OLYMPICS DESK

The House of Commons public accounts committee in a report on the 2012 Olympics games have discovered from the organisers of the games the Olympic Delivery Authority, that the main Olympic stadium is already 2 months behind schedule, with doubts ...

NEWS DESK

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) today published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2007 – 2008, following a year when the ODA has delivered virtually all, and exceeded some, of its ‘Dig, Demolish, Design: Milestones to Beijing’.
 
Publishing the report,  Chairman John Armitt said:

OLYMPICS DESK  

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is rolling out a health and safety programme to over 1,500 children from schools within the five Host Boroughs - Hackney, Greenwich, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.

Ahead of the summer holidays, the education program is focused on teaching children ...

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Visit London has launched an official complaints service as part of a scheme to make London more visitor friendly in the lead up to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The complaints service is part of the London Development Agency’s Improving the Visitor Experience ...

By Daphne Dimopoulos at the RSA

This was the question that five prominent speakerss on the matter tried to answer last night at a debate held in London’s Royal Society of Arts.

MP Tessa Jowell, Minister ...

By Olympics  Desk

Being the host city of the Olympic Games does not deliver the tourism boost that it has been linked with or its perceived benefits.

In fact, Olympic Games scare tourists away from host cities, new figures ...

By Olympics Desk  Following reports in the FT that the 2012 games based on experiences from Athens 2004 that a hike in tourism during the build up to the games will not be realised, Visit London the capital’s official visitor organisation, has today said the ...

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Plans to enhance the security of the Olympic Park progressed today as the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) announced procurement was underway of contractors to provide security guarding and access control systems for the Olympic Park as well as other measures to ensure the safety ...

NEWS DESK 

Some small samples of asbestos-containing material have been discovered within the construction site of the Olympic Stadium, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) announced today.

The work to create the permanent foundations of the Stadium has been halted in one section of the site as a precautionary ...

Mayor Boris Johnson, has't a clue about the level of public sports facilities in London, says his key adviser Kate Hoey.

Speaking to the Metro, the Labour MP for Vauxhall said nobody has carried out a survey of current local provision, yet a £60,000 Ken Livingstone commissioned study that ...