- Racist vans: Home Office is "Clear that this is already working, while "not sure 'what figures have been collated at this point'". Hmmm.
- Ever called out the fire-brigade after getting your hand/arm/genitals stuck in a handcuff/toaster/vacuum cleaner? It's all the rage.
- Thatcher funeral cost £1.2 million.
- Cable speaks out amid claims that Crossrail workers have been blacklisted from future work because of union activity.
- £100 million mansion for sale in Kensington Palace Gardens.
- The fascinating tale of suffragette turned fascist Mary Richardson.
- An amazing miniature London Underground station.
- "A gaping void in the Lower Lea Valley has been healed," says Diamond Geezer, as the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park partly opens.
- Image: a giant cat has appeared in various locations around London as a stunt to promote Monopoly. A much-smaller version of the cat is the new playing piece, replacing the iron.
