We had news from Paul Barrett, a local at Beckton. He's been "snooping" around the London Snow World site and to his amazement found two workman at the site repairing the internal fencing. It turns out these two builders work for Newham council and they have been asked to secure the site for the land owners. Development works are due to re-commence on Friday of this week.

They also said that the works dried up due to financial reasons, but the development had now been re-financed and Beckton will have its new slope soon. When asked about the September 2003 opening the builder were not sure, but that date is still possible from experience with other developments.

We've not had anything official from the developers, although they had hinted at good news earlier in the year. We'll pester them again.

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