The collection, which includes a poster advertising the July 1948 games in London, will be exhibited at the Europa Gallery in Sutton’s Central Library.

The oldest poster displayed dates back to the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. While Franz Würbel's design for the Berlin Olympics in 1936, where Jesse Owens won four gold medals, will also feature.

A Soviet-era design for the 1980 Moscow Games is among the highlights.

Memorabilia, including the torch from the London Olympics 1948, will be on show alongside the posters for both the winter and summer games.

"I think people who come to the exhibition will be inspired,” remarked Sutton Councillor Graham Tope.

“Even people not normally interested in sport will enjoy the exhibition because the posters are snapshots in time - a visual record of sport and art, politics and place, commerce and culture.”

The posters have recently been exhibited in Bejing and are due to go on show in Mumbai and Adelaide over the the next two years, returing to London in 2012.

Another show hailing British Paralympian David Weir will also open tomorrow to accompany the ‘A Century of Olympic Posters’ exhibit.

Oil paintings, photos and sculptures will pay homage to Weir, who won four medals in Beijing 2008 and two medals in Athens 2004.

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Instead, claiming the moral high ground, he announced how he plans to devote his spare time to working without payment to improve conditions in the world's poorest countries.

The former prime minister will be paid up to £64,000 for some speeches, to fund a London-based Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown, with a staff of two or three. Mr Blair has a staff of about 130 for his work as a Middle East peace envoy; projects in Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Liberia; a London office and his sports and inter-faith foundations. He is said to have been paid up to £250,000 for speeches and to have earned £20m since leaving Downing Street in 2007.
Mr Brown's slimmer operation will be headed by Kirsty McNeill, his former speechwriter who was in charge of external affairs at Downing Street. Once a left-wing activist, she is said to have once shouted at Tony Blair that he was "Thatcher in disguise".

That view may be shared today by others in the Brown camp after Mr Blair's book accused Mr Brown of losing this year's election because he abandoned New Labour, and described him as "a strange guy" who had "zero" emotional intelligence.

But they are not going to go public. Nor will Mr Brown. On the day after he left No 10 in May, he began hammering out a book at his Fife home on the lessons to be learned from the global financial crisis. Friends say he will resist the temptation to respond to Mr Blair in the book, due to be published later this year.

Ed Balls, the close Brown ally who is running for the Labour leadership, told Mr Brown that Mr Blair's account was "really harsh". He said: "It would have been much better if the memoirs had been a celebration of success rather than recriminations. In that sense I thought it was all a bit sad. It was so one-sided. I didn't think it was comradely."

Unlike Mr Blair, who left the Commons on standing down as Prime Minister, Mr Brown will stay on as MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. He will not receive a a salary from his new office, which has been registered with Companies House and the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.

Yesterday Mr Brown announced several new global policy initiatives. He will collaborate with Queen Rania of Jordan by joining the Global Campaign for Education's High Level Panel on Education for All as a Convenor.

He will take forward a programme of work on increasing internet access in Africa. He has accepted Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the worldwide web, to join the board of his foundation, which seeks to advance the internet as a global medium that empowers people to bring about positive change. "Each of these positions are pro bono and Mr Brown will not accept any remuneration," his spokesman said. "He will continue to write on global issues, as he has been doing recently with articles on the desperate plight of those in Pakistan and Niger."

He added: "Gordon and Sarah have always made clear they are determined to continue to make their contribution to public life and these latest initiatives are a sign of Gordon's priorities for the future."

Mr Blair said yesterday he would have taken the job as first full-time President of the European Council if it had been offered to him last year and would be "perfectly happy" to accept another full-time public role. "I'm basically a public service guy," he told BBC Radio 5 live.

Defending his money-making activities since he left office, Mr Blair said he spent two-thirds to three-quarters of his time on unpaid work and had 130 to 150 people to support on his payroll.

Waterstone's said the Blair book, A Journey, sold more copies on its first day than the autobiographies of celebrities including David Beckham and Russell Brand. Rankings on Amazon's foreign websites show the book is the 12th best seller the US.

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Keith Broadbent, 59, a clinical psychologist with more than 25 years' experience, started a relationship with patient A, aged 30, around six months after he became her therapist at a pioneering clinic that treats mostly female patients with borderline personality disorder. He is said to have bought her expensive gifts, including a laptop, and given her money, before she moved into his north London home.

Mr Broadbent was dismissed by Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for gross professional misconduct in February – a month after the woman revealed the relationship to a community psychiatric nurse.

The trust has been criticised by sources close to the case for failing to properly investigate whether Mr Broadbent, who treated hundreds of patients in his 22 years at the trust, has conducted improper relationships with any other patient. He last night admitted to an earlier relationship with a former patient but gave no other details.

