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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 +00:00)
Published By  [email protected]

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 +00:00)
Published By  [email protected]

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 +00:00)
Published By  [email protected]

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 +00:00)
Published By  [email protected]

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 ...


  
Olympic stadium bridge in place, its looking like a venue! 
Posted on  30-09-2009 10:06:23 AM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  Olympics Desk

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 ...


  
1,600-tonne bridge successfully pushed over 11 live railway lines at Stratford Station 
Posted on  10-07-2009 02:38:02 PM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  Olympics Desk

Olympics Desk

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 ...


 
2000 Olympic Park trees hand-picked for London’s largest ever planting 
Posted on  10-06-2009 05:26:57 PM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  Olympics Desk

Olympics Desk
 

 Around 2000 semi-mature British grown trees have been hand-picked for the London 2012 Olympic Park in what is thought will be the largest one-off planting of its kind in the capital.

The trees will form the roots of the 100 hectare ...

 
2012 construction on track, new homes for Londoners on horizon 
Posted on  09-06-2009 11:36:53 AM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  Olympics Desk


Olympics Desk

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson revealed today that London’s 2012 legacy plans are firmly on track, with construction of the Olympic Village well advanced since the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) began building work a year ago. The Village, which lies adjacent to the ...

 
Warship security for 2012 London Games 
Posted on  26-05-2009 11:09:34 AM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  Olympics Desk

Olympics Desk

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 public - private partnership that never was: Olympic Village 'nationalised' 
Posted on  14-05-2009 11:17:40 AM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  [email protected]

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 ...


  
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