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Wednesday news. Including rather a fabulous career change for one Hounslow taxi driver.

News: from gorilla fights to barrow wars. Seems a bit rough out there this weekend, no?

And the rest of the day’s news…

Why global warming means more than melting icebergs and drowning polar bears.

Beauty is more than fur deep. This is the message from the Zoological Society of London this New Year.

Image courtesy of ZSL Londoners can finally get a peek at the city’s latest cuddly attraction: the two-day-old baby gorilla born at the London Zoo on Tuesday – the first in 20 years – has been revealed to the camera. The baby was born to …

Eel be dead, then. The number of eels in the Thames and its tributaries has dropped by 98% in five years, say scientists from the Zoological Society of London. The quantity caught in special test traps (and later released) nosedived from 1500 in 2005 to …

Caecillians, or ‘naked snakes’ don’t get a lot of press coverage. These shiny, slippery, wormy things have yet to feature on the otherwise comprehensive wildlife calendar that great aunt Londonist insists on buying us each Christmas. An upcoming event at the Zoological Society of London …

The fauna of Regents Park got a little more exotic yesterday when a red panda escaped its enclosure at London Zoo. The mammal, a little larger than your typical cat, was spotted by park security in a nearby tree at 3am on Monday morning. After …

As you’re probably aware, Londonist is a great fan of London’s independent bookshops. Imagine our excitement then, that between 6.30pm-8.30pm tonight the excellent London Review Bookshop in Bloomsbury is offering a 10% discount on all books, CDs and DVDs, alongside free wine and a selection …