News

Braintree have teamed up with Essex 2012 Legacy and Strategic Sport bringing a programme of walks inspired by the 2012 Games.

Highways Authority has confirmed that the highways works proposed in the planning application need to be delivered in advance of the test event in July 2011.

The competition courses at the Lee Valley White Water Centre have now been completed allowing water to flow at the Canoe Slalom venue.

An overwhelming majority of Essex residents are positive about the 2012 Olympic Games coming to the UK, and believe that the benefits will be felt across the entire country, according to an independent research study recently commissioned by Essex County Council.

With the London 2012 Games only two years away initial work will be undertaken this August to restore Hadleigh Fire Station into a hub for the local and visitor community, leading up to the Games and as part of their legacy.

List of London 2012 Open Weekend events in Essex from 23,24,25 July 2010

Hundreds of residents across Essex celebrated the two year countdown to the start of the London 2012 Games in style this weekend by joining in an Open Weekend Challenge.

Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games team has awarded 19 community groups a small grant to help support an Open Weekend event in their local area.

pupils at Powers Hall Infant School in Witham met Wenlock, the London 2012 Olympic mascot on Thursday 8 July having won a competition through Get Set - the official London 2012 education programme.

Plans for the Olympic Mountain Bike Event have been fully approved and that the London 2012 Olympic Games will happen in Essex.