Wembley Town Centre Partnership

Badminton England, the national governing body, will host the championships at  Wembley Arena from Aug 8-14, and it forms part of the 64 events being held in Great Britain every two weeks up until 2012, announced last October at a cost of £32 million.

Locog, London 2012's organiser, has still to confirm that badminton will be hosted at Wembley for 2012 after initial plans to build a temporary stadium in Greenwich were put on the backburner due to the £40 million estimated cost.

Fresh doubts, as revealed by The Daily Telegraph, were raised by the Badminton World Federation in December over the long journey times from the Olympic park, despite athletes being offered hotel rooms and training venues close to the venue for the duration of the tournament.

Badminton England understandably wants to use the World Championships as a test event ahead of the Olympics but has been unable to persuade the BWF to make a decision so that further planning can be put into action. The International Olympic Committee will have the final say on the matter next month.

All Town Centre businesses are invited to join Wembley's Radio Link scheme.

The scheme allows businesses to quickly notify the council CCTV control room, local Safer Neighbourhoods Team and one another if an incident occurs in their shop or nearby. Current members include O2, Wilkinson, Primark, Woolworths, Nando's, Greggs, Sally Hair and Beauty and others.

The campaign against spitting paan is in full swing. Two Wembley traders selling paan tobacco products without the statutory health warning were each ordered to pay £400 by Brent Magistrates on 3 November.

Cotton bags printed with the new logo for Wembley Central will be distributed to businesses in the new year as part of the Bag Free initiative implemented by the Wembley Town Centre Partnership.