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Canary Wharf Group chairman George Iacobescu has been knighted in the New Year honours list.

Romanian-born Sir George was handed the honour for services to charity, community and the financial service industry.

Canary Wharf's newest tower has yet to be built but a tenant has already been lined up.

The European Medicines Agency have agreed to take half the space at the 500,000sq ft block to be built at 25 Churchill Place, the last plot of land yet to be filled on the original Canary Wharf estate.

Two years ago it was just a muddy hole in the ground but now Canary Wharf's Crossrail station is nearly complete.

In May 2009 Mayor of London Boris Johnson set the construction ball rolling and now the £500m station, being built in West India Dock, is on schedule to be ready for the arrival of the tunnel boring machines next summer.

Reg Ward, one of the men chiefly responsible for the creation of the modern Docklands and Canary Wharf, has died aged 83.

Mr Ward, who died last Thursday, was chief executive of the London Docklands Development Corporation between 1981 and 1987. It was the body responsible for the regeneration of the Isle of Dogs.

News that Crossrail has been spared a substantial funding cut in the Government's spending review has been welcomed in Canary Wharf.

George Osborne confirmed to Parliament this afternoon that cash for the link, which will pass through the Wharf, has been ringfenced.

Heron Quays leaseholder Michael Gross will tell an enquiry this week that he was "deceived" by Canary Wharf Group during talks for his stake.

Mr Gross is one of two leaseholders who pushed for a public enquiry after they were served with a compulsory purchase order by Tower Hamlets Council last year.

Tower Hamlets Council has dismissed claims that it is Canary Wharf Group's "poodle" as the row over land at Heron Quays continues.

The authority chose to use its compulsory purchase powers last year to allow Canary Wharf Group to snap up the last pockets of land for its 2.5million sq ft Heron Quays West development.

Click here for The Wharf's gallery of the Crossrail launch event.

The seed of Crossrail was planted over a century ago. It has attracted delays, debate and dreamers imagining a London network with elbow room.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown and London Mayor Boris Johnson were among the many who saw the £15.9billion project get underway in Canary Wharf today. The Wharf was there to gauge their reactions.

London's most important transport pipedream could be inching towards reality.

After decades of debate, construction on the £16billion east-west London link is expected officially to begin in Canary Wharf tomorrow.

Canary Wharf Group chief executive George Iacobescu has warned the current financial crisis may linger beyond 2011.

The high-profile Wharf figurehead predicted the upheaval may “last for three or four years� in a recent interview with a Romanian journalist.