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The whale that died in the Thames in 2006 deserves a plaque | Philip Hoare

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Sunday, 10 June 2012 (on June 10, 2012)

Boris Johnson's city was one of the great whaling ports. He should remember all the leviathans slaughtered for London

A proposal for a plaque to mark the passing of the

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