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Soon-to-be acting Met. Police Commissioner, Paul Stephenson, has been knighted.

A South West London PC ended up playing midwife after he pulled a car over for speeding.

Olympic belt tightening continues as plans for the media centre are scaled back.

Robbers with a conscience: teen thieves returned their swag to three pastors they had robbed minutes previously.

Barnet’s obese are proving a heavy burden for the health authorities: they cost £85 million a year to maintain.

Users of Greenwich Park are up in hooves about plans to stage equestrian events there in 2012.

A new eco-tower is is being planted in Vauxhall.

Conundrum from steve_w's Londonist flickr stream.