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Big earner: Matthew Freud's £1.5m payday

06.10.11
Matthew Freud collected an increased dividend worth around £1.5 million from his public relations firm Freud Communications last year, despite a slide in profits... more

Publishers quick off the blocks to tap into the London Games

29.09.11
Commentary: In 2008, the book trade, like everybody else, was taken by surprise as British athletes did so unexpectedly well at the Beijing Olympics... more

Wanted: local heroes to carry the 2012 flame

26.08.11
Carry the flame: The Olympic Games in London will affect everyone... but not everyone can be involved. Nick Curtis tells of our search for 'ordinary' heroes to be part of an extraordinary event... more

Jacques Rogge defends 'cruel Olympic ticket lottery system'

28.07.11
IOC president has defended the controversial ticketing policy adopted by Olympic Games organisers for London 2012... more

The Aussie who has overseen the Olympic buildings

27.07.11
Aussie Rod Sheard has overseen all the buildings for the Olympics. As he tells Nick Curtis, he wanted to do it for a city he's now proud to call home... more

Lord Coe: London will draw in the whole world

26.07.11
The London 2012 figurehead explains why next year's Games will be 'the greatest show on earth' and how his mantra is 'testing, testing, testing' and offers a robust defence of the Olympics ticketing system... more

Meeting the Olympic torch designers

14.06.11
They are proud to have beaten 700 rivals to create a 'torch for our time' and are passionate about the Games - even if these two East End designers can't get a ticket. Nick Curtis met them... more

Where's my ticket to Olympics, says face of London's winning 2012 bid

02.06.11
The African boy who helped win the 2012 Games for London has told how he has been forced to dump his dream of competing in the marathon... more

Hugh Robertson: Why I've changed tactics to help football put its house in order

05.04.11
Exclusive: A year after saying a regulator could be needed to overhaul the game, the Sports Minister's gone cold on the idea and is looking to the Select Committee for answers... more

Bidding war for Olympic poster sites

21.03.11
There is still the best part of 500 days until the Olympics but a crucial deadline is already looming. In a first for the Olympics, the organisers are running an eBay-style online auction for prime outdoor poster sites in London. Bidding, which will be conducted in private, begins on April 4... more

Campaigner let off over 2012 equestrian course damage

26.11.10
Campaigner who allegedly destroyed a set of markers mapping out an Olympic cross-country course in Greenwich Park has had the charges against him dropped... more

No Freudian slips as PR firm’s profits soar

08.10.10
Matthew Freud’s public relations firm Freud Communications bucks the recession with a 28% increase in pre-tax profits to £6.7 million last year... more

The East End is still the heart of the Olympics

06.10.10
To deliver a great Games, we have to balance the needs of athletes, spectators and Londoners... more

2012 Games security may close Thames at Windsor

10.11.09
Stretch of the Thames may be closed to boats during the 2012 Games... more

The next station is archery: 2012 Tube map shows events

22.09.09
New Tube map will show the locations of Olympic sporting events... more

Londoners asked to Twitter ideas for a logo to promote the capital

02.09.09
Londoners are being asked to help design a new logo for the city to rival New York's "I ♥ NY" campaign... more

Model deal has Hornby in the running to land Olympic gold

21.07.09
Hobby specialist Hornby today outlined plans to make a range of toys and collectables for the London 2012 Olympic Games — including Airfix models of the Olympic stadium... more

2012 sponsorship organisers 'nearly 80% there'

26.06.09
London 2012 organisers have raised nearly 80% of their £700 million domestic sponsorship target and believe they have deals worth more than £100 million in the pipeline, commercial director Chris Townsend said today... more

Big building jobs in the capital lift Atkins by 9%

17.06.09
Design engineer WS Atkins is keeping the recession from the door with a slew of big jobs in London as it helps to build the Olympics, construct Crossrail and upgrade the M25... more

2012 funding fears as IT sponsor files for bankruptcy protection

14.01.09
Concerns over the sponsorship revenues for the London Olympics were heightened when 2012 commercial partner Nortel filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States... more

Ross knew the rules, so spare us this whitewash

15.12.08
Not for the first time in this year of all years, we're forced to contemplate the hubris of others... more

2012 chief: Greenwich Park won't be harmed

05.12.08
Staging equestrian events in Greenwich Park will not be an expensive and damaging exercise with no legacy, the capital's Olympics chief has claimed ... more

Boris takes the flag again as Beijing games close

17.09.08
Boris Johnson accepted the Paralympic flag, signalling the end of the 2008 Beijing Games and marking the run-up to London 2012... more

London 2012 'not as green as advertised'

05.08.08
Olympic chiefs were accused of a "greenwash" and massively scaling down plans to make London 2012 the greenest Games ever... more

Olympics 'will churn up Greenwich Park'

16.07.08
Residents opposed to plans for the Olympics equestrian cross-country circuit to be built in Greenwich Park are to step up their protests... more

'Lies' of £19m City lawyer

16.06.08
A leading lawyer who wants £19million compensation for being bullied at work has been branded a "very plausible liar"... more

2012 chiefs ban bottled water at HQ

20.03.08
London Olympic chiefs have banned bottled water at their offices and are likely to install water fountains for visitors to the Games... more


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