Weekend Round-Up

Olympic divers are threatened by a shortfall in funding.

If you’re going down, don’t do it at Pentonville: the north London prison is apparently akin to a very large lavatory. Croydon strikes back, as an I Love Croydon campaign is launched.

Bad thing, jealousy – it can lead to headlessness: a woman is jailed.

Metroland is braced for the arrival of a hip and happening new rabbi. The names of post WWII heroes who have died in action are to be added to a permanent memorial in Enfield.

And in the weekend crime round-up, a man has been stabbed to death in Camberwell, and another has been injured in a stabbing in Rotherhithe.

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

That the ‘A’ listers are all away somewhere ‘A’ shaped, and so the news is all ‘B’ list.

’If the first week of August be warm, the winter will be white and long’. Londonist loves lore.

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