A total of £5.3 million of Lottery money which helped build the Olympic Park is being reused to back grassroots sports and volunteering schemes. T...
Objects such as the Olympic torch, competitor kit and costumes contribute to the display. This includes Tom Daley's swim trunks and Beth Tweddle's gymnastics kit, as well as over 60 ensembles worn at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics and Paralympics; from punk heads to policemen and NHS nurses to Mary Poppins.
Sales of home fertility monitors and pregnancy tests have soared by 60 per cent since the Duchess of Cambridge announced her baby news. As Kate an...
Car parts and bicycle retailer Halfords has suffered a sales slump of 1.9% despite expectations that a "summer of sport" would boost revenue. Half-...
Great Britain's Olympic and Paralympic heroes have been honoured at a glittering Buckingham Palace reception hosted by the Queen. Star sportsmen an...
The Olympics helped boost revenues of Channel Tunnel company Eurotunnel this summer. A 10% rise in passenger traffic and a 17% increase in trucks l...
It hurts, just a little, to refer to the London Olympics in the past tense. We waited so long for the Games, and then they came along, and they were completely brilliant, and now they are gone.
The Olympic and Paralympic Games have been a huge success and demonstrated what can be achieved by the public and private sectors working together to ...
London 2012 - what a blast! A whole nation carried along on a tidal wave of positive images and human triumph.
The only time I have ever tried rowing was at a hen party a few years ago. The primary objective during this outing was to avoid being capsized or otherwise drenched by the Naughty Sisters' boat.
So where to start? What can I achieve that won't make me vomit and doesn't require too much effort (because I think we can all agree that this is the spirit of an elite athlete)? Running is simply out of the question, so I start with a swim, because swimming's easy, right?
I've certainly been inspired by the Olympic games to improve my own fitness and to get more involved in sport again. I hope that millions across the world feel the same way and get the chance to enjoy sport - even if it just means taking a run around the block more often.
So, how did Team GB begin their big digital campaign? It started on 27 February 2012 by launching their brand new website and with it the real identity behind 'Our Greatest Team'.
London 2012 Olympics. Gosh, we did that well, didn't we? We've smashed our Beijing record, we're good at more than one sport, and beyond all hope and ...
We are looking at the Paralympics as a harder task. A bigger battle. A fight to win respect, unification and Gold. The Olympics truly were just a warm up.
As a showbiz journalist one of the things that bored me senseless about the Games was the countless number of stuffy old curmudgeons praying it would finally wipe clean the smear on British culture - the dreaded obsession with celebrity.
Come On ParalympicsGB! The Olympics was a sensational warm up event. The stage is set and we are ready.
The relationship that Carl and Charlotte have built up over the years means that he knows what to say to her when to stimulate her best performance. On the way to the event, reminding her of the vision of Olympic victory, he said to her "'Some people wish it will happen, some people think it will happen and you are going to make it happen".
The one thing that has made me just as proud to be British and love this year and country just as much as the Olympics is not necessarily on the UK's widescreen red-white-'n'-blue radar. It's a little festival called Secret Garden Party.
Meanwhile on the campaign trail for squash's inclusion in the Olympics, Ben Dirs, a BBC blogger, wrote a chirpy little article on synchronised swimming and how he feels sorry for squash players. He had an interesting point. These swimmers undoubtedly work so hard, but how accessible a sport is it? Is synchronised swimming a sport even?
So just as Danny Boyle gave us a very personal gift with the Opening Ceremony, the memory of which will last a lifetime, I'd like to give him a personal gift in a similar vein from all of us. A book containing photographs of each person's interpretation of what makes this isle wondrous to them.
Amongst the excitement of the Olympics two weeks ago, one can be forgiven for missing the announcement by Mr Justice Ryder of the plans for modernising the family justice system...
Whilst I am delighted that the football season is back in business, I cannot stop thinking about the magical 16 days of sport that we had the privilege of hosting in our country's capital.
As to the London Olympics' legacy - will there be one? and, if so, is sport going to be the only beneficiary? The disputes and disagreements are only just beginning.
The Olympics have finished, turned off the flame, shut the door on the stadium and left the building.
