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A teenager has died in East London two days after being stabbed, whilst a man was shot dead in Walthamstow yesterday.

If you have to be a councillor, do it in Croydon or Newham: it's payrise time.

Trivia of the day more peeps pucker up for Pattinson than for Radcliffe at Madame T's.

Our Cheryl seems to have malaria.

Boris has launched a competition for communities who grow their own food.

Cheap tickets for 2012? Yup - it was too good to be true. The belt is being tightened.

Barbicollage, by Stephen Iliffe via the Londonist pool.