East London is getting a lot of love today. The prime minister has visited Tech City, the ill-defined area that is home to a cluster of new media, design and software start-ups, and pronounced it a roaring success.
It is a year since David Cameron unveiled the plan to put the spotlight on east London, and in particular the area around the Old Street roundabout, and turn it into something that would have Silicon Valley looking nervously over its shoulder.
Here's what he said in a speech in November 2010 about his government's ambitions for Tech City:
"Our ambition is to bring together the creativity and energy of Shoreditch and the incredible possibilities of the Olympic Park to help make east London one of the world's great technology centres."
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