Posts Tagged ‘olympics’
Hackney to be twinned with Scarborough for Olympic events
The borough is partnering with a North Yorkshire seaside town for a series of cultural and sporting activities
Read MoreYoung, gifted and back
Kids are coming back to sport as Olympics organisers target couch potato youngsters with enticing outdoor events aimed at reversing negative associations with regimented PE lessons
Read MoreHackney Council makes £27k Olympics tickets bid
The Town Hall is spending more than any other London borough, according to the latest figures
Read More‘RUN’ sculpture to be erected at Olympic Handball Arena in Hackney Wick
A glass and steel public artwork by internationally-renowned artist Monica Bonvicini will be installed in the Olympic Park next year
Read MoreLondon 2012 Games set to miss green targets
The Olympic Delivery Authority fails to honour key promises to make the Olympics as sustainable as possible
Read MoreSign up now for London 2012 tickets – urges Hackney Olympic athlete Phillips Idowu
The Hackney-born triple jumper says winning in front of a home crowd next year will be a unique experience
Read MoreHackney Marshes – more than meets the eye
Local residents’ views about what should happen to this popular green space in the face of ‘area masterplans’, Olympic Games developments and the Legacy process
Read MoreArtists and architects Assemble to create Folly for a Flyover
The winners of the CREATE11 Art Award announced today are to involve local people in the making of a public art commission in the borough
Read MoreLondon Fields Triathlon Club to host second Aquathlon
Saturday 16 April, 2010, London Fields
Read MoreSnowdome proposed as legacy for London 2012 Olympics broadcast and media centre
The UK company behind Ski Dubai wants to turn the Hackney Wick media hub into a winter sports resort
Read MoreOlympics sex trafficking debate highlights media misinformation
There is little consensus about the impact the London 2012 Games will have on this illegal trade, say experts
Read MoreLondon Last Days: the final countdown for the East End
The Citizen talks to Abi Weaver and Daniel Rugo about their film on life after the Olympics
Read MoreLondon 2012 Olympic coin competition winners announced
Congratulations to the lucky five who will each be sent one of these collectors’ items
Read MoreIce man bids for Olympic flame
28-year-old Dwayne Fields, a polar pioneer from Stoke Newington, talks about breaking down barriers and his campaign to carry the London 2012 torch
Read MoreInterview: Ken Livingstone
The Labour party’s candidate for London mayor talks budgets, students, crime and the Olympics
Read MoreWin a London 2012 Olympic coin by Hackney designer Pravin Dewdhory
In conjunction with the Royal Mint, we are giving away five of these collectors’ items
Read MoreRiver Lea voted among nation’s worst rivers
Rubbish, pollution and low fish stocks blight the Hackney stretch, say critics
Read MoreLondon 2012: Work begins on ArcelorMittal Orbit tower
London Mayor’s Olympic legacy will include an iconic landmark made of thousands of tonnes of steel
Read MoreFind out how the Olympics will affect Hackney Wick and Kings Park neighbourhoods
Tuesday 16 November, Wally Foster Community Centre
Read MoreWick residents split over plans
15 year regeneration scheme will ‘protect unique character’
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