This Week In London’s History Monday – 18th June 1972: A British European Airways plane bound for Brussels crashes moments after taking off from Heathrow airport, killing all 118 passengers. An inquiry later concludes that the pilot had made a ‘speed error’ and stalled the plane, causing it to crash into a field in Staines. Tuesday – 19th June 1997: McDonald’s wins a libel case against two members of the ‘London Greenpeace’ campaigning group.......

We, at Londonist, love all things artsy that try different things in unusual places. We also really love free things hence we’re collectively hopping up and down with excitement at the prospect of this year’s Greenwich & Docklands International Festival which kicks off four amazing days of free arts festivalness this week. We went last year. It was great. "Festival Fanfare" promises to open proceedings on Thursday evening with riotous street arts, music and......

Pigeons used to be a nuisance in Trafalgar Square, filling the place with feathery disease and streaky poo; for the next three weeks, it's going to be wall to wall performers. Less poo, in some cases just as many feathers. And for some reason, this year there are lots of balls. Lots of balls. Oddball Australian outfit Strangefruit who put on a colourfully crazy show on bendy poles for the Greenwich and Docklands International......

The Londonist Culture Crawl started in Canary Wharf for the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival - and we knew it was going to be colourful the second we emerged from the cool grey steel-toned enclosure of Canary Wharf station and were confronted with the gigantic orange inflatable set for Candoco Dance Company's Minotoria. Blinking and scratching our heads, we watched as the company's able and disable-bodied performers moved around to a growling, bass-heavy soundtrack......

There are some parts of London that just don’t know when to stop. Greenwich has already got a shipload of interesting and beautiful things to visit such as the ruddy big Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, the Old Royal Naval College which is now the University of Greenwich and Trinity College of Music and the almighty, river-spanning foot tunnel. For a brief while, it looked like it might have the London Eye too. And......