Weekend Round-Up

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been practising your backhand:

In the weekend’s stabbing round-up:

Five youths, including one girl, have now been arrested in connection with the murder of Shakilus Townsend on Friday.

A man was stabbed on Putney Heath last night.

Two security guards employed by Nike town were stabbed yesterday afternoon as they tried to apprehend shoplifters.

Police continue to hold a man in connection with the New Cross murders.

And in other news:

There’s a right old rumpus about the resignation of deputy mayor Ray Lewis.

The police are to offer anti-kerb-crawling courses to offenders. The mind boggles.

There were flushed cheeks in every sense of the word when a man had to be cut out of a titanium chastity belt by firemen.

Tesco are trying to buy Highams Park.

And here’s what we think we will have learned by this time next week:

That this year’s summer really does look set to be wetter than last;

London may have grown stronger following 7/7, but clearly for some the pain will never go away.

There's more to Wimbledon than tennis. Piccie from Phillie Casablanca's flickr stream under the Creative Commons Licence.