78. The Whatsit Of Wanstead Woods. If recent rumours are anything to go by, then some strange beast is loitering around the outskirts of London. Situated within the London Borough of Redbridge, Wanstead, spliced by the A12, it is hardly the Pacific Northwest (although its open grasslands do merge with Epping Forest), but could, as the press have been quick to mention, Bigfoot be in our backyards? The name of the suburban area means......

We all know that the Loony Line needs an upgrade, so what’s stopping them? Where not to eat in Leytonstone. A guard was shot and injured by an Enfield pensioner who wanted to try something new yesterday. A man was killed when a tree fell on his van at Clapham Common yesterday. One man was shot in both arms and another in the buttocks in an attack in Camberwell. The smuggler of £1 million......

Barely a week after a vicious gang attacked police officers in Croydon, we bring you another sobering tale of needless violence from the blighted borough: an unruly mob has caused £10,000 worth of damage to a 150-year old church in Shirley. Before you get scribbling to the the papers with hand-wringing woes about the yoof of today, with their iPods and idiotic idioms and bulletproof hoodies, bear this in mind: the miscreants in this......