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The opening ceremony of London's Olympic Games will be called Isles of Wonder, inspired from Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

The announcement was made this morning by artistic director Danny Boyle at an event to mark the start of the six-month countdown to the event.

The official security provider for the Olympic Games has opened the doors of its London 2012 Recruitment Centre in Stratford.

G4S wants to hire around 10,000 staff to work at this summer's event - and have already had 20,000 applications.

The banks left Canning Town in the '80s and '90s due to a rise in armed robberies, according to locals.

It's just one of the amenities lacking on the high street in Barking Road where bookmakers and charity shops dominate.

Europe's biggest shopping centre promised a major boost to Stratford but, three months after it opened, businesses that have been part of the town centre landscape for decades say they are struggling.

Retailers outside the mall are finding themselves fighting a losing battle against Westfield Stratford City.

The Olympic Park is playing host to the Cabinet today to mark 200 days to go until the start of the Games.

David Cameron and his ministers have swapped Downing Street for Stratford for their first meeting of 2012 and are expected to discuss ways of ensuring the Olympics brings lasting benefits to the UK.

The first names of the people who will be carrying the Olympic Torch around the country have been unveiled and they include a Wharfer.

Elin Haf Davies, who works for the European Medical Agency, is one of 6,800 people given conditional offers to run with the Torch in the build up to the Games. A further 1,200 people will be offered the opportunity next month.

The Olympic Stadium will be used to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships after London was selected to host the event today.

London was chosen ahead of Doha for the spectacular, the first time the Championships have been held in Britain, delighting the UK's athletics supporters and the organisers of the 2012 Games.

When the casino opens at the top of the Westfield Stratford City in December it can expect a mixed reception.

For gamblers the huge venue, the biggest casino in the UK, will be a paradise. It will include 40 card and roulette tables and 150 slot machines.

The public will have their first chance to experience sporting excellence on the Olympic Park when tickets for several test events go on sale later this month.

The Aquatics Centre and the Velodrome are two of the 2012 venues that will host events in the build up to next year's Games.

Greenwich residents can get their hands on more free tickets for Olympic test events.

The council has secured 1,200 tickets for handball and Paralympic goalball. The 700 handball tickets are for the London Prepares event on November 26-27, while the 500 goalball tickets are for the weekend of December 3-4.

A vision for a major development in Stratford featuring over a thousand new homes as well as offices and community facilities has been unveiled.

Strand East, which is being put together by LandProp, will be based near the Olympic Park and will also include a 350 bedroom hotel.

Confusion surrounds the apparent collapse of the deal for West Ham to move into the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Games.

A statement will be made by the Government at around lunchtime today about the future of the £500million venue, after a complaint was made to the European Union about Newham Council's £40million contribution as part of the deal.

I attended the opening of the new Stratford City shopping centre.

It is impressive, with 300 shops and restaurants, hotels, a cinema, bowling, and a casino and offices to come. Another DLR extension has opened to help get people in and out. On the opening day it was so crowded it was almost impossible to move.

Following its star-studded launch Westfield Stratford City received one million visitors in its opening week.

And shoppers weren't just nosing around Europe's biggest urban shopping centre, tills were ringing too with £20 million taken in seven days.

The Docklands Light Railway will operate more trains to cope with increased passenger numbers heading to Westfield Stratford City when it opens next week.

From Tuesday until Sunday September 18 the DLR will run trains as frequently as every five minutes between Woolwich and Stratford International and every six minutes between Canary Wharf and Stratford.

A man has been jailed for four years after stealing a mobile phone and breaking his victim's nose in an attack outside a pub.

Aaron Hart, 20, of Hurry Close, E15, set upon a 33-year-old man who was walking past the Bay Tree Public House in Stratford on January 22 this year.

The final part of the Docklands Light Railway's £500million upgrade opened to the public this morning.

The extension between Canning Town and Stratford International started taking paying passengers from 11am, exactly 24 years to the day since the DLR first opened.

Cash rewards will be on offer in a new scheme launched by Newham Council to reduce gun and knife crime in the borough.

The Council will work with Crimestoppers to offer at least a £150 reward to anyone providing information about gun or knife-related crime that leads to an arrest and charge.

Anyone wanting to be part of next year's Olympic Games now has the chance - and you don't need any sporting talent to be involved.

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympics Games (Locog) has begun a search for adult volunteer performers to participate in the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Games.

Stratford is on riot alert with shops closing early and office workers advised to leave early. Social networks have indicated that something will happen around 7pm.