Weekend Round-Up

Here's what we've learned this weekend whilst you've been tentatively folding your winter wardrobe away:

Peter Cook gets a green plaque in Westminster.

A man is being questioned following the fatal stabbing of a Mitcham shop assistant on Friday.

Arrests have been made after a fatal shooting in Tottenham, whilst police are investigating a double shooting in Willesden.

Tweed hats off to the octagenarian farmer digging his wellies in over green belt wreckers.

Residents in South West London are nervous about the proposed expansion of a secure mental facility.

A paraplegic soldier from Westminster has completed a cross-Channel row.

London councils are starting to see a shortage of school places as the recession hits private education.

Railway by Nick Holdstock via the Londonist flickr pool.