Westfield to prioritise Australia
Shopping centre group Westfield restarts development investment in Australia, but remains “cautious” on overseas projects.
PM should be ‘more accountable’
Political power has become too centralised with the prime minister and No 10 should be subject to more scrutiny, a committee of peers says.
Olympic Park utilities building operational
The new pumping station building in the south of the Park will collect, convey and discharge waste water from the main venues and buildings on the Park during the Games and after 2012 from the venues and residential developments.
Glaxo to provide labs for 2012 Olympic doping tests (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
British pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline will provide laboratories and equipment to test athletes competing at the London 2012 Olympics for banned drugs, the company said on Monday.
Telegraph appoints Olympics editor
Sydney Morning Herald writer Jacquelin Magnay appointed to new position to oversee 2012 coverage
Telegraph Media Group has appointed award-winning Australian journalist Jacquelin Magnay to the new post of Olympics editor.
Magnay is senior sports writer at the Sydney Morning Herald and chief Olympics correspondent.
She will coordinate the Telegraph’s coverage in the run-up to the London games [...]
Jesse Owens, Hitler and Nazi Germany – TV drama to relive 1936 Olympics
TalkbackThames and German peers UFA Fernsehproduktion to make The Olympics in time for 2012 London games
The heroism and controversy of the 1936 Olympics is to be retold in a dramatisation made in time for the London Olympics.
TalkbackThames, the producers of The Bill, have teamed with a German production company to tell the story of the [...]
BBC may show 2012 Olympics in 3D
London Games could be part of experiment in new wave of television, senior executive says
The BBC could screen some of the 2012 London Olympic games in 3D, a senior executive said today.
Roger Mosey, the director of the BBC’s 2012 Olympics operation, said the corporation was looking at a number of new technologies to improve the [...]
Ravenscraig ‘must be a priority’
Ministers are urged to provide funding to kick-start the stalled redevelopment work at the former Ravenscraig steelworks.
London 2012 announces Thomas Cook as Official Supporter
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) today continued the development of its ticketing strategy by announcing Thomas Cook as an Official Supporter.
Pavilion revamp scheme scrapped
Plans for a £135m redevelopment of Weymouth Pavilion and ferry terminal are scrapped.
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