Shopaholics here we come

Europe's biggest urban shopping centre - in the shadow of the 2012 Olympic park opened this Wednesday (Daily Mail) with eye-watering statistics about its size and scale: 300 outlets; 70 restaurants; 17 cinema screens. It even has its own postcode apparently (E20 in case you needed to know).

Will its £ 1.45 billion investment pay back? Yes, probably, if the crowds are anything to go by. It's aiming for £1 billion's worth of turnover a year by 2014.