Thames estuary airport idea is the daftest pie in the sky

Rodney Chambers, leader of Medway council, doesn’t like the look of Lord Foster’s Isle of Grain airport plan. Mr Chambers thinks having hundreds of planes a day careering at low altitude past a series of highly combustible power plants might be a tad foolish. Boris’s response? “This idea is taking off, and rightly so.”

Some cracking birds around here mate

Anyone who doesn’t find birds wonderful and amazing is an embittered fool who’s probably just jealous of them being able to fly. It’s the migration season, so there’s lots of movement going on. Here are some recent arrivals to our city, please make them welcome.

Is there anything in the rumour about the Whitechapel dead body train?

Diamond Geezer tracks Oxford Street Christmas lighting dates

According to the Diamond Geezer, Oxford Street Christmas lights have moved from 15 November (2005) to 1 November (Yesterday.)

London agenda for Wednesday 2 November 2011

After all there's only 54 sleeps til Christmas

St Paul's drops legal threat to Occupiers

Heathrow's latest advert is really horrible

This looks like something Palmerston might have had on his desk in the middle of the 19th century.

What a world: fish choke to death on human shit

Thames Water say they regret the jammed valve at Heathrow on Sunday which resulted in 3,000 fish choking to death on human shit.
Source: Beeb

City bankers lose vital penis size proving ground