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'Piffle' Tower may rise at Olympic park

26.10.09
Olympics minister Tessa Jowell has given her backing to plans for an 'Angel of the South'-style structure on the 2012 Olympic park in Stratford... more

Rio must learn from our costly Olympic mistakes

06.10.09
Memo to Rio from London: enjoy it while it lasts. Brazil's winning of the Olympics last Friday was greeted by Pele in tears, President Lula da Silva weeping with joy and an entire nation ecstatic... more

Gordon Brown, the Labour rebel ‘plot’ and my marriage break-up

25.09.09
Interview: Tessa Jowell hits back at claims that she was ready to quit with James Purnell... more

'I'll bang my shoe on desk': Boris Johnson demands £20m Olympic cuts

18.09.09
Mayor at centre of unprecedented row after his proposals to cut costs for 2012 Olympics were rejected... more

Olympics 2012 stadium may host football

21.07.09
Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell admitted 'there is a case' to review the future of the 2012 stadium if a bid to host the football World Cup succeeds... more

Jowell used taxpayers' cash to pay local party

18.06.09
Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell paid hundreds of pounds to her local Labour party from taxpayer funds... more

Jowell gets a £14,500 new office

28.04.09
Whitehall has spent more than £14,500 furnishing a new office for Olympics minister Tessa Jowell, MPs have been told... more

Labour battle over safe seat candidate

17.04.09
A Labour civil war escalated over who should contest a safe seat in London at the next general election... more

Jittery Jowell: Infighting will destroy election hopes

13.03.09
Labour must show humility but not descend into despair and division as voters turn against the Government in the recession, a senior minister will warned... more

Firm for post-2012 future

06.02.09
A company is to be set up to deal with the venues and surrounding area after the 2012 Games... more

Budget for Stratford velodrome rises to £100m

04.02.09
The budget for the Olympic velodrome has risen by £20million to at least £100million because of construction complications, the Government will admit this week... more

£230 million 'is not enough' to convert venues after Games

22.01.09
A £230million fund for the conversion of Olympic Park venues after the Games is insufficient, it has been claimed... more

Share in 2012 'gold dust', Jowell tells council chiefs

03.12.08
Tessa Jowell has urged all councils to become involved in the 2012 Olympics to share in its "gold dust"... more

Jowell: we wouldn't have bid if we'd known about slump

13.11.08
The London Olympics would not be happening if the Government had known a recession was on its way when it bid for the Games, Tessa Jowell has declared... more

Tessa Jowell in storm over her trip to Brazilian Grand Prix

04.11.08
Olympics minister Tessa Jowell came under attack for taking a trip to Brazil which included tickets to watch Lewis Hamilton in the Grand Prix... more

Credit crisis is hitting funds for village, say Games chiefs

23.09.08
London 2012 chiefs have admitted the international financial crisis is making it "just about impossible" to secure private funding for the Olympic village... more

Promises made for 2012 bid: Can we keep them?

01.09.08
London clinched victory in a tough race for the 2012 Olympics thanks largely to a pledge that it would deliver a legacy for sport... more

Comment: Olympic Gold

20.08.08
There seems to be no end to the extraordinary haul of medals by British athletes in Beijing - the best in a century, exhausting the superlatives of the commentators... more

There is absolutely no more government cash for Games, says Jowell

19.08.08
London's 2012 Olympics will not get a penny more from the Government, Tessa Jowell warned... more

Spot the Labour plot in Hare's new play

13.08.08
A play which appears to mirror financial crises which engulfed Tony Blair's administration is to open at the National Theatre... more

Video: Are the Olympics good for London?

09.07.08
Click on the links below for video highlights of the Evening Standard's Influentials debate on 'Are the Olympics good for London?' featuring Tessa Jowell, Will Self, Andrew Gilligan, Sebastian Coe and Kate Hoey...... more

Children 'feel safer if they carry a knife'

08.07.08
Alarming numbers of children feel safer in the street when carrying knives or guns, Government inspectors have warned... more

How much, who's paying and the key players

07.07.08
Find out how much 2012 will cost, who controls the budget and how we won the Games... more

Jowell vows to prove she is fit for purpose

02.06.08
Olympics minister Tessa Jowell is to have her own athletic skills tested... more

Jowell denies Olympic budget was Ken 'trick'

25.04.08
Tessa Jowell has contradicted Ken Livingstone's claim that the original Olympics budget was "a con"... more

Comment: the real cost of the 2012 Games

22.04.08
The Commons Public Accounts Committee's report on the spiralling cost of the London Olympics makes painful reading for Tessa Jowell, the minister responsible... more

Does Ken Livingstone deserve a third term?

22.04.08
Tessa Jowell launched a vigorous defence of Ken Livingstone at an Evening Standard debate - and insisted Boris would be a 'disaster'... more

What they said about the Games budget

08.04.08
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Jowell 'not intimidated' by Olympic torch protest

01.04.08
Olympics minister Tessa Jowell has vowed she would not be "intimidated" if the Olympic torch relay, which visits London this weekend, is marred by demonstrations... more

Ken must change his message to win a third term, says Jowell

28.03.08
The minister parachuted in to revive Ken Livingstone's mayoral campaign said that the "message" needed to change to ensure he wins a third term in office... more

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