Could chocolate eating catch on as an Olympic event? Cadburys unwrap their sponsorship plans. 007 buys a flat with a whole load more 0s in it: £4m for a pad by Regents Park. Bet his bank manager’s shaken and stirred. Jon is Snowed under by grateful campaigners after he helped save their local, the Torriano, in Camden. An all-female charge on parliament by the Plane Stupid group last night was thwarted. Hammersmith and Fulham......

James Bond would be neither shaken nor stirred by the news today that MI5 is to launch a recruitment drive for gays and lesbians to join the government's security service. The story was leaked to the Sun of all places (which we reckon isn't particularly well-targetted at gays and lesbians in particular). This is, however, a real turn-around. Until the early 1990s, a gay person couldn't join the London-based national security service as they......

It's that time of year again. Time for Christmas shopping, panto and end-of-year pub quizzes. Ah, December. In their last film pub quiz spectacular or the year, the You're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat team has pulled out all the stops, and you'd best brush up on your film trivia. If you've not been to one of these amazingly fun nights before, and have an otherwise boring Wednesday night lying in front of you,......

Hundreds of fans flocked to Leicester Square last night for the London premiere of The Golden Compass. Fans who braved the slightly rainy weather were treated to glimpses of stars Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, along with the thirteen year old star of the film Dakota Blue Richards and director Chris Weitz. Based on the first book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, Northern Lights, the film has been the subject of much......

Londonist would like to introduce their very own special agent. Well, in the assassin water pistol world anyway. We're going to call him 'Derek'. This isn't his real identity and he may not even be a man. Why all the secrecy? Well we've been following Derek as he plays Street Wars, the three week event where people all over London are getting soaked with water pistols in the name off war. Or silliness. If......

The might of the Church of England has been unleashed upon reality television and dumb programming in general. Its members point out that Big Brother, Strictly Come Dancing and even Little Britain aren't very good. In fact they are accused of lowering standards of behaviour and exploiting the humiliation of human beings: There were complaints about everything from BBC news bulletins undermining respect for the prime minister by referring to him only by his......

When secret agent James Bond is not busy neutralizing evil geniuses who live in really cool houses, he becomes sometimes concerned about the welfare of troubled children. Or at least his tux does. Or at least one of the prop tuxes that Daniel Craig wore when he portrayed James Bond in Casino Royale does. At a recent auction to raise money for the children's charity ChildLine, the tuxedo, worn during the shooting of the......

Looks like the next Bond movie will be made here in London despite earlier reports that the franchise could be moving somewhere cheaper: Broccoli has mellowed, and is keen to keep 007 in London - with DANIEL CRAIG starring again following his critically acclaimed performance in CASINO ROYALE. She says, "We'd like to do another two or three with Daniel and we'd like to film the next one in London." We saw Casino Royale......

This week - Bond is back (Casino Royale) and two magicians go head to head in Edwardian London, (The Prestige). Bond is here! Well... on he will be on Thursday. We watched the last Bond installment last night on ITV2. We had forgotten how gash it was. We'd forgotten about the scene with Madonna in it. It's best to forget. But it looks as if there is a hope.... Bradshaw gives Casino Royale 4/5!......

Our worries about Daniel Craig not being the best choice for Bond were turned up a notch over the weekend when we read that he was crap at the old fisticuffs: While filming his first fight scene in movie remake Casino Royale, actor Daniel Craig had two of his teeth knocked out by a villain. Shocked Daniel staggered backwards with his hand up to his bleeding mouth... Shocked? Staggered? Now we know there's supposed......

A round of applause please for the Daily Record and what must be the most contrived story of 2006 so far. BOND PLOT MIRRORS 7/7 KILLING screams the headline: The plot of James Bond's latest movie mirrors the real life killing of the Brazilian shot by police in London after the 7/7 terror bombings. A leaked script reveals 007 shoots a suspected bomber only to discover later that he got the wrong person and......

Bond is back. Well, on his way at any rate as filming on Casino Royale just started in Prague, but so far the world's most well know secret agent is flying solo. There's a problem finding the right Bond girl. "They're talking to three to four girls right now... Every week I read there's a new Bond girl, and I call them and they say, 'No, you idiot'." Poor old Paul Haggis. Nothing like......

We might have got the scoop on this one, so remember where you heard it first ok: Daniel Craig is OFFICIALLY the new Bond. Yeah, there have been a ton of rumours about who might or might not be putting on the tux' for months now, but we have it on very good authority that Craig (most recently in the press for 'bedding' Sienna Miller) has signed on the dotted line and will be......

All the news services which ran with the Brosnan to Remain as Bond story yesterday may be wiping the egg of their collective journalistic face today as it's just been announced that Daniel Craig has been offered a three film contract by Barbara Brocolli. Craig, the star of such hits as Shockers: the Visitor and Occasional, Strong was up against Clive 'tell me when to smile' Owen for the role but the Chancer star......