Were you too chicken to take up the mad musical challenge of auditioning for the cast of Me and My Girl, to be thrown together in 48 hours? If so, you should be curious to see just how this Showtime Challenge turns out. Tickets are on sale now and all in aid of the Anthony Nolan Trust, which runs the UK's most successful bone marrow register. Showtime is 26 October at the London Palladium......

It might be worth your while to paying more attention to the buskers you pass on your way to work: the guy with a guitar you ignore might be a more famous face than you think. From 6-13 September, celebrity buskers will be performing around the UK, including in London, to support Cancer Research UK. Suggs of Madness and Sandi Thom are amongst the artists that have signed up for Busking Cancer in London.......

Despite the slow waterwheel turn of time and the thickening of cataracts, Londonist remembers school well. Oh what fun we had; and did it really turn out bad? All we learned at school was how to bend not break the rules. Yup, school did by us alright, and we could bore the chalk off a blackboard with tales of how we loved it. We won't, but pupils at an east London primary school have......