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Work to transform the Olympic Park into a community facility following the 2012 Games faces a shortfall of £450million.

Although construction of the site is ongoing scrutiny has already started on the cost of its legacy, with the likelihood taxpayers will foot the bill.

The wave-shaped roof of the Olympic Aquatics centre has been put in place as work on the 2012 venues continues ahead of schedule.

Designed by Zaha Hadid the 160m long structure was lowered into place this week in one of the most complex engineering challenges of the project.

He's an Olympic legend but for Sir Steve Redgrave it's Britain's future, not its past, that's important.

For Sir Steve, who won five gold medals at successive Olympics between 1984 and 2000, the 2012 Games in London should be the springboard for sporting success for years to come.

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.

There are just three years to go until the greatest show on Earth arrives on Canary Wharf's doorstep and the excitment is building.

The man in charge of successfully delivering the 2012 Olympics Games is Paul Deighton, chief executive of the London Organising Commitee (Locog).

Lord Sebastian Coe admitted he was delighted with the ringing endorsement from the IOC's Co-ordination Commission after their visit to check London's preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games.

Lord Coe, chairman of the London Organising Committee (Locog), spoke to The Wharf about the visit and the increased importance the Games have for London's economy.

The three-car upgrade of the Docklands Light Railway has moved a step closer to completion with funding confirmed for the line to Beckton.

A total of £18.2million will be provided to boost passenger capacity on trains serving the route, calming fears it would miss out on the upgrade being carried out on the rest of the network.

Building work has started over a month early on the media centre for the London Olympics.

Work has started to sink 2,100 concrete piles up to 24m into the ground for the foundations of the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) and Main Press Centre (MPC) for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

"People tend to believe major projects in the UK don't always go as well as they should, but when you look at the track record in the last 10 years the majority have gone very well."

John Armitt, chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), is confident the Games are a golden opportunity to show off the best of British.

The London Olympics have been granted a £461million bail-out by the government following a short-fall in private funding.

The lack of outside investment has forced ministers to use emergency funds to cover the construction of the athletes village and media centre.

IT’S still four years away but the London Olympics are set to bring early benefits for the capital’s commuters, at least according to the people behind it.

A new report from the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) claims residents and commuters will enjoy the fruits of the body’s labours as soon as 2010, due to a transport infastructure investment for east London of around £500million.

OLYMPIC fever hit Canary Wharf this afternoon, even though the action was happening thousands of miles away.

The big screen in Canada Square drew a large crowd to watch the spectacular opening ceremony live from Beijing.

THINGS are going swimmingly for the organisers of the London Olympics.

In fact, they are going so well building work has begun two months early on the aquatic centre, the £303million flagship venue of the 2012 Olympic Park.

Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, took time out from his re-election campaign to officially unveil the new-look Docklands Light Railway trains.

Mr Livingstone was joined at West India Quay station this morning (Thursday, March 13) by Olympic athlete Dean Macey and officials from the Olympic Delivery Authority, including chief executive John Armitt. The new trains will form a key component of the 2012 Olympic transport infrastructure.

The carriages will start to be introduced from next month alongside existing two-carriage DLR rolling stock. Three carriage trains will be operational once platform extensions across the network are completed in 2012.

Mr Livingstone said: "These carriages will lead to an increase of 50 per cent capacity of the DLR and provide much more attractive modern trains.

"It's just such an improvement on the others, it makes them look a bit tacky now. It won't be long before we think of refurbishing the existing ones as these come into use."

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FORGET your towering housing estates and gated communities – the next big thing to come to Docklands is floating apartment blocks.

That’s the dream of a property developer who wants to fill the area with a fleet of
houseboats, each containing a number of flats.

His first project is transforming a disused Thames tanker called The Bruce Stone into four plush residential blocks containing 16 bedrooms.

It is currently at a dock in Barking where the finishing touches are being completed.