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Shorter cuts: news doesn't get any smaller

London's cable car prepares for the Olympics
Up in the air: the Emirates Air Line cable car over the the Thames opens on 28 June. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Fly by wire

Forget those £2,012 opening ceremony tickets. Bargain of the Olympics has to be a cable car ride across the Thames for a mere £3.20. The service opens on 28 June.

Green light

Muppet Show excitement is building: Danny Baker tweeted this week that he would be writing for Kermit, Miss Piggy and the gang.

Holy helicopters!

The first pictures have emerged of The Bat, the flying vehicle used by Batman in The Dark Knight Rises. It's a far cry from the Batmobile.

Bills, bills, bills

James Murdoch and three other NI bosses had "secret" second iPhones and ran up monthly charges of up to £3,000 betweeen them, according to the Sunday Mirror. What contract were they on?

Foot locker

Adidas's JS Roundhouse Mid trainers have been criticised for their resemblance to 19th-century slave shackles. It's either that or a Lindsay Lohan-style electronic ankle tag.

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