Government to defend its 9,000 Olympic tickets
Allocation breakdown shows 450 tickets set aside as prizes at School Games and 1,500 reserved for foreign business guests
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2012 Olympic torch ignites row over Games’ green credentials
The 2012 torch was supposed to be low carbon, but the scientists at EDF, the Games’ sponsors, simply ran out of time
Pro-choice campaigners fight moves to turn back clock on abortion rights
Diane Abbott among those opposing involvement of anti-abortion charity in possible amendment to law
Contract killers as young as 15 recruited to do drug syndicates’ dirty work
Turkish crime gangs in north London thought to be linked to spate of killings
‘Big society’ tsar Lord Wei leaves post after less than a year
Cabinet office insists departure does not mark scaling back of project, but Labour say flagship policy is descending into farce
Britain’s youngest ‘hitman’ convicted of woman’s murder
Teenage gang member known as Riot was 15 when he killed Gulistan Subasi outside her Hackney home last year
Slavery claim women to receive payout from the Metropolitan police
Four awarded total of £20,000 after high court judge rules their allegations were not properly investigated
London Olympics’ ticketing process is peculiar, says Boris Johnson
Mayor comments come amid concerns over applicants being deducted money weeks before finding out what tickets they’ll get
Top universities patronising poorer teenagers, headteacher says
Sir Michael Wilshaw says clever pupils from poorer backgrounds want to get into Oxbridge on their merits, not by being given lower offers
Olympics ticket payments postponed
Money will not be taken from customers’ accounts for another week as ballots still being run to determine who gets tickets
Health agency issues Olympics emergency warning
Health Protection Agency says upheaval caused by its abolition could pose ‘extreme risks’ during Olympic Games
Yes, but is it drawing? London 2011 Biennial Fundraiser
The best works auctioned at east London’s Drawing Room, by Turner prizewinners and younger artists alike, are self-regarding, silly, and muse on the nature of drawing itself
2012 Olympic tickets in high demand
Organisers say fears over the ticketing process have not been borne out
Street art tours reveal hidden treasure
For those who don’t know their Stik from their Roa, a guided tour around London’s East End is the way to uncover works by artists on the verge of mainstream recognition
Gang members jailed for life over teenage girl’s murder
Two men found guilty of killing innocent schoolgirl in pizza shop revenge attack that went wrong
London 2012 Olympics: Crackdown on brothels ‘puts sex workers at risk’
Police clean-up of London’s Olympic boroughs is pushing vice crime and human trafficking underground, say critics