Weekend Round-Up

Here’s what we’ve learned whilst you’ve been putting your Summer wardrobe back in mothballs:

Those clever boffs at UCL have developed an on-line surname toy: trouble is it is so popular that it seems to be permanently fazed.

Ken has defended Sir Ian Blair against claims of racism.

Anyone wanna buy a Buddhist temple in Upper Norwood?

The last lady veteran of WW1, who was originally from Lewisham, has died aged 109.

A 15 year old moped rider has died following a police pursuit in South London.

And another teen has been stabbed to death in Hackney.

A prolific thief who operated on trains out of London and was caught with £280 clenched in his buttocks has been banned from coming within the M25. A BBC comedy bigwig, Geoffrey Perkins, was killed in an accident in Marylebone on Friday.

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

That we are in fact facing the worst recession for 2,000 years;

That Boris’ next spiffing jape is to rehabilitate the words pish, frock, omnibus and perambulator for common parlance.

That ensh’Allah Ramadan will have started (a fact never taken for granted and depending on the sighting of the new moon).

Heathrow from Simon Crubellier’s Londonist flickr stream.