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On Friday, the best place to watch the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is probably in the Bird’s Nest Stadium. If you’ve mislaid your £373 ticket down the back of the sofa, there are still heaps of other options beside vegging at …

Case records just released show how a woman accused of fraud tried a novel but gruesome way to persuade a North-East London jury that she was not to blame. Rather than use one of the more effective controversial defense strategies seen in recent cases such …

The Red Bull Air Race brings out the wannabe pilot in most boys – and some girls too. So we’re happy to preview the daredevils hitting London (not literally, we hope) for the second time. On Saturday and Sunday tiny planes will race a few …

Barack Obama comes to our fair city on Friday, hot-footing it from Paris and Berlin – where he today delivered a speech extolling the quest for “impossible hope”. He leaves on Saturday. Whether or not you are wrapped up in his soaring rhetoric; if you …

Crossrail was a major project for the previous administration, so while Boris is a keen supporter (he reckons it is a “cracking deal for the capital”), we are keeping a keener eye on whether he pursues this quite as zealously as Ken. This is because …

This morning every Londoner was extolled to get on their bike. Mayor Boris launched a Summer Cycling campaign, which involved having his picture taken with, er, lots of bikes. He revealed research from Transport for London that showed that while 1 in 3 of us …

It’s official – London’s tap water is apparently the best in the country. Who’d have thought it? We’ve all absorbed the marketing of bottled water (“ooh, it’s filtered through mountains”) and assumed that water from Buxton and elsewhere in the countryside would be better than …

The ‘Will he? Won’t he?’ Dwain Chambers saga seems at last to be over. He now know that he definitely *won’t* be taking anabolic steroids part in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in 20 days’ time. After yesterday’s legal decision, the British Olympic Association …

We’ll likely avoid Croydon this weekend. Lovely place though it is, news reports are coming in from around Croydon that suggests that Lady Luck is not currently visiting the area. First off, news came in of police officers being bitten by 15-year olds and attacked …

Greenness is certainly suffering mixed fortunes today. For a start, Mayor Boris had originally moved to save trees, only this evening to reverse Ken’s planned £25 CO2 congestion charge hike. Into the bargain he also thanked Porsche for donating their subsequent legal costs paid by …