Three men - two from London and one from Liverpool - were cautioned for ticket touting.

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And Tory Sajid Javid argued that ticket touting was an "excellent example of the enterprise culture".

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Ticket touting is nothing new, as any West End theatre-goer will attest.

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As well as those charged, police said four others were arrested including a 50-year-old man who was held for ticket touting but was released without charge.

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Chris Allison, the principal coordinating police officer for national security for the 2012 Olympics, said most arrests during the games were for ticket touting and public disorder.

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The bill makes technical changes to the 2006 London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act, to ensure that existing advertising, trading, ticket touting and traffic management measures are able to be properly implemented.

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Defenders paint touting as merely the market's way of correcting artificially low ticket prices.

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