Three hundred thousand people are expected to travel to the British capital for the Summer Olympic Games. The opening ceremonies are on July twenty-seventh. Wednesday marked the one-hundred-day point. Sebastian Coe — the British runner who won two Olympic gold medals — is chairman of the London 2012 organizing committee.

Lawyers for the blogger, Richard Horton, said he is seeking “aggravated and exemplary damages” in a lawsuit filed Wednesday at London’s High Court against the legal entity that publishes the Times of London, Times Newspapers Ltd.

“We still have 119 days to go but I can tell you that London is ready to welcome the world,” IOC commission chairman Denis Oswald told a news conference in London. “Seven years ago in Singapore the London team presented a very strong Olympic and Paralympic bid.

The Championship (second tier) soccer club whose current 35,000-seat Upton Park stadium is near the Olympic Park in east London said on their website (www.whufc.com) that they were in the running. The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) confirmed four bids had been received.

Thorpe, whose rushed comeback bid after five years out of the pool has captivated the Australian public, charged out of the blocks but flagged dramatically in the final lap to finish sixth in his semi-final and 12th overall to miss the final. The five-times Olympic champion had earlier teased a thrilled crowd at the South Australia Aquatic and Leisure Centre by qualifying equal fifth fastest into the semi-finals after a solid swim in his morning heat.

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The £9.3 billion ($14.5 billion) of public money set aside for funding the Games is “close to being used up” according to a report published Friday by the British Parliament’s public accounts committee.

Mr Murdoch addressed staff at The Sun and other newspapers who are threatening legal action against their employer following the arrests of 10 Sun journalists based on information about their activities given to police by a high-level News Corporation committee. Mr Murdoch told Sun staff that a Sunday version of the newspaper would be started soon.

“Wheelchair tennis has proved to be one of our most popular tickets,” said Sebastian Coe, chair of the organizing committee. “The venue at Eton Manor will be a fantastic setting to showcase some truly world-class athletes.”

The dramatic move at the Electro-Motive Canada factory, owned by Caterpillar subsidiary Progress Rail, confirmed the worst suspicions of the Canadian Auto Workers union before the lockout began.

“We said it had all the markings of a closure,” CAW president Ken Lewenza said Friday after the closure was announced by the company.

“They denied it at the time . . . but they did exactly what they planned to do. I’m pissed.”

Electro-Motive said labour costs were too high in London and sought to get them on par with its operations at a new plant in Muncie, Ind., where industry analysts have said the company could take advantage of “Buy American” policies.

“It is regrettable that it has become necessary to close production operations at the London facility,” Electro-Motive said in a statement, declining to answer further questions.

“The cost structure of the operation was not sustainable and efforts to negotiate a new, competitive collective agreement were not successful.”

The wage concessions the company was seeking from CAW members earning up to $34 hourly would have put pay levels on par with its American operations.

Last month, Caterpillar reported annual profits rose 83 per cent to a record $4.9 billion.

Electro-Motive Diesel employee Ralf Zapke was on the picket line with his fellow workers when they heard about the closure, wondering what kind of severance they will get from a company playing hardball.

“There are lots of people who are just terrified . . . they have families, kids, mortgages, car payments. They are afraid they’ll lose it all,” he said. “No one knows what will happen. We’ll try to work out closure language but will they try to treat us the same way?”

Closing the plant had immediate political reverberations on Parliament Hill and at Queen’s Park.

Electro-Motive received $5 million in federal tax breaks announced on the factory floor by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2008. That was before the plant was sold to its current owners in 2010, prompting questions from the union as to whether there were any strings attached to the money.

“I don’t know how we can hand these guys money like that with no job guarantees. It’s unconscionable,” said Lewenza, who rushed to London to meet with workers Friday after being informed of the closure by a senior Caterpillar official.