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Issue 46: November 2009

Boris Battles for Eurostar Station at Stratford
Mayor Boris Johnson has written to the CEO of Eurostar seeking confirmation of when the London to Paris and Brussels service will stop at London's Stratford International Olympics station. Initially, Eurostar had planned to stop at Stratford as early as 2003, but in 2006 Eurostar announced that trains would terminate at St. Pancras and has yet to confirm plans for Stratford. Boris has also backed plans to bring another 150,000 sq ft of retail space to the 1.5m sq ft Stratford City shopping centre next to the olympic park.

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