One of the benefits of roof or windowsill gardens must be being pretty confident about what's lurking in your plantings. Not likely to encounter snails or slugs or beetles or.... human remains. Which is what a plucky allotmenteer in Walthamstow dug up last week. To be more specific, a human skull. Police are now running forensic tests on the skull and treating the plot as a crime scene so we wait for more news......

The bones of old Londoners can tell a lot about how they lived - and died - in the city as Wellcome's latest exhibition, opening today, proves. Old burial sites are found from time to time around the city during construction works, for example the remodeling of Spitalfields Market and the Jubilee line expansion. Twenty six skeletons, recovered from 10 different locations across the city and analysed by the Museum of London are on......