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The website allowing people to resell their Olympic tickets will reopen this afternoon more than 10 days after it crashed.

The London Organising Committee (Locog) has confirmed that its ticketing website will reopen at 3pm, giving people two weeks to offload unwanted tickets. It will close at 6pm on February 3.

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.

The Olympic Park is playing host to the Cabinet today to mark 200 days to go until the start of the Games.

David Cameron and his ministers have swapped Downing Street for Stratford for their first meeting of 2012 and are expected to discuss ways of ensuring the Olympics brings lasting benefits to the UK.

A rush of sports fans clambering for Olympic tickets caused the official resale website to crash this lunchtime.

The London Organising Committee announced it had temporarily suspended the site to 'update and refresh' the system at 2pm, blaming demand exceeding supply.

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.

World Champion Nick Matthew will again be the star attraction when the ISS Canary Wharf Squash Classic returns to the East Wintergarden.

Tickets for next year's event, from March 19-23, are on sale now and demand is already high as Wharfers snap up the seats to see the world's best players in action.

Two lucky youngsters from Tower Hamlets have bagged themselves the hottest tickets around.

Young people in the borough were invited to design their own Olympic poster to celebrate the 2012 Games, with the winners offered a pair of exclusive tickets to next year's Games.

Trafalgar Square was taken over by Paralympic sport today to raise public awareness of next year's Games.

The likes of swimmer Ellie Simmonds, "blade runner" Oscar Pistorius and multiple medallist Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson were giving Londoners the chance to learn more about the various sports that will be contested in Stratford next August.

The Championship match between Millwall and West Ham has had its kick-off time changed to try and reduce the chances of trouble.

The fixture at The Den on September 17 will now kick-off at 12.30pm after the two clubs reached an agreement today. The match will be all ticket, with no sales on the day of the game.

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.

One in eight schoolchildren will get free Games tickets as part of the London 2012 Get Set education network.

London 2012 Chair Seb Coe and Mayor of London Boris Johnson have appealed to schools in London and across the UK to ensure they do not miss out on their chance to receive tickets to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The chance to apply for London 2012 Olympic tickets closed last night and early reports show that over 20 million tickets were applied for, with around 1.8 million people submitting requests for tickets.

Applications were received for every session, every sport, across every price point. Over 50 per cent of the 650 sessions are oversubscribed and tickets will be allocated via ballots.

Today is the last day you can apply for London 2012 Olympic Games tickets.

The ticket application process closes at midnight tonight and there is no advantage to submitting your application on the first day or the last day.

An access all areas documentary about British indie band The Libertines is premiering at the East End Film Festival.

An after party with band members will follow the screening at The Troxy in Limehouse on the opening night of the annual festival.

Thames Clippers have confirmed that late night riverbus services will be restarted from April 1.

While the move will be welcomed by passengers angered by the axing of post 9pm services last November, a surcharge will be applied on the reinstated boats, with season ticket holders asked to pay a £2 surcharge. Oyster discounts will not apply.

The ticket prices for the London Olympics have been announced and they won't be cheap for the most popular events.

Prices for the 8.8million tickets available vary, with seats for the men's 100m final costing up to £725, but the organising committee (Locog) insisted the costs are realistic.

Squash fans should book dates in their diaries for next March after tickets for the 2010 ISS Canary Wharf Squash Classic went on sale.

The ever-popular event, which attracted eight of the world's top 10 players earlier this year, returns to the East Wintergarden between March 22-26.

The O2 has picked up another honour after being named as the top arena in the world at the Billboard Awards.

It's the first time The O2 has won the award, taking the accolade from Madison Square Garden which has it won for the last five years.

He might be the Prime Minister-in-waiting but political ambition has not stopped David Cameron coming up with an idea to make life a little better for soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Conservative Party leader was at The O2 yesterday to launch his Tickets for Troops initiative.

Millwall face their biggest game of the season when League One leaders Leeds arrive at The Den tomorrow afternoon.

The Yorkshire club will be out to avenge their play-off defeat by the Lions last season and it should make for a memorable game.