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Top hotels give up their secrets for Open House weekend

17.08.09
Two Park Lane hotels are unlocking their secrets to the public for the first time... more

Games will be the greatest event on earth, vows Coe

27.07.09
London begins three-year Olympic countdown with promises that capital will stage the most memorable Games in history... more

2012 bosses give themselves £60k bonus

16.07.09
Bosses at the Olympic Delivery Authority enjoyed average bonuses of £60,000 each in the past 12 months... more

No crunch in 2012 Olympic village rooms

07.07.09
Olympic chiefs set out vision for Olympic village and their plan for the legacy of the site... more

Trees chosen for London 2012 Olympic Park

10.06.09
Ash, alder, and birch are among the different trees to be planted in Olympic Park.... more

2012 track 'will be the fastest in cycling history'

25.03.09
The 2012 velodrome will have the fastest track in cycling history, Olympics chiefs pledged... more

Taxpayer faces spiralling bill for Games as funding dries up

30.01.09
The taxpayer may have to fund every Olympic venue because of the credit crunch, 2012 chiefs admitted... more

2012 London Olympics will provide a lasting legacy

16.01.09
Despite the current economic downturn, Keith Dovkants found that most experts now agree the Games will be a huge boost for London... more

Taxpayer may foot bill for media centre, Games chiefs admit

22.12.08
Olympics chiefs have admitted that the £300million media centre for the 2012 Games will probably have to be paid for by the taxpayer... more

Taxpayers may need to foot new Olympics bill

09.12.08
Taxpayers may be asked again to bail out the £900 million Olympic Village within a few months, Games chiefs admitted... more

Post-Olympic push is set to be a private affair

21.11.08
Property: It is important to decide just what to do with the Olympic Games site post-2012... more

Unflappable builder with a reputation for getting the job done

12.11.08
Interview: John Armitt had planned to go fishing after building the Severn Bridge and the Channel Tunnel train link. Then came the call to run the Olympic Delivery Authority.... more

Taxpayers could foot whole bill for £1bn Olympic Village

08.10.08
Games chiefs have admitted they may be forced to nationalise the £1 billion Olympic village amid the current economic turmoil... more

Running London

08.10.08
Running the capital involves many leaders outside City Hall to cater for Londoners' lives, as this list shows...... more

Sport

08.10.08
Sport in general has received a major morale boost with Britain's unexpected success at the Beijing Olympics. Already the excitement is building towards the London 2012 Games. ... more

Property

08.10.08
The super-rich still love London, keeping prices at the top end high. Across the city there remains a shortage of homes but building is slowing in the crunch. ... more

The lorry lens to stop cyclists being killed

01.10.08
More than 1,000 safety lenses that help lorries spot cyclists are being given to HGV drivers around the Olympic Park... more

2012 stadium 'will not house Premiership club'

29.09.08
Olympic chiefs have insisted it would be "fundamentally wrong" to demolish the main 2012 stadium after the Games to make way for a Premiership football club... more

Funding for Olympic media base in jeopardy

25.09.08
The £400million media centre for the 2012 Olympics is caught up in a funding crisis... more

Foundations dug for 2012 aquatic centre

17.07.08
Construction work on the Olympic aquatics centre has begun in a symbolic milestone for the 2012 project... more

Banks asked to bail out £1bn Olympics village

30.06.08
The Government is considering plans to rescue the troubled £1billion Olympic village development which include offering guarantees to banks willing to fund it or even paying for it completely... more

Olympic village runs out of cash

20.06.08
The 2012 Olympics were plunged into a major cash crisis as the firm building the athletes' village admitted it could not raise the money... more

Comment: overspend on Olympic scale

20.06.08
The £9.3 billion budget for the London Olympics was already a substantial increase on the £2.4 billion that ministers initially promised as the cost of 2012... more

Small firms sign up for 2012 dates

05.06.08
Up to 18,000 companies have signed up to a business "dating agency" aimed at matching them to contracts linked with the London 2012 Olympics, it was announced... more

Key Olympic venues face major building delays

22.05.08
Two important venues in the Olympic Park have been hit by months of delays, the Standard can reveal... more

Boris and the 2012 legacy

07.05.08
The 2012 Olympics is one area on which Boris Johnson's mayoralty will be judged... more

Olympic grand design set for optimism stage

11.04.08
The Olympic park building programme is on the cusp between pessimism and optimism... more

Olympic pools could be heated by solar power

14.03.08
London Olympic chiefs are looking into powering the Games with the help of a solar-powered roof on the aquatics centre... more

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