The official ceremonial costumes for the Olympics. Image from LOCOG.
- The outfits for Olympic medal bearers are revealed. Useful for hiding red-wine stains at post-Games party.
- Apparently, there’s some kind of big event taking place this weekend. Our tip is to watch the river.
- Littering from cars in London will now cost you £100, and you can be caught by CCTV.
- Home Secretary wants a review into the police review into the Stephen Lawrence inquiry.
- HMV sell Hammersmith Apollo.
- The 10 weirdest job titles in the Royal Household.
- Congratulations to the wonderful Hackney Hear for winning an App award at Digital Shoreditch.
- A proud moment for London as the world record for most mortar boards simultaneously thrown in the air is smashed. In other ridiculous one-off-stunts-as-world-records news, we’re claiming the Galactic record for the sentence with the longest string of letter ‘Y’s followed by five ‘Bs’ and the characters ‘%-G$$1′ at the end of a sentence YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYBBBBB%-G$$1.
