Weather: This week expect rain, and cloudy skies, with chances of snow on Tuesday. Most of the week, partly cloudy skies with temperatures ranging from 0 degrees C ( 32 F), to 13 degrees C ( 56 F).
News:
General City Wide:
Olympic flame arrives in London The Olympic flame has arrived in London ahead of a torch relay when it will be paraded through the streets. Chinese ambassador Fu Ying and Minister for the Olympics Tessa Jowell were at Heathrow to welcome a delegation who carried a lantern holding the flame. On Sunday 80 athletes, entertainers and dignitaries will carry the torch by relay on a 31-mile long journey through the capital's streets. Activists critical of the Chinese government have vowed to hold protests. Speaking after she greeted the Chinese delegation, Mrs Jowell told the BBC she hoped the protests would be peaceful.
Charges brought over shop murder A 21-year-old man has been charged over a fatal stabbing at an east London greengrocer's shop. Arulanantham Jayasundarakumar, 66, died in an attack at the Jena Superstore in Horns Road, Ilford, on Wednesday night. The victim, who was working at the shop owned by family friends, was stabbed in the stomach and died at the scene. Idris Jualim, of Waverley Road, South Woodfood, east London, will appear at Waltham Forest Magistrates' Court on Monday charged with his murder. Mr Jayasundarakumar lived with his wife and son in Ilford. A post-mortem examination found the cause of death to be a single stab wound to the stomach.
Underground News:
Saint Paul’s Cathedral Has seen recent activity of a suspicious sort. Rumor has it that the long feared Knight of Order are making shop in the long abandoned church. Recent attacks on a werewolf pack in the Liverpool have spread the concern that the group is possibly become more active.
Knightsbridge Located on the south side of Hyde park, the West London district Knightsbridge has seen some recent Vampiric activity. The human police seem to have a vague suspicion of what is going on, and have stepped up patrol in that area. The local vampires might find it more difficult to avoid the police in that area for some time.
Bexley Hunters Would be vampire hunters have made themselves known in an attack against the unsuspected. While no deaths occurred, rumor has it that the Hunters are a group of young adults that have taken up arms against the supernatural in the manner of old and new movie clichés. That is to say, at least one was reputed as having shouted, “That’s right bitch, I’m the next Blade.” It is commonly believed this group will not last very long at all.
OOC Note: For people looking for mod generated encounters, I’ve decided the best way to generate those encounters would be to provide weekly events that occur in the supernatural world. That is to say, one might use the Bexley hunter’s in an encounter, or a run in with Police in Knightsbridge.