According to Estate Agent Today it's not just Greene & Co agents who've been using addresses of properties on their books to apply fraudulently for residents' parking permits, it's possibly a scam that's widespread throughout London. In case you missed it, six out of seven agents at Greene & Co's Maida Vale branch have had court time and have been fined for the practise. It's been a bit of a blow for G&C who work particularly hard at their public image. I wonder whether this will qualify for a Mistake of the Month award? I'm also surprised it's so easy. I've always had to come up with all kinds of proof of identity, address, car ownership before being granted a permit.

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Apparently, Sienna Miller thinks it's time for an expensive spruce-up.

Miss Miller has even recruited the services of her former stepmother, interior design to the rich and famous, Kelly Hoppen.

Wonder if Law went for the beer can bong and PS3 look in her absence?

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Fresh from a price reduction, this skinny Elgin Avenue glass house replaces a former wine vault, and it's just 3m wide at the front. It was designed by Nicholas Boyarsky and Nicola Murphy and was the subject of a Building Design feature in 2007. Guide price, £1.15m. Particulars here.

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Where? Never heard of it.

Well you'd better get used to it, because...

A new weekend market which is planned to open on the junction will be called Maida Hill Market, and a new community magazine is to be launched, entitled Maida Hill Life.

And, according to a local:

"The Harrow Road post office is officially called the Maida Hill post office, and on the front of buses, it says they are going to Maida Hill."

But you can't just decide you're going to call a place something, and then stick it on buses. Can you? Apparently the area has been called Maida Hill before, back in the early 19th Century, when the British and French were fighting. It was named after a skirmish.

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The Telegraph looks inside a nice, Terence Conran-designed Maida Vale mews house, currently belonging to Royal Ballet principle ballerina Leanne Benjamin and her husband Tobias Round, manager of the Donmar Warehouse. It's an interesting piece and a lovely house, and it's on the market for £1.35 million. Particulars, here.