A Jamaican patois bible has been launched in London. Here's the Lord's prayer

London rents compared with wages 

London housing: The call goes out for lower rents. Chance of that happening, slim

 

City History: Filmmaker Si Mitchell brilliantly explains the Tottenham Outrage of 1909

 

Photographer Zed Nelson takes on gentrification in Hackney: A Tale of Two Cities

 

VIDEO: It's been raining, so raw sewage flows into the river Thames

 

"I'm told that cycling is safe...but my husband is dead" - Debbie Dorling speaks about losing her husband Brian

 

Snipe Likes: Capsule by Menomena

 

Weather and portents for the week ahead. It will rain, but new orchards augur well

 

Felix Kunze's portraits of Olympic and Paralympic volunteers

 

VIDEO: Oliver Lynton shows us the mesmeric craft of gilding

 

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