycling bins around Westminster and......

Westminster City Council is making a stand against free London newspapers London Lite (owned by Associated Newspapers) and The London Paper (owned by Rupert Murdoch) not because the City Council is tired of the two types of non-news offered in the many, many copies distributed each day, nor are they taking an official stand against the irritating assault course of newspaper distributors outside each major tube and bus station but because there is just......

You'd think a burly contingent of live in Beef Eaters would be enough to defend The Tower of London from attack, but it seems no one took into account the overwhelming destructive power unleashed by property developers. Plans to stop developers putting up ugly buildings near Britain's heritage sites have been unveiled. Britain's 27 World Heritage Sites, including the Tower of London, are not formally protected by planning laws. But the government is now......

Artist and curator Robert Gordon McHarg III founded the Subway Gallery last year and on 6th of June 2006, the gallery joined the rest of London's art scene. While some galleries like to say they are underground, this one is undeniably so. It's in a pedestrian subway, still open to the public, still used by many people trying to get from one side of Edgware Road to the other. It's, like, totally underground. The......

Westminster City Council just never stop thinking: Bailing out of a dull Christmas office party has been made easier with the launch of a new texting service. The "excuse text" is part of a free service launched by Westminster City Council, which includes a list of travel numbers and mobile phone alerts. The four-week, £70,000 council-funded campaign, aims at ensuring revellers get home safely after a night out. "And if making small talk with......

We promised to keep you updated on what was happening with the statue of Nelson Mandela that Westminster City Council wanted no part of. Well it finally looks like it'll be finding a place in Parliament Square. Or Canning Green. "The clock would start ticking as soon as we have a planning application. With all this pre-planning hopefully it would be a matter of months before it would come through." Good grief. We're not......

It's 4am and you can't sleep. You've exhausted the Internet after reading the whole thing twice and even the American football on Channel 5 can't send you to sleep. What you could really do with is watching some naked women rubbing themselves up against the furniture, but the nursing home won't let you in at this hour... what a conundrum. Don't fret though - Peter Stringfellow is on the case. It's been a while......

We like our hidden bits of London, the secret and forgotten and pleasantly rediscovered bits. Did you know that there was once a swimming pool in the very heart of Soho? The Marshall Street Baths were built in 1931 for "the health and well-being of local people," with one large pool and one smaller "second class" pool that incidentally has the nicer roof - an extremely fine example of barrel vaulted Art Deco design.......

It's time to give the batteries a rest and let your fingers do the walking this week - National Energy Saving Week is upon us. The Energy Saving Trust would like to see us adopting multiple energy saving measures to help reduce 20% of our energy consumption. There's more info on how to go about that up on their website, but it boils down to cutting back on home energy use, driving cleaner vehicles......

The Arts Theatre in the West End (the one near the Photographer's Gallery around the corner from Leicester Square tube) is at the moment battling to stay alive. The theatre was the first London home to the Royal Shakespeare Company and was where Waiting for Godot got its UK debut, but right now its owners are trying to have the place demolished in order to redevelop the surrounding buildings as "higher value commercial property......

Marylebone: shops, bars, restaurants increased death rates, respiratory disease and more asthma attacks. At least that's what to expect according to a press release from Friends of the Earth who reveal that air pollution levels in London are breaking European law and that the government could face prosecution by the European Commission as levels of fine particles at a monitoring site on Marylebone Road exceeded European standards for the 36th day this year while......

Wow that's a contrived headline. Sorry about that. But, hopefully, it should make some sort of sense once you've read this story. Basically what's happened is that Westminster Council have instructed pubs in Soho to remove their rainbow 'Freedom flags' on planning grounds, citing the fact that they constitute a structural change and could also be perceived as 'advertising'. If they don't remove the flags the bars could face fines of £250 for every......