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By Andrew Williams

You'll often hear me saying that we need more carrots than sticks when it comes to green living.

This is equally true of green business and today (February 9) sees that launch of a great opportunity for local businesses to see their green efforts rewarded.

By Lutfur Rahman

London's East End will play host to two great national and international events this year: the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations and, of course, the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Games will bring all sorts of new and hopefully lasting opportunities in their wake.

The business closest to the Olympic Park has urged politicians and bureaucrats to protect the area's artists.

Two years ago Lance Forman of Formans' smoked salmon factory on Fish Island gave up 600sq m of space at his venue for contemporary art, giving local painters and photographers the chance to show off their products.

The DLR has launched its new three car service between Bank and Woolwich Arsenal.

An additional 1500 passengers an hour will be able to make the 27 minute journey from this morning.

The official security provider for the Olympic Games has opened the doors of its London 2012 Recruitment Centre in Stratford.

G4S wants to hire around 10,000 staff to work at this summer's event - and have already had 20,000 applications.

Workers on the DLR are set for £2,500 bonuses for working during this summer's Olympic Games.

Transport union RMT has said it has secured an 'attendance payment' of £900 as well as guaranteed overtime payments throughout the Olympics and Paralympics.

Popular theatre Greenwich Playhouse is set to close its doors for good from April because of the arrival of the Olympics.

Galleon Theatre Company, which runs the venue, claims landlord Beds and Bars is refusing to renew the lease for the Playhouse as it looks to "exploit commercial opportunities" arising from this summer's Games.

The Princess Royal was at the London Boat Show this afternoon.

Princess Anne met triple gold medalist Ben Ainslie who was at the Excel exhibition to launch his new clothing line with British heritage brand Henri Lloyd.

Team GB's male gymnasts secured a place at this summer's Games by finishing top at the Olympic test event at The O2.

The men's artistic team failed to qualify last year after finishing 10th at the World championships in Tokyo but won by a good margin in last night's competition.

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.

By Andrew Williams

It's that time of year when we pause from our post-Christmas revelry to ponder what the year ahead might have in store for us.

After the tumult of 2011 it feels like we could use a bit of peace and quiet. So what will the next 12 months have in store for those of us with a greener outlook on life?

Miles of cycling routes could arrive on the Olympic site once the Games finish next summer.

The Olympic Park Legacy Company is aiming to build a one mile road cycle route and eight kilometers of mountain bike trails around the area to complement the existing Velodrome and BMX tracks.

For many young people in east London, the Olympics is at best irrelevant and, at worst, a sign of division.

But they have found an unlikely ally in the BBC, which is promising to leave a meaningful legacy in the area.

Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville launched their assault on the pop charts last night with a little help from McFly frontman Tom Fletcher.

Penned by Tom, On A Rainbow is the official London 2012 mascot song and he performed it with the pair and his sister Carrie at John Lewis, Westfield Stratford City.

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.

A vision for a major development in Stratford featuring over a thousand new homes as well as offices and community facilities has been unveiled.

Strand East, which is being put together by LandProp, will be based near the Olympic Park and will also include a 350 bedroom hotel.

It was pitch black in the middle of the night in Afghanistan's Nad Ali.

Royal Marine Scott Ransley was carrying out an operation with colleague Nigel Dean Mead outside a heavily fortified enemy building.

Here's a scary thought. If no contingency plans were in place, during rush hour of day seven of next year's Olympics - the busiest day of the event - on the Jubilee line at Canary Wharf there would be as many people commuting to Games events as journeying to work.

In other words, it would be Tube hell.

By Andrew Williams

When historians look back at 2011, I wonder whether there will be two words that define the complexities of the land we live in - Big Society.

The Government's pleas to communities to take more interest in their own affairs have been mirrored by increased tension.

By Andrew Williams

And so we pass another milestone in the journey to the 2012 Olympic Games.

We're now less than a year from the opening ceremony and while you can be sure that there will be many other hyped moments to come it already feels as though we're in the last lap of the build-up.