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Phil Briscoe is a Conservative councillor for Blackwall and Cubitt Town

Despite the credit crunch, local planning issues have dominated my council casework recently.

Plans are in for Wood Wharf and Asda and there has been consultation on the Crossrail station and a plan to replace the City Pride with a 63-storey tower, building the affordable housing 1.5miles away at the Island Point site.

On the waterways, plans are back to moor a ferry at West India Pier, and a floating hotel next to Meridian Place.

SHOPPERS and staff watched in terror as a man tried to set light to a Docklands supermarket.

Raymond Barrett, 54, of Stewart Street on the Isle of Dogs, was sent to jail for the attack which caused almost £20,000 worth of damage to ASDA.

Snaresbrook Crown Court heard how the crazed arsonist, who was also waving a 10-inch knife at staff, sprayed turpentine over four rows of clothing at the East Ferry Road, Isle of Dogs, store and threatened to torch it.

There aren’t many people who can call themselves a ‘cheese sculptor’.

But Troy Landwehr, from Wisconsin in the US, can claim to be an expert in the field, with his creations including dairy-based versions of the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore.

He was in Docklands for his latest designs, to promote the launch of Disney/Pixar’s Ratatouille on DVD.
Troy was carving ‘Remy the rat’ – the star of the film who dreams of becoming a gourmet chef in a famous Parisian restaurant – out of a 40lb block of cheddar cheese in front of customers at ASDA in East Ferry Road, Isle of Dogs.

The cheese-master, who has appeared on the David Letterman show, was also creating special cheddar mini hearts for shoppers to mark the event on Valentine’s Day.