Tessa ‘Watch me keep a straight face’ Jowell finally gave in and announced that yes, the 2012 Olympics will cost in excess of £9 billion. Thats a lot of zeros. Can’t we just buy everyone a copy of Escape to Victory instead? Everyone’s a winner …
Being huge fans of David Mamet’s House of Games and other great con stories (have you seen Eddie Izzard in The Riches yet? Great stuff) we’ve been following the Blue Peter grift very carefully. It’s a classic con that we think scam artists the world …
Elaine Gennard-Levy spent 20 minutes searching for a bathroom while shopping on London’s Oxford Street. She decided it would be easier to build her own. Well we can think of simpler ways to relieve ourselves, but they don’t payoff in people giving us a fiver …
If you go out to a 14+ gig today, you’re sure of a big surprise. If you go out to a gig today, you’d better go in disguise (white berets are where it’s at, peeps). For every kid that ever there was, will gather there …
Last time we looked at the Olympic motto there was some stuff in there about Fastest and Strongest, but apparently we’ve given those attributes too much attention in the past. Yesterday in Trafalgar Square saw the launch of “Sporting Giants”, a search fronted by five …
Well, we’re working our way gradually through the football codes in this feature and this week we alight on the favoured antipodean variation. The Swans are newly arrived in the capital having been based for the last 17 years in Brighton and are very much …
Where would local papers be without spunky pensioners*? They are the meat and two veg of local rags in the same way that bus plunge stories help pad out the bigger boys. And pensioners don’t get much spunkier than when they’re willing to go to …
…Arsenal will even throw in a football match for free! Seriously, though, tonight represents an excellent opportunity for those who can’t normally get a ticket to watch Arsene’s finest, but would love to have a butcher’s around their new stadium and didn’t fancy forking out …
Who said football was dull? Seven members of China’s Olympic team have been sent home following a mass brawl that occurred during their friendly with QPR on Wednesday. Sent home? For daring to change the dreary spectacle of grown men chasing a small ball up …
You were thinking that the 2012 Olympic Games were going to be an employment bonanza, right? You are a security guard or a retired policeman and were hoping to lend a hand for the extra police presence that will be required. In your mind you’re …
Around 200 hydrogen peroxide bottles are the latest piece of evidence in the July 21 terror case A second protester, this time a BT engineer, has been found guilty of stirring up racial hatred Even the games organisers are worried over the real cost of …
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