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Ding dong! Big Ben is 150 years old this year, and is hosting an educational kiddie fest to celebrate.

There seems to be a 30’ cigarette butt in Trafalgar Square. To highlight our littered streets apparently. Londonist reckons gum is worse.

Crime is costing Londoners £400.00 per head every year. Best ban it then.

Tube workers are to strike. Again. Um, does anyone else have trouble keeping track of all this at the mo?

A convicted wife-beating Lib-Dem councillor might get to hang on to his Waltham Forest seat. Just the sort of publicity the Lib Dems need right now.

Sunshine courtesy of Simon Collison’s flickr stream.