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Support pours in for barred rugby fan
Published onRUGBY fans from across the country have been pledging their support for banned Coventry Rugby Club fan Claire Harrison. Threats of boycotts, refusals to buy season tickets and petitions have all been discussed on the National League One website forums. Almost 5,000 fans have viewed the forum and fans from…
Reston Citizens Association continues town referendum efforts
Published onThe Reston Citizens Association is continuing its efforts to incorporate Reston as a town. A petition being circulated by the organization asks the Virginia legislature to authorize a referendum vote on incorporation at the next legislative session in January 2008. The petitions will be available for residents to sign at…
'Puerile' Logo Publicity Proves Priceless
Published onFor those of you who haven't seen the recently introduced logo for the London Olympic games in 2012, let me describe it for you-imagine a modified swastika chopped into bits, rearranged slightly and colored a bright 80's shade of neon pink and outlined in neon yellow. Then, the five Olympic…
Development is a ‘monstrosity’
Published onA BOOKSHOP owner is angry his home and business are to be bulldozed to make way for a development he says is "a massive monstrosity". But pub-goers are happy after plans to flatten their local, which began serving pints in the 1820s, were dropped. Developer Rock Investments is set to…
You can't fool the British people with a logo and an instant brand
Published onHL Mencken believed you would never go bust underestimating the public's taste. And this would seem to be true of Wolff Olins, the consultancy that has trousered £400,000 for the design of a 2012 Olympics logo whose sloppy mediocrity and puerile composition have excited genuine public outrage. An online petition…
Olympic logo firm chosen ‘blind’
Published onTHE organisers of the London Olympics hired the firm that designed the much-derided logo for the 2012 Games without seeing any of its designs. The selection committee, chaired by Lord Coe, made its decision after a competition that lasted 13 weeks but failed to ask any of the contenders to…
British turn up their noses at London Olympics logo
Published onLONDON: It risks epileptic seizures. Someone compared it to a broken swastika or "some sort of comical sex act between The Simpsons." The mayor was not amused. The rollout of London's new logo for the 2012 Olympics, in other words, has not been an unalloyed triumph. That, in turn, for…
Now MPs join forces to lambast 'childish' 2012 logo
Published onMPs today joined the row over the £400,000 logo for the London 2012 Olympics, claiming the "childish" effort had brought "widespread ridicule". In a Commons early day motion, Tory Philip Davies (Shipley) attacked the design as a "pathetic attempt to appear trendy" and called for it to be scrapped. The…
A logo no go?
Published onOlympic mascots and logos are known for being awful. It's part of their charm, actually. Remember Cobi? But very few induce neurological disease, so London is ahead of the curve. On Tuesday, Epilepsy Action said 22 people suffered seizures from watching a Web video to announce the logo's release. The…
Petition grows against 2012 Olympic logo
Published onOrganisers say nearly 45,000 people have so far signed a petition demanding London's 2012 Olympics logo be scrapped, amid alarm that footage in the animated version triggered epileptic fits. The online petition was launched after the jagged, multi-coloured emblem was launched earlier this week by former Olympic athletics champion Lord…