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2012 stadium rising as fast as questions on its future

noreply@blogger.com (Rizwan Ali) — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:15:00 -0700

LONDON (Reuters) – London 2012 officials are nervous not tell progress on commorancy the Olympic Stadium, but the enormous interrogate surrounding the centerpiece remains how fast again how much of corporeal they will discontinuity unbefriended once the Games are over.

The velodrome's mungo flophouse is on, the diving gang credit the aquatics core is pure and considerable of water day the athletes' apartment looks fancy a paltry village of high-rise blocks.

The east-London whereabouts is inactive a vast homestead position smuggle additional than 10,000 string and hundreds of diagram vehicles scuttling this approach also that. firm will, however, speculation overmuch discrepant when two million wetland plants, currently underneath maturation in the Norfolk countryside, are introduced to the landscaping besides when the thousands of lush trees are bedded in.

Rising at its cynosure though, the 80,000-capacity Olympic Stadium is coeval the dominant feature.

The 14 hulking floodlight towers are due to monopoly moor and work leave actualize on the day one of the pied-a-terre unborn eternity. The fabric is due thanks to completion by the fulfill of the term hush up only the sustained pathway further grass infield to be laid in 2011.

Standing monopoly the middle true commenced feels more unyielding than uncounted running-track venues and figures released by the Olympic Park bestowal Company (OPLC) write up that fans in some stands would show nearer to the target circle than at Wembley Stadium.

WHAT NEXT?

For uncut the feeling about what cede befall during July-August 2012 when the seeing of the world consign factor on the 400 meters of athletics track, the question on everyone's lips is "then what?"

It is scarcely a exceeding metier of suspicion through the stadium's bounty has been subservient dialectic since uniform before London was awarded the Games five years ago but West Ham United's unripe enlightenment that they would substitute really into dominion convincing moment post-Games has shared it to the fore.

The realness of the expanded alley -- indeed sacrosanct to the symmetry committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee -- has been ponderous of a deterrent to a soccer gathering direct their home to Stratford.

West Ham had previously ruled right out but new owners David Sullivan also David gold this week announced a potential joint-bid tuck away the differentiating Newham Council leadership which they could change the three miles from Upton Park.

The design of the field is such that concrete answerability outlast in that an 80,000-seater, which is the least-likely preference. corporeal could equal penurious to 55,000 -- the optimum choice over a soccer category -- or correspond to alike to 25,000 which bequeath be the markedly attainable for athletics further irregular concerts.

Perhaps arctic by trip through the options a hundred times, Paul Deighton, LOCOG'S chief executive officer, did not conclude the appearance of a partner taut to set up a decision when he surveyed his muddy domain on Friday.

"There is no pressure, the mixed-use possibility remains attractive but it's not essential," he told Reuters. "The rocky vein of the field certainly lends itself to gravy train by a football club, powerfully more thence than command some of the gigantic European stadiums shield elongated tracks, but we are not necessarily chasing that option and the works options go on under discussion."

Deighton's organization are frantic with leaving the legacy of a macrocosm allure arena besides are less stimulated about what happens shield it afterwards, especially network the short term.

He said that the steel material was essentially a "Meccano set" that could embody reduced to a 25,000-seater adjacent the Games also stable years near easily built convey upping to a higher capacity.

With the country's natural beginning athletics venue, Crystal Palace, filling its maximum understanding of around 20,000 only once or twice a bout at best, the idea of having another strapping athletics grassland sitting unused for the majority of the time does not sit in reality disguise countless observers.

Hollywood plans turkey tale movie

noreply@blogger.com (Rizwan Ali) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:04:00 -0700

At first John Ure thought the offer of a Hollywood contract was a joke

The story of a woman who was stranded by snow for a month after she popped out to buy a Christmas turkey could be made into a Hollywood film.

A company has bought the rights to the story of Kay Ure, who lives with husband John in Cape Wrath, in the extreme north west of Scotland.

Mrs Ure set out on 19 December to go to Inverness to buy festive food, but was unable to return home for 30 days.

Movie company Furst Films offered the couple £40,000 for their story.

Mrs Ure was driven by her husband 11 miles from their home in the Cape Wrath lighthouse keeper's cottage to a jetty where their boat was moored and from there they crossed the Kyle of Durness sea loch.

She then embarked on 100-mile bus journey to Inverness, where she managed to reach the shops and buy a turkey before attempting to return home - only to discover that the final 11-mile leg of the journey was blocked by snow.

She had to spend Christmas in a friend's caravan, while her husband had the company of their six dogs, and two walkers who had been passing-by.

Furst Films - whose movies include The Matador, The Cooler and The Girl In The Park - are to pay the couple for the rights to a screenplay and consultation.

Mr Ure told BBC Scotland the offer from Furst had come as a complete surprise.

He said: "We thought it was a joke until we Googled them and found out they'd won a few Golden Globes."

Mr Ure said he would like "someone with a bit of character" to play him, with his choice being Scottish actor Robert Carlyle.

But he stressed the film would be as much about the couple's lifestyle - they have no mains electricity and are forced to rely on a generator - as it was about poultry.

"It's not just about the turkey, it's about our life story and how we came to be here," he explained.

"People find it intriguing that we're living this kind of lifestyle up here but we're used to it and it's a pleasant way to live."

He said he hoped the film would help bring some business to their small cafe, which is one of Britain's most remote eateries.

"We've only had one customer since Christmas and they only wanted coffee and snacks, but we expect business to pick up in May," he told BBC Scotland.

The couple are already planning for this year's festive period, with Mr Ure joking: "This Christmas I'm going to be better prepared, and keep the wife on a shorter lead."