Tower Hamlets is to re-invent itself as a *healthy town*. The trail is to vanish for London’s human trafficking team: its funding has been withdrawn. Prominent black icons are to participate in a TV anti-gun campaign. Meet the woman with Britain’s smallest carbon footprint: she hasn’t used motorised transport for over a decade. A man has been found shot in a car in Beckton. The Tower of London has been burnt down…(OK – a......

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been cavorting at this festival or that: RIBA have commended the Terminal 5 building and Wembley Stadium. As if they could get away without praising Wembley…. A new report on gun crime fails to report anything that’s particularly new. The police seem to have misplaced a bailed terrorist. Pleasure cruises that are a bit too pleasurable: police raids net some dodgy substances. The BBC have admitted......

Another advert, another controversy, it seems. Just a couple of weeks ago a Grand Theft Auto IV ad was removed from Streatham because its gun-toting avatar was deemed insensitive in an area that had recently seen two gun-related murders. Now an ad in Crystal Palace train station for Chris Ryan's new book, Strike Back, will also be taken down because of its pro-violence message. With a recent spate of stabbings making headlines, it's no surprise......

Guns don't kill people, bullets kill people. But bullets need guns to fire them and people to pull the triggers, so it's a bit of a joint effort all round. The technicalities of death aside, one thing we can probably all agree on, and speak up now if you don't, is that we don't need guns on the streets. Of any kind. We'd rather not even have them in the hands of the police......