This Week In London’s History Monday – 15th September 2004: Five pro-hunt protesters burst into the House of Commons, disrupting a parliamentary debate around the ban on hunting with dogs. Tuesday – 16th September 1977: Iconic glam rock musician Marc Bolan dies in a car accident in Barnes, southwest London. Wednesday – 17th September 1993: Derek Beakton, an openly racist British National Party candidate, wins a council seat in Tower Hamlets. Thursday – 18th......

What do you want your local Firefighter to be doing right now? We'd want ours to be busily climbing ladders to save desperate families from 6th-floor smoke-billowing windows, or at least rescuing cute cats from tree branches. Last year Stephen-Remmell Coleman from Wimbledon fire station recorded a rap song to promote fire safety, which Londonist proudly reported on at the time. But now he's moved on, and recorded a bhangra rap version which now......

It seems in Southall, one must ask oneself, do I want fries and a yellow wheelclamp with that? Two families in Southall should consider moving to clamping-free Westminster after two identical clamping incidents have put their cars and fast food buying habits out of action. Locals Kamran Victor and Tony Martino both had their cars clamped in the car park of MacDonalds, Southall branch on Uxbridge Road by overzealous area director Atul Pathak, who......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 30th June 1894: Tower Bridge is opened by the Prince of Wales. It would become an iconic symbol of London, and arguably the most well-recognised ‘bascule bridge’ in the world (even if tourists do sometime mistake it for London Bridge). Tuesday – 1st July 1858: Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection is presented at the Linnean Society at Burlington House, Piccadilly. Wednesday – 2nd July 1865: One-time......

It's not just the hooded-up and combat-fatigued "yoof" who are responsible for anti-social behaviour. Southall resident Catharine Roberts, 71, has had an ASBO confirmed by Isleworth Crown Court. Ms. Roberts is now banned from causing "harassment, alarm or distress" to anybody within the M25. And what harassment! The saturnine septuagenarian has racked up a string of griefs that a sulking teen a fraction her age could barely hope to beat. Beginning in the spring......