Prime Minister Gordon Brown was on site at the Olympic complex today as the planning hit the half way point.

Brown said the games were a "job creator and growth generator" during the economic downturn - echoing the words of Olympic minister Tess Jowell that 2012 was "economic ...

The 2012 Olympic stadium will not be sold to a football or rugby club - according to an official report.

Sources say consultants think the venue can survive as a stand alone athletics course.

The £500m project has been rejected by clubs as the Olympic Delivery Authority is ...

The centre piece Olympic Stadium is on track to become a £500m white elephant after Leyton Orient's Chairman said the design had "no commercial value."

The Olympic Delivery Authorities instance of an athletics track around the 80,000 seater stadium, which keeps fans further away from the action, has ...

The former head of security for the 2012 Olympics has warned that time is running out to effectively police the games.

Tarique Ghaffur, who up until the autumn was in charge of ensuring security for the three weeks of sports, claims security planning is being undermined by cost-cutting ...

This picture shows the £8m velodrome for the 2012 games is on track, say Olympic chiefs.

Workers have been digging out the distinctive bowl since August on the site of the old West Ham rubbish tip. There have been concerns over contamination from decaying refuse.

Around 48,000 ...

Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell has admitted that efforts to raise private funds to help build the biggest 2012 venues may end in failure.

When asked by a parliamentary culture media and sport committee yesterday whether it was possible no private funding would materialise she answered:

"Of course ...

Jacque Rogge the president of the IOC is in London along with 400 executives from other nations, the picture in the capital is bleak, support for the Games is low and money is tight, is time we considered a u-turn on the 2012 games?

by John Kaponi

MP for Hackney Diane Abbott has accused developers of "massaging" job figures for the Olympics.

She said in the House of Commons that the number of residents in the 2012 borough working on the site will not be what contractors claim.

The Hackney North & Stoke Newington MP ...

A scathing attack has been made by a cross party Parliamentary committee over the security preparations for the 2012 describing them as "insufficient"

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Chief Constable Meredydd Hughes of the Association of Police Officers has "advised" a Home Affairs Committee in Parliament that two and a ...