Yesterday we asked you to nominate the best place in London to screen a film, and the movie that should be shown there. We had plenty of entries through the twitter hashtag #sccomp and the comments thread. But our choice for the winning suggestion is this:

Memphis Belle at Biggin Hill airport, followed by a huge 1940s party

Good film, non-obvious location and we love the idea of a 40's bash. Congratulations to @Peanut1983 who wins two tickets to this weekend's Secret Cinema, when a mystery film will be shown at a mystery location.

Some of the other good suggestions we had (too many to list them all):

• The Queen, at Buckingham Palace (@alexandrapullin)
• First Harry Potter film at the London Zoo reptile room (@krazycat)
• Grizzly Man in London Zoo (@garethgwynn)
• V for Vendetta in the Houses of Parliament (commenter LeeLondon)
• Dogma in St Paul's Cathedral (@ComradeJack)
• King Kong projected onto the Gherkin (@Lizmakesfilms)
• The Old Man and the Sea at Billingsgate Fish Market (@clairenelson)
• Bram Stokers' Dracula in Highgate Cemetery (@IndieBoyLDN)
• Recent Sherlock Holmes movie ON THE THAMES ITSELF, viewed from the viewing platforms of Tower Bridge (@NadiaKamil)
• "Exit through the Gift Shop" in Tate Modern during normal opening times (@Berlinpriaten)
• Delicatessen in Smithfield Market (@Millar)
• Young Sherlock Holmes in either the Petrie Museum or Sir John Soane's Museum (@clockworkhobbit)
• Life Aquatic in the London Aquarium (@TinkaTayla)
• Dr Strangelove in the Churchill War Rooms (commenter Gordon Comstock)
• Day After Tomorrow at the Thames Barrier...at the end of the showing the barrier opens. More realistic then 3D (commenter Simon Howlett)
• Vertigo on the open air deck of the Shard, when it opens in 2012 (commenter James Stephens)
• Die Hard 3: whenever John McClane runs, you have to leg it to a new spot for the next bit (@kennmunk)
• Toy Story in Hamleys... preferably at Christmas. Kids screening, then adults only. Fancy dress=toy wanted from Santa (@littlemisswest)

And lots of suggestions for Creep or 28 Days Later in various abandoned Tube stations.

Tickets are still available for the three Secret Cinema days this weekend (3-5 September). Sign up here.

This sponsored competition was arranged by Secret Cinema in partnership with Windows Phone.

A bombastic press release from TfL, boasting of the popularity of the Cycle Hire scheme (350,000 journeys in the inaugural month, more than 70,000 members), is sullied by the announcement mid-way through that the bikes won't be available to casual users and tourists until the end of the year. The press release effectively blames Serco, saying that they want the "operating and distributing systems" to be "as robust as possible" before rolling it out further; a reference, perhaps, to the teething troubles that a number of users have experienced. Better news, though, on docking stations: TfL says that all 400 originally planned should be completed by year's end.

Photo via Hillingdon London's Flickrstream

Zone 6 may seem to lie at the edge of the universe to many Londoners, but those prepared to extend their horizons to the outer reaches of the tube network will be rewarded by a visit to the newly restored Uxbridge Lido.

Originally built in 1935, this pool’s future was thrown into doubt in the eighties, from when it opened sporadically until closing its doors in 1998. As the lido lay in disuse for over a decade, many people feared it might never return to its former glory, but earlier this year it was opened by Boris Johnson as part of the new Hillingdon Sports and Leisure Complex.

Perhaps mindful of the challenge of integrating the old lido into this vast entity while maintaining its own character, the designers here have rejected the bright reds, yellows and blues found at some other lidos in favour of a more subtle look. The unusual twelve-sided ‘star’ shape of the 67m pool, and fountains at each end, ensure that the lido retains a unique identity in its new incarnation.

Aside from the paddling pools at one end, the water is unheated, meaning that on our visit (on a classically overcast, chilly and rainy August day) the lido was virtually deserted. But in more amenable weather, the pool has much to offer both fitness and recreational swimmers (there is plenty of space at the poolside for lounging and sunbathing). Just be warned that the water in the showers is as cold as that in the pool.

While in the main the lido works as a separate unit to the main sports complex (you pay at the main desk, but the lido has separate outdoor changing, lockers and showers), the exception is the cafe, for which you’ll have to return inside and past the turnstile. While it would be nice to be able to sip a coffee by the side of the pool rather than returning to the rather functional leisure centre to do so, it would seem petty to gripe about such details.

