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Firemen are about to vote on whether to strike.

The local naming thing is catching on as London Zoo name its new penguin chicks Regents and Primrose.

Want to cut crime in your hood? Trim your hedges.

Struggling Lords Cricket Ground looks set to, um, diversify.

A new use is found for unwanted newspapers as a Waltham Forest undertaker starts to make eco-coffins.

On the strange case of Kojak, the unwanted boa.

Typing Pool, by greybeardother via the Londonist pool.