The V & A have bought the sticky-outty-tongue made famous by the Rolling Stones. Bidding is on to run a new prison at Belmarsh. The Saatchi Gallery has reopened at a new venue on the Kings Road, and there is no longer an admission fee. Useless information of the day: there are more pregnant smokers in Enfield than anywhere else in the UK. A man got away with a charge of manslaughter after he......

Like a rock band without the rock, the Top Gear Three are going on an international tour. Sorry, let me just re-read that…. Whole swathes of the East End are being rather cleverly recycled into pretty and useful areas for 2012. Yup: this is a positive Olympics story. Yahoo says Yah Boo to London: they’re moving to Switzerland. Something to do with tax, we hear. Two rather dim youths have been arrested for trying......

The Independent is excited about one of our icons getting an upgrade: the new black cab is green. The TX4 matches the new Euro IV emissions standards for the European Union that do not come into force until 2007. It is also ahead of the game in terms of emissions standards set by Ken Livingstone and Transport for London. It can also take 5 per cent of its fuel in the form of biodiesel......

Lots of crucial attention to detail in Wellington Grey's Walk on the Left. Like the way in the above image, motorists are confronted with a fatal accident, a burning bus and a pregnant woman being hurled from the back of an ambulance, but remain angry about the hold up in front as it means they'll miss the beginning of Top Gear. We like stick figures, we like the geometric simplicity of the London landmarks......

We've got to hand it to Ken, when he goes for something he really goes for it: The daily charge for vehicles in carbon emissions band G, which includes some 4x4s, is to rise to £25 from 2009. Ouch! If you were thinking of buying us a new Jaguar X-type for Christmas... don't bother. But even as Chelsea Tractor lovers were reeling from that blow, Ken steps in with the real body slam: Mr......

When are these pop stars going to learn not to mess with the awesome power of the ROCK? Ms Dynamite almost lived up to her name while filming some nonsense for a reality TV show when she was taken roughly from behind by AC/DC: Fellow contestant Brian Johnson, of rock group AC/DC, clipped the back of her car at Silverstone, in Northants, sending it spinning out of control... A Sky One spokesman said the......

Jeremy Clarkson is easy to dislike - we've used his snarling image for just about every congestion charge/traffic related post on Londonist - but he's also funny from time to time. Top Gear is hard to stomach unless you live in the fantasy land of wanting to own a new car every fortnight or get a thrill from the idea of standing in a garage looking at Clarkson's jean clad backside, but we're happy......

Ken has given a big thumbs up to Kingston for its Local Implementation Plan, pleased that it contains proposals for how the borough intends to implement the Mayor's Transport Strategy between now and 2011. The LIP will contain, among other things, efforts on: Improved road safety with 20mph zones planned within 100 metres of all schools - one of the most comprehensive programmes for implementing these safety zones in Britain Improved sustainable travel -......

Let's go out onto a limb here and say we don't really understand the appeal of wanting to be a wizard. There's the rubbish clothes, having a broomstick between your legs, having to go to boarding school, pointing small sticks at people in a threatening manner... why so many kids find this interesting is beyond us. Now being a SPY... that's something different altogether. Lots of explosions, car chases, gadgets galore and barrels of......

Without a doubt my perfect Sunday would always begin with enough time to sit around in bed reading the papers. If we're talking 'fantasy land' stuff then of course the papers would be delivered to the door of my flat, but I don't want to get greedy here and really the trip up to Mike's newsagents on the South Lambeth Road is never a chore and it gives me the opportunity to discuss that......

The news that Hollywood is planning to turn The Producers into a film (again) seems to have been the first in a rash of stories regarding West End productions making their way over to other mediums. First up is Bat Boy: the musical. Currently showing at the Shaftsbury Theatre, Bat Boy tells the story of a half boy/half bat discovered in the caves of West Virginia. The show recently held it's one hundredth performance,......