The tussle over the fate of an east end council block stepped up a gear over the weekend, as a heavyweight "starchitect" and a respected art critic both sided with a campaign to save the building. Robin Hood Gardens, a 1972-built concrete block in Poplar, was recently singled out as a failed estate by local MP and culture minister Margaret Hodge, who wants it demolished. However, it has been defended by Richard Rogers and......

Residents vs. architects: Those who live in Robin Hood Gardens want the estate demolished, whilst architects fight to save “seminal” modernist buildings. Your daily crime round-up: “Osama bin London” jailed indefinitely; cleaner who killed 94-year-old widow jailed for life; financial trader denies involvement in murder of wealthy writer. We’re sensing a pattern here: Man scales Japanese embassy in London to protest Japanese whaling. Met to build firearms training centre near Heathrow; increased security concerns......

Londonist was tickled to learn of a new recycling project in London. The ill-gotten gains of apprehended felons are actually being seized and redistributed. This pleases us immensely for two reasons: one is that we are sure we are not alone in assuming that the government just pockets criminal pickings. We’ve heard them say that they destroy all those seized ciggies and alcohol…but we know for a fact that the contraband often walks. And secondly......

We're still wondering whether civil servant, Trushar Patel, is either a clever sod, just another thieving crook, or a bit of both. Either way he's spending the next 18 months on the tax payers board and lodging for: conspiring to procure the execution of a valuable security. Or, in the long-lasting Queen's English, he swindled London Underground out of twenty two grand by getting his family to fill in bogus fare refund forms. Now......

In years to come as historians look back on the events that triggered the untimely demise of this once great nation of ours, they'll probably be analysing the following timeline: October 2003: First grumblings about raising the Council Tax in London to pay for the Olympics if we get it. February 2006: Travelling Ken asks for a bit more money to fund the Olympics, 65p a week on London's Council Tax bills. December 2007:......

London woman embezzles 4.3 million from her (patently rather stupid) employers, eventually gets caught and sentenced to 7 years in jail, gets out after 3, gets to keep her swanky ill-gottenly gained apartment and lands a plum job in the arts (albeit for a prison charity). Lord Luck clearly rides alongside this lady. Londonist is impressed by the scope for outrage here – the outrageous sum of money she stole, the surprisingly short sentence she......

Ever stop to wonder about the legacy of romantic comedy ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’? Every other minute of your work week? Well, you’re in luck, as today’s the day that Londonist tackles this very question. Sort of. Mild-mannered examination of love and marriage in the 1990s? Check. Perpetuator of the stereotype of the fumbling, floppy-haired English male? Check. Beyond that, though, the movie’s legacy becomes a bit more jumbled, as evidenced by recent......

The Monument gets a facelift Potential flooding impact on London reassessed, as new film comes out Heathrow Airport has made Hounslow residents 'thick' Air raid siren plays whenever a traffic warden approaches Council's 'Robin Hood' goes to jail for breaking the rules to help people Image courtesy of pixelthing.com via the Londonist flickr group.......

All this attention on Lily means her poor old dad hardly gets a look in. That should change when the new series of Robin Hood kicks off later in the year. Keith Alan gets the plum role as The Sherriff of Nottingham and while he may not entirely surpass good old Alan Rickman's turn in the Costner movie, from the clips up on the site he does seem to overshadow the rather flimsy looking......

After the weekend spurge of violence we take heart today in the fact that At least two high-powered bows and 50 arrows have been stolen from an outdoor activity centre in north-west London. Although police are worried that such weapons could be dangerous in untrained hands we're confident that bows and arrows are only ever the weapon of choice for justice wielding vigilantes. There was Robin Hood for a start, and although he never......

How long has this been going on? The Yellow Pages website is now accepting colloquial search terms. For example, if you type in 'Joanna' you will be rewarded with a list of London-bases piano dealers and music teachers. Type in 'dog and bone' and you get to choose from call centres, telephone repairs, mobile phone hire and any number of telecommunications-related services in the capital. Other phrases you can use include 'Tit for Tat'......