459 Havering College students given unforgettable Olympic gift
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Precisely 459 students from Havering College of Further and Higher Education have been selected to attend the Olympic Games for free through the organiser’s Ticketshare programme.
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The students will be able to experience inspiring Olympic events such as athletics, basketball, volleyball, football, hockey, freestyle wrestling and canoe sprint, held in renowned arenas such as the Olympic Stadium and Olympic Park, Wembley Stadium, London ExCel and Earls Court.
In a letter announcing the ticket allocation from London Mayor Boris Johnson and Seb Coe, chair of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), they said they were please to acknowledge they had been able to source 125,000 tickets for young people, without a charge on the schools, the children’s parents or on taxpayers.
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