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Bar 38 manager Steve Edwards is breaking down barriers after also taking over at West India Quay neighbour Via.

Steve was given the dual management role after previous Via landlady Sam Wells left last week.

It's a decade since Steve Edwards first opened a new bar to the thirsty hordes of Canary Wharf.

When Bar 38 arrived on West India Quay it was cutting edge. Since then the area has seen good and bad times - not least when Dion and Beluga closed last year - but the bar remains a leading venue.

The West India Quay festival has finished after four weeks of bands, art, tennis and even a visit from 'the Queen'.

But after the dust settled was the Big British Splash, an event targeted at rejuvenating the area, a success?

WHARF bar operators may not have needed much encouragement to slam the door on 2008.

But a brisk Christmas and New Year ensured they did so with a smile on their faces.

A West India Quay drinker was "covered in blood" after being hit by a hurled glass object during a bar fight.

Police were called after a scuffle broke out near the bar area at Bar 38 on Friday night. The 25-year-old victim suffered a cut to the eyebrow.

WE all send them, they can get you into trouble, get you a date or help you avoid work when you have a hangover.

Text messaging is now the standard form of communication for many, and one Wharfer is collecting examples for inclusion in a new book she is writing.

Francesca Larkin, events co-ordinator at Bar 38 in West India Quay, has gathered more than 200 messages over the past year, from the outrageous to the mundane as she lifts the lid on the SMS craze.

She said: “Texting has become such a part of what people do now.