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87 year old Paul Freedman on the Barking Park Light Railway / photo by pallab seth

In Pictures: Olympic Torch Relay

By · July 23, 2012 · 13:00 · 0 Comments

We think this picture is better than that one on top of the London Eye.

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Weekend Round-Up

By · July 22, 2012 · 16:00 · 0 Comments

News. What will we find to write about once the Games are over?

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Extra, Extra

By · July 20, 2012 · 16:55 · 0 Comments

Exploding pavements and a tube travelling torch.

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Olympic Torchbearers Charged To Keep Torches

By · March 21, 2012 · 12:34 · 0 Comments

Those great golden spliffs don’t come cheap.

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For Sale: 1948 Olympic Torch

By · October 13, 2009 · 9:28 · 4 Comments

Want a genu-ine piece of London Olympic glory, guv? One of the torches from the 1948 London games has found its way onto Ebay, starting bid price around £7000. Twenty of the torches made the journey from Dover to Wembley to ignite the 1948 Olympic …

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The Saturday Strangeness

By · September 13, 2008 · 15:00 · 0 Comments

70. The Thamesmead Prowler During the early hours of Saturday 10th August at Goldfinch Road, west Thamesmead, a man awoke and peered around his curtain into the blackness of the night. A small animal startled him in the distance as it scurried around a corner …