Team GB's dominance in the Olympic cycling events was consolidated yesterday with Victoria Pendleton's women's sprint victory and Chris Hoy's third gold medal of the Games (fourth of his career) closely followed by team mate Jason Kenny with the silver in the men's sprint. Come the victory parade in October, there will be an impressive retinue of medal holders from the cycling contingent and we're holding out for more to join their ranks following......

With waiting lists for London allotments spiralling into 6 years or more, the new report Growing Round the Houses, from food and farming charity, Sustain and the Women's Environmental Network, is very welcome. It advocates planning communal food growing into social housing and transforming unused estate ground into fertile kitchen gardens with huge growbags. Which is a lovely idea, of course, as long as there's genuine community buy in, the local kids don't vandalise......

If you need to give your Glastonbury wellies a trial run before the inevitable mudslide next week then get yourself along to the the Manor Gardening Society allotments from 1pm today. You remember these plucky allotmenteers. They fought a brave fight against eviction from their original Manor Gardens plot - part of the Olympic site - but are now adjusting to life in their temporary plots in Marsh Lane Fields, Leyton, E10. Today's open......

Like a newly elected mayor with a point to prove, new London Mayor, Boris Johnson, has continued his pledge to lower the ever spiralling cost of the 2012 Olympics. Earlier this month he raised concerns that organisers of the games were failing to create a legacy master plan regarding facilities. Now, a review commissioned by the mayor has found that the cost of the Olympic Stadium alone has reached £525m – almost double its......

Yawn. Londonist is fed up of dour news pieces and negatively-biased research polls foisting bleak forecasts on to the public of an overly expensive and poorly designed 2012 Olympics. Are we heading for the crappest Olympics ever? Is the event going to bankrupt our economy? Who really knows? It’s 4 years away! In this latest survey, carried out by current affairs programme Inside Out, 6 out of 10 Londoners said there was nothing really......