US hotdog eating championship heralds decline of Western civilisation

The best church names in London, and where they come from

London agenda for Tuesday 5 July

Bethnal Green tube station goes postal with its posters

Global hipster pilgrimage announced for this autumn

London agenda for Monday 4 July

They make a desert, and they call it "a finely judged reconfiguration of our academic portfolio"

The Classics department at Royal Holloway is under threat. Oh, many of you philistines won’t care, I know. but I feel compelled to publicise this travesty in the hope that it can be averted.

Being struck by lightning really brings out the LOLs

Strange goings on in Sutton this week. Teaching assistant Tom Langham was standing outside the front of Hackbridge Primary School after a bolt of lightning struck the building, setting off its fire alarm, when he was hit by a second strike at about 1.45pm.

Canada Day tips for Londoners

How will you celebrate that day, 144 years ago, when the UK gave Canada permission to govern their own internal affairs – except when the viceroy disagreed?

New London trend: being unsewer