Extra, Extra

End it like Beckham - Becks wants kids to put an end to knife crime.

Boris opened the 2012 Velopark, aka the Redbridge Cycling Centre, today.

To lose two deputies, Mr. Johnson, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness.

A woman has been charged with stabbing another woman in the stomach in Hammersmith last Friday. Fairer sex, huh?

Looks like the tube strike is off.

Anti-vandal measures on London’s railways get serious. There must be a reality TV programme in there somewhere.

And finally, meet Merton’s star bus lane: £250,000 in fines raked in in just one year. "Crikey!" (said in a Scooby Doo voice).

Piccie from darren lehane's Londonist flickr stream.