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Wapping residents were left frustrated as their questions over the use of King Edward VII Memorial Park for the proposed super sewer went unanswered.

A public meeting organised by the Thames Water at St Paul's Church Hall last Thursday outlined their plans for their "preferred option" to locate waste outlet pipes for the Thames Tideway Tunnel on the park's foreshore.

Thames Water has announced revisions to its proposed super sewer and it's still not too late save the foreshore at Wapping's King Edward VII Memorial Park.

A second consultation is underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel, which will help tackle the 39million of raw sewage that washes into the river every year.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

Parliament operates at so many different levels. Prime Minister's Questions, debates, committees, all-party groups' meetings on every conceivable subject. And we are open to all. This week I've been lobbied by a constituent asking me to support the Tory rebels on Europe; teachers lobbying on the unfairness of the Tory-led Coalition's proposals for their pensions and youngsters making a film about youth unemployment. 

Thames Water has been urged to reconsider its plans to build a £3.6billion super sewer along the River Thames.

A report published this morning recommended a moratorium on the scheme, which could add up to £65 a year to Thames Water customer bills without addressing the wider problems of dealing with sewage in London.

A new free school for Wapping - which drew the support of Dame Helen Mirren - has been given the go-ahead.

Education secretary Michael Gove approved Wapping High School along with 54 other new institutions - including a sixth form college in Newham.

News International has announced plans to sell its site in Wapping as part of an overhaul of its property portfolio.

The site has been the home of The Times, Sunday Times and The Sun - and also the now defunct News of the World - since 1986. The titles will be relocated to neighbouring Thomas More Square.

Plans for a Wapping school backed by Dame Helen Mirren may be scrapped.

The proposal for the comprehensive secondary has been shortlisted for the interview stage of the Government's Free School initiative but those behind it have warned the idea is set to fail because of funding problems.

Plans to turn Wapping venue Tobacco Dock into a luxury hotel have been submitted to Tower Hamlets Council.

Developers Al Mubarakla Ltd released details of their proposal for a 242 room, four star hotel, shop, bar and restaurant last week.

Police have charged a man on suspicion of attempted murder of his step-mother in an incident which is alleged to have taken place in Pakistan.

Ashfaq Mirza, 40, of Zanzibar Court, Wapping, will appear at Waltham Forest Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

Boris Johnson is the latest high profile figure to support the campaign to stop building work on a Wapping Park.

The Mayor of London has written a letter to Thames Water director Richard Aylard about plans to use part of King Edward VII Memorial Park for its proposed super sewer.

Wapping residents will be isolated in their local area on Sunday, as Wapping Station closes for the day during the London Marathon.

The station will close its doors and only passengers getting off at Wapping will be able to use the station for the entire day.

Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman has held a meeting with Thames Water in a bid to stave off the threat of a super sewer being built in King Edward VII Memorial Park in Wapping.

Mr Rahman, along with his deputy Ohid Ahmed and cabinet member Alibor Choudhury, met representatives of the utility company to stress their opposition to plans to site its sewer outlet there.

Despite over 5,000 signatures against the proposed 'Super Sewer' route at the King Edward VII Memorial Park in Wapping, Thames Water has made it clear they intend to build on the site.

Thames Water has published a report on its four month phase one public consultation on the proposed Thames Tunnel and it indicates they will go ahead with plans to turn the park into a construction site.

After selling the company she built up from scratch and through considerable hardships, you would imagine Alexandra Kelly would be putting her feet up.

But that's not the life for the founder of Wapping-based employment security checking firm Powerchex.

Two vicious attacks in 1811 left seven people murdered in Wapping and London was shocked by the nature of their deaths - men, women and a baby slaughtered in their own homes with a ripping chisel and maul.

The first attack took place on December 7 in a home behind a draper's shop.

The Wapping-born writer of one of Britain's favourite hymns - Amazing Grace - had a life of two halves - from slave merchant to priest.

John Newton (1725-1807) was initially press-ganged into service on the sea, but eventually, of his own volition, worked the West Africa coast buying slaves. The "ghosts" of these slaves haunted him in later life.

Are you inked? Then you are among the 20 per cent of Brits who have got at least one tattoo.

From those who hide Tweety Pie under their shirt and tie to exhibitionists coloured in from head to toe, a celebration of all things permanently inked came to Tobacco Dock in Wapping this week.

A takeover of pre-employment screening firm Powerchex which will result in around 150 new jobs at the company has been announced.

The Wapping-based company was acquired by US firm HireRight on Tuesday. The deal will see Powerchex, set up by Alexandra Kelly in 2005, expand its operations.

The short history of Canary Wharf has seen the arrival of a vast number of firms from one-man-bands to the multi-national corporations.

Some, however, have been around the area since before One Canada Square rose up on the London skyline.

While several attempts have been made to revive the fortunes of this Grade I listed building in Wapping, its future appears bleak.

In 2003, English Heritage put the structure on the Buildings At Risk register and called it "too important a site to be left standing empty".