London Olympics 2012: will Games bring boom time or financial bloodbath?

The cancellation of the Big Chill festival reflects wider concern about the impact on British businesses this summerThe culture secretary sees them as "a once-in-a-generation opportunity to promote the UK". Andrew Lloyd Webber fears they will bring a "bloodbath" for London theatre.But ask the people with the most to win or lose what they think of the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, and the recurring phrase is not "licence to print money" or "financial apocalypse" but a wary "business as usual".Th...

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