Having been out of use for so long, and with an indoor 50m pool next door, it is a marvel that the lido has been restored at all, and that it holds on to so much individual character is a further cause of celebration. This pool is a real asset to this part of London and deserves to attract visitors from these parts and beyond.

By Jonathan Knott

Hillingdon Sport & Leisure Complex, Gatting Way, Uxbridge UB8 1ES. Tel: 0845 130 7324. Prices: adult resident, £5, adult non resident, £5.60. Download full prices PDF from website. More photos here.

Love all the Lidos.

Publish a zine? Got a favourite zine? Then submit it for possible inclusion in a celebration of fanzines to be held at London College of Communication on 20th September. Publishers Thames and Hudson are organising the temporary exhibition to tie in with a release of Fanzines by Teal Triggs, which covers eight decades of zinery. For a chance to see your zine take its place among its peers, and live forever in the LCC's zine archive, submit two copies + info by next Wednesday (addresses and specifics here). Either way, head down to the LCC's Well Gallery space on the 20th to browse the counterculture's ingenuity.

The Jameson Cult Film Club starts a new season with a screening of Taxi Driver in the automotively appropriate location of the Brewer Street Car Park on Thursday 23 September at 7.15pm. Tickets are free but you must sign up on the Jameson Cult Film Club blog. Join and you'll be primed for their horror themed Halloween residency in the Union Chapel, N1 with Quatermass and the Pit (Oct 29th), The Amityville Horror (Oct 30th) and Psycho (Oct 31st).

Courtesy Glenn Howells Architects

The building is arranged in two parts, with a 14-storey main block and a 27-storey tower that will top out at 100m; ominously, the developer hopes the tower will be an "urban marker" for the Kings Cross Central scheme. It is designed to accommodate students at Central Saint Martins when the college re-locates to the area. As student housing goes it's no great shakes, but externally is less garish than the two Nido towers located a little way up Pentonville Road.

The area around Kings Cross will change dramatically over the next few years. The station will get a new concourse, there will be a plaza built out front, and an old gasholder just north of the station will be transformed into a event space.

By Buckaroo Kid

The well-read may rejoice as Foyles lay on another set of publisher days this autumn. First up is Indie Weekend on 11-12 September with PD James, Geoff Dyer, Emily Woof, Philip Kerr and many more participating in talks, discussions, readings, Q&A and even speed-authoring, offering you 1:1 facetime over brunch, in the manner of an elongated literary speed date.

The Independent Alliance is a network of independent publishers, joined together to ensure their extraordinarily diverse output reaches the widest audience possible. Publishing everything from internationally best-selling crime-writers to Booker Prize winners, to those undiscovered gems only an independent house can unearth. The weekend brings a vast array of authors to Foyles for two full days of literary events, including discussions on counterculture, publishing in the digital age and how to write non-fiction.

Foyles have 5 pairs of weekend tickets to giveaway to you, dear readers. To be in with a chance of winning, simply check out the event page on their website and tell us the name of one of the 'Debut Divas' appearing on Sunday afternoon. Enter your details and answer below. Winners will be notified by email after 5pm, Monday 6th September.

Indie Weekend takes place on Sunday 12 September at the Gallery at Foyles, Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0EB. Tickets £15/£12 concession one day or £25/£20 concession both days.

Foyles are kindly hosting our Thames Barrier to Teddington photography project exhibition 11-24 October with party on 22 October. Have you entered the competition yet?

London has the largest litter of lions in the world. A magnificent pride their history goes back 120,000 years. There are colossal, legendary and living lions. Lions from one of the seven wonders of the world, from the cradle of liberty and there's a lion on the very first coin. Appearing on the greatest historical treasures, living in masterpieces of art lions are roaring on the capital's biggest tourist attractions. London is leonine.

Meet the whole pride: Lions of London past entries.

By Aidan Potts and Dylan William

With voting underway for the Labour mayoral candidacy, Ken Livingstone has brought out the big guns: he's promised to revive Cross River Tram. The project, introduced in 2005, would have brought trams back to central London via a route that linked Peckham and Brixton in the south with Camden in the north via Elephant & Castle, Waterloo Bridge, and Euston. It was axed early in Boris Johnson's reign, but according to SE1, Ken has vowed that, as Mayor, CRT and a host of other stalled transport projects would go ahead "when economic conditions improve". Ah. That's some caveat. Still, banging on about trams wlll probably unsettle Boris -- he's already riled by the prospect of a Labour campaign that focuses on transport.