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The Prince of Wales was at Trinity Buoy Wharf this afternoon (June 25) to take a look at the centre for arts and creative industries.

After arriving by Thames Clipper, he toured the site's businesses and classrooms before stopping off for a slice of chocolate cake in the Driftwood Cafe.

Residents in Virginia Quay are being urged to voice their protest at plans to build a cement works proposed for the neighbouring Orchard Wharf site.

Blackwall and Cubitt Town councillor Peter Golds is urging residents and businesses in the area to oppose the application, which could see over 600,000 tonnes of aggregate pass through every year.

By Andrew Williams

The skies above Tower Hamlets will be lit up this weekend by the annual fireworks celebration in Victoria Park.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Blitz and the display will mark this milestone, as well as raising funds for the campaign to erect a memorial to those victims of the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster of 1943.

A sculptor has given a whole new meaning to the phrase sea legs.

The farrier-turned-artist has created a boat that walks and last Thursday the vessel was intended to be strolling along the shores of the South Bank.

A tidal bell which serves as a reminder of rising sea levels will be tolling with the tide at Trinity Buoy Wharf.

Sculptor Marcus Vergette's three-metre high bell will lie at the arts hub opposite The O2, near the Prime Meridian as part of his Time and Tide series.

The search is on to find talented musicians in the hope of forming an orchestra in a weekend. Percussionists, wind and string players are invited to come together for a performance at a musical festival.

The Water City Orchestra, based at The Chain Store in Trinity Buoy Wharf, is hoping to recruit 60 enthusiastic amateur musicians who live or work in east London for its Orchestra In A Weekend event.

An Artist who spent four years completing a photographic installation has seen her work vandalised twice in one week.

But Clare Newton says she refuses to be beaten by the attacks.

Henry VIII gave the forerunner of the Corporation of Trinity House a royal charter in 1514 and it received a coat of arms in 1573 along with the authority to create beacons and signs "for the better navigation of the coasts of England".

Since then it has pioneered the techniques of lighthouses and signage often worked at its Thames side workshop at Trinity Buoy Wharf established in 1803.

Follow the Banksy style spray-painted arrows emblazoned on pavements and lampposts from East India DLR station that guide you to a hidden enclave of the unusual and inspiring.

You will discover Trinity Buoy Wharf - a creative hub of colourful curiosities from art studios, offices, galleries, performance spaces and even a recording studio on a boat.

Earlier this month, think tank Policy Exchange outlined a vision for increased river commuting.

As the debate continues, The Wharf talks to Thames Clippers managing director Sean Collins about his thoughts on funding, Oyster and riverside houseboats.

Click here for The Wharf's green spotlight on Greenwich company iGen Solar

Will the economic downturn stick a pin in the green bubble?

The onset of the recession at the end of last year increased fears that companies may dump their eco-friendly policies to save their skins.

Free runners were let loose on Trinity Buoy Wharf where they scaled buildings and jumped from rooftops.

The show by Parkour Generations, Britain's leading free running group, was the highlight of the Performance, Art & Lives festival at the weekend.

The recession has hit independent designers hard and evidence for the trend can be found at Trinity Buoy Wharf.

Residents of the site Libby Rose and her business partner Beth Nicholas have moved away from designing and are now helping people create their own clothes.

By Andrew Williams

We are very lucky at Trinity Buoy Wharf to have the services of a great team of people working behind the scenes to keep the site up and running.

There's a lot going on here at the moment with new container units being built and even plans for a small school on site.

It's the only school on the Canary Wharf estate and one of very few with its playground on a quay, but now River House Montessori is leaving.

The school, which has gone from four children to 175 in 14 years, has outgrown its facilities in Heron Quay and in early March will head to a site at Millharbour.

A DECADE ago Trinity Buoy Wharf had just begun life as a centre of arts and culture.

It is a fitting coincidence that at about that time Matt Savage and Sophia Afxentiou met at college, because 10 years on, the duo own one of the fastest growing businesses at Trinity Buoy Wharf.

IT WAS once a hive of activity as Trinity House, with workmen maintaning buoys and fixing boats.

But these days owners of Trinity Buoy Wharf – now run as an arts and culture centre – say it is even busier.

WHILE most nature photographers go to the far-flung reaches of the world to find beauty, a Docklands artist finds her subjects much closer to home, writes Rob Virtue.

Anna Hillman, who has a studio at Trinity Buoy Wharf, will have her work displayed in Greenwich for five weeks.

LOOKING for that fashion item to make you feel fantastic after 40? Then welcome to Zahira’s Boudoir.

Based in a refurbished shipping container at Trinity Buoy Wharf, just to the east of Canary Wharf estate, the company run by Zahira and her partner Idris De Angeli is taking advantage of rising interest in burlesque and fetish styles.

Offering a wide range of leather goods from wedding hats to tickle sticks, the mantra from the duo is to celebrate adulthood, rather than seek eternal girlhood.

“The target clients are women over 40 who want to be women,� said Zahira. “A lot of ladies go through their 30s and do the family thing, then their children are older and they want to feel fantastic again."

ROLL up to Trinity Buoy Wharf for evening classes straight from the big top.

An international troupe of contemporary performers called The Generating Company is now teaching
jaw-dropping stunts from this creative hub.

You can sign up for lessons in trapeze, hoop, trampoline, acrobatics, rope tricks and Chinese pole lessons (think extreme pole dancing moves), all of which will tone your body and build your strength.