- Ofsted is expected to put a Church of England school in Stepney into special measures after concerns over a sixth-form Islamic society.
- Two east London hospitals are paying £1,760 a day for stand-in doctors due to staff shortages.
- London Review of Books claims around 840 academic staff at London Metropolitan University are on zero-hours contracts.
- The crisis at New Era estate has led to the Guardian questioning whether we're all just living inside 'financial instruments'.
- Someone's gone and looped the loop on their bike on the South Bank. Then they tried to flog everyone a mobile phone.
- Jeremy Vine's had a run-in (or should that be cycle-in) with Hyde Park police.
- Boris refuses to pay his taxes (in the USA, not here).
- The beautiful Hornsey Town Hall is reopening as an arts space.
