As part of a multi-billion pound investment programme, the cross-city Thameslink line is to get a brand new fleet of trains. Southern Railway, who will be operating the new stock when it comes into service next spring, will deploy 44 carriages to run northwards to Bedford instead of terminating in Blackfriars as they presently do. Good news for commuters who do the daily yo-yo up and down Thameslink's fifty-odd station route. However, we were......

19. Freakish Falls! During the August of 1920 in Woodford, stones poured from the sky for three consecutive days without explanation. Four years later at Eltham, Plumstead, Woolwich and Shooters Hill a great ice storm battered the area, despite the afternoon being the hottest for two years! The hailstones were the size of eggs, and some jagged in nature, measuring five-inches which fell from the sky, cutting residents who ran for cover. In January......

That's right, the DLR has been going for, if you can believe it, 20 years today. This seems like forever for this Londonista's favourite mode of transport around London. So where did it all start? Well Londonist took a little light rail trip down memory lane. Way back in the 80s, it's hard to imagine but the Docklands were a no man's land in London. (No one came in, no one went out.) This......

A 14-year-old boy is being questioned after 22-year-old Peter Woodhams was shot dead outside his home in Canning Town on Monday. A first person account of the continuing check-in debacle at Heathrow courtesy of the CNN news blog. Owen Wilson got flashed at the You, Me, And Dupree premiere, and yes, there's a picture. It's now been decided that the baby found dead at Heathrow died of natural causes. Scotland Yard's deputy commissioner got......

An unexploded World War II bomb caused London City airport to be closed earlier today. The airport and the area's DLR link were both closed down for several hours at this morning after the device was found on a building site at Seagull Lane, Canning Town. The bomb has since been moved to wasteland where it will be exploded. The airport is back up and running, although there are continuing delays.......

Association football was once again dominated by clubs from the Midlands and the North in 1905, with Newcastle United winning the League Championship and Aston Villa winning their fourth FA Cup. The Capital's sole representatives in Divsion 1, Woolwich Arsenal, could only finish tenth last season and have started the new campaign in equally dismal form, including a 5-1 reverse against Derby County. These are unsettling times at the Manor Ground, with persistent rumours......

The War on Hoodies intensified this week. After losing the Battle of Bluewater, the shadowy forces of maleficence have regrouped to score a minor victory over DHL. Reports from the front line suggest that the delivery firm has been sorely routed in parts of London, including Custom House and Canning Town. Sounding the retreat, DHL are now refusing to deliver to these inner-city areas for fear of attack. Possibly speaking from his reinforced bunker,......