In an uncharacteristically organised move, 295 students yesterday broke the Guinness World Record for the largest mortarboard toss. Held to highlight the international element of London’s universities, the event at More London by Tower Bridge saw students from all over the world replicate the traditional graduation celebration. 

This is the 14th world record to be set in London this year, meaning that the capital is a significant way towards its goal of beating more than 20 world records.

These handsome gorillas arrived outside London’s City Hall today. Part of Bristol Zoo’s Wow! Gorillas project, they’ll be on display until 22 September, before being sold by auction in aid of Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Appeal.

The UEFA Champions League cups have gone on show outside London’s City Hall.

Both the men’s and women’s trophies are being displayed in the back of a black London taxi. You can see them today and tomorrow from 10am until 7pm.

The cups are on a London-wide tour before heading to Hyde Park for the free UEFA football festival, which opens on Saturday.

This week’s photo is a perfect shot of More London with City Hall and Tower Bridge in the background. The photo was taken by Last Rounds.

The sculpture the man is balacing on is one of five giant full stops created by Turner prize nominee artist Fiona Banner. Each full stop is inspired by a different typeface.

What’s your favourite London sculpture? Show us by adding your photos to the Visit London Flickr group.

Our twitter followers will already know we were excited to see a crazy golf course pop up randomly next to VL Towers yesterday.

Through periods of sun and ominous grey clouds, players putted away against the backdrop of Tower Bridge.

Add your own pics to Visit London’s flickr pool and we might feature one of your own snaps as our Photo of the Week.

Actress Joanna Lumley joined the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, this morning to launch a new “repair and reuse” scheme for London. The pair posed in front of a sculpture made from old cupboards and chairs.

The London Reuse Network has been set up to address the 65,000 tonnes of household products thrown out by Londoners each year. The charity will collect, refurbish and sell on everything from furniture, books and carpets to bikes, cookers and fridges.

“There’s no shame in recycling things,” said Lumley, who last year donated her sofa to the Big Womble charity auction. ”It’s the most sensible and most rewarding thing you can do.”

So far my favourite is the one outside Regis House (opposite Monument Station on the north bank of London Bridge), which is decorated with peacock feathers. There are also silver ones, floral ones and a red bumpy one with tiny elephants inside it (check out the video) dotted around More London.

Which elephants have you seen and where’s your favourite? Don’t forget to add your photos to the Visit London flickrpool and we’ll show them off in a blog post at a later date…

Here’s a picture of the view from VL Towers last week, as the snow continued to fall into the early evening…

Sure, the snow has caused some problems in the city in the last week. But for every train cancellation and school closure, there’s space for some exciting sledging, brilliant snowball fights, fantastic photo opportunities, and indulging in London’s snug, warm, indoor attractions.

Did the snow give you an excuse to do something different in London last week? Let us know in the comments below!

And if you have any lovely pictures of London in the snow, don’t forget to share them in our flickrpool.

OK, so at over 10 minutes, this is a little longer than most YouTube snippets, but we promise it’s totally worth staying with it. (And it’s Friday – you deserve a little break…)

This remarkable colour film of London was taken in 1927 by pioneering filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene.

We think some of the black-and-white information plates are hilarious!

London’s roads look so wide and empty with the slow, elegant motorcars moving gracefully along them. And there’s a fascinating section that seems to have been filmed right infront of where VL Towers stands in shiny More London today! See if you can spot familiar areas looking drastically different, and let us know what your favourite bits are…