CULTURE secretary Jeremy Hunt insists London 2012 must provide a sporting legacy at elite, not just grass roots, level.
The Government has announced plans to merge UK Sport and Sport England - the bodies responsible for elite and grass root
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Planning officers in Camden and Westminster will crackdown on illegal short-term letting of residential property in Fitzrovia between now and the London 2012 Olympics.
The demand for cheap, short-stay accommodation in London is anticipated
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London homeowners are starting to sign up with letting agencies in the hope of making thousands of pounds from visitors to the 2012 Olympics.
The number of enquiries from sporting officials and coaches, journalists, and others needing somew
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Munich's bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games suffered a fresh blow on Monday as Willy Bogner, president of the bid's organising committee, stepped down for health reasons.
The 68-year-old, a former top class skier who competed in the
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Cricket will make way for archery at the historic Lord's ground in two years' time after London 2012 organisers got the go-ahead for their plans on Monday.
Lord's, the spiritual home of world cricket, will be temporarily transformed into an
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The International Olympic Committee is concerned that betting syndicates could target the London 2012 Olympics for match-fixing.
The IOC will monitor betting patterns on all qualifying events as well as the Games themselves amid concern at
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Sport events at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi due to be held at venues that cannot prove that they are safe to stage them, including athletics, will be cancelled, Indian officials have been warned.
Mike Hooper, the chief executive of
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FORMER badminton world number one Zhou Mi will miss the London 2012 Olympics after she was slapped with a two-year doping ban.
Zhou - the Olympic bronze medallist in 2004 - tested positive for banned substance clenbuterol in late June and h
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Twenty-five-year-old Sunny Brar has chucked in her £25,000-a-year career as an estate agent selling houses to concentrate full-time on her dream to become a weight-lifter at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
She made the decision just ten mont
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[b]Sue Campbell, chair of Youth Sport Trust, has claimed London 2012s ground-breaking sports legacy programme International Inspiration, which this week sees young leaders from around the world coming together in the North East of England, shows Bri
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The cricket corruption scandal involving Pakistan demonstrates what a threat illegal betting is to the integrity of sport, the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge has warned.
The News of the World today publ
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A woman who inherited one of the 1,688 stainless steel torches used in the 1948 London Olympic games relay could be in for a windfall when the sporting event returns to the captial in 2012.
The torch belonging to Rosemary Stamp was recently
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THE Olympic Flame will spend four days in the North East as part of the build-up to the London games in 2012.
It is one of the events which organisers hope will entice the whole of the country to get behind the capitals Olympic Games.
T
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A golden meadow of wild flowers buzzing with bees and butterflies is already blooming around the Olympic Stadium, two years before the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The riverbank meadow of cornflowers, marigolds, Californian pop
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A golden meadow of wild flowers is already blooming around the Olympic Stadium, two years before the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
This riverbank meadow is the first of more than 10 football pitches worth of nectar-rich wild flo
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[b]David Cameron has said that he will not be altering the British gun laws ahead of the 2012 Olympics in London. The gun laws outlaw the firing of any kind of firearm other the shotguns on grouse hunts, and prohibit the importing of guns into the co
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THIRTY people from Chorley are being offered the once in a lifetime to play a part in the London 2012 Olympics.
Chorley Council has joined forces with Sport for Life to offer locals the chance to become one of 70,000 volunteers needed for t
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Groups of disabled young people from the Liverpool area are to be given the opportunity to volunteer at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, taking on a variety of roles such as researcher, tour guide, information assistant and technician.
A t
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Sheffield has been chosen by the USA's Olympic Diving team as their training base for the 2012 Games.
The American Olympic and Paralympic squads will train at Ponds Forge based in the centre of the city.
The move is expected to help moti
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Fewer homes were built in London last year than at any time in the last 20 years, according to government figures.
In all, work started on building fewer than 11,500 homes in 2009.
London mayor Boris Johnson pledged to deliver 50,000 aff
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Draconian laws for London 2012 Games protect sponsors' rights but the small print exposes threats to our civil liberties
Is there a more titanic rivalry in modern sport than that between Fifa and the International Olympic Committee, whose e
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Plans for the temporary London 2012 Water Polo Arena, with a distinctive sloping inflatable roof, were approved this week by the Olympic Delivery Authority Planning Committee.
The dynamic 5,000 seat venue, designed by David Morley Architect
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Sunday 29 August 2010 marks exactly Two Years to Go until the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and organisers are calling on the UK public to start planning their Games to ensure they dont miss out.[list][*]London 201
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Sunday 29 August 2010 marks exactly two years to go to the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and the London 2012 Organising Committee is calling on the UK public to start planning their Games.
Over a period of 12 days, t
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A middle-aged bank worker who was caught shoving a cat into a wheelie bin was today named as Mary Bale.
Ms Bale sparked outrage when she was filmed on CCTV grabbing the friendly cat by the neck and dumping it in the wheelie bin, where it re
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Free swimming for under-16s and over-60s in England is being axed from the end of July as part of the cuts package unveiled by the coalition government.
Introduced in April 2009, the scheme was due to run until March 2011, but ministers hav
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People of Clare in West Ireland are being urged to dig deep and help Rory Chesser, a young Ennis athlete to realise his 2012 Olympic dream in London.
Rory Chesser, an athlete with Ennis Track Club, has set his sights on participation in the
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Brand Licensing Europe 2010, the licensing exhibition, today announced that the London 2012 licensing and retail team will feature as The Big Interview in this year's Licensing Academy.
London 2012 Vision - Retail, Licensing And the Olympi
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Puma has held on to its star brand ambassador Usain Bolt for the London 2012 Olympics, by extending his contract to the end of 2013.
The new contract is believed to be worth in excess of £10m over its duration.
Puma claims the contract i
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London 2012 Olympic powerbrokers are deeply divided about the philosophy underpinning their ticket pricing and they could abandon original ticket promises and charge as much as £3,000 for the most in-demand events such as the opening ceremony.
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