Non-swimmers to get free lessons
Six free swimming lessons are being offered to adults and children over the age of 11 in Plymouth to help them learn to swim.
London 2012 scheme to help young
A leadership scheme to help provide young people with training ahead of the London 2012 Games begins.
Animated Inuit to be BBC’s face of Winter Olympics
Snowboarding, skiing, bobsleighing hero follows success of Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn’s Beijing Olympics monkey
The BBC is to promote its Winter Olympics coverage with an animated clip featuring an Inuit hero on a mission, after the success of the monkey cartoon that backed the broadcast of the Beijing Olympics.
The 40-second clip will break tonight on [...]
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 [...]
Paralympics deal fires starting gun for Channel 4’s post-Big Brother era
Channel 4 will bring the Paralympics enthusiasm and innovation – its coverage should be good for the games and the network
Snatching the 2012 London Paralympics from under the noses of the BBC is a real feather in Channel 4’s cap. And should give a tremendous boost to an event which has been gaining significantly in [...]
Channel 4 to show 2012 Paralympics
Broadcaster pledges that Paralympics will ‘take over Channel 4 for their duration’ after snapping up rights
Channel 4 has won the rights to broadcast the 2012 Paralympics games.
Although the BBC has the rights for the 2012 Olympics, the Paralympic broadcast rights were put out to tender.
Channel 4 announced today that it had been awarded the rights [...]
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 [...]
Children’s Promise kids celebrate fifth birthday at Olympic Park
Children born on 20/12/2004 who were part of the Children’s Promise programme during the bid for the 2012 Games celebrated their fifth birthday by helping to decorate the Christmas tree on the Olympic Park.
Artists helped into creative jobs
A fund of £500,000 is shared between art projects across London to boost job hopes of creative people in the 2012 Olympic run-up.
Phelps leads US swimming world record spree (AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Olympics superstar Michael Phelps marked his competitive British bow by helping the US to a shortcourse world record in the 4×100m medley relay at the Duel in the Pool here on Friday.
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