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A little local knowledge can go a long way and in the case of film director Eran Creevy it's helped him edge out Hollywood A-lister Brad Pitt.

Creevy, who lives on the Isle of Dogs, shot his latest film, Welcome To The Punch, in and around Canary Wharf last year. He revealed his local connections meant he got the nod ahead of Pitt when it came to using the Wharf as a location.

The proposed Wood Wharf development will be controlled outright by Canary Wharf Group after it agreed a deal with its partners on the scheme.

The company, which originally owned 25 per cent of Wood Wharf Limited, has completed terms with British Waterways to take on its 50 per cent stake and Ballymore for the remaining 25 per cent.

Most of us will have to watch next year's Olympic Games in front of the telly at home.

But some lucky people will have the best seats outside the house, right on Canary Wharf's watery doorstep, when the 45m superyacht Harle will be docked at Wood Wharf for four weeks next July and August.

Claiming to be the largest pop-up film event ever, a double bill of '80s nostalgia hit Canary Wharf at the weekend.

More than 8,000 people turned out in Wood Wharf for two nights of Future Cinema's California Classics but for more than a handful, Saturday's screening was marred by long queues, dampening the Santa Carla spirit.

Forget Canary Wharf, it will be California Wharf when the creators of Secret Cinema arrive in the area with their new concept.

The Wood Wharf area will be the centre of Future Cinema's California Classics weekend on September 3-4, with more than 8,000 people expected to attend screenings of cult movies The Lost Boys and Top Gun.

Ambitious plans are being drawn up to make Canary Wharf a major cultural and social hub for the 2012 Olympics.

The Wharf has learned that Canary Wharf Group are in discussion with Tower Hamlets Council to use the Wood Wharf site, to the east of the estate, to host corporate and community events during the Games.

When Canary Wharf businessman David Jones opened the door to his warehouse in Charlton, he didn't expect to be staring at 15,000 tyres.

The space was due to be fitted out as a second paintball centre to compliment his site next to the Wharf. But with just a couple of months to go until opening, all he could see were mountains of worn casings strewn across the floor.

Detailed plans are beginning to emerge for the buildings that will make up the large mixed-use Wood Wharf scheme to the east of Canary Wharf.

Applications for the first two buildings in the seven hectare scheme have now been submitted to Tower Hamlets Council. The full scheme received outline permission last year.

Commuters will be soon be able to enjoy special deals when they combine river and rail on their way to work.

Thames Clippers managing director Sean Collins told The Wharf that his fast-ferry company was negotiating with rail operators to offer joint ticketing deals within the next few weeks.

The future landscape of Canary Wharf is beginning to take shape after Mayor Boris Johnson rubber-stamped three major developments.

The London figurehead approved plans for West India Dock's Crossrail station, the 7.98 hectare Wood Wharf office and residential scheme, and the 37-storey Newfoundland hotel near Heron Quays.

Mini-Canary Wharf passes outline stage

Poplar towers hit the buffers for a second time

A RECORD £153million will be pumped into Docklands if planners give the green-light to Wood Wharf – including £118million for transport alone.

Phil Briscoe is a Conservative councillor for Blackwall and Cubitt Town

Despite the credit crunch, local planning issues have dominated my council casework recently.

Plans are in for Wood Wharf and Asda and there has been consultation on the Crossrail station and a plan to replace the City Pride with a 63-storey tower, building the affordable housing 1.5miles away at the Island Point site.

On the waterways, plans are back to moor a ferry at West India Pier, and a floating hotel next to Meridian Place.