2012 London Olympics. How could this happen? SECURITY IN SHAMBLES

Confidential Home Office documents seen by The Daily Telegraph show that G4S has had its fee for managing civilian security staff for the Games rise from £7.3 million to £60 million.

The fee the company takes for running its Olympic office has risen more than 10 times faster than its spending on recruitment, the documents show.

The firm’s failure to provide enough staff for Olympic sites this week forced ministers to assign [...]