London to sell £2 bn of land to repay Olympic games costs

London's mayor Ken Livingstone and culture secretary Tessa Jowell have agreed to sell up to £2 bn (almost EUR 3 bn) of land around the Olympic Park in east London after the 2012 Olympic games in a move aimed at repaying the increasing costs of the event, newspaper Financial Times reported. The paper added that the costs of the games last week reached £9.3bn.

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