Hackney held a big 2012 party this weekend: One Carnival celebrated the borough’s role at the centre of the Olympic universe in 4 years’ time. After many hours of will-he-won’t-he, Busta Rhymes did. Perform at his gig that is. He’d been detained by British immigration officials. There has been a surge in the number of abandoned doggies on the streets of London, especially the more dangerous varieties. Sex in Islington Green is a seven-days-a-week......

got a bit of a booster jab today with the launch of a super-duper double deluxe health trust-type thingy. As of September, UCL Partners will see five of London’s top medical organisations (UCL, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Moorfields, and the Royal Free Hampstead) squeezing into one great white coat. This is good news for patient care, as the pooled resources have to be greater than the sum of the parts.......

Jedi masters are best known for warding off evil forces of the Dark Side on the silver screen, but to 5-year-old Drew James of Hextable, Kent, they are warding off illness in his everyday life. Diagnosed with leukaemia in April this year, Drew’s father used the best analogy his little boy could understand and described the leukaemia as Darth Vader or Darth Maul and the necessary-but-horrendous chemotherapy treatments as the Jedi sent to destroy......

Every now and again, there's a story that crops up in the news that touches Londonist's heart. When we heard about Margaret Rollinson dashing to save a little girl's life, we really were moved. After swerving to miss a reckless driver in a car that had pulled out in front of him, an ambulance paramedic had burst two tyres. This would be unfortunate under any circumstances, but the ambulance in question was carrying a......

Having a wardrobe chuck out is both liberating and therapeutic. Getting rid of the too small, tatty, smelly or simply rubbish garments you’ve been haplessly hoarding is a ritual of cleansing and renewal. It’s even better if a plastic sack is delivered promising a doorstep collection this Friday that will ship off your rejects, with no effort on your part, to be recycled into magic money and sparkles for various charities. You get to......

LinkMachineGo has been keeping us up to speed with the fallout over Alan Moore's Lost Girls: Comic row over graphic Peter Pan / Sex acts' Wendy is Panned / Hospital worry at "porn" take on Peter Pan's Wendy / Alan Moore's erotic Lost Girls / Rich Johnson on Lost Girls / Rich Johnson Reviews Lost Girls You know already then that this is going to be awesome. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has......

If there's one thing we dislike here at Londonist its dead little girls. So we were happy to hear that doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital gave the grim reaper a jolly good kick in the balls in the case of 12 year old Hannah Clark: A 12-year-old girl is believed to have become the first British heart transplant patient to have her donor organ removed and her heart re-started. Take that Death, you......

London doesn't have enough nurses to look after sick and premature babies. Only Great Ormond Street children's hospital has the reccomended one nurse for every baby. The transport watchdog London Travelwatch wants consultation processes before we see any more hikes in fair prices. Ken's urging us not to feed the pigeons again, and not just becasue he hates them. This time it's to combat bird flu. It's all about Ken today: he's also urging the......

Peter Pan is back. Captain Hook couldn't kill him, Robin Williams had a damn good try while Jeremy Sumpter's attempt was mostly ignored, but now children’s' author Geraldine McCaughrean has breathed some fresh life into Michael Jackson's inspiration for messing around in kids' bedrooms. The not so catchy 'Peter Pan in Scarlet' will tell readers what happened next not only to Peter, but the rest of the gang too: McCaughrean said: "Neverland was such......

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event Of The Week Tomorrow’s Tower Blocks: the Dana Centre Here’s a strange thought. Many Londoners can recall a time, only a little more than 40 years ago, when nothing was taller than St Paul’s. Now, there are around 20 structures that outreach the cathedral, with many more on......

The London Underground and the Good Lord aren't normally to found in the same context, but this story from today's papers manages to combine the two. This week, Mike Challis, general manager for the Piccadilly Line received an envelope containing £400 in fifty pound notes. Quickly dismissing the idea that TfL had decided to deliver this year's track maintenance budget by post, Mike read the accompanying letter, composed by a repentant fare dodger who......