With only a week to go until Christmas, businesses across Hackney and Tower Hamlets are relying on festive sales to make up for a loss in custom of up to 70 per cent during this summer’s Olympic Games, a study by Eastlondonlines shows. ELL approached nearly 60 randomly selected high…
ELL is researching the impact of the Olympics on businesses in Hackney and Tower Hamlets. We want business-owners and managers to complete our short survey (2-3 minutes) and tell us what they think. Replies will be mapped and quoted in an upcoming feature. To take this opportunity to voice your…
Travellers on overground trains, travelling between Hackney and Stratford have been pleasantly surprised by magicians performing card tricks, hired to spread the ‘spirit’ of the Games. Magic on the Overground has been a success not only for Olympic organisers but also for the magicians themselves. Happy commuters have showed their…
Calling time on a momentous two weeks in the history of London, the Olympics’ came to a triumphant end on Sunday with a closing ceremony that was attended by 80,000 people and watched by 26.3 million people nationally. Described by the creative director, Kim Gavin as “a mashed-up symphony of…
Lawrence Okoye will compete in the Olympic discus final on August 7 after a testing qualifying round in front of 80,000 spectators. The athlete, who hails from Croydon, struggled initially when his first throw landed outside the permitted zone, narrowly missing a photographer. On Okoye’s second throw he was on target…
Local small businesses are losing trade and suffering from disruptions to delivery schedules during the Olympics, according to business owners in the area. EastLondonLines has learned that the Olympics opening ceremony on July 27 particularly affected night-time business in East London, such as restaurants, nightclubs and cinemas. Small businesses currently…
London’s Mayor was left hanging in mid-air as crowds of people at the BT Live Event in Victoria Park celebrated the London 2012 Olympics. Readying himself with a hard hat and two British flags, Boris took to the zip wire above the waiting crowd before coming to an abrupt halt 20…
A Deptford schoolgirl and pupil at Croydon’s BRIT school has achieved overnight fame after she starred in the internet tribute section of Danny Boyle’s Olympic opening ceremony extravaganza. Jasmine Breinburg, 18, played the part of a young girl who loses her phone on a night out and is tracked down…
The opening Olympic ceremony attracted a global audience of one billion, and a staggering 27 million UK viewers. So with the city being so immersed in sport, which Olympic sports are people watching? Are Londoners enjoying the games? And how much time are people spending watching the Olympics?…
A Croydon man has been charged with ticket touting in connection with the 2012 Olympics. Paul Johnson, 42 of Oakfield Road, was charged with ticket-touting and is due to appear at Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court on August 17 2012.…
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