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Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 21:07 GMT

Londoners are to pay at least an extra £33.80 in council tax on average, to pay for the 2012 Games and more police.

But average bills are likely to be £60 higher overall, once councils set their budgets, said BBC London political editor Tim Donovan.

The mayor said the budget, agreed on Wednesday, was a budget for safer stations and neighbourhoods.

But opponents criticised bureaucracy at City Hall, designed to hold 450 staff, which next year will house 680.

Lib Dem Mike Tuffrey said: "A mayor who was genuinely concerned about the limits of the council tax levels would be rather less prone to drive up the level and rather more keen to spend the resources wisely."

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Saw that coming ages back....wonder if there are any cheap plots of wasteland left to sit on

Keeerrrchhhiiiinngg!!

It'll be worth it in the end. It's good to see GB stage this massive event. London will do a great job

I see the doom and gloom peeps are saying today the power grid won't cope and there''ll be London wide power cuts. It's 6 years away!!!!

Any excuse to gloat...

Humour me, please (if only out of respect for your elders ).

Yes, I'm a 'sad' individual, but I AM proud of the following.

The success of the London bid was announced at 12.49 B.S.T. on 6th July last (and how sad that one cannot remember that day without remembering the tragedy and horror that happened 24 hours later).

If someone posted something on this forum at 12.49 B.S.T., it would now show as 11.49, (due to the mucking around with the clocks in October).

Got that? O.K....

So please note the following:




The news thread shows that was posted at 11.49 on 6th July....

From The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06 ... _olympics/)





The following link will show that the BBC broke the news at 11.49 BST, 12.49 GMT.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/4655555.stm




I’m convinced that I got there before the BBC. I had it typed, and was waiting to hit submit. Perhaps BBFans was the first place in the world to 'show' that news...