Daily Dose 11.06

* Oxford Street and Regent Street to be closed to traffic for a day in December to encourage more shoppers to come(BBCNews)

* Treasury refuses to drop VAT charges on Olympic building plans adding over £1billion to the cost of staging games, get your hands in your pockets again(DailyMail)

* Black south London man spends a year clearing his name after getting banned from driving even though police video footage shows the man they charged was white(EveningStandard)

* Tony Blair says all non-EU visitors to Britain who stay for longer than three months will have to have an id card after 2008. A colossal waste of time and money that’ll never work(Telegragh)

* Hand luggage restrictions at UK airports to be eased from Monday(Reuters)

Ken Livingstone talking more crap on his Cuba visit. Speaking about the medals their Olympic teams win he says Britain can learn from them as ‘clearly they’re doing something right here’. Just like the old East Germany, Soviet Union and China, boot camps for 5 year olds, and plenty of drugs, clearly they’re doing something right(BBCNews)