IT'S not just the competitors who are winners at the London Olympics.

Businesses in East Lancashire have also struck gold thanks to winning contracts to supply the Games organisers.

A dozen companies, who excel in their own fields, have been chosen to make this Olympics the best ever.

Everything from lighting, merchandising, line painting, equipment hire and manufacturing have been provided from our corner of the county.

And thanks to AMS Neve every national anthem played will have a little bit of Burnley in it after all 201 songs were recorded on the company's equipment.

The hundreds of thousands of visitors who flood in to the Olympic Stadium will have had their way lit thanks to Barrowford-based acdc which has provided the lights for the Olympic Park's bridges.

And the work of Linemark UK, from Rawtenstall, is on display at venues across the capital after they created logos on grassed areas, public arenas and pitches.

With the Games we all have something to shout about thanks to the efforts of Team GB.

But we should also be making a big noise about the success of Team East Lancs.