London is the second-most visited city in the world, and so unsurprisingly there are a lot of souvenirs. Some of it can be quaint, but much of it is the same: cheap, cheerful, and mass-produced.

Being the host nation of the Olympic Games, the souvenir industry has gone into overdrive in order to produce all manner of unusual - and, dare we say it, a little bit tacky - Olympic-themed mementos.

London Museum has received £20m and more than 14,000 Roman artefacts from a US charitable organisation. The gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies is the largest private donation and largest archive ...