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If your CV is looking a little tired, here’s something that’ll perk it up: chess-boxing. It’ll give you that ‘not to be messed with’ edge.

Labour ministers: can we trust them? Knife smuggling: not good, not good.

Pooh still commands big bucks, as an original illustration goes for $50,000. Hum ti tum.

Still on the arts: a nightmarish scene depicting quins has won the National Portrait Gallery’s photographic prize.

An elderly London man was killed yesterday by a speeding police car.

Autumn scrunchy leaves from atanselde's Londonist flickr stream.