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Greenwich Council has approved the use of land in Woolwich for shooting and archery during the 2012 games.

The council's planning board agreed that the Royal Artilery Barracks site was suitable for Olympic and Paralympic rifle, pistol, trap and skeet shooting and Paralympic archery.

A gunman who opened fire on a crowd of pubgoers in Greenwich has been sent to prison for 17 years, writes Rob Virtue.

Thomas Scott, 29, of Tourmont Road in Plumstead, had been ejected from the North Pole in Greenwich High Road in the incident last February.

MURDERED club-goer Curtis Smith was gunned down just hours before he was due to celebrate his first wedding anniversary.

The West London carer, 36, was visiting Club Red in Cable Street with a wheelchair-bound man when he was shot early on Sunday. He was working night shifts to pay for a new home. His wife Sara issued an appeal on Friday for any information on the murder of her husband.

THE SHOOTING of a clubber outside a Limehouse nightclub has sparked calls for increased police patrols around the area’s late-night haunts.

West Londoner Curtis Smith became the 90th person to be murdered in London this year when he was gunned down outside Cable Street’s Club Red in the early hours of Sunday morning. Carer Andrew Denty, 29, from Waterloo will appear before Thames Magistrates next week charged with the murder.

POLICE have arrested a man following a fatal shooting outside a Limehouse nightclub.

The man, who is in his twenties, remains in custody following the murder of a 35-year-old West London man outside Club Red in Cable Street, in the early hours of Sunday, July 27.

The victim, who is believed to have been at the club with friends, was shot in the head and neck as he left the premises.

Police were called to reports of a shooting at 3.45am.

The victim was later pronounced dead at the scene.