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London 2012:Your games, your say

Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell and London 2012 chairman Seb Coe will come face-to-face with members of the public later this month in a new initiative designed to give people a chance to tell big names involved with 2012 what’s on their mind and get answers to their questions about the Games. The first of a series of ‘London 2012: Ask the Team” meetings will be staged in Birmingham on 25 June. Tessa Jowell and Seb Coe will be joined on stage by Sir Roy McNulty, acting chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, 2000 Olympic heptathlon gold medallist Denise Lewis and Councillor Chris Saint, who heads the local 2012 Nations and Regions group, working to ensure 2012′s benefits reach the West Midlands. more here

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since i’ve been away, you’ve been hanging on out

and might of missed these things: UK Transportation Chief rides a scooter, tells others to ride the bus Chineese – or American in this case – make Mullaney 2.0 seem a little more important than he is. Nice Lambretta, even tho I’m a Vespa man Nice new statalite pics on Windows Live Maps & Google Earth Birmingham: City of the Future Is it Rag Week? Video by Brum medical students that owes a huge debt to Telly Savalas, Monty Python, and er me if i do say so myself. without the irony. Brum notes The Guardian run a guide to Britain. We wrote the Brum bit – heavily edited as it was I’ll post the full version up here later.

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