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A room with a view please, and I'll pay in hard cash

Sunday 18 May 1997

Why are we all clamouring to buy next to the water? Felicity Cannell reports

Letter: Don't plug racism

Thursday 24 April 1997

Sir: We represent over 250 union members in the Export Credit Guarantee Department on the Isle of Dogs. It is a racially mixed office.

More than just a running track ...

Saturday 12 April 1997

At the start of Sunday's Marathon, runners will flash past some of London's most colourfully off-beat sites. Jane Furnival offers a guide

Tube line faces 12-month delay

Friday 07 March 1997

The Jubilee Line extension, the pounds 2.6bn rail project which will link Westminster to east London and introduce a host of new stations in the capital, will be delayed by up to 12 months, it has been confirmed.

Lost: one Lion Emperor, last seen in the Isle of Dogs

Sunday 26 January 1997

The Lion of Judah was missing from London's Isle of Dogs yesterday. Around 7am a car took Zera-Yacob Selassie, the new hereditary Emperor of Ethiopia, from a tatty two-storey house surrounded by huge council estates and derelict factories to an appointment in the City.

The rebirth of Docklands

Saturday 11 January 1997

Catherine Wheatley reports on a recovery

'No way are my children running this shop, it's too much like hard work'

Tuesday 10 September 1996

Asian parents' hopes for their families could kill the corner shop. Report by Charlie Bain and Charles Arthur

Rhinos and cowboys invade the Isle of Dogs

Monday 22 April 1996

Keith Elliott gets down among the revellers, the walkers, the helpers, the talkers and the jokers

Docklands to get check-points

Monday 11 March 1996

CHRISTIAN WOLMAR

LETTER : Residents at one with the Wharf

Saturday 17 February 1996

From Ms Rita Bensley

LETTER : Definitions of democracy in Northern Ireland

Thursday 15 February 1996

From Mr Anthony Sutcliffe

Business as usual, thanks to the instant office

Tuesday 13 February 1996

AFTER THE BOMB: BACK TO WORK

Businesses 'facing pounds 100m damages bill'

Monday 12 February 1996

BOMBING AFTERMATH ASSESSING THE LOSS

Anger among 'the forgotten'

Monday 12 February 1996

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