- London Metropolitan University's licence to teach non-EU students revoked; 2,000 students could be deported.
- A woman is killed by a falling window in Mayfair.
- Two world records and a silver medal for Team GB, while China clinches the first Gold of the Paralympics.
- Former Tory MP for Brent, and mutton-chop advocate Sir Rhodes Boyson dies.
- City Hall opens up more of the region's data, with the London Dashboard.
- 10 'ye olde' London pubs, and a good food guide from 1815.
