We've long been fascinated by our childhood memories of Monkey Magic (was the monk a boy or a girl?) and were morbidly curious about Albarn's hand in bringing Monkey: Journey to the West to the London stage earlier this year. But we never got round to getting togged up for the Opera House. Then along came the Olympics and the Beeb indoctrinated us with the specially commissioned song and an fabulous Hewlett animation featuring......

Monkey Magic far from being content with taking one great shot of an ice cream van vendor has a whole set of them: The ice cream vans of North West London. How cool is that?......

Monkey Magic: So the funniest thing happened to me yesterday. I was using my OM-10 on Tottenham Court Road when this man stopped me, asked how much it cost me and whether he could buy it off me - he then produced a crisp £20 note and I no longer have a 35mm camera. Then he asked me to have a coffee with him and I heard his life story, he is from Northern......

Pakistan's president has claimed in his memoir that the Al Qaeda 'mastermind' behind 9/11 was also connected to the 7 July bombings. A 22-year-old man is being questioned by police over the death of Lucy Brahamm who was found stabbed to death at her parents' house in the grounds of Harrow School ten days ago. Looks like Frost/Nixon is going to make its way to Broadway and the big screen (with Ron Howard directing......