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The opening ceremony of London's Olympic Games will be called Isles of Wonder, inspired from Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

The announcement was made this morning by artistic director Danny Boyle at an event to mark the start of the six-month countdown to the event.

Olympic security fears at Westfield Stratford City will result in the loss of 5,000 car parking spaces for three months during the summer.

Locog already carries out random checks on vehicles entering the mall located next to the Olympic Park but Westfield will be closing all of its car parks throughout the 2012 Games.

The website allowing people to resell their Olympic tickets will reopen this afternoon more than 10 days after it crashed.

The London Organising Committee (Locog) has confirmed that its ticketing website will reopen at 3pm, giving people two weeks to offload unwanted tickets. It will close at 6pm on February 3.

The official resale website for London 2012 Olympic tickets has been suspended for a fourth day.

The site, operated by Ticketmaster was temporarily closed on Friday lunch time following a huge demand for tickets.

The Olympic Park is playing host to the Cabinet today to mark 200 days to go until the start of the Games.

David Cameron and his ministers have swapped Downing Street for Stratford for their first meeting of 2012 and are expected to discuss ways of ensuring the Olympics brings lasting benefits to the UK.

A rush of sports fans clambering for Olympic tickets caused the official resale website to crash this lunchtime.

The London Organising Committee announced it had temporarily suspended the site to 'update and refresh' the system at 2pm, blaming demand exceeding supply.

Sebastian Coe has defended the decision to double the budget for the opening and closing cermonies of the Olympic and Parlympic Games.

The Government announced last week it would put £41million of taxpayers money into the four ceremonies, a decision criticised by marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe as "frivolous".

The first names of the people who will be carrying the Olympic Torch around the country have been unveiled and they include a Wharfer.

Elin Haf Davies, who works for the European Medical Agency, is one of 6,800 people given conditional offers to run with the Torch in the build up to the Games. A further 1,200 people will be offered the opportunity next month.

A cross party group of MPs is urging Olympics organisers to backtrack on a deal with a multinational company blamed for one of the world's largest industrial disasters.

In August Locog announced Dow Chemical would produce a sustainable wrap for the outside of the Olympic Stadium in Stratford.

Plans for a huge music festival on Greenwich Peninsula to coincide with next year's Olympic Games have been rejected by Greenwich Council.

The Council has turned down applications for licences for the events following a meeting at Woolwich Town Hall yesterday. It cited a lack of detail in the plans.

A statue by British sculptor Henry Moore made its long-awaited return to Greenwich Park this morning.

Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, made by Moore in 1976, has been restored to the plinth on which it stood between 1979 and 2007, where it will be on display for the next two years.

A sculpture by British artist Henry Moore is being returned to Greenwich Park more than four years after it was removed.

Moore's 1976 work Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge will be sited on its original plinth next week on a two year loan from the Henry Moore Foundation. It had stood on the spot from 1979 until 2007.

The top brass of London's Olympic organisers were out and about in Canary Wharf today, although Lord Coe was nowhere to be seen.

Rather it was left to actors Hugh Bonneville and Karl Theobald to carry the, ahem, torch as they filmed scenes for the BBC comedy TwentyTwelve in One Canada Square.

It's business as usual for the organisers of the London Olympics despite the widespread rioting across the capital.

Several nights of trouble, including in host boroughs Newham, Greenwich and Hackney, will not prevent the scheduled test events taking place.

Mark Cavendish heads a world class field of cyclists scheduled to take part in the test event for the 2012 Olympic road race.

Cavendish, who won the sprinters' green jersey at the Tour de France last month, will compete for the Great Britain team in the London-Surrey Cycle Classic on August 14.

The Olympic Stadium's final design has been wrapped up after it was announced that the building will be swathed in fabric during next year's Games.

Locog has confirmed that a sustainable fabric wrap will encircle the Stratford venue by next spring, providing the finishing touch to the centrepiece of the Games.

British basketball's biggest star, Luol Deng, has been cleared to play in the Olympic test event later this month.

The Chicago Bulls player will be on the boards at the London International Basketball Invitational tournament from August 16, the first time the GB team will sample the venue for the opening rounds of next year's Olympic tournament.

In case you hadn't noticed there's just one year to go until the Olympic Games open in London but opinion on Britain hosting the sporting extravaganza is divided according to a new survey.

A YouGov poll has revealed that just 40 per cent of the country is interested in the Games, while 42 per cent think London should never have bid to host it.

"We have a lot of hard work still to do but we're exactly where we want to be at this moment."

Seb Coe was nothing if not consistent as an athlete and it's a trait the double Olympic 1,500m champion has taken into his role as chairman of the 2012 Organising Committee.

It is difficult not to sympathise with the residents of Greenwich who have given up their park for the staging of the Olympics.

Such is the sensitive location that they have been right to harry Olympic organisers Locog about the details of the project - and there is still work to be done.