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The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (Locog) will hold a meeting on Tuesday with UK bookmakers to fight against illegal gambling corruption during the event. This will be the first formal meeting of the officials with the gambling industry, which will ...

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With months to go now until the start of the London Olympics, criminal gangs are trying to make a "quick buck" by capitalising on the shortage of tickets to the public, by in some cases promoting non-existent tickets, or tickets that ...

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The London 2012 Organising Committee (Locog) has been accused of “obsessive secrecy” over the ticket sales for the Olympic Games. The London Assembly’s Economy, Culture and Sport Committee criticized London 2012 “chronic lack of transparency” after it refused to provide a breakdown of ...

By Paula Planelles Manzanaro

London 2012 Games are getting closer and Sarah Storey, multiple gold medal winner at the Paralympics and twice British national track Champion, is working hard to win gold. As a Paralympic athlete Sarah Storey excels in every sport she has tried ...

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A boom in affordable housing spurred on by the Olympics which will see 11,000 new homes built in east London will not continue past the summer Olympic Games according to new research.  The boom is being overshadowed by the  economic slowdown which has  caused a ...

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The Department of Transport has asked civil servants to work from home during the Olympic Games in order to avoid a collapse of the public transport. Staff across Whitehall and the public sector will carry out a home-work programme from ...

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Londoner's are today learning that the Olympic Games will cost more money than planned, with an extra £2.7 billion added to the original estimate of £9.3 billion   The news follow an investigation which has  blown to pieces the line put out ...

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Olympics Telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, is completing preparations for the Olympics Games in the summer. The telecommunications infrastructure of the UK will be pushed to its maximum during the six-week event, which will reach the peak periods for spectrum demand during ...

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The Culture Secretary who is the minister in government responsible for the London Olympics, Jeremy Hunt, commented that the Games will be “a massive Keynesian boost for the economy”. The statement comes in response to criticism that the Government's decision to double the amount ...

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The Olympic Games in London could be the target of a biological attack, which has led the Government according to letters seen by the Daily Telegraph, to stockpile vaccines against killer diseases.

Medical staff have already been given vaccines against smallpox to deal with ...