Occasionally an event happens so spirit-sappingly depressing to make us wonder if those millenarian, "hell in a handcart", death knell-sounding types in the Mail's employ might actually have a point after all. Here's one: two cops are on sick leave following an attack by a mob in Croydon, after they had the temerity to ask a 15-year old girl to pick up her litter. The mob, some 30 people strong and made up largely......

Some very rubbish remarks about rubbish have been made by Tory councillor Lucy Ivimy about a litter situation in Shepherds Bush. The Hammersmith & Fulham councillor sent an email to the managers of the Woodford Court tower block that blamed the throwing of rubbish from the block's windows onto streets below was down to immigrants who had not learned shed their Indian ways - because that is what Indians do, and must learn not......

If you were out and about on the Underground this weekend you might have caught sight of one of these guys on TfL's latest 'don't be a selfish bastard' campaign. Together for London employs a gang of unthreateningly rounded cartoon figures, The Londoners, each promising to be a better traveller: I will offer my seat I won't play my music out loud I won't drop litter There's even a short split-screen film by Mike......