- Velodrome sponsorship deal falls through, meaning council tax payers could pick up the bill post-Games.
- M4 and M25 given development approval.
- JK Rowling accepts Freedom of the City; entitled to free pint in the Leaky Cauldron.
- Last-minute Olympic tickets include 100 metre finals.
- The London rain might just continue forever. That guy who wanted to build an Ark for the Olympics might have had the right idea after all.
- Dustin Hoffman to the rescue in Hyde Park.
- Walthamstow dog track one step closer to the knackers yard.
- Ride a 1938 Tube train.
- The Leaning Tower of Rotherhithe.
- What connects the Kentish Town Forum with Mussolini?
- Boris appoints a few more helpers. Victoria Borwick is the Statutory Deputy (the person who becomes Mayor if anything happens to BJ), James Cleverly replaces Brian Coleman as LFEPA (fire and emergency planning) head, Isabel Dedring is Deputy Mayor for Transport. Nobody quite knows what's happening with Stephen Greenhalgh.
Image of the velodrome by Andy Wilkes in the Londonist Flickr pool.
