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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.
Live from the G20 summit
If Gordon Brown is dumped by the electorate at the next election - and it remains the most likely prospect - he will at least be able to bounce his children on his knee and tell them he played a role in shaping history.
Gordon Brown confirmed today the G20 has agreed a fiscal stimulus package of more than $1trillion.
The International Monetary Fund will get $500billion split 50/50 between trade and Special Drawing Rights. There will also be $100billion for multilateral banks to lend to poor countries.
Live at the G20
Around 200 protesters have gathered outside the G20 summit at the Excel centre in Royal Docks.
Police set up metal fences some distance from the venue, with enough room for around 5,000 demonstrators. But so far, numbers have not lived up to expectations.
Live at the G20
East London MP Stephen Timms, pictured, welcomed journalists to the Excel Centre for the London Summit on Thursday morning.
The financial secretary to the treasury, who is also MP for East Ham, said it was a huge boost for the region to host an event which will see an agreement on the world's "biggest fiscal expansion".
After fiery clashes in the City yesterday (April 1), the world's attention has turned to the meeting of world leaders at the Excel centre in Royal Docks.
Topics under discussion include a strengthening of regulation and the promotion of integrity in financial markets.
By Wharf Reporters
After months of hype, weeks of preparation and acres of newsprint, the G20 summit has almost arrived at Excel.
As world leaders gathered in London, many Wharfers went about their business, albeit in casual clothing, while some were advised to work from home.
I'm hunkering down. I've bought a dozen cans of Spam, the greatest hits of Flanagan and Allen and I've converted my Breville Sandwich Toaster into an AM transmitter.
I shall live for a week behind a dusty yardage of innocuous-looking books with titles like Capitalism? Think On.
