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The Armed Forces were called upon to supply 3,500 men to look after security for the Olympic Games after GS4, a security company, failed to recruit enough staff. Nick Buckles, its chief executive, agreed before a Commons committee that it had been a ‘humiliating shambles’ but said that the company would keep its £57 million management fee. The UK Border Agency had laid off 1,000 more workers than it intended, the National Audit Office found. David Cameron, the Prime Minister, appearing at a rail depot in Smethwick with Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, said that he was ‘even more committed’ to the coalition, and announced new rail schemes costing £4.2 billion, such as the electrification of the line to Sheffield, where Mr Clegg has his constituency. The Mayor of London’s cycling was an example of virtue, according to a petition to the Pakistan High Court by Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Laskar-e-Taliba, who has a $10 million American bounty on his head.
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