This Week In London’s History Monday – 11th February 1826: The University of London is founded. It would later be known as University College London (or UCL). Tuesday – 12th February 1554: Lady Jane Grey and her husband Lord Guildford Dudley are executed at the Tower of London. Wednesday – 13th February 1247: A major earthquake causes considerable damage to London. Curiously, it is reported that the quake was preceded for three months by......

Yesterday comes the news that a shiny new medical centre is to be built on wasteland somewhere behind the British Library….and today sees the start of the more-or-less obligatory protests therein. The idea is to build the £500 million ‘UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation’ as a partnership project – the key players are the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK and University College Hospital. All very exciting. London could do......

Still haven't had enough new art? Here's the lowdown on Free Range this week: Degree Show 2007 Who? Havering College (Design) What? DESIGN (2D & 3D) Where? G3 Gallery (Shop 14) Lacuna Who? University College for the Creative Arts Rochester What? PHOTOGRAPHY Where? F Block T2 (...) Who? University College for the Creative Arts Farnham What? PHOTOGRAPHY Where? Boiler House Ideal World Who? Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University What? PHOTOGRAPHY Where? Atlantis......

. As Free Range 2007 moves into its second week, Londonist has a chat with Christopher Butt from University College for the Creative Arts in Epsom and finds out about his work and love of weird smells. Christopher, tell us a little bit about you and your work. Well, I'm big on coffee and kit kats. I love the smell of ink on paper. Strange as it sounds, I also get excited about Pantones and......

For all you crazy art fanatics out there (you know who you are....) here's the lowdown on what's going on at Free Range this week... Degree Show 5 Who? University College for the Creative Arts Epsom (Graphics & New Media) What? DESIGN (2D & 3D) Where? Atlantis 2nd Floor Your Place or Mine? Who? University of Brighton (Graphics & Illustration) What? DESIGN (2D & 3D) Where? Atlantis 1st Floor University of Westminster Art and......

London's most talked about degree show Free Range kicks off this Thursday. This is your chance to see the hottest new talent from the most promising students amongst the top universities. Here's what's happening in week one - 31st May - 4th June. 'Art and Design Degree Show 2007': Who? Middlesex University (Mixed) What? DESIGN (2D & 3D) Where? F Block T4, F Block T3, F Block T2, F Block T1. 'Design Show 2007':......

Italian goalscoring star Cristiano Lucarelli (left of picture) told a packed University College London lecture theatre last night that his country's footballing culture had something to learn from the English and that given a choice of where he could play, "If I had supernatural powers I would take Livorno and put it in England!". Lucarelli, a totem for both his home town and their football team as well as a passionate socialist, was speaking......

"Whole crew... from backstops... full pressure... GO!!!" It's our first journey to the Thames of the series and we start with 286 crews of women rowing the wrong way up the river. Well, in fairness to the majority of oarspersons it's really the right way, 4 miles and 374 yards (or just under 7 kilometres) from Mortlake church to Putney Bridge. It's just that the most stratospherically well known contest over the same stretch......

BBC: Police are investigating the death of a baby boy who suffered a cardiac arrest shortly after he was circumcised. The boy began having breathing problems at Golders Green United Synagogue, in north London, on 1 February. He was taken to a hospital nearby but was transferred to University College Hospital where he died on 9 February. Scotland Yard are treating the death as unexplained while the the circumstances that led to the child......

On Saturday The Times reported that police may have worked out who was responsible for the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko: The suspected killer was captured on cameras at Heathrow as he flew into Britain to carry out the murder. Friends of the ex-spy say that the man was a hired killer, sent by the Kremlin, who vanished hours after administering a deadly dose of radioactive polonium-210 to Litvinenko. He arrived in London on a......

Kind of. The Tricycle theatre is set to follow its stagings of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, the Bloody Sunday hearings and the Hutton inquiry with a staged indictment of Tony Blair for a crime of aggression against Iraq. The real PM won't be present of course, but the lawyers, testimony and expert witnesses will be" The theatre will create the event itself and then use actors to stage a condensed version entitled The Indictment......

On average, people in Britain have sex once a week. Five years ago, the Medical Research Council published findings on sex at the Millennium, the results of which were used by government departments to inform sexual health policies and to produce estimates of current levels of HIV infection and AIDS cases. One of the findings of the report (conducted between May 1999 and February 2001) was that "one in 23 men [in the UK]......

Axl Rose has been visiting London's teenage cancer wards! Guns n' Roses frontman Axl Rose has made a surprise visit to the Teenage Cancer Trust Ward at the University College Hospital in London. Simon Davies, the CEO of the Teenage Cancer Trust Ward, commented: "We were so touched that Axl wanted to visit the Teenage Cancer Trust ward in London." Now, this is great and everything, but it seems to us that letting Axl......

No not Mathew Broderick and Joshua - we're talking again about the great documentary that we reviewed back in June. There's a chance to see it in a couple of weeks for FREE, but tickets are going FAST so please book right now. Over to the film makers: War Games will be shown at University College as part of the PocketVisions screening programme at the end of January. We would like you all to......

The BBC informs us this afternoon that "the only known manuscript of a poem by Lord Byron has been found within the archives of University College London." During 'routine cataloguing' librarian Susan Stead opened a copy of The Pleasures of Memory by Samuel Rogers only to find the manuscript dated 12 April, 1812 containing a 12-line poem that begins "Absent or present still to thee". "I just opened the book and there it was,"......

So everyone is safe, but four idiots are on the run after yesterday's low rent sequel to the July 7th incident. Here's how events seemed to unfold yesterday: 1225: Shepherd's Bush Underground station on the Hammersmith and City line was evacuated after a man flees following a probable failed attempt to bomb a train (full details). 1230: Ambulance services are called to the Oval Underground station on the Northern Line after reports of a bang......

News of incidents at Warren St, Oval and Shepherd's Bush, plus the no 26 bus in Hackney. No injuries reported but the tube network is down for the moment. Sky news: At Warren Street there were reports of a nail bomb explosion. Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said police believe this may have been the sound of detonators going off. Victoria Line train passenger Ivan McCracken told Sky News he spoke to an Italian man......

London is being invaded by hordes of bedbugs thanks to the recent humid weather and "warm temperatures". According to Marcella Ucci of University College, by 2050 the bedbug population in the South East will "have increased by up to eight times". Doesn't sound too bad does it? But hang on, consider this fact: "If you've got an old pillow, up to 10 per cent of its weight can be from dust mite faeces." Not......