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She's one of British athletics' rising stars and Tower Hamlet's own Perri Shakes Drayton has been tipped as one to watch in 2012.
But the 21-year-old 400m hurdler has her sights set on track success before the London Olympics, starting with the 4x400m relay at the World Indoor Championships in Doha next week.
Britain's top female 800m runner wants London's Olympic stadium to be kept for athletics but would be happy to share it with West Ham.
Jenny Meadows, bronze medallist at last year's World Championships and new British indoor record holder, thinks the two sports can happily co-exist at the venue after 2012.
As the customers made their way from the North Pole at the end of a busy Friday night, they came face to face with balaclava-clad gunman armed with a silver revolver.
Thomas Scott, hell-bent on revenge after being ejected an hour earlier, sprayed fire at the customers, leaving three injured.
A gunman who opened fire on a crowd of pubgoers in Greenwich has been sent to prison for 17 years, writes Rob Virtue.
Thomas Scott, 29, of Tourmont Road in Plumstead, had been ejected from the North Pole in Greenwich High Road in the incident last February.
While the original Dome was much maligned it did mark the beginning of major private investment in the region.
Previously, the tongue of land had held another vast container - a gas holder believed to be the largest in the world on a massive gas works.
Frenchman P-Y Gerbeau was the man parachuted into the Dome at an early stage of its year as the Millennium Experience following a disappointing start.
P-Y, now chief executive of X-Leisure which owns West India Quay, arrived from EuroDisney and impressed with his management of the ill-fated project.
It must rank as one of the more remarkable comebacks.
The Millennium Dome was born amid political controversy, staggered through its first year and promptly fell dark as its future became, first, the subject of rancorous debate and later on a forlorn tale of folly.
Greenwich has been granted royal borough status although it will have to wait two years to officially use the title.
The title, which will take effect from 2012, was conferred by the Queen to recognise the close and historic links between Greenwich and royalty.
With popular venues at The O2 and Greenwich town centre, Frank Dowling has moved into the Canary Wharf restaurant scene.
The American-born Greenwich resident and owner of Inc Group, has opened Battery in the place of Ubon at Westferry.
Greenwich Theatre's annual pantomime this year is Mother Goose and regular visitors to the venue might recognise some familiar faces among the cast and crew, writes Steven Davies.
Most recognisable perhaps is Andrew Pollard, back at Greenwich for his fifth year in panto and his fourth in the dual role of writer and dame.
It might seem a strange concept these days but at one time the penalty for failing to do your job properly could be death.
That was the fate of Admiral John Byng in 1757 after the fleet he commanded failed to prevent the strategically important island of Minorca falling into French hands during the Seven Years War.
A Greenwich businessman has been jailed and fined £274,000 for shipping class A drugs across the UK.
Mark Anthony Gard, 43, of Armitage Road, used a fleet of vans issued by a legitimate parcel delivery business to run a drug-delivery operation.
Meantime has signed a lease on a new brewery just ten minutes walk from the O2 arena.
The Greenwich brewer - which creates a range of beers from London pale ale to pilsner and stout - will start shipping out beer from the £1.5million facility in Blackwall Lane next summer.
An exhibition billed as edgy and dynamic has seen a Greenwich shop turned into an art-filled living room.
The show, called See Through Rose Tinted, has been organised by Greenwich resident Katie Rose Whiting and includes the work of 20 artists from the borough and the curator's home town of Hastings.
CHRISTMAS DINNER
The Spread Eagle, Greenwich
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IN A NUTSHELL
Will a restaurant dubbed "the very definition of civilised" tempt you away from your dining table on Christmas Day? asks Jon Massey
The Duchess of Cornwall received a warm welcome from the Greenwich community as she paid a visit to one of London's most unique museums this week.
The royal was greeted with calls of "we love you Camilla" as she arrived at The Fan Museum on Tuesday evening.
The organisers of the London Olympics have confirmed today they will not be building a £40million temporary venue next to The O2 for the Games.
Instead the two sports which would have been housed there, badminton and rhythmic gymnastics, will be held at Wembley Arena in 2012.
Greenwich was the centre of the antiques world last week when the BBC's Antiques Roadshow rolled into town.
The Painted Hall in the Old Royal Naval College hosted experts from the BBC's popular Sunday night show, prompting hundreds of people to bring their treasures along for valuation.
Legendary footballer Pele's planned appearance at The O2 in November has been cancelled.
The Brazilian superstar had been due at the Indigo2 on Sunday, November 1, for an evening of reminiscences alongside ex-England stars Jimmy Greaves and Gordon Banks.
Fancy getting out of the house this weekend and taking a peek round someone else's pad?
Well, why not take advantage of the annual Open House weekend where hundreds of buildings across the capital throw open their doors for free in a celebration of the best of British architecture.
