This Week In London’s History Monday – 18th June 1972: A British European Airways plane bound for Brussels crashes moments after taking off from Heathrow airport, killing all 118 passengers. An inquiry later concludes that the pilot had made a ‘speed error’ and stalled the plane, causing it to crash into a field in Staines. Tuesday – 19th June 1997: McDonald’s wins a libel case against two members of the ‘London Greenpeace’ campaigning group.......

A British fugitive who claims to be a cannibal is to stand trial for murder. Paul Durant, who escaped from the Royal London Hospital in 2003 whilst charged with armed robbery, made a chilling confession to the Mirror last October. He claimed to have murdered his girlfriend, missing Barking woman, Karen Durrell, writing: “I believed God had delivered her to me and I was getting messages from the telly. After I killed her, I......

Windows Vista was launched in the UK today and Bill Gates was on hand to put the operating system through its paces at the British Library Full press release here, but this was the part that caught our eye: Bill Gates and Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library, also announced the digital reunification of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks. The two notebooks, known as the Codices, are owned by the British Library (Codex......

A British terrorist cell talked about blowing up the Ministry of Sound because of all the 'slags dancing around' in there. Two men have been arrested in connection with the shootings in London on Wednesday evening. London TravelWatch want Ken to take over the running of all London's trains. It costs 5% more to 'live' in London than it did this time last year. The national average increase over a year is 1.8%. Good......

As the Met begin their "swift" probe of the weekend's protests it turns out that the man who dressed up as a suicide bomber is in fact a convicted drug dealer who has been out of jail for less than a year. A British Airways flight heading for Heathrow from Newark, New Jersey was diverted to Boston's Logan International Airport after smoke was reported in the cockpit. It landed safely and there were no injuries.......

London Bridge is in such a sorry state that double decker buses no longer operate over it and tourists are now being wooed by the Dixie Belle riverboat tour and a nearby Hawaiian gift shop instead. Mike Dagon, a local real estate agent had this to say: London Bridge still attracts a lot of people but the visitation hasn't grown much over the years. It used to be the second-most popular tourist attraction in......