Lottery projects may lose cash as Olympic bill soars 

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The Treasury is poised to raid a multimillion-pound lottery fund supporting thousands of community projects to help pay for the soaring costs of the Olympics, the chairman of the body warns today. Sir Clive Booth, of the Big Lottery Fund, fears "dark forces in Whitehall" are planning to plunder the cash pot to help plug the £900m Olympic funding shortfall. He says this would have a "chronic and damaging effect" on the fund's mission to help the neediest groups in Britain.

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