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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.

HUNDREDS of lorry journeys a week should be avoided thanks to a new device giving barges access to the Olympic site for 2012 Games construction.

A fishbelly gate was delivered to Prescott’s Lock, part of the Bow Back Rivers on the edge of the 2012 Games area, on March 17. The gate, which gets its name from its distinctive shape, will
control the flow of water through the lock at the site above Three Mills.

It will create a green gateway for barges entering the Olympic Park as construction work on the 2012 venues is stepped up later this year, helping to stop east London roads being clogged up
by trucks.