MAY 2008 - THE largest new urban park to be created in the UK in the last 150 years moved a step closer today after the Parklands that will host the London 2012 Games were approved by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) Planning Committee.

JOHN ARMITT, the chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), tonight appealed for people to start focussing on the legacy of the 2012 Games rather than the costs.

JANUARY 16 - THE director of sport at the University of Bath has claimed that the British Olympic Association (BOA) made the wrong decision in choosing Aldershot as the base for Team GB to prepare in 2012.

FEBRUARY 6 - WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL, which includes many of London's major tourist attractions, such as Trafalgar Square, and is due to host four events during the Games, today revealed a raft of serious concerns in its response to key transport schemes for the 2012 Olympics.

THE publication today of the Olympic Delivery Authority’s Sustainability Strategy for 2012 has been criticised by the Green Party and Greenpeace

NOVEMBER 28 - OLYMPIC and Paralympic gold medallists, including Tessa Sanderson, joined UK and Chinese government officials, university sports students, break-dancing champions, singing stars and local residents at the University of East London's Docklands campus in the 2012 Host Borough of Newham for the launch of the UK's first ‘Gymsforall’ free outdoor gym today.

JUNE 25 - THE MAN who oversaw the much-praised redevelopment of Ascot Racecourse is to join the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) s its director of construction.