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You'd better start making alternative arrangements for tomorrow if you usually catch the bus; from 3am, drivers working out of Barking, Bow, Leyton, Romford, Upton Park and West Ham bus garages are walking out on a 24 hour strike to protest at the East London Bus Group's plans to impose a pay...

Here's what we've learned this weekend whilst you've been going whizz and bang: Muggers reach a new low by punching a baby in Wembley. And Camden reaches a new low by bribing punters to shop there. Croydon's Mayday Hospital is to provide a drop-in centre for war veterans...

Ladies and Gentlemen, please keep your hands and feet inside the ride and remain seated until the lecture has come to a complete standstill, for a little piece of Japan’s Super-Kamiokande has landed in the Shunt Vaults to tantalise your senses in their final week. ...

George Clooney and Ewan McGregor, possibly looking for goats / image courtesy of Momentum Pictures Our weekly round-up of cinema reviews Based on Jon Ronson's investigative book of the same name, The Men Who Stare At Goats is a fictionalised account of the American military's attempts to...

   A 10ft duck house was floated past the Houses of Parliament yesterday afternoon by Vote for a Change. ...

Image / BFI Mediatheque If your mouth watered at the prospect of next week's debate about science and the cinema, you should probably get your autonomic nervous system checked out then here's another date for your diaries...

Here's what we've learned this weekend whilst you've been out trick or treating: A dangerous rapist has escaped: last seen in Sloane Square. A sergeant in the Met has been convicted of sexually assaulting a male colleague. Introducing...the pop-up park. Love it. Elton's got flu...

Image / ezekiel What did we do to deserve this? Rumours are zipping about that the Spice Girls are planning a comeback just in time for the 2012 Olympics. The Girl Power-ed fivepiece are set on wheezing a little bit more life into their careers by performing at the opening ceremony...

Clare-Hope Ashitey and Marjorie Yates by Robert Workman Playing in dinky studio 2 at Arcola, Origin of the Species tackles big issues as part of the mass of celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of Darwin's seminal book of the same name...

Set in the appropriately spooky location of the Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, this Halloween-themed Beer festival features a spine-tinglingly good selection of real ales from all corners of the UK...

      Union Chapel is a creepy sort of place especially when there are zombies stumbling around in candlelight and casting shadows cross the smoke machine fog. It's a terrific venue for movies too. As ...