Marathon Medal Map

Images of London on the medal from today's London Marathon. One side shows the route with South London landmarks identified on it including Greenwich Park, the Cutty Sark, 02 Arena, London Eye and Surrey Quays.

The other side shows a view down the river from east of Tower Bridge, with the Shard, London Eye, City Hall and various buildings around Tooley St/London Bridge identifiable.

(this was my marshall's medal - runners had the same design with a gold colour)

Layer Cake - Daniel Craig in Greenwich Park

Sienna Miller's sometime 'brief encounter' with Daniel Craig has been making the news, after the former gave evidence as a witness in the News of the World phone-hacking trial yesterday. Miller and Craig appeared together - and had a fictional brief encounter - in Matthew Vaughn's 2004 London gangster movie 'Layer Cake'. As well as  Craig and Miller the film includes Ben Whishaw, Michael Gambon and lots of people who have been in Eastenders and Brookside, all mixed up with cocaine and Serbian ecstasy dealers.

Several of the key scenes of the film were shot in Greenwich Park, where the Craig character meets up with hit men by the General Wolfe statue.

Looking rather James Bond in Layer Cake

(Someone at Edmund Waller Primary School in New Cross once told me that some of the film had been shot there, but I can't see any scene that looks like it was. However there was a scene showing one of the characters as a schoolgirl that ended up being cut, so perhaps that's the explanation)