This Saturday London’s comic lovers can pop out to Mile End and discover what’s lurking in the UK’s small comics scene. The fifth year of the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing is happening at Queen Mary, and it should be a grab bag of indie delights. A look at the list of stuff on show reveals a pretty good menagerie: you can check out comics about friendly beavers, depressed dinosaurs, ninjas in various......

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been taking tea with mother… Greed, stupidity and a gambling addiction are not a good combination: a council housing official is duly jailed. Aspiring immigrant mini-cabbies are to be asked to obtain a ’certificate of good conduct’ from their country of origin. Yeah, like this is really going to work. Did Lucy really want to marry Mike, or did she just want to be on Capital......

There is the usual hoo-ha over crime figures. We all know that they’re up really, so who’re they trying to kid? First she was deformed, and then maimed. Leslie Ash gets rather a tidy sum by way of compensation. Axe wielding motorist gets his sentence quashed. Well, he was only swinging it at clampers, so hey-ho. The Cardinal of Westminster Cathedral is praying for divine financial intervention. Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup has joined......

Huge hangover? Spent all of your money? Yep, us too. So we can't go and watch Barbara Streisand (though we don't think we'll ever be that rich) and we can't go and see Elling. But, here's a few things you can do this week to make things a little easier on your pocket. Monday: Been a while since you've seen a good film? Then the Canary Wharf Summer Series at Canada Square park should......

This Day In London’s History 1554: Lady Jane Grey and her husband Lord Guildford Dudley are executed at the Tower of London. Named as successor to the throne by King Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey became Queen of England in July 1553. However her reign was exceptionally short-lived – she was replaced by her cousin Mary Tudor after only nine days, and detained in the Tower of London. Some months later, under considerable political......

Professor Fernandez-Armesto, professor of global environmental history at Queen Mary, University of London, and a member of Oxford University's modern history faculty explains how he ended up in the back of a "paddy wagon" after having his legs kicked out from under him by a police officer in Atlanta for jaywalking: Further coverage with arrest scene photo and more video: History News Network. Arrested, cuffed and jailed, the don caught jaywalking: The Independent.......

Londonist was in Mile End last Thursday, attending Alan Rusbridger's inaugral lecture as the new Hugo Young Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London. The subject of The Guardian editor's lecture, organised by a group of history postgraduate students, was 'Weblogs vs Journalism: The Future of Newspapers' and as you would perhaps expect, the delivery was sharp, erudite and at times, rather funny. Rusbridger's premise was that in an era where newspapers across......

In last week's Preview, we acknowledged the fact that our prediction skills were lacking somewhat, so we thought that we'd give Paresh, the newsagent at Wanstead tube station, a chance to have a go instead. Paresh let us down. He got two right, which is no better than our recent efforts. Paresh has expressed his remorse over this sorry performance, but we are afraid that now we have no option but to go and......

Just a gentle reminder that the pre-booking starts today for some of the more popular locations in the 2005 Open House London . As we mentioned at the start of the month the actual event isn't for a month or so yet (17-18 September), but as it's free the most popular sites inevitably go very very quickly so you might want to get in there early to try and secure a spot. According to......

Sometimes scientists don't really do themselves any favours when it comes to combating their negative stereotyping as grant-obsessed-reality-dodging-ivory-tower-stoner-eggheads. A crack research team at Queen Mary University of London has conclusively proved that a Credit or Bank card is the optimum tool for playing scratch cards. We can just see how that particular research direction was chosen: "Oh man, you know how we were going to get that new electron microscope?" "Uh-huh." "Well I've just......