Further to that last post, when the hell did WH Smith become a glorified 7-11 with a Chick Lit/Thriller section hidden away in the back? I remember them as being a stalwart of the pre-Chapters era of bookselling. I must have spent thousands of dollars of my own and my parents' money there when I was a child, building my vast collection of novels and comic strip collections. It really saddens me to see them obviously giving up on the idea of being a bookshop.

The bins are back!
If you spend any time in London, you'll notice a real dearth of public trash receptacles, especially anywhere near the public transit infrastructure. When you think of how much money LU rakes in from selling space in their stations to the worst litter producers (Burger King, I'm looking squarely at your fat-saturated herds of crumpled paper bags that roam the station concourses. At least, I would be if they weren't hiding behind heaps of discarded newspapers from WH Smith), you'd think they'd make at least a token effort to use some of those profits to clean up the waste created.
Officially this is due to 'security concerns', but after the IRA called it quits this started to look a bit threadbare as an excuse. Just a few weeks before last year's tube bombings, clear plastic garbage bags on wall-brackets started to appear in Tube stations across the network, only to be withdrawn 'in this time of heightened security.'
In a victory for common sense and slightly less filthy platforms (let's face it, this is London...the entire city is covered in a thin layer of refuse at the best of times), they're back. I'm not sure of the precise date, but I'd say within a week of the one-year anniversary of their withdrawal, they were re-instated. I'm seriously considering hauling some of my household trash down there every morning, just to encourage them.
(And not because we've now got six people in our apartment. Not at all.)