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London canal boat owners must pay to stay near Games
5 Feb 2012 at 3:47am
LONDON (Reuters) - Boat owners accustomed to freely navigating London's narrow canals will have to pay to moor near Olympic sites during the 2012 Games, fuelling fears by some that they are being pushed out by unprecedented security measures. London's police will close a handful of boating routes near the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, in the east of the capital, and put in place a controlled ...
Bomb-proof bins installed in London before Games
3 Feb 2012 at 9:07am
LONDON (Reuters) - A London-based business has reinvented the rubbish bin, making its new recycling containers bomb-proof and sticking LCD screens on the side to tell Londoners about market moves and breaking news. Renew, a brainchild of two former London School of Economics students, will install 100 bomb-proof bins in London's financial district before the Olympics kick off in July. "There has ...
London 'ready for night of snow'
4 Feb 2012 at 8:37am
Preparations are made across London to deal with 5-10cm (up to 4in) of forecast snow that has started to fall.
London 2012 volunteers gather for training
4 Feb 2012 at 5:03am
Thousands of London 2012 volunteers are gathering at Wembley Arena for their first orientation and training event for the Olympics.
Pleasures of London before the Olympics
5 Feb 2012 at 12:24am
This is London: Yellow construction cranes tower over inner-city building sites; popular gathering spots rumble with earth-moving equipment, along with the usual heaving masses of shoppers and sightseers; venues for the...
Caterpillar to close London, Ont. locomotive plant
3 Feb 2012 at 12:53pm
(Reuters) - Caterpillar Inc has decided to close its Electro-Motive locomotive plant in London, Ontario, and lay off at least 450 workers following several months of unsuccessful contract negotiations with the Canadian Auto Workers union. The move deals a tough blow to the Canadian labor market, which has been under pressure from a strong Canadian dollar and the struggle to persuade unionized ...
London 2012 - London canal boat owners must pay to stay
5 Feb 2012 at 3:08am
Boat owners accustomed to freely navigating London's narrow canals will have to pay to moor near Olympic sites during the 2012 Games.
Correctes - Hedgies to outspend UK bankers on London homes
1 Feb 2012 at 11:23pm
LONDON (Reuters) - Shrinking bonus pools in London's City financial district will reduce bankers' clout in the British capital's buoyant prime housing market this year, with hedge fund managers set to outspend them for the first time, data from Savills showed. The property consultancy said on Wednesday that while banker bonuses were a key factor behind rocketing London house prices in 2006-7 ...
Travel Postcard: 48 Hours in Dickensian London
3 Feb 2012 at 7:19am
LONDON (Reuters) - London in the 21st century is not all that different from the heaving Victorian metropolis forever preserved in the novels of English writer Charles Dickens, whose 200th birthday is next week. Fans of Dickens can still walk the same streets of the city - whose population helped to inspire such characters as Oliver Twist, Ebenezer Scrooge and Bella Wilfer - visit the writer's ...
Ticket Sales for St. Louis Rams Game in London Postponed: Fan?s Reaction
4 Feb 2012 at 6:11pm
On Friday, Feb. 3, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell noted the league would hold a game in London in 2012, even if the St. Louis Rams are unable to serve as the home team. His remarks come on the heels of the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission's (CVC) announcement that the...
