{"id":1039,"date":"2013-06-07T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:24:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:24:48","slug":"useful-olympic-links-for-may-21st-through-june-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/useful-olympic-links-for-may-21st-through-june-7th\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Olympic links for May 21st through June 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic news roundup for 11:21:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northamptonchron.co.uk\/news\/business\/business-news\/olympic-torch-cost-639-a-minute-through-northampton-1-5166676\">Olympic torch cost &pound;639 a minute through Northampton &#8211; Business News &#8211; Northampton Chronicle and Echo<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/m.thisissurreytoday.co.uk\/story.html?aid=19135184\">ThisIs<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislocallondon.co.uk\/news\/10449983.Olympic_Torch_relay_costs_Waltham_Forest_second_most_in_UK\/\">Olympic Torch relay costs Waltham Forest second most in UK (From This Is Local London)<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunderlandecho.com\/news\/local\/all-news\/sunderland-s-olympic-torch-celebrations-total-28-000-cost-revealed-1-5708250\">Sunderland&rsquo;s Olympic Torch celebrations total &pound;28,000 cost revealed &#8211; All News &#8211; Sunderland Echo<\/a> &#8211; A Freedom of Information request by the Echo has revealed the authority spent &pound;11,764 on preparing the torch&rsquo;s route through the city, and another &pound;16,199 on Herrington Country Park&rsquo;s celebration event. Road closures along the route cost the council &pound;4,425, while its preparation and eventual clean-up<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsshopper.co.uk\/news\/10432280.Bexley_Council_defends_spending_on_Olympic_Torch_Relay\/\">Bexley Council defends spending on Olympic Torch Relay (From News Shopper)<\/a> &#8211; Defending the investment, a Bexley Council spokeswoman said: &ldquo;The Torch Relay and evening celebration were once in a lifetime events and were a great success &ldquo;Sixty per cent of the total budget, &pound;166,000, was secured from external funds. &ldquo;The remaining 40 per cent, &pound;113,000, was met from existing bud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic news roundup for 11:21: Olympic torch cost &pound;639 a minute through Northampton &#8211; Business News &#8211; Northampton Chronicle and Echo &#8211; ThisIs &#8211; Olympic Torch relay costs Waltham Forest second most in UK (From This Is Local London) &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/useful-olympic-links-for-may-21st-through-june-7th\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[459,677,214,673,6,744,745,220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}