The trust is also criticised for failing to protect the identity and whereabouts of patient A since her disclosure.

Mr Broadbent was arrested at his home at 7am last Tuesday and questioned about allegations of harassment involving hundreds of texts, emails and phone calls to patient A since she moved out in January. Bailed until the end of next month, he denies the allegations, claiming the relationship was still ongoing at the time.

Patient A's mental health has deteriorated and she has spent several months in a crisis centre suffering from depression. Mr Broadbent was suspended from the psychology register by the regulator, the Health Professions Council, in February as an interim measure while it investigates the allegations.

Just over 16,000 practitioner psychologists are currently registered by the HPC, which started regulating the profession in April 2009. But only specialists, such as clinical, forensic and educational psychologists, are required by law to register. Anyone can set up a clinic as a "psychologist" without being subject to the professional code of conduct. The British Psychological Society has 45,000 members, which means two-thirds are unregulated.

Mr Broadbent was instrumental in setting up the Oscar Hill Service which uses dialectical behaviour therapy to treat vulnerable patients with complex emotional and behavioural problems such as recurrent suicide attempts, self-harm, binge eating, paranoid thoughts and drug abuse. Patients treated in the three-year programme are often highly traumatised as the majority have suffered childhood abuse and neglect.

The sexual relationship started after patient A told Mr Broadbent she had developed feelings for him in an email last April, the interim orders review hearing was told last week. He replied in an email that he "felt the same way" and he wanted to "kiss and hold her".

The panel heard how the relationship quickly developed and the two would "kiss and cuddle, and talk about dinner" during one-to-one therapy sessions. But within months patient A was struggling with the "lies and secrecy" and felt that "the relationship was wrong and that Mr Broadbent had violated her trust", the hearing was told.

After telling him she had disclosed the relationship to her nurse, patient A claims in a statement that Mr Broadbent said: "You have not left me any wriggle room. I will be crucified."

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Understandably, the mind wanders. Was there a more sinister reason why my new friend seemed so interested in the weather, the pitch, the make-up of our side and who would bowl the opening over?

Over the past couple of days I have attempted to recount the numerous telephone conversations I had with people who called me out of the blue in my hotel room in the build-up to England games I played in. Most said they were representing media organisations, others stated they were big fans who just wanted a general chat. My current account shows I received nothing monetary for the conversations that followed but I now wonder where the information I parted with ended up.
I was in the top tier of the Pavilion on the Friday of the Lord's Test against Pakistan and, like the rest of the crowd, stood to loudly applaud Stuart Broad after he had reached his maiden hundred. The moment was special. The appreciation of the Lord's crowd was loud, genuine and long – it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. The crowd did not want to stop applauding and when they finally did, cheers began to echo round the "Home of Cricket". As I said it was a special moment.

The allegations that followed have left me, and I would imagine many people who were at Lord's on Friday, feeling emotionally cheated. One of the joys of sport is that you emotionally commit to the team you follow. You turn up not knowing what is going to happen and your mood is influenced by the way your team performs. To find out that what you were watching was not actually the real deal leaves you with an empty feeling inside.

The alleged crimes may have only been no-balls and had little impact on the match but the thought that sportsmen are prepared to make deliberate mistakes which are not in the interest of their side for material gain is deplorable. Had a colleague of mine performed such an act during my career I and my team-mates would never have wanted to play with him again. We would have made his position in the side untenable. The disturbing thing is that visually Sunday's allegations seemed to have little impact on the way the Pakistan side interacted.

It may sound naive but it is only now that I, as a former bowler, am beginning to realise how easy it would have been to surreptitiously influence events on a cricket field. Perhaps bowlers of my generation got it wrong. We believed you were rewarded for bowling balls that counted, that meant something. If the NOTW story proves to be true three of the most infamous balls delivered in cricket were deliveries that did not count – they were extras.

When I was in the England team spread betting was vogue and we used to openly talk during one-day games about the spread on when the first wide of the match would be bowled. Depending on the game and conditions – a sultry, swinging day increases the chances of wides being bowled – the spread would be say 12 to 14 balls. This meant that if the third ball of the match was a wide the gambler would make nine times his stake. Such errors were thought little of because umpires are strict on wides and it is understandable for a bowler to make such an error as he loosens up.

Again some may think what is the problem? It is only a wide and in the shake-up of a 550-run match it is pretty harmless. If someone were to be paid £5,000 for bowling it, so what? Well, as we are realising, it isn't OK. In this case if the extra ball of the over was hit for four, making the total cost of the deliberate mistake five runs, and the fielding side lose the game by three runs, then that event has ultimately cost a team the game.

