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Police have renewed their appeal for information on a man who was found dead in Greenland Dock six months ago.

The body was discovered in the water at Rotherhithe next to Surrey Quays shopping centre on September 19 last year. Since then officers have been unable to find out who he is.

An anonymous tip-off led Surrey Docks Farm to recover two of its stolen ferrets.

The distinctive albino male and a female were taken two weeks ago in a break-in at the Rotherhithe venue. The management are still looking for two more ferrets who were taken in the incident at 1.20am on March 3.

Commuters in Rotherhithe are facing the temporary loss of Thames Clippers services from Greenland Pier at the end of the month.

Up to 600 passengers use the Clippers service from the pier every day, but Southwark Council - who own the pier - has served notice terminating Clippers' use of the pier from February 28.

Mayor Of London Boris Johnson has said that the new tunnel for road traffic under the Thames in east London will be built within the next 10 years.

He will outline the timescale and capacity for a link between Greenwich peninsula and Silvertown at a dinner in the City this evening.

A Paralympic hopeful could miss out on valuable training time just before the competition if plans to allow hundreds of yachts into a Rotherhithe dock are given the go-ahead.

Southwark Council is due to make a decision on the application by Sail Greenwich for Greenland Dock at a meeting at the end of November.