And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon... south London soil, Doing the Lambeth Walk? Though reading like a specially written song to celebrate a different Blake's release to walk free on London land, this specially adapted verse is actually to draw your attention to a weekend of William Blake activities: the Blake in Lambeth Festival. Born on this day 251 years ago, Blake lived in Lambeth for ten happy and productive years,......

Ritalin-raging kids with anger management problems in south London are to be given foot massages in order to help them curb their aggression. Lambeth Council has ponied up £90,000 to fund a rabble of reflexologists who will travel across the borough, massaging the heels and toes of troubled under-13s. Painful bunions may not be the source of their misbehaviour; however, according to charity Bud Umbrella, which is administering the scheme, such therapy can "calm......

Well, causes minor political infighting and gets hyperbolically labelled "librarygate". Whilst other boroughs are sexing up their libraries, Lambeth stands accused of inventing temporary book lending services in order to tick Audit Commission boxes on accessibility. Such creative machinations apparently intended to secure Lambeth Council's crown as "most improved local authority" in the period up to 31 March this year by hanging on to the measly one star their cultural services previously earned. Councillors......

Lambeth is traditionally famous for its walk and its palace but here's a new claim to fame for the borough - its residents are rubbish at keeping medical appointments. Last week, it was revealed that patients in Lambeth missed 69,886 primary care appointments last year. In fact, what is it about South London? Southwark came a close second with 65,630 no shows, followed by Lewisham with 63,709. A missed appointment is estimated to cost......

We turn now to Lambeth, a borough with a proud pugilistic tradition, where an epic battle is raging between two of nature's most tenacious talents: Rattus rattus, or the black rat, and Lumbricus Terrestris, otherwise known as the humble earthworm. Sadly for fight-fans everywhere, the two species aren't set to engage in hand-to-hand (or rather claw to, er, 'wormy head') combat. The feud has been sparked by a wily caretaker at Dunraven school in......

On the day a research report confirms what we've been resigned to for yonks, that 2 in 5 of us are priced out of first time homeowning in our capital, a news report about empty council houses in Lambeth Council rubs salt in our renter's wounds. Lambeth are accused of letting 845 Council properties languish untenanted despite a housing shortage, with a hefty 357 reportedly needing less than £5k's worth of work done on......

We don't like to start the week off with a horrifying headline like this. Another tragic teen stabbing story (time to step up those new gory anti-knife ads?) marks this year's 16th violent teen death in the city. We don't have much information, but a 15-year-old girl wearing her school uniform was found in the lift of Matheson Lang House on Baylis Road in Lambeth with at least 10 knife wounds to her front, neck......

When not wowing critics and fans alike, and drawing hordes of male 18-35 year olds into a hermit-like existence as they try to crack the game's labyrinthine layers, Grand Theft Auto IV has been courting controversy like a stressed out salesman courts cheap hookers. GTA IV's violence encourages copycat activity by players, say critics (an argument given credence when a Croydon man was stabbed as he queued to buy a copy). Christian conservative lawyer......

After the fantastic sound journey we took with Philip Jeck on Thursday night, we returned to the Museum of Garden History on Friday evening for the second instalment in Touch's Atmospheres 2 festival. With a line-up ranging from processed field recordings to solo piano and laptop-filtered electric guitar, Touch ensured that our interest would be held through sonic diversity as well as stellar performances. Placing effects-treated field recordings at the centre of their sound,......

As we walked across Lambeth Bridge towards the Museum of Garden History on Thurdsay evening, we were immediately reminded us of how much we enjoyed the first Atmospheres festival. It was on that bridge in October where we started it with a field recording workshop led by Chris Watson. With the old St Mary-at-Lambeth church in close sight, it was tempting to stop for a quick recording session, but we were too afraid of......

Londonist sent in good friend and Flemingophile, Chris Roberts (he of the Londonist walks and One Eye Grey fame), to spy on the new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. As a kid I loved James Bond books, so much so that as an adult I tried to write one. This was before I discovered that Ian Fleming Estates come at you with a, well pick your favourite Bond villain weapon, if you so......

More T5 woe: BA postpones long-haul move Still, at least homeless folk are being helped out by the Heathrow chaos Cops to be electronically tagged; just like the crims, then, eh? Strike saga stumbles on - tube workers votes for industrial action Working for Lambeth PCT doesn't sound much fun Image courtesy of [windscreenfly.com]'s Flickrstream via the Londonist flickr group.......

It's not quite the same as having the local bobby back on the beat, but a scheme trialled in south London that addresses public unease with the remote, impersonal nature of modern policing is set to be rolled out across London. The £325 million Home Office plan will see each council ward assigned a team of police and community support officers, with residents given a mobile phone number and email address to contact their......

East is the new West. You read it here second. The battle begins. To save our post offices that is. Londonist is certainly not going to walk further or queue longer. Porsche versus Ken. This should be interesting. As another youth dies by the knife in Woolwich, gang members are consulted in Lambeth. Somethinng’s gotta give, that’s for sure. Pint in Peckham courtesy of Mot the Hoople’s flickr photo stream.......

A quarter of all 'youth gangs' reside in Lambeth. Now there's a statistic to make the Borough's residents sleep easy at night. According to Auntie, an unpublished report has linked 40 gangs to the area, one with over 2,500 members. That's not a gang, that's a Union. With increasingly more depressing reports coming through every day on the nature of gang / youth violence, and increasingly more hysterical attempts to find a London shaped......