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Keith Broadbent, 59, a clinical psychologist with more than 25 years' experience, started a relationship with patient A, aged 30, around six months after he became her therapist at a pioneering clinic that treats mostly female patients with borderline personality disorder. He is said to have bought her expensive gifts, including a laptop, and given her money, before she moved into his north London home.

Mr Broadbent was dismissed by Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for gross professional misconduct in February – a month after the woman revealed the relationship to a community psychiatric nurse.

The trust has been criticised by sources close to the case for failing to properly investigate whether Mr Broadbent, who treated hundreds of patients in his 22 years at the trust, has conducted improper relationships with any other patient. He last night admitted to an earlier relationship with a former patient but gave no other details.

The trust is also criticised for failing to protect the identity and whereabouts of patient A since her disclosure.

Mr Broadbent was arrested at his home at 7am last Tuesday and questioned about allegations of harassment involving hundreds of texts, emails and phone calls to patient A since she moved out in January. Bailed until the end of next month, he denies the allegations, claiming the relationship was still ongoing at the time.

Patient A's mental health has deteriorated and she has spent several months in a crisis centre suffering from depression. Mr Broadbent was suspended from the psychology register by the regulator, the Health Professions Council, in February as an interim measure while it investigates the allegations.

Just over 16,000 practitioner psychologists are currently registered by the HPC, which started regulating the profession in April 2009. But only specialists, such as clinical, forensic and educational psychologists, are required by law to register. Anyone can set up a clinic as a "psychologist" without being subject to the professional code of conduct. The British Psychological Society has 45,000 members, which means two-thirds are unregulated.

Mr Broadbent was instrumental in setting up the Oscar Hill Service which uses dialectical behaviour therapy to treat vulnerable patients with complex emotional and behavioural problems such as recurrent suicide attempts, self-harm, binge eating, paranoid thoughts and drug abuse. Patients treated in the three-year programme are often highly traumatised as the majority have suffered childhood abuse and neglect.

The sexual relationship started after patient A told Mr Broadbent she had developed feelings for him in an email last April, the interim orders review hearing was told last week. He replied in an email that he "felt the same way" and he wanted to "kiss and hold her".

The panel heard how the relationship quickly developed and the two would "kiss and cuddle, and talk about dinner" during one-to-one therapy sessions. But within months patient A was struggling with the "lies and secrecy" and felt that "the relationship was wrong and that Mr Broadbent had violated her trust", the hearing was told.

After telling him she had disclosed the relationship to her nurse, patient A claims in a statement that Mr Broadbent said: "You have not left me any wriggle room. I will be crucified."

The HPC case investigator told the panel that there was a "further issue of a second patient with whom Mr Broadbent may have broken professional boundaries", but the trust was not investigating because he had been sacked.

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The first pictures have emerged of the prime minister with the latest addition to clan Cameron - Florence Rose Endellion.

While politicians are often reviled for their baby-kissing antics to garner popular approval, David Cameron can probably be forgiven for sharing a tender moment with his own daughter.

Florence joins siblings Nancy and Arthur at No 10, along with their mother, Samantha, who is reportedly recovering extremely well after the delivery.

Weighing 6lb 1oz, Florence was delivered by caesarian section at the Royal Cornwall hospital in Treliske on Tuesday.

She had been due in seven or eight weeks, but took the couple by surprise while they were on a family holiday in Cornwall.

When Samantha Cameron announced her pregnancy before the election, many thought it was just the 'bump' (sorry) the Tory leader needed to win the election. Matters took a slightly different course of events, as I'm sure the PM himself could attest.

Florence becomes the second child born to a serving leader in a decade after Leo Blair in 2000, who was the first legitimate child born to a serving prime minister in over 150 years — since the birth of Francis Russell in July 1849.

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In Wales at the weekend we chanced on a display by the Red Arrows. I did wonder why so many people were sitting on camping chairs on top of Craig Fawr, when we scrambled up through the woods to the summit of the local National Trust property. But it was only after we'd scrambled back down again that perfectly calibrated plumes of smoke appeared over the sea as the sudden whoosh of jet engines divided the sky.

We guessed it must be the Red Arrows – there are not that many precision aerobatic jet fighter teams around – and by the time we got into the house an excited phone call from Auntie Viv had settled the issue. The team then proceeded to fly incredibly low over the back garden.

Usually, when your garden is buzzed by low-flying fighters, you feel irritated. But it was an honour to be menaced by the Red Arrows. Why is this? Perhaps the pleasure people take in this flying display, always a summer sensation in Britain's coastal towns, can reveal something about art.

A harmless, elegant, daring display by a team of military jets is an extreme instance of the transformation of everyday reality into visual display. In reality, fighter planes are powerful, scary and lethal. But here are highly trained pilots displaying their skills as an art. No one is going to get hurt. There is no war. The formation flying is like seeing a pod of dolphins at play. In this, it resembles looking at early medieval decoration or the work of Richard Wright.

