Olympic Park legacy plan threatens Tech City growth, report warns
Thinktank says tech scene around Silicon Roundabout in London now comprises at least 3,200 firms with 48,000 jobs
Thinktank says tech scene around Silicon Roundabout in London now comprises at least 3,200 firms with 48,000 jobs
John Massey, 64, who escaped from Pentonville prison, was arrested at a house in Kent, say Metropolitan police
Neville Gabie’s next project will ‘explore how far away we might have moved from the original spirit of the Games’
The Velodrome, the Copper Box, the Energy Centre: some fine buildings will grace London 2012. But tawdry compromise is never far away…
Veteran justice campaigner Paul May was asked to help out by friends of Hallam following conviction in 2005
London man who opposed construction of basketball venue believed to be first to receive wide-ranging ban from Olympics
Police confirm that torso discovered in Regent’s canal in east London is that of actor who went missing last week
As the Olympics loom, Alexandra Topping takes a tour within sight and sound of the London 2012 site Interactive: an alternative tour around the site [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/london-2012-olympics-blog/interactive/2012/feb/20/olympic-park-alternative-tour]
Theresa May vows to prevent ‘encampments’ – but London 2012 security chiefs argue against prohibiting tents
Junior Saunders pleaded guilty to violent disorder, criminal damage to a police car and burglary in Hackney on 8 August
Activists host press conference in building owned by Swiss bank as St Paul’s Cathedral camp faces high court action
Residents complain that second corporate Olympic venue on small industrial area in Stratford, which will include the UK’s largest TV screen, is a disaster waiting to happen
I thought this TV series set in Hackney – where I grew up – might be another cliched urban drama. It rose far above that
A panel of locals enjoys a preview of the Channel 4 drama’s first episode, but finds plenty of flaws in Ronan Bennett’s supposedly realistic portrayal of life in the borough
Labour’s London mayoral candidate has offered a group of sixth form students his recipe for reviving the capital
The BBC’s decision not to move the production base of its flagship soap to the Games broadcast centre makes the job of filling that space in the long term more difficult