The London Daily News

Olympic News Desk

The Metropolitan Police dedicated unit combating organised criminal networks involved in ticketing crime "Operation Podium Team" have this morning made five arrests.

From 0700hrs this morning, officers started executing warrants at addresses across London and Dorset. All those targeted by police have been ...

Olympics Desk

London has a completed velodrome, ready for the 2012 Olympics Games, with all the "major" leaders of the capital exhtaling its virture, leading the praise from City Hall was the Conservative Mayor Boris Johnson who said:

"This magnificent venue is a triumph for all ...

Olympics Desk

The Olympic Delivery Authority today released new aerial images showing the transformation of the Olympic Park for the London 2012 Games and legacy, with the construction of the permanent venues nearing completion and parklands taking shape.

The new images are released on the eve ...

Olympics Desk

Baroness Pauline Neville Jones the Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism in a letter to the Financial Times has responded to reports that the Home Office was slow to "understand Olympic security needs" by saying that "after the election we carried out ...

By Leanne Bennett

The legacy of the Olympic Games remains in doubt after the National Audit office published its fifth annual report for the 2012 games, stating final costs are ‘inherently uncertain’.

The government’s hope of regenerating east London in line with the next years ...

Sports Desk

Spurs chiefs are today having to swallow the "bitter pill" of failure with the imminent decision to ratify the Olympic Park Legacy Company's decision to chose West Ham as the preferred bidder for the 2012 Olympics stadium, the Mayor of London and the Government ...

Olympics Desk

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has confirmed this morning that Heineken UK the UK's leading brewer will be the official "Lager Supplier" and sponsor of London 2012 in a tier three sponsorship deal.

As part ...

Olympics Desk

The Olympics stadium was officially "given light" yesterday by the Prime Minister and Mayor of London Boris Johnson, in a ceremony to turn the lights of the stadium on, for the first time.  The Prime Minister David Cameron, and local schoolchildren visited the ...