“A CHURCH claiming to be the biggest in the UK has offered to build a £36.2 million stadium in a bid to escape eviction from its Hackney Wick home to make way for the Olympics.

The Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC) is based in threatened Waterden Road, which will be bulldozed to make way for three [...]

“The head of the International Paralympic Committee is to meet with London 2012 organisers this week.”

(Via BBC Sport | Other Sports | Disability Sport | UK Edition Paralympic chief to visit London: .)

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“London 2012: Denis Oswald will chair the watchdog body that will monitor the capital’s preparation for the games.”

(Via Guardian Unlimited Sport London Olympics: Oswald to head 2012 watchdog: .)

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Sporting drive sees drop in crime for Olympic borough

It is one month since London won the right to stage the 2012 Olympics and already the landscape is changing. Construction has begun on a showpiece swimming pool and work will soon commence to bury power lines beneath the east London site earmarked for the main [...]