It's been a good weekend for former members of the London College of Communication's broadcast journalism postgrad.

On Friday night we had a rather large London Irish story break - exclusive to us, thanks to the hard work of our reporter Graham, who knows the club inside out. They were extremely angry about what they allege to be the racist abuse of one of their players by someone playing for their opponents, Ulster. After the match, the club told Graham they were going to file a formal complaint about it.

Nobody else picked up on this story, so we had an exclusive. When I rang BBC Sport Interactive at 10:30pm I was told their rugby union desk had all gone home (!), but that didn't stop us having the story on BBC Sport's homepage by 11pm - with quotes attributed to our station. Here's the BBC sport version.

It's always a nice touch when your station name stays attached to a story (all too rare), and it's been brilliant to see us getting credit for it in the many news outlets which have since repeated it. And it's all down to Graham, who spends enough time and effort following the club that he deserves the occasional exclusive - this one, he handled superbly.

My friend and former LCC colleague Andy's also been doing well. He bounded onto our internal version of MSN Messenger this afternoon like an eager puppy, having broken this story:

Some of the most exotic species at the National Sea Life Centre in Birmingham could die if electricity is not restored after a black out.

The power cut has left temperatures in the tanks at the centre at critical levels, said manager Ian Crabbe. Supplies were cut to 8,500 businesses and homes in the city centre at 0330 GMT due to a fire in a sub station.

Only eight properties - including the Sea Life Centre - were still not reconnected by Saturday evening. "There is a grave risk of animals dying," said Mr Crabbe.

[source: BBC News - 'Power cut threatens lives of fish']

I'm not sure how Andy got this story (whether the centre rang the BBC or he went, ahem, 'fishing' for it) but it's a very good angle on an otherwise mundane power cut. Earlier it had seemed like the fish would be fine but, reading that latest version, all is clearly not well. I'll confess to actually being rather worried! It's really sad to think of those animals dying simply because they're in one of just eight properties left without power.

Finally I had a lovely time at Slough's junior athletics club earlier today. They've just been named Junior Athletics Club of the Year by UK Athletics - that means they're the best in the whole of Great Britain, and it also means a cheque for £3,000. I went down to cover their afternoon of competitions and awards in celebration of their newfound status as the UK's premier junior club, and the atmosphere was understandably buoyant. There was so much cheering going on that my microphone could barely cope with the noise level.

When the ceremonial bit of the afternoon started, I spent a fair bit of time stood alongside the gentleman who runs the club as he made various announcements. He then, unexpectedly, decided to introduce me to the hundreds of children and parents watching. They'd clearly been in the mood for cheering all afternoon, so even I was treated to a really loud cheer. I don't think I've ever been quite so speechless before - for some reason I was dead embarrassed! Very kind of them though and I had great fun (plus I got to use the "Chariots of Fire" music in the package I've edited together about it, which is never a bad thing).

By the way, if you always watch the Olympics in awe of our top athletes as I do, don't be fooled - they're mere mortals. Nicola Sanders, Great Britain hurdler, came to the Slough event too - and then spent half an hour searching frantically for her car keys at the end. They eventually turned up in a toilet (or in the toilet building, at least), but I'm told she has a reputation for losing the simplest of things. Looking at the cricket, she must be an English athlete.