This Week In London’s History Monday – 6th October 1985: Police Constable Keith Blakelock, whilst protecting firefighters during a riot in Tottenham, trips over and falls to the ground. Before he can regain his feet, he is hacked to death by a mob carrying knives and machetes. Tuesday – 7th October 2000: The last ever competitive football match to take place at the old Wembley Stadium results in England losing 1-0 to Germany. Wednesday......

Thrill-seekers, take note: the once destitute, now awesome O2 arena wants to become even more awesome. Since the Dome’s rebirth nearly a year ago, its owners have no doubt managed to squeeze a pretty penny or two out of the O2’s interior – what with all the purple rain, wannabes, and whole lotta love seen within its walls. And although Michael Jackson’s month-long moonwalk has yet to be confirmed, you might someday have the......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 29th October 1986: The M25 ‘London orbital’ motorway is officially opened by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, at a ceremony at the last section to be completed (junctions 22 and 23 in Hertfordshire). Tuesday – 30th October 1883: A group known as the Fenian Dynamiters detonates a bomb on the Metropolitan Railway, injuring 62 people. Wednesday – 31st October 1971: An IRA bomb explodes on the 33rd floor......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 8th October 1965: The Post Office Tower (now known as the BT Tower) in Fitzrovia becomes operational as a major hub for national microwave telecommunications. Today it is the only building in the UK that is legally allowed to be evacuated using its lifts. Tuesday – 9th October 1975: An IRA bomb explodes at a bus stop near Green Park tube station, killing one person and injuring......

Michael Murphy is an American architect and illustrator living in London. Growing up in San Francisco and attending university in the desert states of Arizona and New Mexico before working in Dublin and London, Michael has a singular vision that’s uniquely his own. With the recent release of his London series of Giclee prints, we thought now would be a great time to have a chat with Michael about his art. Rather than Londonist......

Capital 95.8 have launched its Lights Out London campaign. Blatantly plagiarising Sydney's 'Earth Hour', the radio station is busily garnering support from celebrities like Kim Wilde for the campaign, which encourages the whole of London to turn off all lights and non-essential appliances between 9 and 10pm on 21 June – the longest day of the year – as a way of promoting awareness of green issues. Al Gore apparently called for a similar......

Something a bit different to kick off the new year. Kurt Roberts sent us this very peculiar shot of the BT Tower, shrouded in weirdness. A corrosive atmosphere of acidic gloom hangs over the city, and eats away at the neck of the tower. Grim. Keep sending in your photoshopped images of the capital. You never know, you might end up in The Sun.......

For anyone who was wondering what the difference was between picking a Photo of the Day and a great photo to accompany the Extra, Extra it's mostly about diving a little deeper into our Flickr pool. Take tarotastic's BT Tower from Primrose Hill for example. Posted to the pool back in July of last year and well worth pulling to the top of the pile. Makes us want to break the Space: 1999 boxsets......

Remember the 20th Century when the camera never lied? At least according to sage chroniclers of the time, Bucks Fizz. Well, this century, doctoring images is all the rage - the Daily Mirror practically makes a selling point out of it, and even the Olympic bid relied on superimpositions of giant athletes leaping over famous landmarks (Peter Crouch not being available). So we decided it was high time we had a weekly slot to......

Christmas is just around the corner, and signs of the festive season are cropping up all over, from the jolly garlands that were put up in our local Superdrug sometime in the middle of October, to non-denominational holiday illuminations hopefully not flicked on by convicted rapists. But of course one of the most eagerly-awaited signs of the Yuletide is to be seen on Oxford Street, in the famous holiday window displays at Selfridges. Needless......

The BT Tower is 40 years old today! Staff at the tower are marking the celebration with a party , so if we hear of a rash of fatalities in the West End caused by vol-au-vents thrown from 620ft above ground level, we'll know that things have got out of hand. It seems to us that the Tower, formerly known as the Post Office Tower, is one of those structures that we can always......

Did you see the Top 20 Film Locations list that was put together by Film London last week? It was pretty rubbish. We know these kind of things are designed to provoke dicussion and argument, but one company counting up which of the locations on their books have been used the most over the past year really isn't that great a read. Potters Field Park (as used in Little Britain)? Bethnal Green Town Hall......

It’s tall and ungainly, of uncertain worth, and will look slightly out of place in its surroundings. No, we’re not talking about the signing of Peter Crouch to augment the Liverpool forward line-up, but the nascent Vauxhall Tower, which has just been given the green light by John Prescott. Looking something akin to a well-fed BT Tower, the monolithic high-rise will be constructed behind those new green and white apartment blocks at St George’s......