Olympic lotto games make Â£150m
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Special lottery games have already raised Â£150m for the 2012 London Olympics, organisers have said.
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The total cost of Athens Olympics was nearly 9.0 billion euros (11.5 billion US dollars), almost double the amount forecast a year before the Games, Greece&#39;s Finance Minister George Alogoskoufis said on Friday.
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Gold medals are rare enough commodities but they become even more precious when won as unexpectedly as those by Britain&#39;s 4x100 metres relay team on Saturday.
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The Uefa president gets up to a lot more than we thought according to your efforts. This week's lucky winner is David Squires, who wins a Â£100 bet with BlueSquare. Second prize, Carlton Books's The England Cricket Miscellany, goes to John O'Reilly. Next week we want to see your takes on Lord Coe's Olympic logo shenanigans. Send them to gallery@guardian.co.uk by 6pm on Tuesday June 12 as a jpeg or gif, complete with a TITLE and CAPTION. Anybody who forgets will be made to listen to Sir Alex Ferguson's iPod.
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The total prize money for this year's US Open is nearly Â£10m while the men's and women's champions will win almost Â£700,000 each.
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Organisers of the London 2012 Olympics have won a legal battle allowing them to purchase land for the site.
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Olympics chief Jacques Rogge heaped praise on Greek organisers and declared the Athens Games an all-round success. Television ratings are 15% up from the 2000 Games in Sydney, while ticket sales have topped figures from the Seoul and Barcelona Olympics.
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The bill for staging London&#39;s 2012 Olympics could still rise as the final cost of venues is factored in, the government&#39;s spending watchdog warned Friday.
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London - Three gamblers who have used a James Bond-style laser device to win more than Â£1-million (R11,24-million) at the Ritz in March did nothing illegal, police have concluded.
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The expected cost of the 2012 Olympics has risen from Â£2.4bn to at least Â£3.3bn, the culture secretary tells MPs.
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Three people suspected of carrying out an audacious scam involving a laser gadget at a London casino are being allowed to keep their Â£1.3m winnings.
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England's cathedrals earned Â£150m for local economies last year and received nine million visitors, a report says.
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The Athens Olympics will cost a total of almost 10 billion euros (&#36;12.09 billion), more than double the original target, pushing Greece's budget gap well above EU limits, finance ministry sources said on Wednesday.
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The total prize money for this month&#39;s British Open is up 200,000 pounds (300,000 euros) from last year to 4.2 million pounds (6.2 million euros), The Royal and Ancient (RA) announced Tuesday.
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London 2012âs bid book was released to the public Friday and shows that if London hosts the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, it is expected to make a 100 million pound profit, 60 per cent of which would be spent on grassroots sport in the UK with the
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The British government says it will give at least Â£15m to help the victims of the Asian earthquake.
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People earning over Â£150,000 should pay 10% extra tax or give the same amount to charity, says Frank Field.