Boris offers Spurs £8.5M to stay

Boris Johnson is on the verge of offering Tottenham Hotspur FC millions of pounds in assistance to remain in their north London> home and help regenerate the area after the recent riots.

But the north London club has also won permission in the high court for a judicial review of the decision to award the Olympic stadium in Stratford to a joint bid from Newham council and West Ham United.

A full hearing will take place on 18 October after Mr Justice Collins overturned an earlier ruling and agreed Spurs had an "arguable case" on claims that the east London council fell foul of EU state aid rules in loaning £40m to West Ham to complete conversion work on the stadium

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