Much of what makes art is simply the pleasure of exercising a skill for its own sake. Since I saw the Red Arrows in Wales, perhaps it's appropriate to compare the curling streaks of coloured smoke they made in the sky with the abstract patterns in ancient Welsh art, such as the carvings in the tomb of Barclodiad y Gawres. Art for art's sake: the transfiguration of craft from useful technique to useless beauty.

Seeing the Red Arrows makes you feel free. And that is what art ought to do.

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It was a message his audience of students and environmentalists, there to campaign against the opening of a coal-fired power station, did not particularly want to hear.

His hair was thinner, his cheeks fatter and, given that the crowd numbered a handful as opposed to the thousands he was used to addressing, the megaphone was no longer necessary. But Scargill's willingness to plant his flag in hostile territory showed he has lost none of the pugnacity which won him fans and many enemies during the miners' strike of 1984.

He will need this fighting spirit in abundance for his latest battle. This week it was announced that Scargill, 72, no longer qualifies for full membership of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the union he used to lead. Officially the reason is simple: he no longer works as a miner or for the union, so he no longer qualifies for full membership and the voting rights which go with it.

But behind the scenes is a bitter dispute which has divided the tiny NUM, which during the strike had about 180,000 members and now has barely 1,600.

On one side is Scargill and his supporters, who are furious that the man who once embodied the union and everything it stood for should be required to leave in such ignominious circumstances.

On the other is the current leader of the union, Chris Kitchen, and members of the executive committee who say that Scargill is abandoning the socialist principles for which he has always been known.

The row began last year when Scargill took the union to the Trade Unions Certification Officer claiming that a candidate he had supported in the National Executive Committee had been unfairly penalised by the rules. Scargill won and the NUM was forced to re-run its national elections. But there was a sting in the tail.

The Certification Officer also ruled that the NUM's membership policy also contravened the rulebook – something the NUM claimed they knew was the case but had been prepared to turn a blind eye to. Membership, it said, should not be given to those not working as a miner or for the union. Scargill would have to relinquish his full-membership status and have it reduced to that of an honorary or retired member.

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The revised Qashqai is available with fuel-saving stop-start technology, at least when fitted with the 1.6-litre petrol engine - although it will be a £200 option, rather than featuring as standard equipment as it does on the Land Rover Freelander 2, for example.

The capable 1.5-litre diesel gets a little bit more power (110 instead of 106 horsepower of the German “PS” variety), and pollutes a little less, thanks in part to a particulate filter for the exhaust system.

The popular n-tec trim level is improved with, for example, 18-inch alloy wheels which were previously a £400 option

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A 1997 publicity stunt, when Hague wore a similar hat emblazoned with his name while riding the log flume, was generally credited as destroying any chance he had of leading the Tories back into government. Now they're in power again and pictures have emerged of Hague once more sailing perilously close to ridicule. What was he doing, roaming Central London in such apparel? Perhaps he's one of those neurotic hand-wringers who get anxious when things are going too well.

But he doesn't look fazed by his choice of headgear, does he? William Hague is practically glowing in this Italian Riviera ensemble. From the loosely belted and low-slung jeans (in faded black, rather than a more modish indigo) to the long-sleeved T-shirt that he has carefully tucked in (summoning memories of his predecessor John Major's supposed penchant for firmly anchoring his shirts into his underpants), he is every inch the urbane modern gentleman – and just the sort that belongs in Casual Cameron's Cabinet.

Except Hague doesn't quite pull it off. It's obvious what he's done here: seen the Prime Minister in similar a laidback, louche outfit and thought, 'I can do that; I'm too hot in this suit, and I can do off-duty as well as the next man.' What he failed to realise is that relaxed leisurewear only looks good if you're posh. Just as he failed to look as chic as Princess Di on the flume, so he has fallen in the wake of shirtsleeves Dave and his Eton brand of sports casual.

Pundits will point out that the cap itself is a little tight-fitting, following too closely the lines of Hague's signature glabrous head. Pedants will note that he has plumped for one that looks like it might have come free with a car-valeting kit. (Rule of thumb: if a logo must be involved, at least opt for the most bling.) Purists may flag up the fact that Hague has hand-bent his cap's peak, like we all used to in the late Nineties to give it that worn look; the baseball cap kings of today leave theirs straight as a dye and let the item sit atop their heads rather than ramming it on, as if it might blow away at any minute. Nonchalant, innit.

But style quibbles aside, this hat speaks of classical tragedy. Hague's hamartia if you will – his fatal flaw – is his inexorable draw to the baseball cap. He narrowly escaped the wrath of the gods once before, but it's bare-faced hubris to wheel one out again. Will it be the source of his downfall?

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