During that period her family home was a three-bedroom house in Wapping, east London, rented from a Housing Association.
The left had never forgotten the bitter battles between Murdoch and the print unions during the Wapping dispute in the 1980s.
Neptune Developments plans to build apartments, a hotel and retail and leisure space on the site at Wapping, known as the Baltic Triangle.
Tom Baldwin, Ed Miliband's spin-doctor purposely selected from the Murdoch empire to hone Labour's message in the direction of Wapping, warned Labour "not to conflate phone-hacking and BSkyB".
With four national newspapers - two daily, two Sunday, quality as well as popular - Murdoch was now in a stronger position to take on the unions at Wapping.
An exhibition of Lech Majewski's work, including his film installation "Bruegel Suite, " based on "The Mill and the Cross" is currently on view at The Wapping Project in London.
From Wapping the line will continue to Whitechapel - as the present East London line does - and then join the viaduct which formerly carried the line north from Broad Street station.
The Port of London Authority (PLA) imposes a 12-knot (14-mph) limit west of Wapping, which means that boats can show their exhilarating 30-knot cruising speed only on the eastern stretches of the river.
And for four days starting 7 March, London gourmands will descend upon the historic Tobacco Docks, a 19th-century warehouse in Wapping, East London, to dine in basement vaults for the third instalment of the moveable feast.
In its ruling the commission said only Britannia Orange Lodge would be permitted to parade from the Fountain with its band to the Craigavon Bridge via Wapping lane and joining with the main parade across the bridge.
It has been referred to the telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, and Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, has made it clear that the shenanigans at Wapping are seen as distinct from the question of whether the deal will endanger broadcasting plurality.
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Sailing boats that were too tall to pass under the 14 bridges along the river pageant route lined the river from London Bridge to Wapping, in the east, creating an avenue of sails set against the Tower of London and the city's financial center.
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer this month blamed a "very real difficulty" in the Lords rules for his decision not to prosecute Labour peer Baroness Uddin, who had designated her flat in Maidstone, rather than her rented house in Wapping, as her main home.
But even Britain's whingeing Poms have not seen a labour bust-up like Australia's present one since 1986, when Rupert Murdoch, then an Australian, helped smash the British print unions by transferring the production of his newspapers to a non-union plant at Wapping in East London.
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