Dear readers — There's an oft-repeated assumption that Londoners are unfriendly; that, due to the city's size, we don't know or care for our neighbours, let alone strangers we meet on the street. I've always found this to be untrue, a belief reaffirmed by events at The Londoner HQ this weekend.
After diligently reporting on London’s problem of invasive red crayfish — more on which very shortly — Peter accidentally managed to leave our camera in the basket of a Lime bike. When he returned, it was gone, and all seemed lost (including photos of the colonising crustaceans). Until we received an email from two very kind Londoners this morning.
It hadn't been stolen. In fact, not only had one Haggerston local scooped up the camera for safekeeping but, in a bid to find the camera's owner, they'd tracked down a recent interviewee we photographed after spotting their PhD certificate in the background (a piece of investigative work impressive even to the most hardened of gumshoe journalists). The camera and its photos will be back in safe hands this evening, for which we — and especially Peter — are extremely grateful.
Now onto your Monday briefing: the capital has faced not one but two serious fires in three days, Mayfair is being spurned by the city’s ultra rich, while over at Hyde Park this weekend the Guinness World Record for the number of people wearing bald caps was finally toppled. Let’s get into it.
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