And close to the Olympic Park football pitches on Hackney's East Marsh lost out to a coach park.
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Other measures in the plan include the withdrawal of the discounted beach hut owners' car parking permits and the conversion of Woodbridge's coach and lorry park on Station Road to accommodate more cars.
On a park drag coach, two grooms wear livery of coat, top hat and britches.
The Scarlets chief confirmed that he had made an approach to the Welsh Rugby Union to bring Nigel Davies back to Stradey Park as coach.
Queen's Park head coach Billy Stark, Terry Butcher, who had come in to assist Bone, and St Johnstone assistant Sandy Stewart had also all been linked with the job.
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Crusaders now have the platform to build on 2010 when, following the distraction of similar winter upheaval off the park, coach Brian Noble transformed the club, taking them from the bottom of Super League to the play-offs.
An impressive semi-final win against Wasps at Adams Park followed, but coach Dai Young's side were big underdogs as they travelled to the south of France to face star-studded Toulon.
Clarke will work at Upton Park alongside fellow first-team coach Kevin Keen and goalkeeping coach Ludek Miklosko.
The former Coventry and Leeds boss, 45, moves to Villa Park having been first-team coach at Middlesbrough since May.
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Mowbray has been joined at Celtic Park by his assistant Mark Venus and coach Peter Grant, while Neil Lennon also remains at the club.
When a coach driver got lost bringing athletes to the Olympic Park, it seemed as though Britain was lining up for at least a bronze in bungling.
Security will be strictly controlled, pilgrim passes have been distributed to parishes throughout the UK, no candles, musical instruments or glass bottles are allowed in the park, and pilgrims must arrive by coach only at the venues outside London.
However, the Hammers boss insists he and assistant Steve Clarke, who also has previous Chelsea connections as player and coach, are focused on the job in hand at Upton Park.
The opposing coach for Saturday's landmark game against Wales at Croke Park will be Warren Gatland, who was in charge of Ireland when O'Driscoll won his first cap as a 20-year-old.
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His Munster side were narrowly defeated in the 2000 and 2002 Heineken Cup finals, and after stints as Ireland asistant coach and Leinster boss, he returned to guide the Thomond Park outfit to their emotional 2006 European triumph.
Coach Ian Woan and assistant manager Ian Bowyer have also left Nene Park.
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Yeovil boss Russell Slade had offered Stewart a player-coach role in a bid to get him to stay at Huish Park.
Rugby Park chairman Michael Johnston had made 42-year-old coach Kean his number one target after the departure of Jimmy Calderwood.
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Watching England coach Fabio Capello may have chosen Molineux more for its proximity to Villa Park, where he had taken in the lunchtime kick-off, than the huge number of national team candidates on parade.
If that was his first taste of life in the dugout, it was at Central Park that he really cut his teeth as a first team coach: first as player-assistant manager to Brian Welsh, then as his successor since 2008.
American midfielder Anton Peterlin also got 45 minutes under his belt although the former England assistant coach warns the 22-year-old will need time to develop at Goodison Park.
But despite Halfpenny's excellent display at the Arms Park, which wouldn't have gone unnoticed by the watching Wales coach Warren Gatland, Young said the teenager still has a lot to learn.
"There has been a lot of rain in Hamilton of late and it is fair to say that the conditions we saw today at Seddon Park are far different to those we experienced earlier in the season, " coach and selector Mark Greatbatch said.
Philippe Saint-Andre and Kingsley Jones will coach the Barbarians, who will take on England at Twickenham on 30 May before facing Ireland at Thomond Park on 4 June.
Sowden-Taylor is one of the rising stars at the Arms Park, he has won three caps and he would have been a contender for new Wales coach Gareth Jenkins' autumn Test squad.
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Grant first came to Fratton Park as technical director in June 2007 but was soon snapped up by Chelsea and within months became coach at Stamford Bridge after Jose Mourinho left the Blues.
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