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Evicted London businesses are still waiting for Games compensation

19.09.11
Scores of London businesses and landlords who were forced out of their premises to make way for the Olympic Park are still battling for £78million in outstanding claims... more

Mayor asked to save project helping parents back to work

03.02.11
Boris Johnson under pressure to save a multi-million-pound project that helps hundreds of unemployed parents back into work... more

City Hall shock as Treasury pulls plug on £480m development fund

22.10.10
Dozens of organisations and projects central to the capital’s future are under threat after the London Development Agency’s £480 million budget was axed... more

Blow for ‘Big Society’ as Boris Johnson axes £4m fund

11.08.10
Boris Johnson has cut a £4 million fund intended to help London charities deliver David Cameron's vision of the Big Society... more

Boris Johnson to axe Ken Livingstone's LDA in City Hall shake-up

15.06.10
London Development Agency is to be axed by Boris Johnson as part of the most radical shake-up of the capital's government since the mayoralty was created 10 years ago... more

Audit slams Boris Johnson over £469m agency that hit Ken Livingstone at polls

15.03.10
Boris Johnson failed to turn around the finances of the London Development Agency, which helped bring down his predecessor Ken Livingstone, an auditor’s report reveals... more

Boris Johnson must get a grip on the LDA now

15.03.10
The damning Audit Commission Report on the London Development Agency reflects poorly on the Mayor... more

City Hall ordered to reveal details of £160m Games bungle

22.12.09
City Hall chiefs have been ordered to reveal key details behind a bungled London Olympics land deal which left a £160million 'black hole' in the 2012 budget... more

2012 Olympics budget 'now £12billion'

09.11.09
Campaigners demand 'full transparency' on Olympic finances after it was claimed that the budget for the 2012 Games has risen to £12billion... more

Fired ‘N-word’ man: I said ‘bigger’ but they misheard me

05.11.09
Director of Boris Johnson’s regeneration agency sacked for allegedly using the 'N-word' says he was not given a chance to defend himself... more

LDA will shelve climate work after ‘losing’ £161m from Olympics budget

23.10.09
Boris Johnson denies key climate change schemes were at risk after his regeneration body acquired a massive hole in its budget after getting its Olympics sums wrong... more

Government asked to pay off £800m Olympic land debt

21.09.09
Government ministers clash with the London Development Agency over an £800million debt incurred in buying up the land for the 2012 Olympics... more

Olympic legacy projects to be cut by £21 million after accounts bungle

16.09.09
Projects intended to deliver a legacy of the 2012 Olympics have been cut by the London Development Agency after a bungled land deal blew a £160 million hole in its budget... more

£1m cost of investigating £160m Games black hole

15.09.09
The investigation into a £160million black hole in the London Development Agency's Olympics budget has cost £1million... more

Olympics land buy-up leaves £159m black hole

11.09.09
The London Development Agency has been left with a £159million black hole in its finances as a result of a bungled project to buy land for the 2012 Olympics... more

Boris in crony row over his key aide's LDA role

07.07.09
Boris Johnson was accused of cronyism after he appointed one of his key aides to the London Development Agency... more

London loses £22m to fund Brown's housebuilding plan

03.07.09
Boris Johnson hit out as it emerged that the London Development Agency is to lose £22million in order to fund Gordon Brown's housebuilding programme... more

Stand up for our city's money, Boris

03.07.09
With Gordon Brown's raid on London Development Agency funds, the capital is getting a taste of the pressures ahead on spending... more

Olympic agency investigated over £100million 'black hole'

24.06.09
A fraud inquiry has been launched into a £100million black hole found in the London Development Agency's 2012 Olympic accounts... more

Baroness with nous has a white elephant to kill

19.06.09
The London Development Agency owes £60 million more than previously estimated to dispossessed owners of land compulsorily purchased to build the Olympics... more

‘Our project helped hundreds find jobs but now we face axe’

21.04.09
A charity that helps hundreds of people a year find work is facing closure after a funding crisis... more

Firms forced out for Games still seeking compensation three years on

10.02.09
Forty per cent of businesses that were forced to relocate for the London Olympics have still not received full compensation more than three years after the capital won the Games... more

Businesses on Olympic site still waiting to be reimbursed

10.02.09
Forty per cent of businesses that were forced to relocate for the London Olympics have still not received full compensation more than three years after the capital won the Games... 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

Boris's £23m for small firms

02.12.08
Boris Johnson has announced a £23million package to help support small businesses in the capital through the economic downturn. ... more

Legal threat to Mayor's plan for 10 academies

12.11.08
Boris Johnson's plans for 10 new city academies across London ran into difficulty as it emerged they could face legal challenges... more

2012 park to host music festivals

03.10.08
London 2012 chiefs are planning to stage a series of Glastonbury-style openair festivals to breathe life in to the Olympic Park after the Games... more

Johnson faces cronyism claim over LDA choice

06.08.08
A new member of the London Development Agency was revealed as one of Boris Johnson's key funders... more

Olympic legacy too big for us to cope with, says LDA's new boss

05.08.08
The role of developing an Olympic legacy could be dropped from the portfolio of the Mayor's troubled economic agency... more

LDA will lose 170 jobs as Mayor slashes costs

23.07.08
More than 170 posts are to be axed from the troubled London Development Agency, it was revealed... more


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