Out with the old, in with the new: Clapham Junction to get new residential towers, new train station entrance, new ticket hall, new escalators, and revamped shopping centre (not a new one? way to ruin the theme, developers). Recently rechristened Old Hoxditch to get its very own music fest. Three Graces, to which Londonist will ineloquently refer in conversations with friends as “you know – the three hugging naked ladies ”, to be exhibited......

Pete Doherty wants to run the London marathon. We're sure many people will sneer at this idea, what with Pete's history of performance restricting drugs, his post-rehab bloatedness, and his jaunty hat, which will have to be held on with an elastic strap if he is to continue to look like a handsome East end libertine/bohemian counter cultural icon/twat* (*delete as appropriate). However, we welcome his decision to take up exercise. We're sure that he's......

No matter what your opinion of the 2012 olympics, we're now all helpless to stop it and we won't be able to get away from it for five years so in a Stockholm Syndrome-like way we should all come to love our captors and get excited. After a video treasure hunt across the web, today the branding was launched. How was it to represent London? Would it be all beefeaters and black cabs? The......

Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don't let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things we love, you included. Just be glad you're not amongst the things we hate. SFist saw their beloved mayor enter rehab, and they loved the opportunity to gossip about it.......

You Know I'm No Good. Amy Winehouse is a girl who makes us squeal out loud. When she released her first album, we foolishly dismissed her as nu-jazz and threw her into a skip with Katie Melua. Now as she crawls round London drunk unafraid to offend anyone who gets in her way and pulls off the best Never Mind The Buzzcocks performance we've ever seen, we realise how foolish we were - she's......

In case you missed it earlier: The Met have pleaded not guilty to health and safety charges relating to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. It's a 'test case' apparently. Police patrols at churches and mosques in London have been stepped up following the protests over Pope Benedict's remarks about Islam. A survivor of July 7 has criticised TerrorBull Games of Cambridge for creating War on Terror: The Board Game. The game includes......

Greek police are in town today talking to Scotland Yard about London's role as a hub for antique traffickers. The restored Lifeboat Pier station on Victoria Embankment will be officially opened today to mark the start of London Lifeboat Week. The Saturday late start for the Tube will have a detrimental effect on Heathrow airport claims a group representing UK airlines. Wigmore hall has been saved from closure. A new 300-year lease has been......

Tube maintenance workers are talking about a three-day strike over job cuts, starting on December 19. An armed robbery at a Netto in Peckham has ended with one of the suspected raiders being shot in the arm by police. Dr Mike Mitchell, the Department of Transport's rail director general, has been accused of verbally assaulting a GNER employee in a restaurant carriage on a train out of Kings Cross. The IOC agrees with Tessa that......

As Pete Doherty was driving round London after another successful stint in rehab, Londonist was having some substance free fun of it's own; although we were eyeing up one of the Luminaire's shooters - the Jim Morrison: Jack Daniels, Jim Beam and Wild Turkey, mmmm...smokey! Some of you may remember we've waxed on, waxed off about TODD and Part Chimp before. But the chance to see them both together, now we really HAD to......

Everyone has fond memories of Hi De Hi. Londonist used to watch, mouth agape, dumbfounded by the idea that anyone would consider enforced jollity and strictly regimented 'fun' to be their idea of a good holiday. The best thing about Hi De Hi was how it made this Londonista's usual holiday - a week in a tent in Wales - look like the epitome of holiday freedom by comparison. Sheep trying to eat the......

As we walked out of the Royal Albert Hall at the interval of last Friday's performance of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, we pondered which was more shocking: the fact that a hall packed with several thousand punters was forced to wait a full hour for the concert to begin while the technical staff of the Royal Albert Hall attempt to stop a high-pitched whine of microphone feedback, or the fact that Anne Sofie von......

Getting the remake treatment this week is the fondly remembered Magic Roundabout, recreated in a very European computer generated style, with the added draw of celebrity voices, such as Kylie Minogue, Joanna Lumley, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent and Robbie Williams. This doesn't save the film from taking a critical kicking as both Bradshaw in The Guardian (two stars) and James Christopher in The Times (two stars also) aren't exactly engaged in a nostalgia fest,......