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Katie Price attempted to put her break-up with Peter Andre behind her by making a nervy debut on the catwalk at the Clothes Show London on Friday.
The glamour model's appearance was just one of a host of highlights at the event which finishes on Sunday.
Newham councillors have voted unanimously to approve an outline planning application for a 280 room hotel at the Excel centre.
The decision was made after an agreement was reached between the council and Excel on its financial contributions to the community.
The Career And Jobs Fair is coming to Excel this weekend for the ninth year in a row.
The leading recruitment, careers, training and education show features over 100 organisations that can "help shape your future".
Saturday. Business as usual around Royal Victoria Dock. The community is reclaiming their corner of the world from the media, the police, the politicians and the protesters.
The sea cadets are practising figure-of-eight manoeuvres in their high powered RIBs, replacing the police boats that had been patrolling day and night.
Gordon Brown confirmed today the G20 has agreed a fiscal stimulus package of more than $1trillion.
The International Monetary Fund will get $500billion split 50/50 between trade and Special Drawing Rights. There will also be $100billion for multilateral banks to lend to poor countries.
Click here for the Wharf's gallery of the Excel protests
The protests at Excel certainly don't match the drama of yesterday's clashes in the City, but police are taking no chances.
Those entering and leaving Canning Town station are being searched under Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act.
The City of London was cleaning up this morning after yesterday's mass demonstrations.
Protesters were thin on the ground, with teams of cleaners most in evidence as they scrubbed graffiti off landmarks like the Royal Exchange and Bank of England.
Live at the G20
Around 200 protesters have gathered outside the G20 summit at the Excel centre in Royal Docks.
Police set up metal fences some distance from the venue, with enough room for around 5,000 demonstrators. But so far, numbers have not lived up to expectations.
Live at the G20
East London MP Stephen Timms, pictured, welcomed journalists to the Excel Centre for the London Summit on Thursday morning.
The financial secretary to the treasury, who is also MP for East Ham, said it was a huge boost for the region to host an event which will see an agreement on the world's "biggest fiscal expansion".
After fiery clashes in the City yesterday (April 1), the world's attention has turned to the meeting of world leaders at the Excel centre in Royal Docks.
Topics under discussion include a strengthening of regulation and the promotion of integrity in financial markets.
By Wharf Reporters
After months of hype, weeks of preparation and acres of newsprint, the G20 summit has almost arrived at Excel.
As world leaders gathered in London, many Wharfers went about their business, albeit in casual clothing, while some were advised to work from home.
I have not, in all honesty, been forced to ask this question much before but now it nags at my brain like a barbed wire bowler.
What should I wear? The talk is of nothing else. We press coat-hangered crustie-wear to our chests and size it up in full-length Oxfam mirrors.
Protesters, commuters, police and the world's press descended on the City as talk of the G20 summit dominated London.
Events began early on Wednesday outside Bank station, as thousands from around the country plan to make their voices heard.
The University of East London plans to shut down its Docklands campus during the G20 summit.
The campus - which is a few hundred yards from the Excel centre - is to close on Wednesday and Thursday "to maintain a safe campus environment".
I'm hunkering down. I've bought a dozen cans of Spam, the greatest hits of Flanagan and Allen and I've converted my Breville Sandwich Toaster into an AM transmitter.
I shall live for a week behind a dusty yardage of innocuous-looking books with titles like Capitalism? Think On.
Newham Council has revealed street closures around the Excel Centre in preparation for the London Summit.
The Connaught Bridge will be closed from 6am until midnight, while roads at the western end of Excel, including Western Gateway, Seagull Lane, Sandstone Lane and Tidal Basin Road, will also be shut.
Wharfers are being warned to prepare for a week of chaos caused by the London Summit.
At the Excel Centre on April 2 world leaders will meet for urgent talks. That means transport closures around Docklands will be coupled with planned protests on Wednesday and Thursday next week.
Global leaders heading to the London Summit have been told not to repeat the problems of the '30s.
The President of the World Bank Group Robert Zoellick said countries must toughen their stance to protectionism and agree to report trade restricting to the World Trade Organisation.
The British International Motor Show has been cancelled for 2010.
The show, which attracted big crowds to Excel last year will not be returning to the venue because of the economic situation.
Businesses around Canary Wharf and Docklands are being warned to prepare contingency plans in the days running up to the London Summit.
Crisis Survivor, a continuity planning consultancy is warning companies to beware possible "large scale civil disturbances".
