http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-8044-uk-department-for-culture-media-and-sport/topic-rss.do UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23766515-2012-budget-now-pound-12bn.do Campaigners demand 'full transparency' on Olympic finances after it was claimed that the budget for the 2012 Games has risen to £12billion 2009-11-09T11:08:47Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-sport/article-23731172-media-chiefs-in-a-spin-over-legacy.do Communications chiefs held a brain-storming session last week to discuss how to put a positive spin on the promised sports legacy of the London Olympics 2009-08-12T07:31:02Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23721509-30m-funding-for-princes-trust-sport-project-is-dropped.do Government has cut funding to a proposed £30million project in which Prince Charles was to help boost sport participation ahead of the 2012 Games 2009-07-20T11:11:16Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23715239-revealed-first-images-of-poignant-77-memorial.do These are the first images of the striking memorial in Hyde Park to the victims of the July 7 bombings 2009-07-03T08:09:12Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23682105-jowell-gets-a-14500-new-office.do Whitehall has spent more than £14,500 furnishing a new office for Olympics minister Tessa Jowell, MPs have been told 2009-04-28T08:18:50Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23676747-cash-boost-for-greenwich-site.do The Government has pledged £700,000 for a centre telling the story of the Greenwich World Heritage site 2009-04-16T08:28:27Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23670838-digging-and-planting-will-count-towards-fitness-target-for-2012.do Gardening will rank alongside sport to meet a government target to make Britons more active ahead of the Olympics 2009-04-03T08:11:58Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23669636-british-museum-reveals-its-135m-extension.do The British Museum is planning to build a £135million extension to display blockbuster exhibitions, the Evening Standard has learned 2009-04-01T08:21:44Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23666684-2012-track-will-be-the-fastest-in-cycling-history.do The 2012 velodrome will have the fastest track in cycling history, Olympics chiefs pledged 2009-03-25T09:12:40Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23638243-half-a-million-tickets-to-lure-young-to-drama.do Rupert Penry-Jones and Sheridan Smith have launched a £2.5 million scheme to get young people into theatre 2009-02-10T15:22:29Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23634260-budget-for-stratford-velodrome-rises-to-100m.do The budget for the Olympic velodrome has risen by £20million to at least £100million because of construction complications, the Government will admit this week 2009-02-04T09:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23607341-dress-code-harmony-is-still-elusive-at-emi.do It's not been the happiest of years at EMI, where staff at the music company and their private-equity bosses at Terra Firma still regard each other as aliens 2008-12-23T11:36:12Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23599533-ministers-blamed-for-32m-palace-repairs-backlog.do The Government came under fire for allowing the Royal Palaces to accumulate a £32 million repair backlog 2008-12-10T10:10:02Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23582420-79m-funding-gap-will-doom-british-hockey-to-failure-at-2012-games.do British hockey has become the latest sport to warn that it may flop at the London Olympics if the Government fails to plug a £79million black hole in funding 2008-11-05T10:26:48Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-olympics/article-23575806-handball-could-get-the-elbow-over-79m-shortfall.do Handball is in danger of being cut from Britain's 2012 Olympic plans because of a £79 million shortfall in funding for athletes 2008-10-21T13:16:23Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23574323-too-many-bean-counters-working-on-the-olympics.do Olympics chiefs are accused of "staggering" excess as it emerged that nearly 1,000 people are administrating the 2012 project most at taxpayers' expense 2008-10-17T07:54:42Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23555658-9m-shortfall-threatens-free-swimming-scheme.do A scheme to provide free swimming was thrown into doubt by an apparent £9 million shortfall 2008-09-15T08:09:42Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23550990-six-ministers-13-departments-but-no-single-leader.do The chaos hampering London's 2012 sporting legacy is revealed today. No single individual is dedicated to realising the promised Olympics sports legacy and there are growing fears that the ambitious scheme will end up mired in bureaucracy 2008-09-04T09:20:35Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-olympics/article-23548203-promises-made-for-2012-bid-can-we-keep-them.do London clinched victory in a tough race for the 2012 Olympics thanks largely to a pledge that it would deliver a legacy for sport 2008-09-01T08:50:07Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-olympics/article-23528391-junket-to-china-costs-taxpayer-7m.do The Government is under fire over the number of public servants heading to the Beijing Olympics at a reported £7million cost 2008-08-07T08:32:03Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-olympics/article-23521003-fewer-people-playing-sport-in-olympics-city.do The number of Londoners taking part in sport has declined since the capital was awarded the 2012 Games, official statistics reveal 2008-07-25T08:24:36Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23516813-watered-down-plan-to-curb-drink-adverts-on-childrens-tv.do Draconian plans to curb teenage binge drinking by banning alcohol adverts on children's TV and near schools may be dumped 2008-07-16T08:57:30Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23501666-rising-costs-and-not-enough-cash-just-like-us-your-majesty.do The Queen is struggling with soaring costs after her budget was frozen 2008-06-27T13:09:43Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23491209-olympic-stadium-unwrapped.do Details of the 80,000-capacity Olympic stadium have been produced by Games chiefs 2008-06-06T09:10:12Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23489259-hospitals-face-doubling-in-drink-cases.do The number of cases of alcoholrelated illnesses being treated in hospital has almost doubled in one area in just three years and has rocketed in many other districts 2008-06-02T09:34:33Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23479052-somerset-house-in-talks-with-hotel-firm.do A section of the Grade I-listed Somerset House could be converted into a hotel 2008-04-18T07:24:17Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23478765-mps-set-to-condemn-spiralling-budget-for-2012-olympic-games.do MPs are preparing to issue a scathing condemnation of the soaring cost of the 2012 Olympics 2008-04-16T12:45:28Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23471391-theatreland-up-in-arms-over-arts-council-sexuality-quiz.do The Arts Council has encountered ridicule and anger over attempts to force theatre and museum trustees to disclose their sexuality to obtain funding 2008-04-02T08:32:25Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23437069-internet-ban-on-download-cheats.do People who illegally download music and films face being cut off from the web under plans being considered by ministers 2008-02-12T09:07:04Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events/article-23396859-cosmic-greenwich-opens-to-the-stars.do The National Maritime Museum's new planetarium opens next week, promising that visitors will be able to sit back and travel into outer space 2007-05-18T10:55:09Z