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By Jim Fitzpatrick

The biggest political contest will take place in London between Boris and Ken for the Mayoralty of this great City this year.

Both David Cameron and more so Ed Miliband are nailing their colours to the masts of their respective candidates but Ed must have more to lose if Ken Livingstone doesn't pull it off.

A Poplar man is due in court today charged with terrorism related offences.

Mohammed Abdul Hasnath of Blair Street, E14 is charged with six counts of possession of a document or record containing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Tennis star Rafa Nadal has warned that The O2 could lose the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals if the UK doesn't change its tax laws.

The world number one said the 50 per cent tax rate on players' winnings, appearance fees and endorsement earnings could cause the event, which is staged in November, to be moved elsewhere.

An intrepid band of Barclays bike riders have raised more than a quarter of a million pounds for charity after pedalling from Edinburgh to London.

The 30 Canary Wharf-based lawyers and 18 of their suppliers arrived in central London yesterday after completing the 450-mile ride in just five days - with one of their team making the journey on a Barclays hire bike.

The bank holiday is looming but it won't be a relaxing weekend for some Wharfers as they take part in a gruelling annual fundraiser.

The Enduro Challenge starts this Friday, when five teams from the financial services industry compete in the epic triathlon from London to Paris.

Stratford is on riot alert with shops closing early and office workers advised to leave early. Social networks have indicated that something will happen around 7pm.

The 1.2 million applicants who missed out on Olympic tickets will be able to apply for a new batch from next week.

In a chance from previous policy, tickets for the 311 available sessions will be offered on a first come first served basis from Friday (June 24).

By John Biggs

It was always going to be difficult to meet the demand for Olympic tickets.

If managed like a pop concert it would have sold out in about one minute.

And so the system was meant to be fair by being blind.

By John Biggs

Last week, I took part in the march and rally in central London against the cuts. It's not that I don't accept the need for belt-tightening but we need to be very careful for two reasons.

First, although tough decisions are needed, we need good public services to support us and to tool us up for growth in the future.

The O2 contributes £405million a year to London's economy, according to a study commissioned by owners AEG.

The report found the venue attracts up to 7.2million visitors a year and contributes £126 million additional income a year to the Greenwich area and created 600 jobs for local people.

World experts will gather at the University of Greenwich in June to discuss the legacy of London 2012.

The topic of this year's conference is Games and the City: impacts and legacies in the urban environment.

A host borough for the 2012 Olympics has admitted it plans to buy tickets with taxpayers' money but has promised they will be given to promising young athletes.

Hackney has become the first council of the five to announce it was taking up the offer from Games organisers Locog of 100 tickets for various events.

The Greatest Tickets on Earth advertising campaign to entice the public to apply for tickets for London 2012 was launched today.

The campaign, which continues until April 26, features a number of iconic athletes in Olympic venues and locations.

By John Biggs

Canary Wharf, and the Docklands area, was rebuilt under the Docklands Development Corporation - the LDDC.

It achieved a lot but is widely recognised to have not spread its gains sufficiently into the community. Things have slowly improved but it still feels like a colony, plonked into the area.

Perched on a seat on the Jubilee line to Canary Wharf, Ken Livingstone is getting some early hits in on his old foe Boris Johnson.

Ken remains one of the most powerful and controversial politicians in London, despite not holding office for more than two years but he aims to change all that as he prepares for his fourth mayoral fight in 16 months' time.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

So now we know that children will pay more to reduce the national deficit than the banks.

To rousing cheers from Tory MPs, the Chancellor announced the deepest cuts to the public realm for decades. Tens of thousands of families on child benefit will see their income cut by up to thousands of pounds.

By John Biggs

Apart from Athens, which is special because that's where the games were invented, Olympic marathons always include the Olympic stadium. But you may have heard that London's Olympic planners intend to leave out east London altogether, preferring the safe tourist backdrops of Central London, which they believe will be more popular for world-wide broadcasting.

The face of east London in the '60s has been unearthed by a retired press photographer and turned into book.

Steve Lewis who worked for the Ilford Recorder before embarking on a 35-year career on Fleet Street, took an often serious but occasionally light-hearted look at his patch almost half a century ago.

Boris bikes could be seen in Canary Wharf by the start of 2012.

The Mayor of London's cycle hire scheme, sponsored by Barclays, was introduced at the end of July. It only stretches as far as Wapping and Whitechapel to the east, but that is all set to change by the end of next year.

It may work out cheaper to buy your home than to rent it, according to property website Zoopla.co.uk.

The site has put together an index to discover where it is better to purchase a property in the UK rather than letting one. The index compares current asking prices to average rents for two-bedroom flats in 50 locations across the UK.