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LGBT history month launched in east London
Tower Hamlets activists will kick off LGBT History Month tonight with a talk held at the Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives on Bancroft Road.

Unemployment levels in Tower Hamlets and Hackney among the worst in the country
Tower Hamlets is suffering from the one of the highest levels of unemployment in the country. Unemployment has reached 13.2 per cent in the borough, making it the third highest of all the London Boroughs and fifth out of 415 regions and local authorities in the UK.

Tower Hamlets man admits guilt in terror plot
A 21-year-old man of the Isle of Dogs admitted to plotting a terrorist attack on the London Stock Exchange along with three other men yesterday. East London lines had earlier reported that Mohammad Moksudur Rahman Chowdhury was one of the nine charged with conspiracy to cause explosions in the UK.

Tower Hamlets top for child poverty
A "child poverty map" has exposed the UK's most stricken areas, as campaigners warned that targeting Government cuts at families would lead to an "economic and a social disaster".

Next at NBC Sports: The Olympics...And Baseball?
As the network looks to add content, NBC Sports chief Mark Lazarus calls baseball a premiere...

Football only unsold 2012 sport
1.5 million football tickets remain available for London 2012 after the sport is identified as the only discipline which has not sold out its allocation

Football Legends to Quarterback NFL-Themed Crystal Cruise
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For those for whom football fever lingers well after the Big Game, ultra-luxe Crystal Cruises is offering a showdown of gridiron greats during a spring "NFL ...

Historic Venues of the 2012 Olympics
London has evolved from a rich, historic background, to a modern city. Likewise, the Olympics now combine both old and new sporting traditions. The London 2012 Olympics will make use of some of the city's oldest buildings and grounds as venues for international competition.

From heaven to hell, Greek sport in freefall
ATHENS (Reuters) - Peeling paint flakes from Athens' Olympic park. Its entrances locked, this once sparkling edifice to sporting greatness lies rotting and largely unused -- maintenance costs too high for near-bankrupt Greece to operate. The rate of decay and dilapidation in just eight years provides a visual clue to the Greek scenario, one as effective as any economist's report or politician's ...