Articles tagged ‘Olympics’
London News 02.05
By Chris | February 5th, 2008 |
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* Group MPs with press entourage in tow walk around Hackney at night and declare it safe. EveningStandard
* London’s new low emission zone for lorries and coaches comes into force. TheIndependent
* London mayoral candidate Boris Johnson wants Amy Winehouse to join his campaign. Metro
London News 01.16
By Chris | January 16th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
* Five children are shot or stabbed in London every day. EveningStandard
* London 2012 Olympics budget continues to rise. DailyExpress
* New England manager Fabio Capello undrr investigation for tax evasion in Italy. SkyNews
Design for London’s Olympic Stadium unveiled
By Chris | November 7th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Britain’s Olympic Delivery Authority today unveiled the design for the London 2012 Olympic Stadium which will be the centre piece of the Olympic park that is being built over the next five years at Stratford in East London.
Its going to be an 80,000 seater although once the games have finished 55,000 will be removed [...]
London News 10.01
By Chris | October 1st, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* BBC Worldwide buys Lonely Planet. Times
* Big Ben chiming again after two months of maintenance work. Telegraph
* New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg gives the Congestion Charge a big thumbs up while on a fact finding trip to London. BBCNews
Daily Dose 08.01
By Chris | August 1st, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Liberal MP Lembit Opik (his parents say its not an anagram) best known for dating one of the Cheeky Girls could be about to run for London Mayor.(Guardian)
* Police chief criticized over shooting death of innocent Brazilian man at Stockwell Tube station by ant-terrorist police.(TheIndependent)
* Survey shows British women care the least about what [...]
Daily Dose 07.25
By Chris | July 25th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Demolition work can start on the site of the 2012 London Olympics after the London Development Agency acquire’s all the land needed.(BBCNews)
* Businessman picks up the tab when bar bill for him and 12 friends at the Crystal Club in the West End club comes to £105,805.(Times)
* 2 million immigrants given National Insurance numbers [...]
Daily Dose 07.10
By Chris | July 10th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Four asylum seekers found guilty of trying to blow up London Tube trains in suicide bomb attacks. No surprise, there’s probably thousands more of them here waiting to do the same.(TheTimes)
* Muslim juror at Blackfriars Crown Court faces jail after listening to her ipod under her hijab while on the jury of a murder [...]
Daily Dose 17.06
By Chris | June 17th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* International Olympic Committee inspectors give London ‘best ever report’, but don’t they always says that?(BBCNews)
* Conservatives say they’ll scrap free entry to museums if the win the next election. What a dumb idea.(EveningStandard)
* Britons owe £1,300,000,000,000 in borrowed money, and the vig just went up again.(Telegraph)
Daily Dose 13.06
By Chris | June 13th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Giant naked pole dancer painted on fields under the incoming flight path to Gatwick Airport, fantastic.(TheTimes)
* 40 Tube station ticket offices to be closed in order to make people use Oyster cards.(EveningStandard)
* Enquiry set up into why looking at London Olympics logo triggered epileptic seizures in 30 people.(Telegraph)
Daily Dose 06.08
By Chris | June 8th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Governor of New York call’s London’s congestion charge ‘the best in the world’. That’s easy to say when you don’t have to pay it.(BBCNews)
* Skateboarding to be an Olympic event at London 2012.(DailyMail)
* Deranged former Irish priest who assaulted runner in the Athens Olympics banned from attending London marathon until 2010 and the [...]
