Loughborough University is inviting local residents to a briefing to find out about Olympics related activity coming up over the summer. The University's campus will play host to training camps during the build up to the 2012 Olympic Games, including Team GB and the Olympic Torch Relay will pass through the town and campus on 3 July. The briefing is designed to provide local residents with key information about these high profile events.

VisitBritain is offering a unique free opportunity to showcase your product/attraction to international broadcast and print media visiting London and Britain in connection with the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

In the build up to the Dress the World exhibition openings, groups of young people and students from Leicester and Leicestershire are invited to take part in a series of fun and creative performing arts/dance workshops which will culminate in a series of extraordinary, synchronised street performances.

Today the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) have confirmed that a full dress rehearsal to test the operations around the Olympic Torch Relay will take place on the Leicester to Peterborough stretch of the Relay route on Friday 20 April 2012.

One of UK athletics' all-time greats, Olympic triple jump legend Jonathan Edwards CBE, visited Leicester and Leicestershire on Wednesday 9^thNovember. Jonathan visited venues across the city and county to experience firsthand the work taking place that has been inspired by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) today revealed the 1,000 cities, towns and villages on the route of the Olympic Torch Relay. Between 18 May and 27 July, the Olympic Flame will come to within just 10 miles of 95% of the population of the UK.