- The home of the grandmother to missing school girl Tia Sharp has been sealed off by police. UPDATE: A body has now reportedly been found and a murder investigation is under way.
- David Cameron describes Boris as a “Tory Titan“, thereby inviting headlines that involve the words ‘Clash’ and ‘Wrath’.
Olympicks
- The surprise hit of the Games? The public transport system, according to the New Yorker.
- A handbook to the 1948 Olympics.
- Mayor announces two-day festival of cycling to keep the Olympic groove going. Just seven months after he launched it the first time round.
- On the rounds with the Olympic milkman.
- Remember those rip-off Olympic water chariots? They’ve dramatically cut their prices, presumably because no one was willing to pay the minimum fair of £45 for a short boat ride.
- The kind-hearted ‘nanas’ in Victoria Park looking after hampers and kid’s scooters that Olympic confiscators don’t want taken into the big screen area.
- “The London mayor is like Mr Bean, getting up to all kinds of stupidity, foolishness, loveliness and silliness while looking like a typical British gentleman.”…one of many good quotes in this Independent article about how the Games are seen internationally.
- Where to watch the Closing Ceremony.
Photo: the final of the mixed street sweepers 10,000 metres, or something, by Alex_Pink in the Londonist Flickr pool.
