Given our own Olympic Minister's ill conceived remarks recently as to whether, "Had we known what we know now.." about the economy, "would we have bid for the Olympics? Almost certainly not" and the ongoing struggle to cut costs by employing top price KPMG consultants to suggest savings, it's not surprising that miffed Paris - former 2012 bid favourite - is now taking the opportunity to put an elegant boot in. Head of the......

We've been ever so slightly bored by the anodyne coverage of today's Budget from the usual media sources. Luckily, Channel Five has done the decent thing and injected a bit of originality into proceedings. On today's 5pm and 7pm bulletins, Natasha Kaplinsky will be assisted by a 21 inch papier mache sculpture of the chancellor, Alistair Darling. Ham-based artist Anita Russell, a learning support assistant at Twickenham's Orleans Park School, sculpted the miniature minister......