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The DLR has launched its new three car service between Bank and Woolwich Arsenal.

An additional 1500 passengers an hour will be able to make the 27 minute journey from this morning.

An orange army is set to sweep into Greenwich Peninsula for next year's Olympic Games after plans for a campsite for up to 4,500 fans were unveiled today.

Oranje Camping has become a familiar sight at football tournaments in recent years and the owners are bringing the concept to the borough next July.

Plans have been unveiled for a 130 bedroom hotel in the heart of Woolwich.

Key Homes Group has announced it has bought a 125 year lease on the site at Berkeley Homes Royal Arsenal Riverside development. It will be building a mid-market hotel there with the aim of opening by 2013.

The Woolwich Arsenal regeneration is all very well - plush apartments, much improved transport links et al - but without a good quality pub, it was lacking something.

It's had to wait a while but now, under the guise of the Young's-run Dial Arch, residents can at last slake their thirst.

The river service linking The O2 arena to Woolwich Arsenal has been secured until 2013.

Transport for London announced this week that it had struck a £269,000 deal to subsidise the service for the next four years.

Commuters faced major problems getting to Canary Wharf and beyond this morning. A signalling problem at Canning Town halted all services from Beckton and Woolwich Arsenal. A rail replacement bus service took some of the strain and the service started to get back to normal mid-morning with DLR reporting minor delays.

The extension of the DLR is still causing problems for commuters, but improvements have been promised soon.

Since the new Woolwich Arsenal station opened in early January there has been overcrowding on parts of the line.

Woolwich DLR’s first week of business was a resounding success – but it has left many commuters seething.

Mayor Boris Johnson opened the service last week and thousands used it to get to areas such as Canary Wharf, London City Airport and central London.

THE Woolwich Arsenal DLR extension may open as early as January.

Tests carried out at the station south of the river are going so well the provisional date for its opening at the end of February looks like it may be brought forward.