As you might expect, excavation work at the 2012 Games site in Stratford is yielding all manner of buried treasures: a cobbled street, graves of early eastenders (though Reg Cox has yet to be disinterred), even radioactive doohickies. Here's the latest haul: a collection of firearms found on the site of the aquatics centre by workmen. The stash comprises a replica Colt, two single shot rifles, and two sawed-off barrels, and are thought to date......

In today's tale of Olympic overspend: it seems a clutch of consultants, hired to wrestle the budgetary reigns and keep costs under control, have trousered some £87 million in the process. According to a government report, the consortium CLM, a regular Olympic opportunist which has found work helping the Sydney and Beijing Games, was appointed to oversee a number of construction projects and ensure that costs were managed diligently. Yet that remit didn't preclude......

Get Dixon of Dock Green on the blower. See if DCI Burnside of Sun Hill is still kicking about ('Tosh isn't, sadly). A lack of security staff for the 2012 Games has led a senior police figure to recommend that veteran officers are brought out of retirement for the Olympics. Having outlined a £600 million pound security plan earlier in the year, officials are now concerned that there simply won't be enough able and......

Unexploded World War II bombs and London buses: you wait for ages for one, then two show up at once. A day after the Hammersmith & City, District and Circle lines were disrupted by a UXB found in Bromley By-Bow, another one has been unearthed, this time at the Olympic site in Stratford. All flights into and out of London City Airport have been halted due to an enforced air exclusion zone; however, the airport's......