Sir Simon Milton appointed Deputy Mayor Wembley Park Sports Ground protestors refuse to budge Ronnie Kray prison barter artwork under the hammer Prince Charles pops down the East End Organisations sign up for the London Child Poverty Pledge (to alleviate it, that is) Image taken at Rise this weekend courtesy of onionbagblogger via the Londonist flickr group.......

Boris Johnson has appointed Tim Parker as First Deputy Mayor and Chief Executive of the GLA. Mr Parker is also nominated as Chairman of Transport for London to succeed Boris - who has happily realised he perhaps shouldn't be keeping too many plates in the air - from September. Mr Parker has agreed not to receive a salary but will get a nominal one pound a year for his trouble. £1? Multi-millionaire or no,......

Sandhu, we suspect, gets less sleep than a hummingbird in a centrifuge. Over the past couple of years, the author and film critic has eschewed shuteye to learn more about the capital's nocturnal inhabitants. His new book, Night Haunts, presents eleven accounts from an unfamiliar London. There are those in trouble - the immigrant cleaners and minicab drivers subsisting on minimal wages with few rights and little respect. Those who help the troubled -......

Don't forget that tomorrow is the Russian Winter Festival in Traflagar Square. Ken will be there around 12:30 for the opening ceremony (along with the Deputy Mayor of Moscow!) and for entertainment there's the brilliantly namesd Alexandrov Red Army Choir; the equally-brilliantly named Faizi Gaskarov Ensemble ("It is through dance that Bashkirians have always expressed their overwhelming joy in living and driven their pain and sorrow into the ground," apparently); and the even more-brilliantly......

It seems a bit harsh, but yesterday the huge Christmas tree which has stood proudly in Trafalgar Square for the past couple of weeks was shredded and made into compost. As part of the effort to make this tree the 'greenest' in London's history (energy efficient lights and a hydrogen fuel cell generator) the tree was fed into a chipper by Deputy Mayor Nicky Gavron and Blue Peter presenter Simon Thomas. A section of......