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There have been two London 2012 logos: one for the bidding process created by Kino Design and a second as the brand for the Games themselves. The former is a ribbon with blue, yellow, black, green, and red stripes winding through the text "LONDON 2012,"
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And on the website for the Madame Zangara show, they also had another quote that was attributed to someone called Penny McDonald. And where does McDonald from? The Outside Organisation! A quick visit to The Outside Organisation’s own website informed me
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Ken Livingstone speaks to the media after losing his bid to be elected as London mayor at City Hall in central London on May 4, 2012. While the Labour Party have made large gains across the country in local elections, Johnson retained his position for... View Photo »
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Boris Johnson was too cosy with Rupert Murdoch's empire at a time when they were the subject of a police investigation and he used his office to undermine the Met's work, attacking the phone hacking claims as 'codswallop'.
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New data released yesterday gives a ward by ward breakdown of the London election results. One very interesting finding is that, if the proposed boundary changes go through, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith faces an uphill battle to remain a
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London 2012 Olympics: former BOA chief Simon Clegg lands top job with Guam to get ticket to Games
The Telegraph
But Clegg, the former chief executive of the British Olympic Association, will have a very different role this summer to the one he envisaged when he led the BOA’s political lobbying campaign to persuade a reluctant Cabinet to back the Games. The man who
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Dry, dour and driven by thrift, the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, is painted as Europe's new Protestant saviour. Mrs Merkel is a Ballymena man's prayer, said to be so tight with the household budget that she insists on hand-washing her own underwear.
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Boris Johnson speaks to the media after being elected for a second consecutive term as London mayor at City Hall in central London on May 4, 2012. While the Labour Party have made large gains across the country in local elections, Johnson retained his... View Photo »
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We have abandoned the grandiose and wasteful approach of the previous mayor. The choice is clear this Thursday. It is between a Mayor who invests in our future — and irresponsible proposals from Ken Livingstone that would put that investment at risk.
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At the beginning of the month I wrote about the imminent mayoral election in London (Blonde Ambition, 1 May). Boris Johnson, the Conservative incumbent won against all the odds, against a tidal wave of electoral hostility flowing over the party. I was ev
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When London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics, their aim was to make it the greenest, cleanest and most sustainable games ever held. Now with just barely two months left, the host city is scrambling to make good on its promise. As with most sporting
About Ken Livingstone
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Kenneth Robert Livingstone, (born 17 June 1945) is an English socialist politician. He has twice held the leading political role in London local government: firstly as leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986 by the government of Margaret Thatcher, and secondly as the first Mayor of London, a post he... Full Article
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