This Wizard of Oz original ruby red slippers are coming to London to be put on display. The slippers are on loan to the V&A from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington DC and will be on show later this month. (here)

Workers digging at the Crossrail site have found what experts believe to be a 3,500-year-old Bronze Age transport route through London. (here)

The kitty cat slim fast club industry seems to be booming if these once chubby moggies are anything to go by. See a selection of really fat pets after they have been on their slimming regime. (here)