Several hundred people gathered near the ExCel centre in docklands and outside the Bank of England.

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Were it not for the heavily armed police presence that have turned the ExCel Centre into a protest-free zone, the day's gathering could easily be mistaken for a conference of executive junior managers.

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East London, particularly around the Olympic Park in Stratford, the ExCeL centre and Greenwich Park, will be hit with the greatest demand as this is where many of the competitions will be staged.

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Or you could use this as a launching pad for other scientific stories with The Big Bang Fair, running 10-12 March in London's ExCeL Centre - a good place to look for inspiration.

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Software engineer Jonathan Larmour lives outside Cambridge and is worried about taking his eight-year-old son to a Judo session at the ExCel Centre, which begins at 0930 BST, because of the clash with the morning rush hour.

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Billy Edmunds said that he had been told on the telephone that he was to work four day shifts at the ExCel Centre, only to find when he checked the system later that he had been allocated three night shifts at a different location which he could not attend.

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Now the Royal Victoria dock is to host the ExCel exhibition and conference centre (see illustration).

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The Royal Docks is a stretch of land in east London running from Stratford down the River Lea to the Thames, and is already home to the ExCeL exhibition and convention centre and London City Airport.

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