Weekend Round-Up

Here’s what we’ve learned whilst you’ve been resolving to train for the marathon next year:

Draconian new litter laws for motorists are to be piloted in London.

The London Cycling Campaign are worried by a delay in new safety legislation for HGVs.

Now BA pisses off all the other airlines by delaying the move of its long-haul operations to T5 until later on this year.

Freud’s naked London civil servant is set to fetch £17m.

There is a general sharpening of nails as Graham Norton hits back at Kevin Spacey over the BBC’s reality musical shows.

Some legal firms are apparently advising wannabe immigrants to lie on their applications to score more points under the new system. Tsk! Tsk!

The Mayor of Ealing has paid a visit to a pole-dancing club in full regalia to, erm, promote her understanding of such matters. Good for her.

And here is what we expect to have learned by this time next week:

That we can live without our i-pods for a day – National Noise Awareness Day is on the 16th.

That there is a national petition for a gagging order for Heather Mills.

That the strange bus (spotted touring London by several Londonist readers) sporting balloons and a crooning George Galloway is not in fact a manifesatation of what we had to drink last night: it is real and threatening to come to a high street near you.

St. Mary-le-Strand magnolia from bortes cristian’s flickr photo stream.