Olympic firms in £1bn loan pledge
Lloyds Bank says it is earmarking a special fund to alert businesses around the country to Olympic-related opportunities.
BBC’s Salford move brings upheaval
With a £150m move to Salford prompting staffing and financial turmoil, the BBC faces a tricky 2010
A BBC presenter with a £16.9m contract may have dominated headlines over the past few days but the corporation also starts the new year with a project costing upwards of £150m increasingly mired in political controversy. Tonight marks a [...]
Letters: Child abuse is not the sole province of the IRA
Nick Cohen’s article (“The IRA’s culture of silence extended to child abuse“, Comment) would have been more powerful had he included the fact that sexual violence against children does not have political allegiances. Surely you cannot be so naive as to imagine the Protestants and their armies have no paedophiles? Nor the police? And that [...]
Olympics minister visits county
The Olympics Minister visits Oxford to see how businesses and sports are capitalising on the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Telegraph seeks Olympics editor
‘Strategist’ needed for Telegraph’s Olympics coverage ahead of 2012 London games, with BBC’s Adrian Warner a target
Telegraph Media Group is seeking to ramp up its coverage of the 2012 London Olympics by appointing a dedicated editor for the games.
The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph publisher is understood to have approached a number of candidates, including [...]
Brazilian newspapers celebrate a rise in circulation
Print media booms in South America’s biggest economy
The historic Olympic Games win for Rio de Janeiro, which prompted thousands of revellers to turn Copacabana beach into a giant party, is not the only reason why Brazilian journalists are celebrating.
In contrast to consumers in Europe and the US, the people of Brazil are reading newspapers in [...]
London 2012 providing UK-wide business opportunities
The benefits generated by the London 2012 Games for businesses across the UK were revealed today.
London 2012 Olympics receives £39m Airwave boost (V3.co.uk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The Home Office is spending £39m to boost the capacity of the Airwave radio system to enable emergency services to cope with the 2012 Olympics and a major incident while maintaining “business as usual” services in and around London.
Olympics Won, Brazil’s Work Begins (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
The IOC’s nod to host the 2016 Olympics will require a crash program to upgrade Rio de Janeiro’s sagging infrastructure
It Could Be You: £320m Lottery Sell-Off (SkyNews via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Camelot, the company that runs the National Lottery, will auction off a majority stake in the business next month, Sky News has learned.
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