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The organisers of the 2012 Olympic Games in London are putting £700m of contracts related to goods and services for the event out to tender. There will be eight categories of goods and services for firms to win work...He added that the games should be...
Tags: London Organising Committee, queen elizabeth, east london, Elizabeth II, finishing line
Oscar-nominated director of Billy Elliot and The Reader - first staged An Inspector Calls at York's Theatre Royal. The production, restaged in 1992 at the National Theatre in London, took a radical approach to the text, presenting the action in a house...
Tags: London Organising Committee, Damon Albarn, preliminary discussions, artistic director, london organisers, paralympic games, opening ceremony, organisers committee, Beijing, United Kingdom, London
London 2012 chief Lord Coe says preparations for the Olympics are ahead of schedule with three years to go before the opening ceremony. All 10 of the milestones the Olympic Delivery Authority had set for this stage of preparations have been met. "We are...
Tens of thousands of miniature Olympic stadiums could be popping up in bedrooms around the world after Hornby landed the rights to sell products based on the London 2012 games. The model firm said today that it has been granted a licence to produce a...
Tags: London Organising Committee, Central London, Hornby PLC, UK & Ireland, Airfix, Scalextric, cyber attack, Corgi, olympic stadiums, olympic park
It gives them commitment and hunger and desire,' says Redgrave Sir Steve Redgrave must be the closest thing we have got to a modern-day Hercules. According to the ancient myth, Hercules performed 12 seemingly impossible tasks to become the greatest of...
Organizers of the 2012 London Olympics secured another $14.7 million in domestic sponsorship revenue Tuesday by signing up Crystal CG as the games' official digital imaging services supplier. Crystal becomes London's sixth "tier-three" sponsor and will...
Athletes competing in London 2012 face a squeeze on living space in the Olympic Village as the deepening credit crisis threatens resources. Sports chiefs are concerned at the prospect of three athletes sharing individual rooms during the 16-day competition...
Tags: London Organising Committee, olympic village, financial crisis, credit crunch
London 2012 suffers sponsor shortfall • Big spenders dry up in economic downturn • Organisers still two-thirds of way to £700m target Fresh evidence has emerged that the 2012 Olympic Games are being hit by the economic crisis after the chief executive...
Scottish venues out of a United Kingdom total of 600 have been included in the official list of potential training camps for the London Olympics in 2012. The venues will be marketed together by the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games