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Responsibility for Olympic Park regeneration will be handed to a newly created body from April 1.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson announced his decision to introduce the London Legacy Development Corporation as part of his Mayoral Development Corporation to continue the work of the Olympic Park Legacy Company.

The public will have their first chance to experience sporting excellence on the Olympic Park when tickets for several test events go on sale later this month.

The Aquatics Centre and the Velodrome are two of the 2012 venues that will host events in the build up to next year's Games.

Greenwich residents can get their hands on more free tickets for Olympic test events.

The council has secured 1,200 tickets for handball and Paralympic goalball. The 700 handball tickets are for the London Prepares event on November 26-27, while the 500 goalball tickets are for the weekend of December 3-4.

The names of the five new neighbourhoods to be built on the Olympic Park have been announced.

The new suburbs, which will be built on the site after the 2012 Games, will be called Eastwick, Marshgate Wharf, Pudding Mill, Sweetwater and Chobham Manor.

British Olympic hopeful Tom Daley took the first dive into the pool at the completed Aquatics Centre this morning as the final park venue for the 2012 Games was unveiled.

The Olympic Stadium, Velodrome, Handball Arena, Basketball Arena and the International Broadcast Centre are all complete and as it celebrated one year until the start of the Games, like the Olympic Delivery Authority announced all venues were finished on time and on budget.

Europe's largest mountain of discarded fridges was cleared from the Olympic Park prior to construction and has became the inspiration behind East London's latest pop-up cinema.

Films on Fridges opens tomorrow night (July 27) and organisers have given a new purpose to the 'urban sculpture' which was recreated down the road at Fish Island.

As all eyes turn to Stratford for next year's Olympic Games, they should find it hard to miss the golden arches.

Games sponsor McDonald's has announced plans for four outlets on the Olympic site including the world's biggest.

The legacy of the Olympic Games will be lost if insufficient attention is paid to the people living around the park, according to Newham mayor Sir Robin Wales.

He told a gathering of peers at the House of Lords that investing in skills was essential to ease the poverty that had blighted the area for more than 100 years.

Walkers and cyclists will benefit from a new bridge which will allow easier access to the Olympic Park.

Costing £2.4 million, the 10 tonne crossing over the River Lea will give people a traffic free route under the A11/A12 crossing in Bow and link with the capital's towpaths.

DJs Sara Cox and Trevor Nelson are broadcasting live from the Olympic Park today (May 23) to launch next summer's BBC Radio 1 Hackney Weekend.

X-Factor winner Leona Lewis who was born in the borough performed on stage during the show at the Hackney Empire announcing her role in Radio 1's largest ever live music event.

Construction of the London 2012 Handball Arena is now complete, making it the third venue on the Olympic Park ready for the Games next year. The construction milestone was marked by a visit to the venue by Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg as they announced new measures to support youth employment, inspecting work carried out by apprentices on the Olympic Park.

There's just one week left for people to make their mark on London's history by suggesting names for five new neighbourhoods to be built on the Olympic Park.

The "Your Park, Your Place" scheme was launched in March, and names suggested so far include Redgravia, Hoy Gateway and Olympic Park Hill.

The row between the British Olympic Association and the London Organising Committe for the 2012 Games overshadowed the end of the latest inspection visit by the International Olympic Committee.

The IOC and Locog held a press conference this afternoon, and proceedings were dominated by the dispute about the cash surplus due to the BOA after 2012.

A new London Underground ticket hall and entrance at Stratford Regional Station, which aims to keep London 2012 Games-goers moving, opened yesterday.

Passengers will now be able to enter and leave the station more easily and congestion will be reduced during busy periods.

The Olympic Park is to share a postcode with Walford, the fictional borough of east London in the BBC soap EastEnders.

Royal Mail's Address Management Unit, which manages a database of over 1.75 million UK postcodes, has created the new E20 postcode to accommodate the Olympic Park site which falls across four London boroughs.

The Olympic site will be renamed the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park following the 2012 Games. It was announced this week by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt that the Queen had given her consent for the park to bear her name.

The new name, which will come into effect when the park reopens to the public in 2013, aims to build on the royal family's long association with the Games.

Speculation that the Media and Broadcast centres on the Olympic Park will be white elephants is wide of the mark says the man responsible for attracting tenants after the 2012 Games.

Andrew Altman, chief executive of the Olympic Park, insists the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) and Main Press Centre (MPC), which will be used by 20,000 media during the Games, will be attractive locations for businesses in legacy, writes Simon Hayes

The legacy of the London 2012 Olympic Games looks to be a green one.

The planting of trees and new parklands will transform the Olympic Park from a brown wasteland in to a leafy green recreation area.

Work is under way to create around 250 acres of new parklands, on former industrial land, that will provide green space for the London 2012 Games and afterwards become the largest new urban park in the UK for over 100 years.

Epic is the only way to describe the Westfield Stratford City development.

Set to be the largest shopping centre in Europe, and with the Olympic Park next door, the former disused industrial rail space is currently a building site of mammoth proportions.

The wave-shaped roof of the Olympic Aquatics centre has been put in place as work on the 2012 venues continues ahead of schedule.

Designed by Zaha Hadid the 160m long structure was lowered into place this week in one of the most complex engineering challenges of the project.