Ping-pong world record at Bethnal Green pic: Michael Pooler

Players batted their way into the Guinness Book of World Records at the world’s largest-ever ping-pong rally in Bethnal Green. (more…)

Pic: Ping Pong Association England

Bethnal Green could be shot into the record books this weekend as locals attempt to serve up the world’s largest-ever ping-pong rally. (more…)

Yang Fan Zhou playing Simon Williams Pic: Flickr - Adam Raoof (JustABoy)

A South Croydon teenager is on his way to Brazil to represent England in the international youth chess team. (more…)

Wimbledon fraudster sentenced Pic: Metropolitan Police Service

A Croydon man has been found guilty of fraud after making thousands of pounds selling fake tickets to the 2011 Wimbledon Tennis Championships. (more…)

Sebastian Coe, chairman of LOCOG pic: London 2012

Huge crowds are expected for the Lewisham start of the procession of the Olympic Torch through south London, organisers said today.

The torch will be taken to 1,108 UK communities between May 18 and July 27 and organisers today announced further details of the route  through south London on July 23. (more…)

telegraph hill skate park final design. pic:brockleycentral.blogspot.com

Telegraph Hill Skate Park has now completed its final stages of development after final designs were released by designers, Gravity. (more…)

Gordon Pirie

As the Olympics are approaching, a plaque has been unveiled this week, in an honour of a past hero Olympic silver medallist and five-time record holder Gordon Pirie (1931 – 1991). (more…)

Pic. Sungecko

Budding young footballers in Tower Hamlets are being giving the chance to impress Chelsea Football Club over the October half-term school holiday.

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Dame Kelly Holmes meets London 2012 Young Leaders pic: LOCOG

Young people from around the UK, including Tower Hamlets and Hackney, met gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes this week as part of Olympic development programme London 2012 Young Leaders. (more…)

Wavelengths leisure centre, Deptford. Pic: Stephen Craven

A new company is to take over the management of leisure centres in Lewisham in October. (more…)