Olympics Greenwich: permission granted

From Inside The Games, reporting yesterday evening: London bosses overcame a major hurdle tonight when plans to hold the equestrian and modern pentathlon events at Greenwich Park during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games got the go-ahead. Greenwich Council's Planning Board, voted 10-2 in favour of the planning application after a mammoth four-and-a-half hour public meeting which saw passionate debate from both sides... Seb Coe was there. So was the pressure group NOGOE , which wants to stop equestrian events being held at the Royal Park. It can't help their cause that the Royal Parks' chief executive said he saw the Games as an opportunity to, "share Greenwich and its much loved Park and World Heritage Site to a worldwide audience". Now read on .