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Not content with holding the title of Britain’s oldest worker, 101-year-old Buster Martin set off from Greenwich Park hoping to become the country’s oldest marathon runner. Mr Martin, a smoker since the age of seven who still turns up three days a week to clean vans in south London, refused to take on any water during the run and instead relied on supporters to provide him with strategically placed pints of bitter.

Jerome Taylor
The 28th London Marathon: It’s that time of Year …

It is never too late to become what you might have been.

George Eliot

Surely the fallout of going bankrupt is enough that we don’t have to kick debtors when they are down by demanding they pay a fortune they can’t afford to officially admit they can’t cope.

Kate Hughes
Best Not To Be Sniffy About Bankruptcy

I was as secretive, indeed I was as furtive as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and effort would have been wasted. If it were to be exposed that our particular group had got together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress … I do not feel it is any exaggeration to speak of our secret expedition to Jekyll Island as the occasion of the actual conception of what eventually became the Federal Reserve System.

Frank A. Vanderlip

My assistant Carl is exceptionally good looking - especially when he’s walking through the forest carrying a large format camera with the light coming in from behind him.

Vincent Skoglund
Recipe For Men

He leapt onto the large reptile’s back, gouging at its eyes with his fingers trying to free his wife.

BBC News
Man Wrestles Croc (…)

We’re inundated with requests to ban all sorts of things from our trains - personal music players, mobile phones, food and drink and even children are the most common suggestions. And I’m sorry, but we have to say no to all of them for the same reasons.

Nicholas Drury
TfL Central Customer Services

Hundreds of listeners have contacted BBC Radio 4 after newsreader Charlotte Green dissolved into giggles while reading a bulletin on Today.
Green’s hysterical outburst started after a studio member remarked that the 1860 recording of a woman singing the French song Clair de Lune sounded like a “bee buzzing in a bottle”.

Radio 4 News (…)

Holga-mania is sweeping the internet as fans use blogs and photo-sharing sites such as Flickr to extol the virtues of their deficient cameras (…)

The Cult Of (…)