2010
21
Jan
It seems that all is not well in the London Development Agency (LDA), the body tasked with ensuring that there is some form of meaningful legacy from the 2012 London Olympics (aside from the burnished glow of politicians’ egos).The LDA auditors, audit …
2010
19
Jan
Newham Council and Olympics organisers have breathed a collective sigh of relief, as plans to build Britain’s biggest mosque in East London have collapsed.An Islamic missionary group, Tablighi Jamaat, wanted to build the so called “super mosque” (capab…
2010
12
Jan
The Telegraph reports that British Shooting has been advised by the government that if it wants a post 2012 legacy at Woolwich, it will have to pay £400K for the privilege.I wonder if that figure will be added to the Olympics budget, even if British S…
2009
3
Dec
Sir Alan Haselhurst MP is a tad “cynical” about the Olympics legacy for the hapless, and fed up, commuters of East Anglia.Despite much “hoopla” over plans to install new trains on the Stansted Express line, in time for the 2012 London Olympics, Sir Ala…
2009
18
Nov
Unsurprisingly, as money is pumped into East London (around the site of London 2012 Olympics), property prices are rising and those locals who are at the bottom end of the economic pecking order are being displaced by a slow but steady wave of gentrifi…
2009
3
Nov
BT are planning to reopen their revolving restaurant, at the top of the BT Tower in central London, in time for the London 2012 Olympics.The restaurant has been closed to the public since 1980.Regrettably, instead of looking for a good chef who can coo…
2009
16
Sep
As the old saying goes:”Famine follows Feast”Therefore we should not be surprised to learn that in the wake of the £160M blackhole, discovered in the accounts of those allegedly “in charge” (LDA) of the London 2012 Olympics, cuts have to be made.Proje…
2009
11
Sep
The government claims that there will be a “sporting legacy” from the London 2012 Olympics. The government has made much of a target to increase, by two million by 2012, the 6.8m people playing sport, or doing some form of physical exercise for 30 minu…
2009
10
Aug
In keeping with the government’s promise that there will be a legacy, once the “hoopla” over the London 2012 Olympics has long since passed away, it can be confirmed that there will at least be “food” and “health” legacy that will doubtless imprint its…
2009
27
Jul
Boris Johnson was right, when he proudly declared in Beijing that “ping pong is coming home”.Quarterly tracking figures from Sport England show that, of the 31 sports measured according to how many people played them at least once a week, only table te…