Olympic security – why Beijing was no gold standard
There is a Chinese proverb for every occasion and mine for the Olympic security row is “Be careful what you wish for.”
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With today’s opening of the M4’s “Games lane” to accommodate an influx of Olympic athletes, motorists faced morning rush hour queues reportedly up to 32 miles long.
The first of the Olympics Games lanes comes into operation on Monday – on the M4, which has only just reopened following repairs.
The security giant’s chief executive tells Channel 4 News he does not expect to get a bonus after failings that will cost the company up to £50m.
The first event of the London 2012 Olympics could be played in a half-empty Millennium Stadium, Channel 4 News has learned.
A G4S whistleblower tells Channel 4 News that management at a vetting centre were aware six months ago it would not meet recruitment targets it was set to provide security at the Olympics.
Could Condoleezza Rice be returning to frontline politics? Speculation is mounting that she could be Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential running mate – and that he could announce his choice within weeks.
There is a Chinese proverb for every occasion and mine for the Olympic security row is “Be careful what you wish for.”
Cut off from contact, trained but not deployed, and still unsure of working hours: G4S employees tell Channel 4 News of a shambolic recruitment process that has left staff seething.
Mid-July is fast approaching, the Olympics are a little over a fortnight away and yet the weather shows no resemblance to anything like summer.
As 3,500 more troops are drafted in to police the Olympics, a G4S duty manager tells Channel 4 News that some staff contracted to provide security have not been trained or deployed.
More than 100 are dead and thousands fleeing storms and landslides in southern Russia. Tourists and locals are feared dead in the Black Sea resort area where the 2014 Olympics will be held.
Andy Murray beats Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to earn a place in the Wimbledon final – the first British man to manage this feat since Bunny Austin in 1938.
Barack Obama is hitting two key swing states in the first bus tour of his re-election campaign. In the battle for the blue-collar vote, he’s bashing his rival Mitt Romney’s big business ties.
As six terror suspects are arrested in London, a bus brings the M6 motorway to a standstill for four hours in a response involving armed police, troops, firefighters and bomb disposal officers.
Chambers will compete for Britain in his first Olympic Games for 12 years after a ban for systematic drug use, but bronze medallist Jenny Meadows is left out in favour of Lyndsey Sharp.