Where will you be at that 'olympic handover moment' on the afternoon of 24 August when London becomes the next Summer host city? At Notting Hill Carnival? At the huge Buckingham Palace party with 40,000 others and, er, Will Young? Or watching (and possibly drinking) at one of London's open-air big screens or inside a pub? Wherever you are, you are likely to see video clips of people having a bit of a laugh.......

No matter what your opinion of the 2012 olympics, we're now all helpless to stop it and we won't be able to get away from it for five years so in a Stockholm Syndrome-like way we should all come to love our captors and get excited. After a video treasure hunt across the web, today the branding was launched. How was it to represent London? Would it be all beefeaters and black cabs? The......

Dame Kelly Holmes was on the radio a little while ago exhorting girls to get involved in sport. We're not entirely sure that roller derby was what she was thinking of at the time, but a group of daring Londoners are keen to welcome new female recruits to their weekly Saturday afternoon practice sessions. Let's be clear about one thing before we start - roller derby is a contact sport and participants can expect......

Nelson gets a facelift, including the removal of a generation's-worth of pigeon shit. Channel Tunnel train to be named after Dame Kelly Holmes. Apparently, 'The route's other trains will also be named after Britons famous for speed'. [Insert predictable celebrity drug-taking gag here.] Bidding for the rights to distribute a free afternoon newspaper on the Tube has begun. Fire at former Dickens home. And finally, a rather upsetting story about gravestone health and safety......

This Sunday on BBC Radio London at 2pm, Danny Kelly will be announcing the winners of the station's Sports Awards for 2005. The categories include footballer, athlete, cricketer and rugby player of the year plus the usual team of the year and personality of the year (Kelly Holmes won last year). Pretty standard stuff so far, but the awards also cast an eye on London's grass-roots sports scene, giving awards for best non-professional team......

We haven't posted much about the Olympic bid recently. Mainly because you can read about it just about everywhere, but also because we're sick to the back teeth of it. When it gets to the point where they're using the DLR as a promotional tool then, to be honest, we just stop listening. But even we have to admit that the latest promotional release from London's 2012 team is pretty impressive. At four minutes......