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A flagship technical and creative institute is to be built in Old Street to help the growth of Tech City, the Government announced on Thursday.

It said the £50 million centre, to be built in the area dubbed Silicon Roundabout, will "discover and attract new talent" to east London as well as drive investment in the digital sector.

• The regeneration of the Stratford area will prove one of the lasting Olympic legacies. Tech City has mushroomed to 3,200 companies employing 48,000 people according to a new Centre for London report. But education will be essential to feed these growing companies with a skilled workforce.

So says chairman of the Marketing Group of Great Britain Russ Shaw in a Huffington Post blog post.

So who is right in the battle for broadband? BT, which proclaims that London is the No.1 choice for businesses because of its high levels of connectivity (tethered to a multi-billion rolling upgrade in infrastructure).

Or the entrepreneurs working at the silicon-face of the east London Tech City dream.