This Week In London’s History Monday – 7th July 2005: Four suicide bombers detonate bombs on London’s public transport system, resulting in the death of 52 commuters and injury to some 700 others. Tuesday – 8th July 1965: Ronnie Biggs, a member of the gang that carried out the notorious ‘Great Train Robbery’ a couple of years earlier, escapes from Wandsworth Prison. He would remain un-incarcerated until 2001. Wednesday – 9th July 1981: An......

Man gets 'stiff sentence' for 'accidentally' sending people pictures of his penis. He thought it would never stand up in court. Great train robber Ronnie Biggs says his life has been wasted. Not at all. Without him, we wouldn't have had that superlative 'Buster' film with Phil Collins. Grandmother dies after being disorientated my mirrors in a shop. Ramsay's treat. Celebrity chef attains his 12th Michelin star. Shortly before being shot, de Menezes alighted......

Don’t get all excited – this is not a steaming transport exposé. Britain’s favourite crook has surely dashed the hopes and aspirations of thousands of wannabe train robbers with his recent revelation that crime actually doesn’t pay, and that he thinks he should’ve done it differently. Somewhat-larger-than-life Ronnie Biggs has now had the largesse to admit that: “There is no honour to be known as a Great Train Robber….I apologise for glamorising what should only......

This day in London’s history 1905: Thomas and Ann Farrow, South London shopkeepers, were discovered by neighbours after having been violently attacked at home. Thomas was already dead and Ann died four days later. Their killers, brothers Alfred and Albert Stratton, were convicted on the basis of fingerprint evidence, the very first time this technique was used, launching forensic science in the process. The Strattons went to the gallows in May of that year.......