Olympic stadium bridge in place, its looking like a venue!

Olympics Desk
 
 New images released by the ODA today show the huge land bridge that will form the main “Gateway to the Games” taking shape. The 250m long and 40m wide bridge, made with 1,700 ...

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The Town Centre Link Bridge, which has been successfully pushed over 11 live railway lines at Stratford Station, touched down on the other side of the tracks this week and reached one step closer to serving millions of spectators during the London 2012 Olympic ...

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The British Navy will be using its Type 45 destroyer naval frigates to safeguard the 2012 London games, an acceptance that the Olympic Games in London will require "extraordinary" security preparedness.

The potential of a 9-11 attack on the 2012 is figuring large on the minds ...

The £1 billion Olympic Village has been effectively nationalised after private funding failed to materialise.

Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell said private funding had been rejected as it was "not a good deal" for the taxpayer.

£261m will be raided from a contingency fund and £63m from "savings" elsewhere ...

Hard up workers are venting their fury at the Olympic stadium site today - demanding more British construction workers be employed at the site.

The Olympic Delivery Authority claims 70% of the workforce is British or Irish yet attempts to scrutinise the figures have allegedly been blocked.

Nearly ...

The mayor of Newham has added to concerns that locals are missing out on the job benefits of the Olympics.

More transparency was demanded over Olympic Delivery Authority claims that 20% of the 2012 work force was "local".

Last year MP for Hackney North & Stoke Newington Diane ...

A website heralded as a means for small business to take advantage of the Olympics has been slammed by the Lib Dems.

According to figures from the parliamentary questions and publicly available figures - only 140 out of 880 contracts were through the Compete for Procurement website.

That ...

The International Organising Committee is in town this week for an update on London's troubled 2012 construction project.

For three days the IOC members will inspect efforts on the ground as the Olympic Park in the Lee Valley starts to take shape.

The committee will be keen to ...