- Retail sales in the West End are up.
- Officer has to be cut out after police car crashes on Oxford Street.
- TOX gets 27 months.
- Meet Champagne Charlie, London's newest (alleged) conman.
- It emerges that the Mayor of Tower Hamlets prefers a leased Merc to public transport....
- ...which will go down well on a day that Central Line passengers fainted in a hot broken-down tube train.
- A man has been arrested after two Poussins were defaced at the National gallery.
- Hackney are to trial an outdoor smoking ban in children's play areas.
Island Gardens gazebo, by Andy Wilkes from the Londonist flickr pool. Seems Tower Hamlets are threatening to rent out their parks.
