• Snoopy, nosey or just plain curious Londoners will be relieved: the Metropolitan Archive Office is to reopen after a revamp.
• David Hockney has donated some very big trees to the Tate Modern.
• A senior BNP official plonker would seem to endorse rape. Hold us back, hold us back….
• TV presenter Mark Speight is missing.
• Not all teenagers are bad. Two of them thwarted a pair of granny bashers.
• A church in Newington Green has banned all weddings there until the law is amended to make things fairer for gay couples.
• The accounts for the Olympic aquatics centre don’t hold water. It’s gonna cost triple the original amount.

Ministerial façade from Martin Dixon’s flickr stream.