Thames Water chase quick buck with luxury flats over super sewer Penny pinching Boris takes early break from Transys, the original Oyster operators, to find cheaper alternative Stop and search at Climate Camp causes consternation The Evening Standard unreservedly apologises to Prince Phillip over prostate cancer story Yum, yum: there's a Thai food festival in Greenwich Park this weekend Image courtesy of Stu_Egan via the Londonist flickr group.......

Previewed on here a month ago, this morning London took on Liverpool and Glasgow in the City Vs City 10k. Based on lowest average time of all runners, Liverpool beat London, and Glasgow beat both of us. Now, we're not sore losers. No, honest. However - looking at the overall results, London's men ran 8 seconds faster than Liverpool's men. London's women ran an impressive 1 min 28 seconds faster than Liverpool's women. So......

And so the big day arrives with a bang! I'm up early and cycling through quiet city streets already dappled with sunlight, cameras slung around my shoulders. I switch to public transport to make my way over to the Red Start in Greenwich Park and due to various DLR difficulties don't make it there until a while after the mass start. I wander leisurely past the Royal Observatory enjoying the view and the buzzing......

Fun and frolics in Greenwich Park last weekend, in a kind of flash-mob stylee. It's the latest stunt by 'This is a knife' (or thisisaknife as they irritatingly like to call themselves) 'who bring you the internet week in compact form, in a show only available on the web'. Channel 4 (or '4' as they irritatingly like to call themselves) are behind the show, which you can download here.......

Every time we attend a festival at Victoria Park, it rains. We’re beginning to think that we’re just bad luck for the area. Our attendance yesterday at the Day One of the Lovebox Weekender was no exception. As we stepped off the bus near the edge of the park, our presence seemed to invoke a light drizzle, which soon pulled itself together and turned into a persistent light rain, to the obvious delight of......

Greenwich Park 22 - 23 July: Full details on the official website, but in a nutshell you can see Kill Bill vol1. on the Saturday night and Ferris on Sunday. Other stuff on offer includes the National Symphony Orchestra playing music from both movies along with themes from Ghostbusters, Blade Runner and A Clockwork Orange. Thanks to J.B. for the heads up.......

There's the rest of today, all of tomorrow and all of Saturday. That's a little over two days to brace yourself and exercise your mental defences. When the clock strikes midnight and it officially becomes Sunday 26th March... that's it. It's going to be Mother's Day. Aren't mums lovely? That special lady who brought you into the world and looked after you, stayed up all night worrying and watching over you when you were......

Did you know it's London Sustainability Weeks? (The unexpected plural because it lasts two weeks.) Well, Londonist did and, ever game for some worthy fun, we went along to the opening event on Sunday in Greenwich Park. The London Green Lifestyle Show stretched right across the royal park, with a sea of tents and attractions somewhat akin to a bourgeoisie Glastonbury. Indeed, several chunks of park were devoted to music. Bands with Googlewhack names......