John Prescott, Grant Shapps and the Thai brides

WHEN John Prescott spotted ads for Thai brides on Tory minister Grant Shapps’s website, he told the world about it, via Twitter. Unfortunately for Prezza, Shapps was able to point out that the adverts on his site are generated individually for each visitor, based on terms they’ve searched in their browser before, says the Mail on Sunday...

THE OPENING ceremony for the Olympics was watched by the UK’s biggest TV audience so far this century, The Sunday Times reports. Its most-watched segment, Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean playing Chariots of Fire, was seen by 26.9m, the largest audience for any TV show since an episode of Only Fools and Horses in 1996…

SHE GAINED a public profile by walking up the aisle at her sister’s wedding – now Pippa Middleton is achieving recognition for her talents as a sportswoman. The Duchess of Cambridge’s sibling has won a place in the women’s first team at Queen’s Club, the home of posh tennis in West Kensington, reports The Sunday Telegraph…

LONDON IS the world party capital for the great and the good and the very, very rich this week, reports The Sunday Times. Nicole Kidman, Jarvis Cocker and Eddie Redmayne were guests together at a west London bash last night while another took place on 414-ft super-yacht Octopus, owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen…

THE FATHER of rising Labour party star Chuka Umunna may have been assassinated, his friends have claimed. When Bennett Umunna, a wealthy London businessman who was a director of Crystal Palace FC, died in a car crash in Nigeria 20 years ago he was favourite to win a state governorship, says the Mail on Sunday…

AS HE hurried through London to jump into a speedboat and pilot the Olympic flame up the Thames to Stratford, David Beckham got caught up in Critical Mass, the urban cycling pressure group who take to the streets every month. One cyclist claimed his bike was damaged, says The Independent on Sunday, and arrests were made… ·