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I met my brother outside Liverpool Street and sat down for a drink outside the Wetherspods. A manky old pigeon flapped down next to me so I twatted it with the Evening Standard straight into the side of the head of the bloke sitting opposite. I apologised and apologised but he wasn't smiling.

Heroin's very more-ish.

As is carrot, ginger, and orange.

If you have one of those juicers with a spinning cheese-grater type thing so the pulp is extracted, apple, carrot and ginger is lovely, like an injection of vitamins.

I'm sure I read somewhere that rural communities suffered fewer genetic birth defects after the invention of the bicycle, it reduced the inbreeding in villages by extending the choice of partners, like in Norfolk where two people lived together, a bloke, his wife and sister.

54's a bit old for stabilisers.

Stuck a load of Lennon memorabilia on Ebay.

Imagine all the Paypal!

Wonder if an Australian had one as a pet and it escaped? they're funny creatures, they communicate by thumping the ground, have sex in public, spend most of their time eating and can jump thirteen feet.

Cannabis was for Hindu god, not for selling - court told

http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Cannabis-Hindu-god-selling-court-told/story-19969780-detail/story.html#ixzz2iXtkvQod

He told the court one entry in the diaries stated: “We give thanks to Shiva. Last crop was 2kg 29oz, this crop 4kg – Yeah!”

I vote George Takei for God.

Rather lovely and quite moving

http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/excellent-story-picture-kim-kallstrom-consoles-frightened-autistic-boy-before-sweden-v-germany/

Result.

Fines to who, cyclists or cyclists and drivers\?

Hughton, if we don't beat Cardiff.

(I'm not sure you want to see it all over the news that your partner / son / daughter was an idiot doing something utterly insane to the point that they were practically asking for it).

I'd be surprised if the media play down cyclist's poor behaviour, I'd say the opposite was more likely, but to the left of vehicles at junctions is often exactly where the cycle lane is. The cyclist is directed there, or to an ASL ahead of the vehicle. That doesn't mean they're "asking" for anything.

I'd express the point differently- any lorry driver in London who sets off at lights or turns left at a junction without checking his nearside or front of vehicle where it is extremely likely that a cyclist will be, fails to notice them and crushes them to death should go to prison for a long time.

Is cyclists filtering on the inside a significant factor in fatalities? It seems most deaths were caused because the lorry driver rammed the cyclist from behind and killed them, or overtook then immediately turned left, crushing them. That's what happened to Mary Bowers and Svitlana Tereschenko and Catriona Patel and all three lorry drivers were chatting on a mobile phone at the time.

Don't respond to shouts, I don't respond to beeps either, sometimes it's mates saying hello but I wish they'd stop.

Ed you are a tit sometimes, having sat in a cab I was chilled to realise just how far ahead I need to be to be seen. I suggest to anyone who has yet to sit in a cab to do so as no amount of training can compensate for actually seeing for yourself the limited visibility up there.

#a coin has two sides

I'm not in London, but if I attended I'd make sure I adjusted the mirrors to my eyeline to eliminate any blind spots. The area directly in front of the cab I could check by leaning forwards and checking before I set off at lights.

People in the comments completely miss the point:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manchester-united-column-david-moyes-2475196

Source?

Also beware... dependent on the context the statement "£83bn of foriegn money invested in UK property last year" could mean -

"£83bn of foreign money invested in UK residential property last year"
or
"£83bn of foreign money invested in UK commercial property last year"
or
"£83bn of foreign money invested in UK commercial and residential property last year"

You're right, that figure's out of whack:

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/no-stairs-and-square-rooms-only--the-madness-of-the-foreign-buyers-spending-billions-on-london-homes-165014502.html

More than half of London’s £1 million property is now being bought by foreign buyers. In fact, overseas money now gobbles up nearly two-fifths of resales and almost three-quarters of new-build property on the market in prime locations.

This astonishing appetite for London addresses has seen a staggering £37 billion injected into London’s prime housing market in just seven years, figures from upmarket estate agency Savills show.

Still enough to distort the market, I imagine. Hong Kong and Singapore have raised property taxes, as Mayor Bloomberg in his $20m London gaff pays £2100 tax a year- not much more than an east London 2 bed house.

all the buyers that have held off over the last 5 years are racing in to buy ...... interest rates to rise in the coming months

bubble ... what bubble

£83bn of foriegn money invested in UK property last year- those new builds in Stratford advertised off plan in Malaysia, China, India, many bought and left empty (or rented to low-paid workers who get HB!)

It's strange they've given these powers to PCSOs but they've been given no rights to enforce traffic regulations like parking or driving on the pavement, on a mobile etc etc.

They caught whoever did it. I guess they thought they could throw a flare on live tv with thirty thousand witnesses and slink away discretely.

It's awful, like I said. Be funnier if it went off in the fan's trousers and everyone laughed at his flares.

It's awful, obv, but an amazing shot: