Canary Wharf Station_____________________ press L

Canary Wharf Station_____________________ press L

Canary Wharf tube station is a London Underground station on the Jubilee Line, between Canada Water and North Greenwich. It is in Travelcard Zone 2 and was opened by Ken Livingstone setting an escalator in motion on 17 September 1999[4] as part of the Jubilee Line Extension. It is maintained by Tube Lines. Over 40 million people pass through the station each year, making it not only the busiest station on the London Underground outside Central London but also the busiest that serves only a single line. (The DLR station is completely separate.)

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Reuters

Reuters

Reuters has a strict policy towards upholding journalistic objectivity. This policy has caused comment on the possible insensitivity of its non-use of the word terrorist in reports, including the 11 September attacks. Reuters has been careful to only use the word terrorist in quotes, whether quotations or scare quotes. Reuters global news editor Stephen Jukes wrote, "We all know that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, and that Reuters upholds the principle that we do not use the word terrorist." The Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz responded, "After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and again after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Reuters allowed the events to be described as acts of terror. But as of last week, even that terminology is banned." Reuters later apologised for this characterisation of their policy, although they maintained the policy itself.

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The sun is only briefly here every day - but now the days become longer

The sun is only briefly here every day - but now the days become longer

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Canada Square

Canada Square

Heron Quays

Heron Quays

Heron Quays forms part of the Canary Wharf area the Docklands, east London. It has a Docklands Light Railway station, which was moved south after the development was expanded.
Three skyscrapers dominate the area: 25 Bank Street, 40 Bank Street and 10 Upper Bank Street.
'Heron Quays' was an area of dockside and warehousing separating the south and export dock of the West India Docks complex, completed in 1802 to service Britain's rapidly increasing trade with its global empire. However, by the 1970s the area was derelict.
The nearest London Underground station is Canary Wharf on the Jubilee Line and Docklands Light Railway. The station is within Travelcard Zone 2.
The Heron Quays area of The Isle of Dogs was one of the first areas of the London Docklands to be redeveloped following the formation of the LDDC by an act of parliament in 1980. The western half of the site was redeveloped into 2/3 storey commercial/office units, some of which stood partly on piles into the dock.
On 27 June 1982 Brymon Captain Harry Gee landed a Dash 7 aircraft on Heron Quay to demonstrate the feasibility of the STOLport project, the forerunner to the London City Airport project. A plaque celebrating this achievement lies above the entrance to the DLR station.[1]
The relatively low key, lower value style of the development in the early days of the LDDC have given way to high value high rise office development and has now become part of the expanded 'Canary Wharf'. The original DLR station built in near isolation was largely demolished and rebuilt to accommodate rapidly increasing passenger numbers. Much of the dock to the North of Heron Quays has been filled in to allow for development including the construction of new Canary Wharf tube station

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