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2012 "on track" but contingency fund raids leave 'little room for manoeuvre" 
Posted on  26-02-2010 12:51:09 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

London's Olympic chiefs have been told they are "on track" to deliver the 2012 games but raids on the contingency funds leave it "little room for manoeuvre".

Maintenance and security bills mean it is extremely likely organisers will swallow the remaining £160m of the £1.3bn emergency war chest ...


  
Olympic spending rising, how much will the "Games" cost? 
Posted on  10-02-2010 12:49:04 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  Editorial

Editorial

Today we hear the 2012 Games will cost more, than the estimated £9.3 billion with the Olympic Delivery Authority admitting that it will need to raid the dwindling "contingency fund" to plug a hole left by the "financial downturn" which will see £160 ...

  
2012 bosses “betray” Londoners with corporate ticket deal 
Posted on  21-01-2010 05:07:49 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

London Olympic chiefs have been accused of betraying Londoners after sealing a corporate ticket deal.

Dee Doocey, the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Olympics spokesman and chair of a committee examining its legacy, claimed that deals with JetSet and a joint venture between the former England rugby international ...


  
2012 Olympics welcomes the world, well, almost - Nearly 100 illegal workers caught 
Posted on  04-12-2009 12:40:51 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

Two years before the main event and the London's 2012 Olympic site are already hosting its first international visitors, illegal migrant workers.

UK Border agents caught nearly 100 unlawful labourers on the Stratford construction complex between April and November this year.

Asylum seekers, who are banned from employment, ...


  
Bus strikes 'hit 2012 construction' - "only a quarter voted" 
Posted on  27-11-2009 03:44:05 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

Construction at the 2012 Olympic Park is being hit by bus strikes, transport unions claim.

There are reports workers are struggling to get around 500 acre site after the Unite Union carried out a threatened 24 hour stoppage.

Unite claim striking drivers who transport construction workers across the Olympic site have ...


  
Olympic events to be held at Wembley 
Posted on  26-11-2009 10:03:50 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  Olympics Desk

Olympics Desk

A major victory for current Mayor Johnson has been confirmed today following the decision by the organisers of the Olympic Games in London than an agreement, in principle, for the world rhythmic gymnastics and badminton 2012 events to be held at Wembley Arena.
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2012 - Where we're going to be! Olympic media centre takes shape 
Posted on  19-11-2009 12:15:43 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

As imposing and impressive as the 2012 Olympic stadium is spare a thought for 20,000 humble hacks who will be housed at the huge International Broadcast Centre

Today the Olympic Delivery Authority issued new images showing the Main Press Centre taking shape.

Together the £355m centres will ...


  
Troubled 2012 Olympic Village coming together - pics 
Posted on  30-10-2009 02:10:26 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

The troubled Olympic Village is finally coming together as construction continue to press ahead.

The Olympic Delivery Authority released these images on the eve of 1,000 days to go to 2012 Games showing the residential plots.

Games chiefs had to nationalise the £1 billion Olympic village amid the ...


  
Want to work at 2012? Place your eyeball here and hand there - Olympic security crackdown 
Posted on  16-10-2009 09:56:04 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

All 4,500 workers at the 2012 games will have their iris scanned and fingerprints taken to prevent terrorists getting on the Olympic site.

The cutting-edge biometric hand and eyeball scanners will be deployed at every venue, bridge and road in the area and take 3D ...


  
Mayor told "stop meddling" in 2012 venue rows 
Posted on  09-10-2009 08:52:21 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

Mayor Boris Johnson has been told to quit "meddling" in the rows over the location of 2012 Olympic events.

Greenwich and Woolwich MP Nick Raynsford called Johnson's demands that the shooting venue be moved to Barking "ill -judged."

The Mayor is leading an "austerity games" charge and has ...


  
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