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glamour, grit and shiny shiny cars Now then, the capital’s Kidnapping Statistics – one area that this Londonista doesn’t normally bone up about at the kitchen table on a Sunday morning. The headline figure is that, so far this year, 315 cases of kidnapping have …

Photos from Saturday Evening’s firework moment Pictures provided courtesy of London 2012, with the exception of No.5, which is the contributor’s own

Greenwich Park As previously reported, there’s a lot of confusing nonsense spread about Greenwich Park, one of the venues where the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be taking place in 1,000 days’ time. But there are also concerns that need to be allayed, and plans …

Dervis Konuralp, Tom Aggar, Andy Barrow & Sophie Christiansen Time flies by when you have the world’s two greatest sporting events – the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games – heading your way. It seems only yesterday that London knocked out Paris to win the …

ParalympicsGB grapple with China at Beijing 2008 Sod Britain’s Got Talent, we’re bored of Ant and Dec. Are you disabled? Are you sporty? If so, do you fancy a go at seeing if you’ve got what it takes to compete internationally and bring home the …

Photos from the London 2012 Open Weekend Event at the Olympic Stadium – the first public let inside the ‘cupcake’ which had its external structure completed 10 days beforehand. Monday marks ’3 Years To Go’ to London’s Games.

and swine flu comes It’s nice that the news media seems to have finally moved on from MPs’ expenses. But it’s not such a jump from MPs ‘in the trough’ to bigging up the latest scare story of the moment – Swine Flu. Finally, this …

2012 stadium Yesterday crowds flocked to nibble a Giant Cupcake in Covent Garden. At about the same time over in East London the Olympic Stadium – known fondly by some as the ‘cupcake’ – had its final roof bit moved into position, completing the elliptical …

London 2012 Open Weekend Last September everyone was still a-gog looking at the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games. The huge fireworks, the big spectacular – plus the sport and the drama, of course – was all there. The handover to London is now well and …

We all know how busy Heathrow is – congested skies, 2 clogged runways, full capacity, yada yada. So when we turn up with our luggage at T5, we know we won’t collapse in shock if there’s a delay due to any of these things, or …