Extra, Extra

  • A four-week trial of anti-terrorist screening devices is due to start on the Jubilee Line at Canary Wharf later this week (although there’s a bit of dodgy scanning going on there already).

  • The Tories have sent Tessa Jowell a nasty letter accusing Labour of playing politics with the Olympics.

  • And the Conservatives aren’t too happy about Hugo Chavez’s visit either.

  • The final stages of this year’s Tour of Britain will take in eight London boroughs over a 50-mile route between Greenwich and The Mall.

  • London car crime is going up , there was 94,000 items stolen from motors in the last financial year, a 7% increase on the previous year.

Image of London Mela courtesy of Orhan T via the Londonist Flickr group.