Orlando: With

'Crowds throng Old Compton Street, London, last night in a vigil for the 49 people shot dead in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida'.

PS 'The Metro paper, owned by the Daily Mail Group, aren't our friends. It's just that today, DMG isn't at our throats', Jonathan (dunno if you know him).

BTW Pink News ran a brilliant and insightful analysis of yesterday's front pages. I guess this person must teach media studies at a top university or something.

Soho: 1944/1999

Air raid on Old Compton Street, 1944.

Admiral Duncan bombing, Old Compton Street, 1999.

From a gallery of photographs from The Soho Society's collection on the Standard online.

PS There's another great gallery of old photos at ibtimes.