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Hector Sants is to leave his job as chief executive of the Financial Services Authority in the summer.

The Wharf-based financial watchdog announced today that Mr Sants will step down after three years in the job, a period which has seen increasing criticism of the FSA's regulatory role, particularly when the credit crunch hit the banking sector in 2008.

We might have thought it was pretty cold when the snow and ice hit London last month but one Wharfer was experiencing temperatures even more extreme.

Charlotte Byrne was in Norway, where the mercury never rose above -12 degrees celsius and dipped as low as -25 degrees.

Travelling on the DLR with your head in a book it's sometimes too easy to ignore the sights en route to the office.

However, as this photo shows, it not only offers a key transport link to Canary Wharf but also some spectacular views.

BOOK
The Still Point, by Amy Sackville
Portobello Books
3/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Julia picks over the diaries of her illustrious ancestor while examining the state of her marriage.

By Andrew Williams

I wonder how many Wharf readers are breathing a sigh of relief this week. Many of you will have decided that January was going to be the start of a new chapter in your personal wellbeing, with regular trips to the gym, a macrobiotic vegan diet and lashings of iced ginger tea.

Angela Clarke gets her dream home... finally

I've always felt estate agents didn't deserve their bad reputation.

Like most Wharfers, they are just trying to get the job done, and get home in time for fishfingers in front of EastEnders.

Dan Bourke sees the sun squint over Shadwell once again

God be praised: the DLR is back.

Not that it was ever away of course, not really, it's just that it wasn't going to Bank for, like, the whole month, so it was of limited use to me.

POP
IRM, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Because, £12.99
3/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Beck produces some reasonable beats and bleeps for his muse, while Gainsbourg herself provides steady if unspectacular vocals

There was opposition by chemical company Brunner Mond - a forerunner of ICI - to the War Office's decision to commandeer an idle part of its Silvertown works for the production of TNT.

Hardly surprising. The site was in a densely populated area between the Thames and the Royal Docks.

By Andrew Williams

We've got a busy day today at the judging session for one of our biggest annual events, the MediaGuardian Innovation Awards.

The scheme rewards innovative ideas from across the media, including websites, social media platforms, print and broadcast.