Be careful who you bump into: uninsured drivers are on the rise in London. A new memorial plaque honouring service men and women has been unveiled by Princess Anne in Westminster Abbey. That third runway is starting to look doubtful. Fried chicken: is it the greatest evil facing children today? Discuss. Well that’s what a London conference is doing this week. London paramedics are being trained in Second Life. Can’t work out if this......

Overseas students want to be near London. We can understand that. A depressed Croydon MP moonlighted whilst on sick leave from the Commons. He’s not planning to stand again. Boris has decided he loves skyscrapers after all. …which is good ‘cos we’re running out of housing at a rate of knots. Oyster Zip cards are not all that zippy. BAA say that Heathrow needs a high speed rail link AND the third runway. Greedy,......

The Tories have something different in mind for the proposed third runway at Heathrow: scrapping it in favour of high speed trains. Transport spokeswoman Theresa Villiers confirmed this morning at the Conservative Party Conference "that a Conservative government would say no to a third runway at Heathrow." The theory is that trains are greener than planes and will thus help cut carbon emissions. We're quite fond of riding the rails at Londonist; it's definitely......

Alex the Croydon gangsta seems a little lonely. The third runway debate at Heathrow rumbles on. There’s yet another racism allegation for the Met. Jennifer Aniston flies into London. And then straight out again.. Aren't we friends any more? Boris’ pledge to map the crime stats of London street by street has gotten hiccoughs. Paddington becomes a quinquagenarian if not in style, then at least with lots of fun. Croydon sunset from pixelhut’s flickr......

Two aviation stories in one day? Reports reach us that a major protest is taking place this afternoon near Heathrow. Now then - the row over a third runway is well-developed. In one corner, pro-expansionists cite the economic benefits to the local area, to London and to the nation of improving an airport that is 98% full. The argument seems pretty water-tight to us (ignore the tourism deficit argument, it's fatuous). In the other......

Four Greenpeace protestors mounted a freshly landed Boeing 777 on the tarmac at Heathrow this morning to protest against a 3rd runway and it's implications for the "climate emergency". BAA are calling the protest "unlawful and irresponsible" which it probably is but, more pressingly, how the hell did 4 volunteers with a flourescent banner manage to walk from Terminal One, across the tarmac to the plane and clamber on top of it without hundreds......