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In with: Kew's 250th anniversary - may your New Year be filled with flowers.

Out with: gun crime - let's not have any more stories like this one about a Greenford 14 year old being shot.

Good bye to: Harold Pinter, whose funeral was in London today.

Hello to: a grim New Year on the job front - the RMT are squaring up for a fight.

Have a good one! Have a safe one. And keep reading...

Wh-hey London! from ronald hackston via the Londonist flickr pool.