Our complete archive of Olympic coverage, stretching back to 2005.
Elvis lookalike caught selling guns. Presumably will soon be doing the jailhouse rock. Choose the ‘first record’ to be played at Wembley. Damien Hirst and others design new deckchairs for Royal Parks. They’re dead good. Police building database of dogging/cruising spots around London. Would you …
Deirdre and Maria, the Mormon chilli-wielding child dislikers, are jailed. 60,000 of our citizens are missing. Mourinho falls in love with the Olympics. One bedroom flat in Belgravia costs £3 million. But it does have a high ceiling, so plenty of space. If you’re Spiderman. …
BBC publishes Goatse Olympics logo!! If you have no idea why this is a mistake, wikipedia ‘goatse’. But, be warned, it’s not nice. Early nicknames for the real logo include ‘Gay swastika puzzle’ and ‘Tiswas disaster’. But the leading meme is of ‘Lisa Simpson giving head’. …
Today sees the launch of the new brand for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Two ‘sneak preview’ videos have just been uploaded and are now online. The ‘brand video’ one isn’t really a brand video at all – but at a time when …
The official 2012 Olympic logo will be unveiled next Monday. We’re excited, we must confess. How will they have captured the spirit of our city, our country and the Olympic ideals all in one logo? The organisers have gone all Olympics 2.0 and seeded the …
Next Friday the Royal Festival Hall will open its doors after two years of hefty refurbishments. We’re a bit excited about the return of this jewel of the South Bank, and more specifically the launch weekend itself, which features water and candles. Will the £100m …
If you’ve ever taken a river taxi or party boat you’d probably like to think you’re in as safe hands as you were boarding a 747. Today the Transport Select Committee urged that the current Boatmaster’s Licence held by captains of such vehicles be suspended …
1. The Highgate Vampire Note: This article has been amended after complaints from the ‘Friends of Bishop Seán Manchester’. We apologise for any misrepresentation. Dusty vaults, ivy-strewn pathways, desecrated coffins and shadowy goings-on. Sounds like something from a Hammer film doesn’t it? However, the hi-jinx …
The whole country is still mid-way through the respectable mourning period after our annual Eurovision trouncing. Scooch’s camp ditty about aviation unfortunately crashed and burned (boo!), and with no survivors (phew!). Perhaps the ultimate in cheesy music requires more planning time? Five years out, BBC …
File this one under ‘what the f*ck’. Hello. Please introduce yourselves, and your cause. We’re the London Urban Ironing Collective. Our parents were diagnosed with Cancer in December 2006, so we decided to raise money for Cancer Research UK using the medium of ironing. We’re …
WWII bomb found in Bethnal Green. That’s one way to free up land for the Olympics. Speaking of which…are we going to get a Ministry of Olympics? Paedophile! Living in a Watford playground! Thatcher opens Falklands exhibition at Imperial War Museum. And for all those …
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