Weekend Round-Up

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been taking tea with mother…

Greed, stupidity and a gambling addiction are not a good combination: a council housing official is duly jailed.

Aspiring immigrant mini-cabbies are to be asked to obtain a ’certificate of good conduct’ from their country of origin. Yeah, like this is really going to work.

Did Lucy really want to marry Mike, or did she just want to be on Capital Radio?

Sir Steve Redgrave is an all round good sport.

Weekend knife-crime round-up: not as bad as previous weeks, but can’t we have a week without any knives? Please, London?

There are rather a lot of people who don’t want to see closures at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

And this is what we think we will have learned by this time next week:

That we’re all silly sausages when it comes to our mothers: spending on crap-aphernalia will be at an all time high.

That there are just too many National Awareness Days for Londonist to assimilate. But we do like the look of National Bed Month.

Have a restful one, Londoners.

London Teatime courtesy of zenera’s flickr photo stream.