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I've been determined to investigate 2012's efforts to stop people talking about the details of the Olympic project since I was told last year that new staff at were required to sign confidentiality agreements.

I wondered why a project with so much public money going into it - Β£9.3bn - needed to be so secretive.

Now I have learned that companies building the facilities in east London are to keep quiet about the details of the project.

It doesn't make me very popular with London 2012 organisers but I'm not a great fan of Olympic anniversaries - 1,000 days to go to the Games and all that.

They are great for people who collect Olympic badges - and, believe it or not, Beijing produced loads of pins with various "days to go" and the same Chinese company is doing the badges for London - but they mean little to the rest of us.

But there IS a significant Olympic anniversary on 16 January. It's going to be the halfway point between London winning the bid in July 2005 and the opening ceremony - three-and-a-half years gone and three-and-a-half to go.