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A pleasure garden and a floating village containing restaurants and bars could be on their way to the Royal Docks after Newham Council backed the developments in principle.

Members of the strategic planning committee were also told of a proposal for a block on the edge of the dock containing 200 homes and a hotel.

A "striking" development of "exceptional design" was approved by Newham Council at a planning meeting on Wednesday evening.

The application, a 23-storey building of 161 homes in Silvertown at the western end of the Royal Docks, was submitted by Freysporne Ltd.

A celebration of fine food, music and entertainment is coming to Royal Victoria Dock.

Newham London Waterfront Festival - taking place this Saturday, September 18, from 11am to 9pm - will feature a food village with stallholders from across London.

A triathlete launched into a late-night rescue after a woman plunged into Royal Victoria Dock.

Will Scadding hauled the stricken woman from the dock after hearing her screams from his home in Fairfax Mews.

Saturday. Business as usual around Royal Victoria Dock. The community is reclaiming their corner of the world from the media, the police, the politicians and the protesters.

The sea cadets are practising figure-of-eight manoeuvres in their high powered RIBs, replacing the police boats that had been patrolling day and night.

THE future of the Royal Victoria Docks Watersports Centre is still uncertain, despite Britain’s success on the water at the Beijing Olympics.

The centre, near Excel, needs a major overhaul. Peter Chilvers, who runs the windsurfing school next door, wants to see the centre brought into the London Olympic legacy programme.

He said: “Sailing is our most successful Olympic sport and yet we’re here, in the heart of the 2012 host borough, and there’s nothing being done about securing the future of its only sailing facility."

DOCKLANDS is set to lose a major business and tourism attraction next month when the Sunborn Yacht Hotel leaves London

According to the press in Nigeria the ship moored in Royal Victoria Dock has been bought by the Lagos state government for £20million and will be moved to Africa on August 6.

UNTIL last week, Ivyrise’s biggest gig had been in front of a crowd of 1,000 people.

So warming up more than 40,000 screaming fans while they were waiting for legendary rock act Bon Jovi to appear was a bit of a step up.